The New School
New York
1919
Formerly “The New School for Social Research” and “New School University “
Detailed historical information about the original college colors of The New School for Social Research is not available, except that they were green and white. The shade of green was bright, like an emerald or Kelly green. In 2015 the school colors were changed to “Parsons red” (a bright red), black, and white.
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume (IBAC) assigned the New School for Social Research a hood lining pattern in the late 1940s or 1950s. A list compiled by Kevin Sheard in Academic Heraldry in America (1962) described the university’s hood lining as emerald green with a white chevron, which was also how it was described in IBAC lists from 1969 and 1972. Unfortunately this was a duplication of the hood lining the Bureau had already assigned to North Texas State University no later than 1927. To avoid this problem, here the New School has been reassigned a unique hood lining pattern that uses the colors the university adopted in 2015.