Sarah Lawrence College
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The Sarah Lawrence College is a private college in Yonkers in Westchester County, New York, in the United States. It is one of the leading liberal arts colleges in the United States.
The college was founded in 1926 by real estate tycoon William Van Duzer Lawrence on his property in Yonkers as a college for women and named after his wife. According to the target group of higher education daughters aim was not to prepare for a profession, but the development of personality through education, primarily in the beautiful spiritual realm. The up to now maintained small study groups to promote the educational goal. Access is no longer as elitist, but still expensive. With $ 58,000 tuition per year, Sarah Lawrence is the most expensive college in the United States and currently also the world. Formally With the introduction of coeducation in 1968 accounted for gender segregation.
Famous people
Lecturers
- Barry Altschul, Drummer
- Rudolf Arnheim, media studies, art psychologist and co-founder of modern art education
- Joseph Campbell, author, known for his work in the field of mythology
- Billy Collins, writer
- Dorothy DeLay, violin teacher
- Norman Dello Joio, composer
- E. L. Doctorow, writer and publicist
- Maria Goeppert- Mayer, Nobel Prize in Physics 1963
- Paul Goodman, author
- Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer
- Allan Gurganus, author
- Mark Helias, bassist of the Creative Jazz
- Eva Kollisch, literary scholar and researcher on women
- Jane Kramer, journalist and writer
- Grace Paley, writer and political activist
- Theodore Roszak, sculptor
- Susan Sontag, writer, essayist, journalist and director
- William Schuman, composer
- Joel Sternfeld, Photographer
- Marguerite Yourcenar, writer
Graduates
- JJ Abrams, film and television producer, screenwriter, composer and director
- Jane Alexander, actress
- Beatrice Arthur, actress and comedienne
- Max Bemis, singer, songwriter and composer
- Yancy Butler, actress
- Jill Clayburgh, theater, film and television actress
- Brian De Palma, Film Director
- Cary Elwes, actor
- Robin Givens, actress
- Adam Goldberg, actor
- Noah Hawley, film and television producer, screenwriter and writer
- Lauren Holly, Actress
- Nancy Huston, French writer
- Christian Kracht, Swiss writer and journalist
- Téa Leoni, Actress
- Eric Mabius, actor
- Julianna Margulies, actress
- Linda McCartney, photographer, musician and wife of Paul McCartney
- Susan Meiselas, photographer
- Meredith Monk, singer, composer, choreographer and performance artist
- Larisa Oleynik, film and theater actress
- Yoko Ono, Japanese-American artist, filmmaker, composer of experimental music and singer
- Sam Robards, actor
- Holly Robinson Peete, actress
- Elisabeth Röhm, Actress
- Carly Simon, singer and songwriter
- Alice Walker, writer and political activist
- Barbara Walters, journalist and television presenter
- Vera Wang, fashion designer
- Sigourney Weaver, actress
- Joanne Woodward, Actress