Joan Ganz Cooney - Honors

Honors

Unless otherwise stated, the items in this list are from The Museum of Broadcast Communications.

  • National Institute for Social Sciences Gold Medal, 1971
  • Frederick Douglass Award, New York Urban League, 1972
  • Silver Satellite Award, American Women in Radio and TV, 1979
  • Woman of the Decade Award, 1979
  • National Endowment for the Arts, Friends of Education Award, 1981
  • Kiwanis Decency Award, 1981
  • National Association of Educational Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award, 1981
  • Stephen S. Wise Award, 1981
  • Harris Foundation Award, 1982
  • Emmy Award, for Lifetime Achievement, 1989
  • Hall of Fame Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, 1989
  • University of Arizona Centennial Medallion Award, 1989
  • Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1995
  • 10th Anniversary Award, National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations, 1996
  • Annenberg Public Policy Center, Distinguished Contribution to Children and Television, 1998
  • National Women's Hall of Fame, 1998
  • Association of Educational Publishers Hall of Fame, 2004
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Award, 2006

Board of directors

  • Director, Johnson & Johnson
  • Director, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
  • President's Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, 1971–73
  • National News Council, 1973–81
  • Council Foreign Relations, 1974–present
  • Advance Committee for Trade Negotiations, 1978–80
  • Governor's Commission on International Year of the Child, 1979
  • President's Commission for Agenda for the 1980s, 1980–81
  • Carnegie Foundation National Panel on High Schools, 1980–82
  • National Organization of Women (NOW)
  • National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
  • National Institute Social Sciences
  • International Radio and TV Society
  • American Women in Radio and TV

Trustee

  • WNET (Channel 13)
  • Museum of Television & Radio
  • Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
  • National Child Labor Committee

Honorary degrees

  • Boston College, 1970
  • Hofstra University, 1970
  • Oberlin College, 1972
  • Ohio Wesleyan University, 1971
  • Princeton University, 1973
  • Russell Sage College, 1974
  • University of Arizona, 1975
  • Harvard University, 1975
  • Allegheny College, 1976
  • Georgetown University, 1978
  • University of Notre Dame, 1982
  • Smith College, 1986
  • Brown University, 1987
  • University of Arizona, 1989
  • Columbia University, 1991
  • New York University, 1991
  • University of Pennsylvania, 2002
  • Dartmouth College (Doctor of Arts), 2006
  • Northwestern University (Doctor of Humane Letters), 2012

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