This series contains documents relating to business and personal travel undertaken by Jonathan Fanton during his term as president of The New School. The bulk of these documents consist of itineraries and correspondence. These documents only cover the years 1983 to 1988, and many concern the merger of Parsons School of Design with Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. Also of note are documents related to Fanton’s travels to Eastern and Central Europe, which reflect initiatives within the Graduate Faculty to establish closer ties to that region during the last years of communist rule.

The series was originally grouped into two subseries: Travel Jonathan Fanton, 1983-1987 and Jonathan Fanton Files: Travel, 1985-1988. The subseries have been eliminated in order to create a single chronological series.