was renamed The New School.
=== Founding ===
The New School for Social Research was founded by a group of university professors and researchers in 1919 as a school where adult students could "seek an unbiased understanding of the existing order, its genesis, growth and present working". Founders included economist and literary scholar Alvin Johnson, historians Charles A. Beard and James Harvey Robinson, economist Thorstein Veblen, and philosophers Horace M. Kallen and John Dewey. Beard, Dewey, and Robinson were all faculty at Columbia University and all supporters of the Great War.
In October 1917, after Columbia University suppressed criticism of the United States by the faculty, related to World War I, it fired two professors who were critical of both Woodrow Wilson and Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia University president. Charles A. Beard, Professor of Political Science, resigned his professorship at Columbia in protest, though he supported the war. His colleague James Harvey Robinson, who also supported …
