Elke Zuern, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Politics Faculty, Sarah Lawrence College is available to talk about what happens to the demands for socio-economic change made by protesters in a case where dramatic political change occurs.
A new academic chair in Asian Studies, with a focus on modern Chinese history, has been established with a $1,500,000 gift from Marshall I. Goldman in honor of his wife, alumna and former trustee of the College, Merle Rosenblatt Goldman ’53. The announcement was made by College President Karen Lawrence on March 4 at a celebratory lecture.
Karen Lawrence, President of Sarah Lawrence College, today announced an innovative planning program to expand and strengthen environmental initiatives across the curriculum, including preparing students for a new generation of “green careers.”
Eight Sarah Lawrence College graduate students are assisting the residents of Mossville, LA, suffering illnesses – in highly disproportionate numbers to the general population – from the effects of air and ground water pollution.
Surveys continually indicate that strong writing is the most important skill employers seek in college graduates, regardless of concentration or major. Carol Zoref, writing coordinator at Sarah Lawrence College, renowned for its intensive writing requirements across the disciplines, says good writing takes time. A sampling of recent Sarah Lawrence College graduates working in a variety of fields bears testimony to the advantages learning to write well in college carry in the job market.
Beginning this fall public television stations across the nation will air a new film, "When Learning Comes Naturally," produced by Jonathan Diamond Associates in association with Sarah Lawrence College's Child Development Institute (CDI). The film is the fourth in a series begun in 1998 that explores various ways that children learn.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will address the Sarah Lawrence College graduating class of 2009 at Commencement ceremonies on May 22 at 10 a.m. on the College's south lawn.
A new look at the history of the Civil Rights - Black Power era: Women in the Black Revolt.
A Sarah Lawrence College senior joined with others he met during his junior year at Oxford University to form a PAC in Ohio to take advantage of a new law that allows anyone to vote by absentee ballot.
Early childhood and elementary school educators from as close as neighboring Westchester towns and as far away as Saudi Arabia will participate in Sarah Lawrence College's Child Development Institute's Empowering Teachers Summer Institute July 7 to 11 on the theme "Teaching the World: Children, the Environment, and Social Justice."
Pursuing a trend that bucks the prevailing practice of imposing structured learning environments on younger and younger children at the cost of free, imaginative play, Sarah Lawrence College's Child Development Institute has developed a new week-long program called "Play's the Thing: Facilitating Play for Young Children," taking place Monday, June 16 to Friday June 20.
"The recent upsurge in violence in and around Johannesburg is a product of a number of factors including xenophobia, poverty, high levels of unemployment and broader frustration at the slow pace of service delivery, says Dr. Elke Zuern, Professor of Politics at Sarah Lawrence College whose expertise includes the role of social movements in new democracies, popular responses to poverty and inequality, and the role of violence in processes of democratization.
Sarah Lawrence College Professor of American History, Public Policy & Africana Studies, Komozi Woodard, is an expert in African American History, and the Black Power movement, including Black freedom struggles, and is available for comment.
Convening leading scholars in a national symposium, "Rethinking New Deal Racial Politics: Citizenship, Public Policy and Social Welfare," Sarah Lawrence College professor of history, Komozi Woodard and Brooklyn College professor of political science Jeanne Theoharis will present several views of history that place the New Deal at the center of a critical turning point for the destiny of 'whites' and 'non-whites,' particularly African-Americans, in the United States.
K. Dean Hubbard, B.A., J.D., Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy at Sarah Lawrence College and director of the College's Institute for Policy Alternatives, is available for comment on a Federal case involving day-laborers in Mamaroneck, N.Y. that might set a national precedent in immigration legislation.
Members of the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College are featured in a new documentary, Values Go to School, which explores ethics with children. The third in the Learning Child Series produced by Jonathan Diamond Associates in association with the Child Development Institute it follows When a Child Pretends about understanding the value of pretend play.
Acclaimed author Ann Patchett is the speaker for Sarah Lawrence College's 77th Commencement taking place on Westlands lawn on May 19 at 10 a.m. She will address the 296 graduating seniors, 137 graduate students receiving their master's degrees, and their families.
Sarah Lawrence College announces that the College's graduate Program in Human Genetics, the first of its kind, will be named for its longtime director (1972-1998), Joan H. Marks, considered to be the "˜mother' of the field. World-renowned stem cell expert, Dr. Irving Weissman will speak at the the event on April 4 at 4 p.m.
There is an emerging pattern of rural unrest that challenges the very legitimacy of the Chinese state and the development path on which it has embarked," says Joshua Muldavin, Henry R. Luce Professor of East Asian Culture/Human Geography at Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY).
The 3rd edition of an alternative economics textbook, Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, has recently been published. Frank Roosevelt has joined with the book's original coauthors, Samuel Bowles and Richard Edwards, to produce an expanded and updated edition of the text.
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