The New School in New York City has announced the public phase of its $250 million New Century Campaign, the largest fundraising effort in the school's history. 

Gifts made during the quiet phase of the campaign, which was launched in July 2015, total more than $163 million and include a gift of $6.25 million from Julia Lin and her family to establish the university-wide Lin Centennial Scholarship Challenge. The gift from Lin, a member of the Parsons School of Design board and the parent of a Parsons student, will be used to match campaign gifts in support of endowed scholarships and fellowships.

Other donors who have given to the campaign include former New School board member Henry H. Arnhold, in support of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School for Social Research; board chair Susan Foote, in support of faculty and students at the New School for Social Research; Parsons School of Design alumna and board chair Kay Unger, in support of the Making Center at Parsons; and the Lang family and Eugene M. Lang Foundation in support of scholarships, opportunity awards, fellowships, innovative curricular programs at the Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, and other resources dedicated to hiring accomplished new faculty talent.

"The New School is extraordinarily fortunate to have some of the most loyal and forward-looking supporters," said Mark Gibbel, the New School's chief development officer. "During the first phase of the New Century Campaign, we've been successful in establishing thirty new endowed scholarships and fellowships, two professorships, and [have] opened the Making Center at Parsons School of Design, which have positively impacted our ability to recruit top talent across all of our academic areas."