This collection consists of audio and video recordings of class discussions, guest lecturers, and special events programmed by the Human Relations Center at The New School, a long-running program organized by women and directed primarily toward the personal, social and career development of women.

The collection consists of one decade of sound recordings documenting guest speakers of The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program's Non-Fiction Forum. Speakers include major Anglophone non-fiction writers, including art and music critics, historians, memoirists, and journalists.

The collection consists of a little over one decade of sound recordings of poetry readings and discussions, titled the Poetry Forum, sponsored by The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program.

The collection contains audio recordings of students in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The New School reading their thesis work.

The collection consists of a little over one decade of sound recordings documenting guest speakers of The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program's Writing for Children's Forum.

The collection consists of roughly two decades of sound recordings documenting guest speakers, faculty, and students of The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program, including events that pre-date the official establishment of the program in 1996. Included in this collection are awards ceremonies, tributes and celebrations, conferences and symposia, book and literary magazine launches, readings series and forums, and ongoing partnerships with external institutions such as the Harlem Writers Guild, Publishing Triangle, the Story Prize, and BOMB magazine.

The collection consists of over one decade of sound recordings documenting guest speakers of The New School's MFA in Creative Writing Program's Fiction Forum.

The Parsons School of Design Centenary Oral History Project consists of recorded sound interviews with twelve individuals as well as two audio monologues by the project's manager, Martica Sawin. The interviews, recorded in 1994, cover the history of different academic departments and design disciplines over the course of the twentieth century as experienced by former and then-current instructors and administrators. Recordings are all in English.

A collection of approximately thirty discrete audio recordings documenting designer critic sessions in the Fashion Design Department of Parsons School of Design. Designer critics include Parsons School of Design alumni, such as Adri, Jeffrey Banks, Donald Brooks, Louis Dell'Olio, Isaac Mizrahi, Charlotte Neuville, and Tracy Reese, as well as frequent visitors Stan Herman and Gloria Sachs and longtime faculty members Frank Rizzo and Marie Essex.

The recordings were made during the fall semesters of 1994 and 1995, averaging eighteen minutes in duration each, resulting in a total of over eight hours of audio.

This collection consists of three audio recordings of lectures held as part of the Henry Wolf Lecture Series. This series, held in the Fall of 1998 in honor of graphic designer and longtime Parsons School of Design instructor Henry Wolf, focused on all aspects of graphic design. Speakers featured in these recordings include Henry Wolf, Ivan Chermayeff, and Milton Glaser. No transcripts have been made.