Presbyterian Hospital National Child Labor Committee Honorary degrees Boston College, 1970 Hofstra University, 1970 Ohio Wesleyan University, 1971 Oberlin College, 1972 Princeton University, 1973 Russell Sage College, 1974 University of Arizona, 1975, 1989 Harvard University, 1975 Allegheny College, 1976 Georgetown University, 1978 University of Notre Dame, 1982 Smith College, 1986 Brown University, 1987 Columbia University, 1991 New York University, 1991 University of Pennsylvania, 2002 Dartmouth College (Doctor of Arts), 2006 Northwestern University (Doctor of Humane Letters), 2012 References Footnotes Citations Works Cited Davis, Michael (2008). Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. New York: Viking Penguin. Gikow, Louise A. (2009). Sesame Street: A Celebration— Forty Years of Life on the Street. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. . Morrow, Robert W. (2006). Sesame Street and the Reform of Children's Television. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. O'Dell, Cary (1997). Women Pioneers in Television: Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders. "Joan Ganz Cooney", pp. 67–80. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. . External links Text of Cooney's proposal "The Potential Uses of Television in Preschool Education" 1929 births 20th-century American Jews American people of German-Jewish descent Grammy Award winners Living people Sesame Workshop people Businesspeople from Phoenix, Arizona University of Arizona alumni National Humanities Medal recipients Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients North High School (Phoenix, Arizona) alumni People from Gramercy Park 21st-century American Jews Television producers from Arizona Kennedy Center honorees