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{{Short description|Private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, US}}
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{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Sarah Lawrence College
 | image_name             = Sarah Lawrence College Logo.svg
 | image_size             = 150
 | motto                  = Wisdom with Understanding
 | established            = {{Start date and age|1926}}
 | type                   = [[Private university|Private]] [[liberal arts college]]
 | endowment              = $110.2 million (2020)<ref>As of June 30, 2020. {{cite report |url=https://www.nacubo.org/-/media/Documents/Research/2020-NTSE-Public-Tables--Endowment-Market-Values--FINAL-FEBRUARY-19-2021.ashx |title=U.S. and Canadian Institutions Listed by Fiscal Year 2020 Endowment Market Value and Change in Endowment Market Value from FY19 to FY20 |publisher=National Association of College and University Business Officers and [[TIAA]] |date=February 19, 2021 |access-date=February 20, 2021}}</ref>
 | president              = [[Cristle Collins Judd]]
 | academic_staff         = 97 FT/ 200 PT (2023)<ref name=IPEDS>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=sarah+lawrence+college&s=NY&id=195304 |title=IPEDS data |publisher=U.S. Department of Education |access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref>
 | students               = 1,743 (2023)<ref name=IPEDS>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=sarah+lawrence+college&s=NY&id=195304 |title=IPEDS data |publisher=U.S. Department of Education |access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref>
 | undergrad              = 1,521 (2023)<ref name=IPEDS>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=sarah+lawrence+college&s=NY&id=195304 |title=IPEDS data |publisher=U.S. Department of Education |access-date=December 24, 2024}}</ref>
 | postgrad               = 222 (2023)
 | city                   = [[Yonkers, New York|Yonkers]]
 | state                  = [[New York (state)|New York]]
 | country                = U.S.<ref name=Facts>{{cite web|url=https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/about/|title=Sarah Lawrence College At-a-Glance|access-date=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
 | coordinates            = {{Coord|40.935|N|73.845|W|source:dewiki_region:US-NY_type:edu|format=dms|display=title,inline}}
 | campus                 = [[Suburban]]
 | campus_size            = {{Convert|44|acre}}
 | sporting_affiliations  = [[NCAA Division III]]{{snd}}[[Skyline Conference]]
 | mascot                 = [[Gryphon]]s
 | website                = {{URL|https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/| sarahlawrence.edu}}
 | colors                 = Green and white
 | academic_affiliation   = {{Ubl
 | [[Annapolis Group]]
 | [[Oberlin Group]]
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'''Sarah Lawrence College''' ('''SLC''') is a [[Private university|private]] [[liberal arts college]] in [[Yonkers, New York]], United States.<ref>[https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/about/ Sarah Lawrence College At-a-Glance] ("Sarah Lawrence College occupies 44 wooded acres in Yonkers, NY"). Retrieved March 2, 2018.</ref><ref>[http://www.villageofbronxville.com/sites/bronxvilleny/files/file/file/photohistoryofbronxville_printablepdf.pdf The Village of Bronxville] ("Although nearby Sarah Lawrence College, founded in 1926 by William Lawrence to honor his wife, has a Bronxville postal address, it is actually located in Yonkers.") Retrieved March 29, 2014.</ref> Founded as a [[Women's colleges in the United States|women's college]] in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational since 1968.<ref>{{Cite web |title="Sarah, Meet Lawrence:" Men at Sarah Lawrence College |url=https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/archives/exhibits/coeducation/ |access-date=January 30, 2025 |website=www.sarahlawrence.edu |language=en}}</ref> The college's campus in Yonkers maintains a [[Bronxville, New York|Bronxville]] mailing address<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 29, 2025 |title=Welcome to Sarah Lawrence College |url=https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/ |access-date=January 30, 2025 |website=www.sarahlawrence.edu |language=en |quote=Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, offers a unique, multidisciplinary liberal arts education for an inclusive and intellectually curious community.}}</ref> and sits roughly 20 miles from [[New York City]]. In athletics, the [[Sarah Lawrence Gryphons]] compete in the [[Skyline Conference]] of the [[NCAA Division III]].

==History==

===Establishment and development (20th century)===
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Sarah Lawrence College was established in 1926 by the real-estate mogul [[William Van Duzer Lawrence]] on the grounds of his estate in [[Westchester County]] and was named in honor of his wife, Sarah Bates Lawrence. The college was originally intended to provide instruction in the arts and humanities for women.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/sarah-lawrence-college/|title=Sarah Lawrence College|work=Forbes|access-date=July 11, 2017|language=en}}</ref> A major component of the college's early curriculum was "productive leisure", wherein students were required to work for eight hours weekly in such fields as modeling, shorthand, typewriting, applying makeup, and gardening.<ref name="leisure">{{cite book|author=Kaplan, Barbara|title=Becoming Sarah Lawrence|publisher=Sarah Lawrence College|date=January 29, 2014|url=http://www.slc.edu/magazine/75th-anniversary/founding/becoming.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005918/http://www.slc.edu/magazine/75th-anniversary/founding/becoming.html|archive-date=February 4, 2014}}</ref> Its pedagogy combined independent research projects which were individually supervised by the teaching faculty, and seminars with low student-to-faculty ratio, a pattern that it retains to the present. Sarah Lawrence was the first [[liberal arts college]] in the United States to incorporate a rigorous approach to the arts with the principles of [[progressive education]], focusing on the primacy of teaching and the concentration of curricular efforts on individual needs.<ref name="leisure"/>

[[Harold Taylor (educator)|Harold Taylor]], President of Sarah Lawrence College from 1945 to 1959, influenced the college. Taylor was elected president at age 30, maintained a friendship with the educational philosopher [[John Dewey]], and worked to employ the [[John Dewey#Pragmatism, instrumentalism, consequentialism|Dewey method]] at Sarah Lawrence. Taylor spent much of his career calling for educational reform in the United States, using Sarah Lawrence as an example of the possibilities of a personalized, modern, and rigorous approach to [[higher education]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Lambert|first1=Bruce|title=Harold Taylor, Novel Educator And College President, Dies at 78|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/10/nyregion/harold-taylor-novel-educator-and-college-president-dies-at-78.html|website=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 10, 1993|access-date=March 13, 2018}}</ref>

Sarah Lawrence became a coeducational institution in 1968. Prior to this transition, there were discussions about relocating the school and merging it with [[Princeton University]], but the administration opted to remain independent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/sarah-lawrence-college#ranking-dataset/596947|title=Sarah Lawrence College|website=Times Higher Education (THE)|language=en-US|access-date=July 11, 2017}}</ref>

===Larry Ray scandal (2010)===
{{Main articles|Larry Ray (criminal)}}
{{seealso|Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence}}
Starting in September 2010, after being released from prison [[Larry Ray (criminal)|Larry Ray]], born Lawrence Grecco (then 50), resided in the on-campus  student housing dormitory apartment of his daughter, Talia Ray, in Slonim Woods Building 9.<ref name=vee>[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/nyregion/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-sex.html?searchResultPosition=8 "Sarah Lawrence Parent Accused of Sex Trafficking and Abusing Students,"] ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref name="Hanlon">{{cite web |last=Hanlon |first=Greg |date=April 6, 2022 |title=Sarah Lawrence Sex 'Cult' Leader Convicted of 15 Crimes, Including Sex Trafficking and Extortion |url=https://people.com/crime/sarah-lawrence-sex-cult-leader-larry-ray-convicted/ |access-date=August 23, 2022 |publisher=[[People Magazine]]}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last1=Marcus |first1=Ezra |title=The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence: What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate's father? |date=February 26, 2020 |url=https://www.thecut.com/2020/02/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-students.html |access-date=May 12, 2020 |publisher=The Cut |last2=Walsh |first2=James D.}}</ref><ref name=acc>[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/nyregion/larry-ray-trial-sarah-lawrence-cult.html?searchResultPosition=2 "Accused Leader in Sarah Lawrence Cult Case Is Set to Stand Trial; For about 10 years, Lawrence V. Ray abused and extorted a group of his daughter’s classmates at the college, prosecutors say,"] ''The New York Times''.</ref> At the time, Talia was a sophomore at the college, and lived in the dorm with seven other students.<ref name=hea>[https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a42803220/larry-ray-stolen-youth-sarah-lawrence-cult-now/ "Where Is Sarah Lawrence 'Sex Cult' Leader Larry Ray Now? All About His Age, Crimes, And Background,"] ''Women's Health Magazine''.</ref> Sarah Lawrence College later told ''New York Magazine'' that it was not aware that he had been living on campus.<ref>[https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/lawrence-ray-cult "How Lawrence V. Ray Was Able to Form a Sex Cult at Sarah Lawrence College"] FRANCISCO ALVARADO, A&E Television Networks, September 27, 2022. Retrieved November 30, 2022.</ref> While there, Ray started a [[sex cult]] in which he presented himself to students as a former [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine]] with training in [[Psychological operations (United States)|psychological operations]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Horton |first=Adrian |date=February 9, 2023 |title='He took everything away': inside a depraved and devastating sex cult |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/feb/09/stolen-youth-documentary-hulu-sarah-lawrence-cult |access-date=August 22, 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |quote="Ray made steak dinners, regaled his daughter's friends with tales of his time in the marines and psy-ops for the CIA, promised to help some maximize their potential. It was off-putting to some, entrancing to others."}}</ref> In 2011, he induced some students to move into the apartment of Lee Chen in nearby [[New York City]].<ref name="Hanlon" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=February 22, 2020 |title=EXCLUSIVE: Man speaks out about college sex cult mastermind living in his apartment |url=https://abc7ny.com/college-sex-scandal-sarah-lawrence-dorm-upper-east-side/5957445/ |access-date=August 22, 2023 |website=ABC7 New York |language=en |quote="The cult allegedly started when Ray moved into his daughter's Sarah Lawrence college dorm room in 2010, then a year later moved into Chen's Upper East Side condo."}}</ref><ref name="abc2023">{{cite web |last=Armitage |first=Rebecca |date=February 12, 2023 |title=How a dad moved into his daughter's dorm at Sarah Lawrence College and turned it into his own cult |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-12/sarah-lawrence-college-dad-run-cult/101944844 |access-date=March 4, 2023 |website=ABC News |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]}}</ref> In 2013, four of Ray's victims graduated from Sarah Lawrence.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Larry Ray and the Cult of Cruelty at Sarah Lawrence College |language=en |work=The CrimeWire |url=https://thecrimewire.com/institutional/Larry-Ray-and-the-Sex-Cult-at-Sarah-Lawrence-College |access-date=August 22, 2023 |quote="In 2013, Daniel, Talia, Isabella, and Claudia graduated from Sarah Lawrence College."}}</ref> In February 2020, he was charged by prosecutors in Manhattan with conspiracy, [[extortion]], [[sex trafficking]], forced labor, and other related offenses, following nearly 10 years of alleged transgressions with students and former students.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Salcedo |first1=Andrea |date=February 13, 2020 |title=What We Know About the Sarah Lawrence Trafficking Case |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/nyregion/sarah-lawrence-larry-ray.html |access-date=February 15, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ottoman |first1=Sharon |date=February 12, 2020 |title=The Bizarre Life of the Man Accused in the Sarah Lawrence Sex Case |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/nyregion/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence.html |access-date=February 15, 2020}}</ref><ref name="abc2023" /> Ray was convicted on all counts and sentenced to 60 years in prison.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Marcus |first1=Ezra |last2=Walsh |first2=James D. |date=April 6, 2022 |title=The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence: What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate's father? |url=https://www.thecut.com/2022/04/larry-ray-sarah-lawrence-students.html |access-date=April 17, 2022 |website=The Cut |publisher=New York Magazine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=January 20, 2023 |title=Lawrence Ray Sentenced For Years-Long Predatory Crimes Against Students At Sarah Lawrence College And Others |url=https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/lawrence-ray-sentenced-years-long-predatory-crimes-against-students-sarah-lawrence |access-date=January 20, 2023 |website=justice.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice, Southern District of New York}}</ref>

===College presidents===
{{Main|List of Presidents of Sarah Lawrence College}}

The first president of the college was [[Marion Coats]] from 1924 to 1929. She was a friend of [[Vassar College]] president Henry MacCracken and William Van Duzer Lawrence. Coats had traditional views of women's role in society that were at odds with her progressive approach to women's education. Cristle Collins Judd was introduced as president in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Presidential History |url=https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/about/leadership/president/presidential-history.html |access-date=October 18, 2022 |website=www.sarahlawrence.edu |language=en}}</ref>

==Academic rankings==
{{Further|Criticism of college and university rankings (North America)}}

{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes = 467
| USNWR_LA = 108
| Wamo_LA = 155
| THE_WSJ = 200
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In 2007, criticism of [[College and university rankings|rankings]] of U.S. colleges and universities, particularly their perceived impact on the [[College admissions in the United States|college admissions process]], gained national prominence due in part to the March 11, 2007, ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'' article "The Cost of Bucking College Rankings" by Michele Tolela Myers, a former president of Sarah Lawrence College. As Sarah Lawrence College dropped its [[SAT]] test score submission requirement for its undergraduate applicants in 2003,<ref>{{cite news |first=Jane |last=Gross |title=Sarah Lawrence College Drops SAT Requirement, Saying a New Writing Test Misses the Point |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 13, 2003 |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00614F93C5C0C708DDDA80994DB404482&n=Top%2fReference%2fTimes%20Topics%2fOrganizations%2fS%2fSarah%20Lawrence%20College%3C/ref%3E%20thus%20joining%20the%20 |access-date=May 23, 2010}}</ref> thus joining the [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States#SAT optional movement|SAT optional movement]] for [[undergraduate]] [[college admissions|admission]], the college does not have SAT data to send to ''U.S. News'' for its national survey. Of this decision, Myers states, "We are a writing-intensive school, and the information produced by SAT scores added little to our ability to predict how a student would do at our college; it did, however, do much to bias admission in favor of those who could afford expensive coaching sessions."<ref name="Tolela Myers">{{cite news |first=Michele |last=Tolela Myers |title=The Cost of Bucking College Rankings |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=March 11, 2007 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030901836.html }}</ref> At the time, Sarah Lawrence was the only American college that completely disregarded SAT scores in its admission process.<ref name="U.S. News and World Report">{{cite news |title=U.S. News Statement on College Rankings |work=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |date=March 12, 2007 |url =https://www.usnews.com/usnews/blogs/news_blog/070312/us_news_statement_on_college_r.htm| archive-url =https://archive.today/20130105063209/http://www.usnews.com/usnews/blogs/news_blog/070312/us_news_statement_on_college_r.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 5, 2013}}</ref> In the same ''The Washington Post'' article, Myers stated that she was informed by the ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' that if no SAT scores were submitted, ''U.S. News'' would "make up a number" to use in its magazines. She further argues that if the college were to decide to stop sending all data to ''U.S. News & World Report'', their ranking would be artificially decreased.<ref name="Tolela Myers" /><ref name="IHE-20070312">{{cite web |first=Scott |last=Jaschik |title=Would U.S. News Make Up Fake Data? |website=[[Inside Higher Ed]] |date=March 12, 2007 |url=http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/12/usnews }}</ref> Sarah Lawrence College now maintains a test-optional policy.

On June 19, 2007, following a meeting of the [[Annapolis Group]], which represents over 100 [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts colleges]], Sarah Lawrence announced that it would join others who had previously signed [[Criticism of college and university rankings (2007 United States)#Presidents Letter|the letter to college presidents]] asking them not to participate in the "reputation survey" section of the ''U.S. News & World Report'' survey (this section comprises 25% of the ranking). Despite this public stance opposing these rankings, the 2019 edition ranked Sarah Lawrence tied for the 65th best liberal arts college in the nation.

In 2022, ''[[Forbes]]'' rated it 467th overall in its America's Top Colleges ranking, which includes 660 military academies, national universities, and liberal arts colleges. That same year, ''[[Washington Monthly]]'' rankings ranked Sarah Lawrence 155th in the liberal arts college category.

==Undergraduate admissions==
In 2024, Sarah Lawrence accepted 49.9% of undergraduate applicants, with admission standards considered exceptional, applicant competition considered average,
and with those admitted having an average 3.75 high school [[Academic grading in the United States#Grade conversion|GPA]]. The college does not require submission of standardized test scores, Sarah Lawrence being a test optional school. Those accepted that submitted test scores had an average 1360 [[SAT]] score (15% submitting scores) or average 31 [[ACT (test)|ACT]] score (6% submitting scores).<ref>{{cite web |title= Sarah Lawrence College Admission Requirements |url=https://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/new-york/sarah-lawrence-college/admission/|website=collegesimply.com |publisher=CollegeSimply {{!}}  U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics |access-date=October 24, 2024}}</ref>

==Political involvement and activism==
[[Political activism]] has played a role in forming the Sarah Lawrence community since the early years of the college. As early as 1938, students were [[volunteering]] in [[working-class]] sections of Yonkers, New York to help bring [[Civil Rights Movement|equality and educational opportunities]] to [[poverty|poor]] and [[minority group|minority]] citizens, and the Sarah Lawrence College War Board, organized by students in the fall of 1942, sought to aid troops fighting in [[World War II]]. During a time when the college's enrollment consisted of only 293 students, 204 signed up as volunteers during the first week of the War Board.<ref name="warboard">{{cite book|author=Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz|title=Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s|location=Amherst|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|year=1993|author-link=Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz}}</ref> During the so-called [[McCarthyism|McCarthy Years]], a number of Sarah Lawrence's faculty members were accused by the [[American Legion]] of being sympathetic to the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]], and were called before the Jenner Committee.<ref name="mccarthy">{{cite book|author=Fried, Richard M. |title=Nightmare in Red: The McCarthy Era in Perspective|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990}}</ref> Since that time, activism has played a central role in student life, with movements for [[civil rights]] and against [[the Vietnam War]] in the 1960s and for student and faculty [[Multiculturalism|diversity]] in the 1980s. Also in the 1960s, students established an [[Upward Bound]] program for students from lower-income and poverty areas to prepare for college.<ref name="upwardbound">[[United States]]. [[United States Congress]].  Joint Committee.  ''A Directory of Urban Research Study Centers''.  Washington: United States Congress, 1977.</ref> Theatre Outreach, the Child Development Institute, the [[Sarah Lawrence College Art of Teaching Program|Empowering Teachers Program]], the Community Writers program, the Office of Community Partnership, and the Fulbright High School Writers Program are among the many programs founded since the 1970s to provide services to the larger community. In the late 1980s, students occupied Westlands, the main administrative building for the campus, in a sit-in for wider diversity. Students occupied Westlands again in 2016, in a sit-in supporting improved wages and safer working conditions for the college's recently unionized facilities workers. For many years, the college has been considered as being at the vanguard of the [[gay rights]] movement and many other progressive causes.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

==Campus==
[[File:Westlands.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Westlands House]]

Much of the {{convert|42|acre|ha|adj=on}} Sarah Lawrence campus was originally a part of the estate of the college's founder, [[William Van Duzer Lawrence]], though the college has more than doubled its size since Lawrence bequeathed his estate to the college in 1926. The terrain is characterized by outcroppings of exposed [[bedrock]] shaded by large oak and elm trees. Many of the older buildings are in the [[Tudor Revival architecture]] style that was popular in the area during the early 20th century, and many of the college's newer buildings attempt an updated interpretation of the same style. The campus is divided into two distinctive sections, the "Old Campus" and the "New Campus": the first is roughly contained within the boundaries of the former Lawrence estate, and the area of the second was acquired sometime after the college's earliest years.

The area outside the original Lawrence estate holds the college's newer facilities. Several century-old, Tudor-style mansions among the newer additions, including Andrews, Tweed, Lynd, Marshall Field, and Slonim House: each was once a private estate, purchased by the college during periods of growth and expansion. The more modest Tudor houses along Mead Way, which also had been private residences, now serve as dormitories for students at the college. "Slonim Woods" is a group of newer, townhouse-style dormitories, built on the grounds of Slonim House.

The Campbell Sports Center was constructed in 1998 in response to an increased focus on physical fitness and sports. This facility includes an indoor pool, gymnasium, track, squash courts, and weight rooms.

In 2004, the college completed construction of a modern visual arts facility, the Monika A. and Charles A. Heimbold Visual Arts Center, with [[environmentally friendly]] aspects which earned the college national press attention. Just down the road is Hill House, a six-story apartment building purchased by the college in the late 1990s that now lodges students. Across the street from Hill House is the large Wrexham house, also in the Tudor style, which the college purchased from the government of [[Rwanda]] in 2004; this building, once home to the Rwandan consul, has been renovated and is used for various postgraduate programs. At the opposite end of the campus stands the Science and Mathematics Center, completed in 1994.

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====Academic facilities====
* '''The Barbara Walters Campus Center''' is the newest building on campus. Finished in the fall of 2019, the building is named for alumna [[Barbara Walters]]. The building is a multipurpose space which is used for dances, speeches, class gatherings, etc. On the second floor is the Barbara Walters Reading Room. It includes a rotating exhibition, but currently holds artifacts from Barbara Walters' life. The building has a green roof energy efficient LED lighting.
* '''Bates Center for Student Life''' is one of the original campus buildings. Designed in the English Tudor style that was begun by Bates and How and extended by Penrose Stout in the 1930’s. It housed offices and classrooms and maids' quarters to dining halls to laboratories and arts facilities. At one time, it was home to a miniature basketball court that is now a faculty dining room, though the lines of the court can still be seen on the floors. Over the years, programs in science, visual arts, and physical education have grown to the point that they also are elsewhere on the campus, requiring three buildings of their own. Bates has always been home to the college's main dining facility and also houses the popular "Health Food Bar."<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/social/Bates_Center_for_Student_Life.html SLC Campus – Bates] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204010051/http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/social/Bates_Center_for_Student_Life.html |date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref>
* '''The Esther Raushenbush Library''', designed in 1974 by Walter, Burns, Toan & Lundein in a modern architectural style with implied buttresses and features of its much older neighbor, Andrews House.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite book|title=American Architecture{{Snd}} Westchester County, New York Colonial to Contemporary|author=Frank Sanchis|publisher=North River Press|date=1977|page=426}}</ref> The Raushenbush Library houses over 300,000 volumes.<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/The_Esther_Raushenbush_Library.html SLC.edu – Library] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005913/http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/The_Esther_Raushenbush_Library.html |date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref>
* '''The Alice Stone Ilchman Science and Mathematics Center''', completed in 1994, is situated on the far north end of the campus. It houses science laboratories in addition to classrooms and faculty offices. The building is named for former president [[Alice Stone Ilchman]].<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/The_Alice_Stone_Ilchman_Science_Center.html SLC Campus – Science Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005726/http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/The_Alice_Stone_Ilchman_Science_Center.html |date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref>
* '''The Marshall Field Music Building''' was originally created as part of William Lawrence's residential neighborhood, [[Lawrence Park West]]. Built in the Georgian Colonial style by Dwight Baum it was situated on {{convert|3|acre|m2}} of landscaped land when the college purchased it in 1960 to house the music department and to provide additional student housing. Prior to the purchase, President Harold Taylor played his clarinet in several of the rooms to test the acoustics.<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/Marshall_Field_Music_Building.html SLC Campus – Marshall Field Building] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005724/http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/Marshall_Field_Music_Building.html |date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref>
* '''The Monica A. and Charles A. Heimbold Visual Arts Center''' The building was designed by [[Polshek Partnership Architects]] chief architect Susan Rodriguez. Completed in 2004, the building uses the landscape and existing campus circulation patterns. For its inventive use of materials, consistent development of the project in relation to the original concept, integrated plan/section, and use of building siting, solar orientation, daylighting, and locally quarried fieldstone to achieve LEED certification, The American Institute of Architects awarded a special 'Sustainable Architecture Honor Award' to the project as well as First Honor Awards at its 2005 "Celebration of Architecture".<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/Heimbold_Visual_Arts_Center.html SLC Campus – Visual Arts Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129121856/http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/Heimbold_Visual_Arts_Center.html |date=January 29, 2014 }}</ref><ref>[http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1505 Heimbold Center – Historic Campus Architecture Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727203958/http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1505 |date=July 27, 2011 }}</ref>
* '''The Campbell Sports Center'''{{Snd}} One of the newest buildings on campus, the Sports Center was completed in 1997 and houses a swimming pool, a rowing tank, a weight room and exercise center, an indoor running track, squash courts, a basketball court, classrooms, locker rooms, and administrative offices.<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/athletics/The_Campbell_Sports_Center.html SLC Campus – Sports Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005556/http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/athletics/The_Campbell_Sports_Center.html |date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref>
* '''The Charles DeCarlo Performing Arts Center''', remodeled and expanded in 1974, it is located on the western end of the South Lawn.<ref>{{cite book|title=American Architecture{{Snd}} Westchester County, New York Colonial to Contemporary|author=Frank Sanchis|publisher=North River Press|date=1977|page=358}}</ref> Named for former College president Charles DeCarlo, the complex comprises the Bessie Schönberg Dance Theatre, the 200-seat Suzanne Werner Wright Theatre, the 400-seat Reisinger Auditorium, the 117-seat Cannon Workshop Theatre modeled after [[Shakespeare]]'s [[Globe Theatre]], and rehearsal spaces and work areas. The college bookstore is located in the PAC.<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/The_Performing_Arts_Center.html SLC Campus – Performing Arts Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005916/http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/academic-arts/The_Performing_Arts_Center.html |date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref>
* '''The Ruth Leff Siegel Center''', which is referred to as "The Pub", was originally constructed as a gardener's cottage on the Lawrence estate, then used as an infirmary and later as a faculty house. When the college began admitting male students in 1968, it became temporary housing for men. During the 1970s, the space was remodeled and christened "The Pub" for use as an informal dining hall and as a space for student activities. During the 1980s, it was renamed "Charlie's Place", honoring former President DeCarlo. In 1998, the entire structure was renovated, an addition was built by the architects [[Buttrick White & Burtis]], and the new complex took on its current official name. Today, it houses primarily a café serving on-the-go food, as well as two TV lounges.<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/social/Siegel_Center.html SLC Campus – Siegel Center] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140204005443/http://www.slc.edu/about/campus/social/Siegel_Center.html |date=February 4, 2014 }}</ref>
* '''The Tea House''', also known as the "Tea Haus", because its façade evokes German architectural motifs, was originally a gazebo built by the Lawrence family on a small rocky hill on the north lawn of their estate. After being saved by a student petition from a demolition that was called for by architect [[Philip Johnson]] in 1960, it was converted to an enclosed building with large windows and a fireplace that now houses a café selling a variety of teas and baked goods. While the building housed the office of history faculty member Charles Trinkaus from the 1950s through 1970, there seems to be no evidence to support the campus rumor that the Tea House was once the office of long-time faculty member [[Joseph Campbell]].

====Administration buildings====
* '''Andrews Annex''', built in the 1990s adjacent to Andrews House, houses a number of administrative offices.
* '''Lyles House''' is home to the college's Health Services Center.
* '''The President's House''', built in 1921 and designed by architect Lewis Bowman is an example of "stockbroker Tudor-Elizabethan." Typical of Bowman are the ornate chimneys,  tower like entrance pavilion and graceful treatment of the garden facade.  Its living room features restored carved beams, representing the various trades, from a 16th-century Tudor mansion in England. Additionally, above the mantel a [[Genesis creation narrative|Christian creation story]] is told in intricate wood carving. Campus legend dictates that a secret panel exists in the living room leading to a wine cellar, which was built during [[Prohibition]]. The President's House has housed the college's presidents since 1954, when the first President's House, located north of campus, was demolished to make way for the [[Sprain Brook Parkway]].<ref>[http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1504 Presidents House – Historic Campus Architecture Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727204045/http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1504 |date=July 27, 2011 }}</ref>
* '''Robinson House''' on Mead Way is home to the college's communications department. Until 1952, it housed "The Caf", a student coffee shop, on its main floor.
* '''Westlands''' is primarily an administrative building, but its top floor houses a number of student living spaces. Completed in 1917, it is the oldest building on campus and was home to Sarah Bates Lawrence and [[William Van Duzer Lawrence]] before being given to the college.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9807E1D81130F936A1575BC0A960958260 A Yonkers Locale, a Bronxville Pedigree], ''The New York Times''</ref> Dynamically situated at the highest point of elevation on the campus, it is a notable example of Victorian/Tudor architecture inspired by British architect Norman Shaw and designed by [[the New York/Bronxville firm Bates & How]].<ref>[http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1503 Westlands House – Historic Campus Architecture Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727204131/http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1503 |date=July 27, 2011 }}</ref> When completed the home was pictured on the front page of the [[New York Times]]. It has been the heart of the campus throughout the history of the college and, owing to its massive size, it now houses the president's offices, the Office of Admission, the Office of Financial Aid, the Office of the Registrar, the Office of International Programs, the Career Counseling Office, the offices of all of the college's deans, and a number of meeting spaces in addition to the top-floor dorms.
* '''The Wrexham Road Property''', acquired by the college in 2004, is a large manor house that once belonged to the government of Rwanda and used as a home for its consul. The building currently houses various graduate-level programs.

====Housing====
* '''Andrews House''', a former manor house purchased for $200,000 by the college in 1935 from Arthur Lawrence, a son of the college's founders, is known for its high ceilings, fireplaces, and its spiraling main staircase. The house is designed in the Germantown Colonial Style by architect Penrose Scott. The majority of the building houses students, but it is also the home of the college's Department of Operations and Facilities and to the offices of Writing faculty.
* '''Andrews Court''' refers to the twelve cottage-style buildings to the south of Andrews House. Built in 1974, the buildings have, on average, about eight units each in addition to full kitchens, living rooms, and bathrooms.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
* '''Tweed''', a former manor house, is home to a number of large dorm rooms in addition to a pair of classrooms.
* '''Curtis''' is home to a number of dorms, and is also part of the Early Childhood Education complex.
* '''Lynd House''', another former mansion, is home to mostly living spaces. The building's adjacent carriage house has been converted into student housing.
* '''Hill House''', bought by the college in the late 1990s, is a seven-story apartment building on the extreme southern end of the campus. At present, the majority of the apartments in the building are occupied by students, but a number of them remain in the possession of the original tenants who occupied them when the building was purchased by Sarah Lawrence. Most of the apartments are quite large and each has a full kitchen. Apartments on the upper floors with south-facing windows have, on clear days, a view of the [[Empire State Building]].
* '''Kober''' also designed by Penrose Stout is home to dorm rooms, but is also a part of the Early Childhood Education complex. It was donated to the college in 1951 by Otto Frohnknecht in memory of his daughter, Margaret Frohnknecht Kober, who graduated from Sarah Lawrence in 1935. There was once a [[bowling alley]] in its basement.
* '''Morrill''' is the former maid's quarters to the President's House, and now is home to faculty offices.
* '''Slonim House''' was formerly a manor house designed by H. A. Lindeberg that is now occupied by dorms and by the college's Center for Continuing Education and Office of Graduate Studies.
* '''Slonim Woods''' is the group of 10 purpose-built living facilities constructed in 1977. They consist of eight single person dorm rooms arranged around a central communal living space.

=====Old dorms=====
The "Old dorms" refer to four original purpose-built student housing structures to the immediate north of Westlands in what is frequently referred to as the "central campus". Dudley Lawrence, one of the sons of William and Sarah Lawrence, achieved the remarkable feat of constructing three of these buildings in one year (1926–1927). The halls were designed by Bates and How using a more traditional Neo-Tudor style through the use of stone and timber materials, and mansard roofs. The interiors are also in keeping with the architectural style found on most of the older buildings in the area, with thick plaster walls, hardwood floors, and leaded windows (since replaced with more energy-efficient double-pane windows). MacCracken, built a few years later than the other three, is situated to the south of Dudley Lawrence. The original elegant living rooms that were found in each building, excepting MacCracken, are now used as classrooms.<ref>[http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1506 Central Campus – "old dorms" – Historic Campus Architecture Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727204303/http://puka.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi-bin/cic/library?a=d&d=p1506 |date=July 27, 2011 }}</ref>
* '''Dudley Lawrence''', houses two classrooms in addition to living spaces. It is named for William Lawrence's son, who oversaw the construction of the Old Dorms.
* '''OSilas''', originally named Gilbert for one of the college's original trustees, is the northernmost building of the four and is known for being quiet and populated with the college's more studious set.
* '''MacCracken''', named for [[Vassar College]] president [[Henry Noble MacCracken]], is a few years younger than its neighbors and has, at various times, housed the college library, the bookstore, and a number of other facilities in addition to living spaces. Although it still serves as a dormitory, it now also houses dance studios, meeting spaces, and administrative offices.
* '''Titsworth''' is an all-girls dorm and was also named for one of the college's founding trustees. It occupies the space between Gilbert and Dudley Lawrence and is also home to the Titsworth Lecture Hall.

=====New dorms=====
[[File:RGT-SLC-10.2016.jpg|alt=Pictured: Rothschild, Garrison, and Taylor Residence Halls (left to right) housed in one continuous, multi-level building. There are two visible entrances. The entrance connecting Rothschild and Garrison is one floor above the entrance connecting Garrison to Taylor, as the path along the building is at a slight incline. There are large rock formations visible in front of the building between the entrances, and medium-sized trees on the small patch of grass in front of the building.|thumb|Rothschild, Garrison, and Taylor (left to right)]]
Designed by the renowned architect [[Philip Johnson]] and combining the lighter brick of Westlands with concrete slender "post modern" arches and modernist glass atria, the "New Dorms" were completed in 1960. The architectural style of the buildings is meant to be a modernist reflection of the three older dorms (Gilbert, Titsworth, and Dudley Lawrence) that stand on the opposite side of the North Lawn. The three buildings that comprise the New Dorms are connected by the glass atria in which the buildings' primary stairwells are found. With the exception of the large apartments in Rothschild, these dorms typically house first-year students.
* '''Rothschild''' comprises apartment style, air-conditioned dorm spaces with kitchens, living rooms, and an elevator. The basement houses a number of small classrooms and studios in use predominantly by the theater department.
* '''Garrison''' is a traditional dormitory-style building with shared bathrooms.
* '''Taylor''' is nearly a replica in the design of its neighbor, Garrison.

=====The Mead Way houses=====
The Mead Way Houses are the eight former private homes that stand along the steep hill of Mead Way on the college's eastern end. The two southernmost houses, Robinson and Swinford, are occupied by administrative offices and the studio of WSLC, the campus internet radio station, while the northernmost six houses, listed below, are reserved for student living spaces. The northern houses include:
* '''Brebner House'''
* '''Mansell House'''
* '''Morris House'''
* '''Perkins House'''
* '''Schmidt House'''
* '''Warren Green House'''

==Athletics==
[[File:Sarahlawrence athletics wmark.png|thumb|Sarah Lawrence athletics wordmark]]
Sarah Lawrence College is the member of [[Skyline Conference]] of [[NCAA Division III]]. The college sponsors intercollegiate teams in [[Rowing (sport)|crew]] (rowing), men's and women's [[Cross country running|cross country]], [[equestrianism|equestrian]], men's [[basketball]], men's and women's [[tennis]], men's and women's [[volleyball]], men's and women's [[Association football|soccer]], women's [[softball]], and men's and women's [[Swimming (sport)|swimming]]. In March 2011, the college announced that it would seek membership as a [[Division III (NCAA)|Division III]] member of the [[NCAA]].<ref>[http://www.slc.edu/news-events/archived/2010-2011/2011-03-31-slc-to-join-ncaa-mag.html SLC Registers as NCAA Exploratory Member] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717051009/http://www.slc.edu/news-events/archived/2010-2011/2011-03-31-slc-to-join-ncaa-mag.html |date=July 17, 2012 }}</ref> The college began competing as a full member of Division III in the 2015–16 academic year after receiving a waiver to the required four-year 'provisional' period.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gogryphons.com/news/2014/7/23/GEN_0723143557.aspx|title=NCAA Approves Acceleration of SLC Membership|date=July 24, 2014 |access-date=December 7, 2016}}</ref>

The college left the Hudson Valley conference after the 2013–14 season and joined the [[Skyline Conference]] beginning with the 2014–15 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gogryphons.com/news/2013/4/16/GEN_0416135922.aspx|title=Sarah Lawrence College Joins Skyline Conference|date=April 16, 2013 |access-date=December 7, 2016}}</ref> The Skyline Conference contains several schools including [[SUNY Purchase]] and [[Yeshiva University]] which have played against Sarah Lawrence regularly over the past few years.

The college's official mascot is a [[Griffin|Gryphon]] by the name of Godric. It was chosen in the 1990s to represent the college's athletic teams after a long period of fielding sports teams without one.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} Unofficially, the student body had long adopted the large resident population of '[[Black Squirrels]]' as a de facto mascot to the college. The position of silent mascot that the 'Black Squirrel' occupied was financially endorsed by the college itself with the production of various Black Squirrel merchandise (including Sarah Lawrence clothing branded with the Black Squirrel image) and plush toys.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} It is only recently (post-2003) that efforts on the behalf of the college to establish the Gryphon as the icon of Sarah Lawrence have begun to take root.

==Notable people==
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File:Barbara Walters 2004.jpg|[[Barbara Walters]], journalist
File:Yoko Ono 2011 SXSW.jpg|[[Yoko Ono]], artist and activist
File:Sigourney Weaver by Gage Skidmore 4.jpg|[[Sigourney Weaver]], actress
File:Carrie Fisher 2013.jpg|[[Carrie Fisher]], actress and writer
File:Brian De Palma Deauville 2011.jpg|[[Brian De Palma]], filmmaker
File:Carly Simon (1989).jpg|[[Carly Simon]], musician
File:Linda McCartney and husband Paul 1976 (cropped).jpg|[[Linda McCartney]], photographer, activist and businesswoman
File:Vera Wang 2009 portrait Tribeca.jpg|[[Vera Wang]], fashion designer
File:Julianna Margulies at 2015 PaleyFest.jpg|[[Julianna Margulies]], actress
File:Rahm Emanuel, official photo portrait color.jpg|[[Rahm Emanuel]], diplomat and politician
File:Cary Elwes September 2015.jpg|[[Cary Elwes]], actor
File:J. J. Abrams by Gage Skidmore.jpg|[[J. J. Abrams]], filmmaker
File:Win Butler-Rex Theater-sitting red.jpg|[[Win Butler]], musician (Arcade Fire)
File:2010-03-22 - Yo La Tengo - Barby, Tel-Aviv 09.JPG|[[Ira Kaplan]], musical artist (Yo La Tengo)
File:Louise Glück circa 1977.jpg|[[Louise Glück|Louise Gluck]], poet and Nobel laureate
</gallery>

=== Faculty ===
Among the prominent current or recent faculty of the college are fine art photographer [[Joel Sternfeld]], poet [[Suzanne Gardinier]], novelist [[Melvin Jules Bukiet]], novelist [[William Melvin Kelley]], novelist [[Tao Lin]], poet [[Marie Howe]], film historians [[Gilberto Perez]] and [[Malcolm Turvey]], puppet-theatre artist [[Dan Hurlin]], dancer/choreographer [[Sara Rudner]], Jewish historian [[Glenn Dynner]], philosopher [[Michael Peter Davis]], and economist [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt III]]. In 2005, current faculty member [[Eduardo Lago]] won the oldest literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, the [[Premio Nadal]]. In 1934, [[Joseph Campbell]] was offered a position as a professor at Sarah Lawrence College which he held until his retirement in 1972. Perceptual psychologist [[Rudolf Arnheim]] was on the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College for 26 years, beginning in 1943. Author [[Grace Paley]] taught at Sarah Lawrence for many years. Novelist and folklorist [[Heinz Insu Fenkl]] taught at the college at the beginning of his career. Argentinian choreographer Anabella Lenzu, work in New York City, is an adjunct professor teaching modern, ballet, and dance history. Rose Anne Thom taught dance history, Labanotation and pedagogy for both undergraduate and graduate students.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Theys |first=Emily Macel |date=August 6, 2018 |title=Former Dance Magazine Writer Rose Anne Thom Dies at 72 |url=https://www.dancemagazine.com/rose-anne-thom/ |access-date=May 2, 2024 |website=Dance Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Randall Jarrell]] taught at Sarah Lawrence College following military service in [[World War II]]. Jarrell's 1954 novel ''[[Pictures from an Institution]]'', an academic satire, is set at fictional Benton College, which some{{who|date=July 2020}} saw as modeled on Sarah Lawrence College.

=== Entertainment industry and performance arts ===
Sarah Lawrence alums who have entered the entertainment industry include film directors [[J. J. Abrams]], [[Brian De Palma]], [[Jordan Peele]], producer [[Joshua D. Maurer]], Laura Bickford, news personality [[Barbara Walters]], and TV writer and author [[Noah Hawley]].
It was also referenced in the 1981 [[crime drama]] [[movie]] ''[[Fort Apache, The Bronx]]'' as a place of [[alibi]] for the 100 or so [[South Bronx]] residents who were brought to the 41st Precinct for questioning about the murders of the two [[rookie]] officers at the film's post-opening credits start. Notable actors include [[Jane Alexander]], [[Sigourney Weaver]], [[Larisa Oleynik]], [[Cary Elwes]], [[Sam Robards]], [[Joanne Woodward]], [[Téa Leoni]], [[Golden Brooks]], [[Eric Mabius]], [[Melora Hardin]], [[Andrew Lawton]], [[Yancy Butler]], [[Holly Robinson Peete]], [[Robin Givens]], [[Julianna Margulies]], [[Lauren Holly]], [[Tovah Feldshuh]], [[Kyra Sedgwick]], [[Elisabeth Röhm]], [[Guinevere Turner]], Merritt Wever, [[Jill Clayburgh]], [[G Hannelius]] and [[Alice Pearce]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Alice Pearce|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19660304&id=Fm0eAAAAIBAJ&pg=2298,490703|access-date=October 3, 2015|work=[[Daytona Beach Morning Journal]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=March 4, 1966}}</ref> [[Carrie Fisher]] attended Sarah Lawrence, but left prior to graduating to begin filming ''[[Star Wars]]''. Musicians include [[Yoko Ono]], [[JD Samson]], [[Max Bemis]], [[Lesley Gore]], [[Carly Simon]], jazz singer [[Stacey Kent]], [[Slothrust]], and [[Ira Kaplan]] of [[Yo La Tengo]]. [[Win Butler]] of [[Arcade Fire]] attended Sarah Lawrence but left after his first year to move to Canada. [[Dylan Brody]], a humorist, author, and playwright, studied theater at Sarah Lawrence. [[Peter Gould]], writer and producer of ''[[Breaking Bad]]'', attended Sarah Lawrence. [[Lucian Kahn]], singer/guitarist of the band [[Schmekel]] and game designer of [[Visigoths vs. Mall Goths]], attended and graduated from Sarah Lawrence.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2011 - 2012 News and Announcements from Alums - Sarah Lawrence College |url=https://alum.slc.edu/page.aspx?pid=445 |access-date=April 23, 2023 |website=alum.slc.edu}}</ref>
* Fine Arts&nbsp;— Alumni who are successful artists include [[Janine Antoni]] (sculptor and performance artist), [[Cady Noland]] (conceptual sculptor and installation artist), [[Judith Inglese]] (artist, ceramic muralist and children's book illustrator), [[Jedd Novatt]] (sculptor and painter), [[Alice Brock]] (artist and retired restaurateur, of "[[Alice's Restaurant]]" fame),<ref>[http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/massachusetts/regions/capecod/articles/2008/02/24/after_alices_restaurants/?page=full After Alice's Restaurants] from ''The Boston Globe'' (2008)</ref> and [[Yoko Ono]] (artist, performance artist and musician) who studied music.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/yoko-ono-p19685/biography |title=Yoko Ono{{Snd}} Biography, Albums, Streaming Links |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=December 7, 2016}}</ref>
* Dance — Alumni of the dance department at the college include [[MacArthur Genius Grant]] awardee [[Meredith Monk]], [[Fulbright Scholar]] recipient [[Robin Gee]], and choreographer [[John Jasperse]].

=== Politics ===
Alumni involved in politics include [[Amanda Burden]], city planning director for New York City; [[Sharon Hom]], director of [[Human Rights in China]]; and two former members of the [[United States House of Representatives]]: [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and President [[Barack Obama]]'s former Chief of Staff and Mayor of Chicago [[Rahm Emanuel]]; and former [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] Congresswoman [[Sue W. Kelly]].

=== Fashion ===
[[Vera Wang]], fashion designer and former ''Vogue'' editor, and [[Paul Johnson Calderon]], television personality and fashion journalist, attended Sarah Lawrence.

=== Science ===
* [[W. Ian Lipkin]], [[Epidemiology|epidemiologist]], inventor of molecular tools for pathogen discovery

=== Literature and biography ===
[[Alice Walker]], the author of ''[[The Color Purple]]'', is an alumna. [[Ann Patchett]], author of ''Bel Canto'', is a graduate, as is Donna Raskin, book author and magazine writer; Constance Cappel, author; and [[Louise Glück]], a poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Alumna [[Nancy Huston]] is the author of numerous works and recipient of the [[Prix Femina]] in 2006 for the novel ''Lignes de faille'' (English translation: ''Fault Lines'').
* [[Elizabeth Eslami]], Iranian American essayist, novelist, and short story writer.
* [[Melissa Febos]], award-winning author of ''Whip Smart'', ''Abandon Me'', and the national bestseller, ''Girlhood'', is a graduate of the MFA program.
* [[Carolyn Ferrell]], short story writer and novelist.
* [[Maggie Haberman]], author and [[Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning reporter.
* [[Randa Jarrar]], Arab-American writer and professor at Fresno State University.
* [[Porochista Khakpour]], Iranian American journalist, essayist, and novelist.
* Playwright and lyricist [[David Lindsay-Abaire]] won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play ''[[Rabbit Hole (play)|Rabbit Hole]]''.
* [[Derek B. Miller]], novelist and author of ''Norwegian by Night'', ''The Girl in Green'', and ''American by Day''.
* [[Isaac Oliver (writer)|Isaac Oliver]], author of ''Intimacy Idiot'', playwright, and comic.
* [[Julie Shigekuni]], novelist and professor at the University of New Mexico, MFA graduate.
* Brandon Shimoda, poet and author of several books including one that won the [[William Carlos Williams Award]] from the [[Poetry Society of America]].
* [[Marguerite Yourcenar]] taught French and Italian there in the 1940s.
* [[Deborah Feldman]], author of several books including ''[[Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots]]'' and ''Exodus: A Memoir''. The Netflix mini-series ''Unorthodox'' was loosely based on Feldman's biography.
* [[Chloe Honum]], New Zealander-American poet and professor at [[Baylor University]].
* [[David Adjmi]], 2024 Tony award winning playwright

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