Undergraduate Student Life
The Sarah Lawrence campus integrates study and play, life and work. Amidst the Tudor architecture and distinctive landscape, students attend classes, share housing, and enjoy a community of lively interchange and expression. Dramatic and musical performances, readings, and student organizations bring people together daily. Community service opportunities, many connected with course work, engage students in efforts toward social change. For cultural offerings and internship opportunities, the resources of New York City enhance everyone's experience. Students find inspiration and entertainment within the city's pulse, and benefit immensely from faculty connections to its boundless supply of energy and talent.
Student Involvement
Many campus activities are generated by students and arise out of academic work or personal interests. The Office of Student Activities helps to implement student-sponsored projects and events by providing funding assistance and logistical support. Programs are designed and planned by the Sarah Lawrence Activities Council (SLAC), student organizations including the Student Senate or the Student Activities staff in collaboration with and at the request of individuals or groups of students. All students are encouraged to suggest activities.
Residence Life
Sarah Lawrence College has quite possibly one of the most interesting arrangements for housing of any college campus. Former private houses, sprawling real-life apartment buildings with actual tenants, cooperative houses, a converted carriage house, traditional suite-style dormitories, contemporary community-focused dorms and even a converted section of the President's house offer students a living situation comparable to their educational experience: unique, to say the least.
Diversity
The Office of Diversity and Campus Engagement works with its programming and funding arm the Diversity and Activism Programming Subcommittee of Student Life (DAPS) to provide student centered programs that focus all aspects of diversity. In order to make campus climate changes, it is important to think about diversity efforts as sustainable.
Career Counseling
The Office of Career Counseling is dedicated to guiding Sarah Lawrence undergraduates, graduates, and alumnae/i on their respective career paths. No matter where you are on this journey, we are here to help. We offer a wide range of career services including career counseling, workshops, information sessions, and employer site visits, just to name a few. Feel free to explore our website, and please come in for a visit.
Community Partnerships
Sarah Lawrence College has a rich history of educating students for social responsibility, and a deep commitment to the integration of community-based learning. Through community work, students deepen insights into their academic inquiry, develop relationships with role models working to better society, learn skills for community organizing, social service, and citizenship, and clarify personal career goals and values.
"Going to the Tea Haus and relaxing with a nice cup of tea on one of their comfy chairs. Or going out on the North Lawn and just lying down on the grass."
"My roommates and I last year used to watch Disney films and sing along to them while eating lots of chocolate and cookies. It´s truly a great way to wind down."
"If it's nice out I love to take a blanket out to the North Lawn and read. Usually the reading doesn't last long because my friends show up one by one...I spend entire days out on the lawn just talking, playing tag, or maybe even working."