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|Enrollment= 2,389 students
 
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}}'''Barnard College''' is a women's college across [[Broadway (avenue)|Broadway]] from Columbia's [[Morningside Heights campus]].  It is part of the prestigious [[Seven Sisters]] Colleges (the other members being Radcliffe, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, and Mount Holyoke). It was founded in [[1889]] for female undergraduate students at a time when [[Columbia College]] accepted men only (it would become co-ed in 1983). 
 
  
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Barnard is 'independent' institution affiliated with the University via an [[Columbia-Barnard Intercorporate Agreement|intercorporate agreement]] negotiated between the two institutions. Barnard students can take most classes at the University (most notably, they may not take Core Curriculum classes).
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}}'The College was named after Frederick A.P. Barnard, then the tenth president of Columbia College, who argued unsuccessfully for the admission of women to Columbia University. One of the original Seven Sisters, Barnard was, from the beginning, a place that took women seriously and challenged them intellectually. Now, with a more than 110-year tradition as an independent college for women affiliated with Columbia University, Barnard continues to challenge the way its students think about themselves, their world, and their roles in changing it.
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Barnard degrees are NOT officially awarded by Columbia Univeristy<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/opir/abstract/degrees%20and%20certificates%20awarded%202007-2008.htm</ref> even though Barnard degrees are conferred at University commencement, along with the three official undergraduate schools, Columbia College, the School of General Studies, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and with all of the other graduate divions.  
 
  
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Barnard College maintains its own alumni organization separate from the Columbia University Alumni Association(CAA) <ref>https://alumni.columbia.edu/help/index.html#uni_pw_faq</ref> because CAA membership
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Barnard is located just across Broadway from Columbia's main campus and is one of four undergraduate schools within the Columbia University system (the others are Columbia College, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies).
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is restricted to Columbia degree holders only. It owns its own undergraduate campus  which is located just west of the University's main campus, between West [[116th Street|116th]] and 120th streets.
 
  
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Barnard has a complicated [[Columbia-Barnard Relationship|relationship]] with Columbia.
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Barnard is an undergraduate college formally affiliated with the University. Students at each institution can take courses at the other. Barnard students receive the diploma of the University signed by the presidents of both institutions, and the College is represented in the University Senate. At the same time, Barnard is legally separate and financially independent from the University; sets its own student fees; has a separate endowment, administration and faculty, and admissions office; and undertakes its own fund-raising.  
  
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For many years Barnard College was headed by a Dean, but at around the time Columbia College decided to admit women, Barnard decided to elevate to status of their highest administrator to President.
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==History==
 
  
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On October 23, [[1890]], the ''[[Spec]]'' welcomed Barnard with this editorial:
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"With this issue Barnard College makes her bow--we beg the young ladies' pardon, her courtesy [curtsy]--to our readers. It is, for the present at least, our intention to make the news of our sister school a regular--and of course a pretty--department of our paper.
 
  
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In if the course of time, however, we find that our sister students, prepossessing and spirituelle though they be, are not interesting and alert, we shall indeed feel obliged to sacrifice their publicity to more pressing news!
 
  
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We shall, therefore, anxiously await from our correspondent the account of something 'real naughty and shocking' to keep alive interest. We should not like to suggest a love affair with a tutor; but if such an event came to pass spontaneously in the course of time, nothing could be further from our profession of impartiality than to restrain the news of it."
 
  
 
== Dining locations ==
 
== Dining locations ==

Revision as of 02:10, 20 January 2010

Barnard College
Barnard Seal.gif
Established 1889
President {{{President}}}
Dean President Deborah Spar
Degrees BA
Enrollment 2,389 students
Website www.barnard.columbia.edu

'The College was named after Frederick A.P. Barnard, then the tenth president of Columbia College, who argued unsuccessfully for the admission of women to Columbia University. One of the original Seven Sisters, Barnard was, from the beginning, a place that took women seriously and challenged them intellectually. Now, with a more than 110-year tradition as an independent college for women affiliated with Columbia University, Barnard continues to challenge the way its students think about themselves, their world, and their roles in changing it.

Barnard is located just across Broadway from Columbia's main campus and is one of four undergraduate schools within the Columbia University system (the others are Columbia College, the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of General Studies).

Barnard is an undergraduate college formally affiliated with the University. Students at each institution can take courses at the other. Barnard students receive the diploma of the University signed by the presidents of both institutions, and the College is represented in the University Senate. At the same time, Barnard is legally separate and financially independent from the University; sets its own student fees; has a separate endowment, administration and faculty, and admissions office; and undertakes its own fund-raising.






Dining locations

Housing

Map

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