formerly New School for Social Research
Private university in New York City.
It was established in 1919 as an informal centre for adult education and soon became the first American university to specialize in continuing education . In 1934 it established a graduate faculty of political and social sciences, staffed mainly by refugee academics from Nazi Germany. It also includes a liberal arts college, a graduate school of management and urban policy, the Mannes College of Music, and the Parsons School of Design.