The university provides a Tuition Waiver benefit for eligible courses taken at the New School. The tuition waiver applies to tuition and mandatory fees (excluding health service fees). Eligible faculty and staff and their dependents including legal spouses, Qualified Domestic Partners, and children are eligible to participate in the plan. Review Tuition Waiver for eligibility, guidelines for use, and application forms.

LinkedIn Learning has 4,000+ online software instruction and professional development tutorials on Adobe Premiere, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD, Blender, HTML, Javscript, Revit, Rhino, as well as marketing, photography, skills development, and much more. Current New School faculty, staff, and registered students may access LinkedIn Learning via single sign-on (SSO) using your New School NetID and password. To use LinkedIn Learning, please use the link from the library's databases page.

Courses Recommended by Human Resources:

• Managing Individuals, Operations, & Teams Playlist
• Communication Playlist
• Leveraging Your Transferable Skills to Drive Your Career
• Innovation Playlist
• Unconscious Bias

The Faculty Center for Innovation, Collaboration, and Support supports faculty in their professional lives at The New School. All programs are open to full-time and part-time faculty, graduate students, and staff. All workshops and links are listed on The Faculty Center’s Google calendar. Please add us to your calendar, and look out for additional workshops in which faculty share their practices and experiments, successful or not.

The New School is an institutional member of the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD), a leading provider of professional development in higher education. They are dedicated to supporting faculty members, scholars and artists and designers in academia in their careers. They provide professional development and mentoring through a host of resources that are applicable across all fields, disciplines and practices. All staff are also eligible to take advantage of the many virtual resources NCFDD offers for professional support and development.

To learn more about these resources and activate your membership, visit The New School’s NCFDD website.

New School faculty and staff are welcome to request tutoring services from the University Learning Center (ULC). While we operate remotely, faculty and staff can request appointments, and we will do our best to accommodate them. The maximum number of appointments faculty or staff can have per week is two; two-hour sessions are not available, and no appointments will be available during the last two weeks of the semester. For same-day requests, email us to see if any walk-in sessions are available. To request an appointment for the current week, email us at least 24 hours in advance and provide at least three times when you are available. Please refer to the University Learning Center site for additional information.

Each semester, the Center for English Language Studies (CELS) offers a free 8-session pronunciation workshop open to the whole New School community — students, visiting scholars, staff, and faculty — who wish to improve the clarity of their speech and build their confidence in speaking English. Review their website for additional information.

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting personal and professional growth and development, Human Resources has curated a selection of training and development tools and resources for staff. We encourage all staff members to take advantage of these offerings to help you advance your skills and excel in your role. Please review Human Resources Training & Development Resources for ongoing and upcoming workshops.

The New School is committed to the professional development of part-time faculty teaching practices. The Part-Time Faculty Professional Development Fund seeks to support faculty who wish to pursue professional development opportunities that support pedagogical and curricular advancement, innovative and inclusive classroom strategies and practices, and the development of knowledge and skills related to one’s professional field and in areas of instructional growth and content expertise. Please check the Google site for application deadlines, upcoming information sessions, and previous awardee reports and projects.