This collection represents video recordings of events sponsored by the India China Institute at The New School, established in 2004 with funding from the Starr Foundation. Recording formats in the collection consist of MiniDV and optical disc, documenting the first three years of the Institute's existence.

Consists of 166 audiocassette tapes recording conversations between retired investigative journalist Joseph Kahn and reporters, editors, and other media personalities invited to his courses at the New School for Social Research between 1979 and the early 1990s. Participants include Pete Hamill, Nick Pileggi, Gay Talese, and Murray Kempton, among many others. Frequent guests include Sidney Zion, Liz Smith, and Jack O'Brien.

Laura Auricchio was an art history professor at The New School, 2002-2019, who also served in several administrator roles. This born-digital collection consists of course materials and administrative records from her tenure as a faculty member and administrator, primarily in the roles of chair of humanities for the Schools of Public Engagement and dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies.

Mark Schmidt is an alumnus of Eugene Lang College at The New School who took part in the Mobilization for Real Diversity, Democracy, and Economic Justice. The Mobilization was a campus movement during the 1996-1997 school year that protested the firing of Professor M. Jacqui Alexander, an Afro-Carribbean feminist scholar and Graduate Faculty member. This small collection of materials, assembled by Schmidt, includes photographs and a video.

Consists of exhibited materials and artist's documentation of Matthew López-Jensen's "New School Forest" conceptual work, consisting of tree surveys and performance photographs depicting participants planting seeds outside of a New School building. "New School Forest" was included in The New School's centennial exhibition, In the Historical Present, held in the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery of the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center in 2019.

The New School was a frequent host of National Book Critics Circle events, co-sponsored by the university's MFA in Creative Writing Program. This collection of audio recordings documents readings, awards ceremonies and singular events from the first decade of The New School's collaboration with National Book Critics Circle.

The New School accounting records consist of files from the Office of the Treasurer and other administrative offices documenting the finances of the university. These include construction files, financial statements from 1930-1959, and ledgers with receipts and accounts payable dating from the 1930s-1970s.

The New School Administration websites collection consists of web-based content created by the Staff Senate, Parsons Faculty Council, Provosts Office, and other administrative offices at the University. Web materials are captured on an ongoing basis using the Internet Archive's Archive-It software, Conifer, and Browsertrix.

Due to the techniques and tools of web harvesting, and the evolving nature of the Internet, some websites have been crawled more comprehensively than others and are represented more faithfully than others.

The New School Alumni Relations records contains lists of alumni, reunion invitations, and promotional material.

This collection consists solely of published, bound annual reports for the New School for Social Research, now The New School, issued by the university's Board of Trustees.