Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts

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Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts is the seminar-style liberal arts college of the The New School.

"Eugene Lang College" was founded as a freshman seminar program at the New School in 1973. In 1985, following a generous donation by well-known philanthropist and educational visionary Eugene Lang and his wife Theresa, the school was renamed Eugene Lang College. The college currently has an enrollment of roughly 1000 students, which represents a significant growth in class size over the past few years. Areas of study include writing, the arts (incorporating the arts in context, dance and theatre), cultural and media studies, education studies, literature, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, social and historical inquiry, and urban studies. The college places emphasis on interdisciplinary learning with a "student-directed" curriculum. All of its courses are seminars.

Inprint, a student-run newspaper published by the journalism concentration of the Writing department, has grown from a DIY 'zine-style pamphlet to a professionally printed broadsheet in the years since its founding in 2002. It is published bi-weekly and it aims to serve both Eugene Lang College and the wider New School community. Inprint operates a blog [1] and makes digital copies of the newspaper available on the Lang website. [2]

In 2005, the phrase "The New School" was inserted into the name of each division of The New School, so "Eugene Lang College" was renamed Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts, but students and faculty refer to it simply as "Lang."

The school is located in New York City's Greenwich Village on West 11th Street off 6th Avenue.