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<div>The '''President of Columbia University''' is the highest officer of the university. The President is equivalent to a Chief Executive Officer in a corporation, and the [[Trustees]] are equivalent to his or her Board of Directors. The President is a member ''ex officio'', but not the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.<br />
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Since [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]], Presidents have published public [[Annual Reports of the President to the Trustees|reports to the trustees]]. Originally an annual occurrence, the recent trend has been to five-year reports. <br />
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== List of Presidents ==<br />
===King's College===<br />
* [[Samuel Johnson]]<br />
* [[Myles Cooper]]<br />
===Columbia College===<br />
* [[William Samuel Johnson]]<br />
* [[Charles Henry Wharton]]<br />
* [[Benjamin Moore]]<br />
* [[William Harris (President)|William Harris]]<br />
* [[William Duer]]<br />
* [[Nathaniel Fish Moore]]<br />
* [[Charles King]]<br />
* [[Frederick A. P. Barnard]]<br />
* [[Seth Low]]<br />
===Columbia University===<br />
* [[Seth Low]]<br />
* [[Nicholas Murray Butler]]<br />
* [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]<br />
* [[Grayson Kirk]]<br />
* [[Andrew Cordier]]<br />
* [[William McGill]]<br />
* [[Michael Sovern]]<br />
* [[George Rupp]]<br />
* [[Lee C. Bollinger]]<br />
* [[Minouche Shafik]]<br />
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===Acting Presidents===<br />
* [[Benjamin Moore]] - 1775-1776 ([[Myles Cooper]] fled New York)<br />
* [[Henry Drisler]] - 1867, 1888-1889 ([[Frederick Barnard]] leave of absence, and then resignation)<br />
* [[John Howard Van Amringe]] - 1899 ([[Seth Low]] leave of absence)<br />
* [[Frank Diehl Fackenthal]] - 1945-1948 (period between [[Nicholas Murray Butler]] resignation and [[Dwight Eisenhower]] appointment)<br />
* [[Grayson Kirk]] - 1950-1953 (served while [[Eisenhower]] took leave of absence to run NATO)<br />
* [[Andrew Cordier]] - 1969-1970 (appointment retroactively made official)<br />
* [[Katrina Armstrong]] - 2024-2025<br />
* [[Claire Shipman]] - 2025-Present<br />
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