Former presidential candidate Bob Kerrey is stepping down as president of the New School when his contract is up in 2011 but says it has nothing to do with faculty and student protests against him. Kerrey announced his departure Wednesday at a meeting of the university ...

New School University president Bob Kerrey has told the New York Post that the occupation of a campus building by a band of activists was "illegal" and "not a legitimate protest." Kerrey told the New York Post on Saturday that the ragtag bunch of protesters who ...

Earlier this month, the senior faculty of the New School passed a vote of "no confidence" in the school's president Bob Kerrey. The faculty and students of the school have grown increasingly unhappy with the president's management style, his handling of the school budget, and the recent departure of provost Joe Westphal. (During his tenure, which began in ...