"Today's Family" National TV Show Highlights Barnard
Barnard's unique place in higher education is captured in a national television program, "Today's Family," that airs across the country starting this month. The program offers high school students and their parents guidance on choosing the right college for them.
The segment was filmed on campus last spring and summer and features interviews with Admissions Dean Jennifer Fondiller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Anna Quindlen '74, chair of the Barnard Trustees, and students Aurea Morgan (who touts the "women can do it attitude" on campus), and Rebecca Arata. The segment airs in November on cable television networks PAX, the Disney Channel and Lifetime, starting in the Detroit and Syracuse, N.Y. areas. In months to come, the show will be featured on cable in 25 major markets chosen by the College in all regions of the country.
Platinum Television Group, which produces the innovative, educational television series, Today's Family, selected Barnard for the program because it is considered one of the most unique colleges in American higher education. Today's Family focuses on presenting viewers with successful parenting strategies and covers topics such as learning/education, nutrition, and fitness.
The program captures Barnard's special place in all of higher education as an independent college with a long tradition of excellence and with an historic partnership with Columbia University. The program focuses on the close mentoring of students by deans and faculty committed to the achievement of women, the value placed on small classes, and the transformative effect of being immersed in and challenged by the New York City enviroment. The show underscores the perspective that students become savvy, in-the-know and self-assured Barnard women by learning to navigate these unique and complex worlds.
Quindlen describes her own years at Barnard as the foundation for her success as a journalist and columist at The New York Times, "I just really feel that the College changed my life," Quindlen states. "I walked out as someone who was pretty fearless."
The show describes Barnard's graduates as trailblazers in many fields, among them, pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead; Judith Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York; entrepreneur Martha Stewart; Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History; Phyllis Grann, CEO, Putnam book publishers, choreographer Twyla Tharp; cancer researcher Jacqueline Barton; actresses Cynthia Nixon and Lauren Graham, and performance artist Laurie Anderson, the first artist-in-residence at NASA.
The extraordinary quality of the Barnard experience accounts for the fact that more MacArthur "genius" fellows have been awarded to Barnard graduates (nine) than alumnae of any other liberal arts college. College alumnae include many great writers (see www.barnard.edu/writers); among these are eight Pulitzer Prize winners.
Click here to view the Today's Family segment: http://160.39.101.217:8080/ramgen/barnard/barnard_pr_05.rm
Upcoming dates in the Washington, D.C. area are as follows: WPXW & WWPX PAX-TV
Thurs. 12/1 @ 1:30 PM
Thurs. 12/8 @ 1:30 PM
Thurs. 12/15 @ 1:30 PM
Thurs. 12/22 @ 1:30 PM
Thurs. 12/29 @ 1:30 PM
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, FL WPXM PAX-TV
Tues. 12/6 @ 5:30 PM
Mon. 12/19 @ 5:30 PM
Wed. 12/21 @ 5:30 PM
Wed. 12/28 @ 5:30 PM
For more information, please contact Suzanne Trimel in the Barnard Office of Public Affairs, 212-854-7582 or strimel@barnard.edu .
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