America’s fixation on celebrity has worked its way into academia.
While adding thousands of college records to the Muckety database recently, we couldn’t help but notice several star-studded boards.
One of the most blinding is at Vassar, where trustees include Meryl Streep and Lisa Kudrow, who are both alumnae and (despite Phoebe’s ditziness) brainiacs.
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The University of Southern California boasts Stephen Spielberg; Bennett College for Women has poet and Oprah pal Maya Angelou; and Gallaudet University has actress Marlee Matlin.
Literati are also popular.
Playwright Marsha Norman sits on the Agnes Scott College board, while lawyer-novelist Scott Turow is a trustee at Amherst. Anna Quindlen, the novelist and former New York Times columnist who is an ever-popular commencement speaker, chairs the board at her alma mater, Barnard.
Quindlen isn’t the only media celeb to serve on a college board. NPR talk show host Diane Rehm is a trustee of McDaniel College. Sherry Lansing, former Paramount Pictures chief, is both University of California regent and a University of Chicago trustee.
No telling if the stars show up for monthly meetings, but they undoubtedly draw crowds and money to their favorite universities.
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