Object Title
Audio interview with Linda Dunne
Part of
Independent Study Oral History Project on New School History
Material Category
Digital Audio
Description
In this audio interview with her former student Gerard Hemmerle, Linda Dunne discusses her connections to the New School through Antioch College administrators William Birenbaum and Elizabeth Dickey, who invited her to work at the New School. She talks about how, in 1993, she helped establish an early New School on-line learning program, then known as distance learning, called DIAL (Distance Instruction for Adult Learning). That same year, when the head of the Media Studies program left, she was appointed acting chair of Media Studies, which continued for two years until she was succeeded by Carol Wilder. Dunne provides her assessment of past programs, such as the Computer Instruction Center, the Culinary Program (replaced by Food Studies), and the changing landscape of continuing education programs in New York that forced the New School to reconsider its identity, and become more of a traditional university in the 1990s, including the provision of faculty tenure, which she analyzes. Dunne discusses former students, faculty, administrators, and addresses the 1997 hunger strike and hostage-taking, referred to as the “mobilization," over a denial of tenure.
Date
February 27 2013
Related people
Linda Dunne (interviewee)
Gerard O. Hemmerle (interviewer)
New School (New York, N.Y.). New School Archives and Special Collections (publisher)
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (subject)
Language
English
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ (copyrighted)
Identifier
NS070102_Dunne_20130227
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Material Category
Digital AudioDescription
In this audio interview with her former student Gerard Hemmerle, Linda Dunne discusses her connections to the New School through Antioch College administrators William Birenbaum and Elizabeth Dickey, who invited her to work at the New School. She talks about how, in 1993, she helped establish an early New School on-line learning program, then known as distance learning, called DIAL (Distance Instruction for Adult Learning). That same year, when the head of the Media Studies program left, she was appointed acting chair of Media Studies, which continued for two years until she was succeeded by Carol Wilder. Dunne provides her assessment of past programs, such as the Computer Instruction Center, the Culinary Program (replaced by Food Studies), and the changing landscape of continuing education programs in New York that forced the New School to reconsider its identity, and become more of a traditional university in the 1990s, including the provision of faculty tenure, which she analyzes. Dunne discusses former students, faculty, administrators, and addresses the 1997 hunger strike and hostage-taking, referred to as the “mobilization," over a denial of tenure.Date
February 27 2013Related people
Linda Dunne (interviewee)Gerard O. Hemmerle (interviewer)
New School (New York, N.Y.). New School Archives and Special Collections (publisher)
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (subject)
Language
EnglishRights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ (copyrighted)Identifier
NS070102_Dunne_20130227There’s more! What you see on this site is only what is viewable online. Please visit archives.newschool.edu to find out more about what’s in the archives.