The New School for Public Engagement
Information on the purpose of your organization
The mission of The New School for Public Engagement (NSPE) is to create and nurture a learning community marked by interdisciplinary engagement with real-world issues and the integration of professional, civic, and liberal learning. The common thread that runs across the division's diverse academic programs is a commitment to learning that makes a difference in the world. In order to realize this commitment, the division aspires to provide an educational experience that is integrative, boundary-crossing, and collaborative. NSPE is comprised of five schools that connect theory to real-world practice, training students to address civic life, to create new forms of culture, and to respond to contemporary challenges in their communities and throughout the world. Withing NSPE, the Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Studies offers masters and PhD degrees in International Affairs, Urban Policy, Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management, Organizational Change Management, among others.
Information on your programmes and activities in areas relevant to the subject of the Summit and in which country or counties they are carried out.
Within the New School for Public Engagement, several programmatic concentrations specifically focus on a mission directly related to the goals of Habitat III. One such program, the International Affairs Masters Degree, has a Cities & Social Justice curricular concentration that focuses on the ways in which global factors interact with local environments, actors, and institutions to produce new urban forms, problems, and opportunities. The coursework and practical training within the Cities and Social Justice Concentration enable students to focus on a diversity of topics and issues affecting urban centers, including urban development and infrastructure, urban governance, citizenship and human rights, technology and culture, and sustainability. Students take courses informed by economics, political science, anthropology, urban planning, and architecture. They gain skills in geographic information systems, architecture and design, urban economics and finance, impact analysis, and critical analysis.
In addition, The Urban Policy Analysis and Management Program is a Masters program committed to a comparative learning pedagogy designed to create knowledge that fosters innovative strategies for confronting urban issues worldwide. Beyond the core curriculum, students can specialize in housing and community development, economic and workforce development, social policy, finance for community and economic development, and global urban futures--a new concentration which involves fieldwork in New York City and abroad.
Information on activities at the national or international levels
Aside from educating students from around the United States and the globe, The New School for Public Engagement hosts several internal institutions that deal explicitly with the relationship between urban, regional, and international issues. The first of these organizations, The Center for New York City Affairs, is an applied policy research institute that drives innovation in social policy and seeks to improve the effectiveness of government and other organizations that work with low-income urban communities by using New York City as a laboratory. Focusing primarily on policy analysis, the Center collaborates actively with government and non-profit organizations, residents, advocates, researchers, and journalists in an objective and non-partisan manner.
The second of The New School?s programs, The Community Development Finance Project (CDFP), seeks to connect the private, public, and philanthropic capital markets with the dynamic fields of community development, social innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability management, and design. Its core mission is to teach an array of broad-based community development skills and in-depth knowledge of finance through its signature course, the Community Development Finance Lab.
The third program, The Observatory on Latin America (OLA), was founded in 2006 with the mission of improving academic and public understanding of political and economic change underway in Latin America. The Observatory studies the region?s unique processes and fosters a public dialogue across the United States and Latin America about the challenges of building social democracy in a globalized world. The Observatory also works to create opportunities for urban and national Latin American leaders to directly express their views to audiences in the United States.
Finally, the India China Institute (ICI) exists to discover and explore new research and to provide opportunities for both The New School and its international network of innovative scholars, leaders and opinion-makers to engage in critical inquiries of political, social, economical and environmental importance that pertain to China, India and the Unites States. The ICI accomplishes its mission by providing research and scholarship opportunities through fellowships, courses, publications, public lectures and conferences.
Organization have an annual report? (YES/NO) (should contain financial statements and a list of financial sources and contributions, including governmental contributions)?
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2013AuditedFinancialStatements.pdf
List of members of the governing body of your organization, and their countries of nationality
Joseph R. Gromek, Chair
Retired President and CEO
The Warnaco Group, Inc.
Henry H. Arnhold
Chairman
Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings, Inc.
Arnold H. Aronson
Partner and Managing Director of Retail Strategies
Kurt Salmon Associates
Franci J. Blassberg, Vice Chair
Partner
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Steven H. Bloom
Dominique Bluhdorn
President
The Altos de Chavon Cultural Center Foundation
Garry Crowder, Vice Chair Managing Partner Cortland Advisory Group
Jane DeFlorio Managing Director Deutsche Bank
Beth Rudin De Woody
President
The Rudin Family Foundation
Douglas D. Durst
Chairman
The Durst Organization
Renaud Dutreil
Chairman LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc.
Susan L. Foote, Vice Chair David B. Ford
DBF Associates
Michael E. Gellert
General Partner
Windcrest Partners
Paul A. Gould
Managing Director
Allen & Company LLC
Jeffrey Gural
Chairman
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank
Susan U. Halpern
President
The Sirus Fund
William E. Havemeyer
President
Havemeyer Management Services, Inc.
Robert F. Hoerle
Managing Partner
Stone Run Capital, LLC
Sheila C. Johnson
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Salamander Hotels & Resorts, LLC
Michael J. Johnston
Retired Executive Vice President
The Capital Group Companies, Inc
Chris Kuenne
Chairman
Rosetta Marketing Group
Bevis Longstreth
Retired Partner
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Nancy Lublin
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Old Person
DoSomething.org
Susan M. Lyne
Chairman
Gilt Groupe Inc.
Robert H. Mundheim
Of Counsel
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Jonathan Newcomb
Timothy L. Porter
Linda E. Rappaport
Partner
Shearman & Sterling
Joshua Sapan
President and Chief Executive Officer
AMC Networks, Inc.
Bernard L. Schwartz
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
BLS Investments LLC
Mrs. James C. Slaughter
Malcolm B. Smith
Retired Vice Chairman
General American Investors Co., Inc.
Elliot Stein, Vice Chair
Managing Director
Commonwealth Capital Partners, L.P.
Julien J. Studley
Principal
Studley New Vista Associates
John L. Tishman
Chairman Emeritus
Tishman Realty & Construction Company Inc.
Kay Unger
President
Steven Julius Foundation, Inc.
George Walker
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Neuberger Berman Group
Lilian Shiao-Yen Wu
Global University Programs Executive
IBM Corporation
Randall S. Yanker
Senior Partner and Chief Investment Officer
Alternative Asset Managers, L.P.
William D. Zabel
Partner
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Judith Zarin
Eugene M. Lang
Founder and Chair
The Eugene Lang Foundation
Tomio Taki
Philip Scaturro
Copy of the constitution and/or by-laws of the organization (WORD or PDF only), or a weblink to it
By-LawsdatedMay162013SIGNED.pdf
