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Barnard College
Motto: "Hepomene toi logismoi" (Following the Way of Reason)
Established: 1889
Type: Private
Endowment: $159 million
President: Judith Shapiro
Faculty: 319
Undergraduates: 2,356
Postgraduates: none
Location: Flag of the United States New York, NY
Campus: Urban
Colors: Blue and white
Mascot: Millie, the dancing Barnard Bear
Athletics: 15 varsity teams
Website: www.barnard.edu

Barnard College is a prestigious women's liberal arts college founded in 1889. A motto (from the Italian word motto, meaning witticism sentence is a phrase meant to formally describe the general motivation or intention of a social group The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common A financial endowment is a Transfer of Money or Property donated to an Institution, usually with the stipulation that it be invested University president is the title of the highest ranking officer within a University, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Judith R Shapiro (born January 24, 1942) is a former President of Barnard College, a Liberal arts college for women affiliated with Columbia A faculty is a division within a University. The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. See also Postgraduate Training in Education Postgraduate education (synonymous in North America with graduate education, and sometimes described The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous School colors are the Colors chosen by a School to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification The term mascot – defined as a term for any person animal or object thought to bring Luck – colloquially includes anything used to represent a group with a common A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Liberal arts colleges in the United States are institutions of Higher education in the United States. Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Barnard is affiliated with Columbia University, but Barnard maintains an independent campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, and separate faculty, administration, trustees, operating budget, and endowment. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. A campus is traditionally the land on which a College or University and related institutional buildings are situated Morningside Heights is a neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City and is chiefly known as the home of institutions such as Barnard In New York City, a borough is a unique form of government which administers the five fundamental constituent parts that make up the consolidated city Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York The City of New York

The four acre (16,000 m²) campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets, adjacent to Columbia's campus, and has been used by Barnard since 1898. Broadway, as the name implies is a wide avenue in New York City. The neighborhood is sometimes called the Academic Acropolis; as well as being on a hill, the area is home to numerous academic institutions including the Bank Street College of Education, Jewish Theological Seminary, Manhattan School of Music, Teachers College, and Union Theological Seminary. Bank Street College of Education, or simply Bank Street is located in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, in New York City. The Manhattan School of Music is a Music conservatory located in New York City that offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and Rankings According to US News & World Report, Teachers College Columbia University currently ranks as the #1 Graduate Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of Theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway

Barnard is a member of the group of women's colleges known as the Seven Sisters, which are considered to be the most prestigious and selective women's colleges in the United States. The Seven Sisters are seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges.

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General information

A view of Milbank Hall, Barnard College
A view of Milbank Hall, Barnard College

Barnard College is a Seven Sisters college that maintains an affiliation with Columbia University. Barnard's original 1889 home was a rented brownstone at 343 Madison Avenue, where a faculty of six offered instruction to 14 students in the School of Arts, as well as to 22 "specials," who lacked the entrance requirements in Greek and so enrolled in science. Brownstone is a brown Triassic Sandstone which was once a popular Building material. In 1900, Barnard was included in the educational system of Columbia University, but it continued to be independently governed, while making available to its students the instruction and the facilities. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Barnard currently pays an annual fee to Columbia to maintain the affiliation.

The College gets its name from Frederick A.P. Barnard (1809-89), an American educator and mathematician, who served as then-Columbia College's president from 1864 to 1889. Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard ( May 5, 1809 - April 27, 1889) Frederick Barnard advocated equal educational privileges for men and women (preferably in a coeducational setting). The school's founding, however, is largely due to the determined efforts of Annie Nathan Meyer, a talented student and writer who was not satisfied with what she saw as Columbia's half-hearted, token effort to educate women. Annie Nathan Meyer ( February 19, 1867 – September 23, 1951) was an American author and promoter of the higher education of women

Meyer later wrote: "I confess to a pride in having defended the affiliated college at a time when it was neither popular or understood. To me nothing in the education of women mattered so much as the creation of right standards, and this was effected by the establishment of the affiliated college. "

Barnard College is one of the Seven Sisters founded to provide an education for women comparable to that of the Ivy League schools, which (with the exception of Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania) only admitted men for undergraduate study into the 1960s. The Seven Sisters are seven liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges. Female education is a catch-all term for a complex of issues and debates surrounding education ( Primary education, Secondary education, Tertiary education The Ivy League is an Athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn) is a private University located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Barnard is the sister school of Columbia College, the university's original undergraduate division. Columbia College began admitting women in 1983 after a decade of failed negotiations with Barnard for a merger along the lines of the one between Harvard College and Radcliffe College. Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a Private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge Massachusetts, and was the Coordinate college for Harvard University Today, Barnard is the most selective of the five Seven Sisters that remain single-sex in admissions. Barnard has an independent faculty and board of trustees. Most of the school's classes and activities, however, are open to all members of Columbia University, male or female, in a reciprocal arrangement to benefit the academic and social life of the entire University community[1].

Admissions

Admissions to Barnard College is competitive. [2] U.S. News & World Report classifies its selectivity as "most competitive. USNews & World Report is an influential weekly American Newsmagazine published in Washington D " For the class of 2011, Barnard College admitted 28. 7% of those who applied. The median ACT score was 30, while the median combined SAT score was 2100. Barnard's application includes several required essays.

Culture and student life

Student organizations

Every Barnard student is part of the Student Government Association (SGA), which elects a representative student government. Students serve with faculty and administrators on college committees and help to shape policy in a wide variety of areas.

Student groups include theatre and vocal music groups, language clubs, literary magazines, a weekly news magazine called the Barnard Bulletin, community service groups, and others. Barnard students can also join extracurricular activities or organizations at Columbia; Columbia students are allowed in most, but not all, Barnard organizations.

Barnard's McIntosh Activities Council (commonly known as McAC), named after the first President of Barnard, Millicent Mcintosh, organizes various community focused events on campus, such as Big Sub and Midnight Breakfast. Midnight breakfast is a generic term for a Communal meal served at some American Colleges and Universities. McAC is made up of 5 sub-committees such as the Multi-Cultural committee, Time-Out committee, Network committee, Community Committee, etc. Each committee has a different focus, such as hosting and publicizing multi-cultural events (Multi-Cultural committee), having regular study breaks and relaxation events (Time-Out committee), giving students opportunities to be involved with Alumnae and various professionals (Network committee), etc.

Two National Panhellenic Conference organizations were founded at Barnard College. The first, Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity, was founded by Stella George Stern Perry, Elizabeth Heywood Wyman, Helen St. Alpha Omicron Pi ( ΑΟΠ, AOII) is an international women's fraternity that was founded on January 2 1897 at Barnard College Clair Mullan and Jessie Wallace Hughan on January 2, 1897. The second, Alpha Epsilon Phi, was founded by seven Jewish women, Helen Phillips, Ida Beck, Rose Gerstein, Augustina "Tina" Hess, Lee Reiss, Rose Salmowitz and Stella Strauss on October 24, 1909. Alpha Epsilon Phi ( ΑΕΦ) is a sorority and member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Though no longer on campus, these two organizations continued to grow and expand nationally over the next century. Currently, Barnard students participate in four NPC sororities that are active and recruit on the Barnard and Columbia campuses. They are Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Gamma, Kappa Alpha Theta, and Sigma Delta Tau.

Traditions

Athletics

Barnard athletes compete in the NCAA Division I and the Ivy League through the Columbia/Barnard Athletic Consortium. The Ivy League is an Athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. There are 15 intercollegiate teams, and students also compete at the intramural and club levels.

Scandals and controversies

In the spring of 1960 Columbia University President Greyson Kirk complained to the President of Barnard that Barnard students were wearing inappropriate clothing. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. The garments in question were pants and Bermuda shorts. The administration forced the Student Council to institute a dress code. Students would be allowed to wear shorts and pants only at Barnard and only if the shorts were no more than two inches above the knee and the pants were not tight. Barnard women crossing the street to enter the Columbia campus wearing shorts or pants were required to cover themselves with a long coat similar to a jilbab. The term jilbab or jilbaab (Arabic جلباب is the plural of the word jilaabah which refers to any long and loose-fit coat or garment worn by some Muslim [3] [4]

In March 1968, The New York Times ran an article on students who cohabited, identifying one of the persons they interviewed as a student at Barnard College from New Hampshire named "Susan". Barnard officials searched their records for women from New Hampshire and were able to determine that "Susan" was really 20 year old Linda LeClair, who was living with 20 year old Peter Behr, a student at Columbia University. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. She was called before Barnard's student-faculty administration judicial committee, where she faced the possibility of expulsion. The student protest took the form of 300 other Barnard women signing a petition admitting that they too had broken the regulations. In the end, the judicial committee compromised: LeClair would be allowed to remain in school, but would be denied use of the college cafeteria and barred from all social activities. LeClair briefly became a focus of intense national attention. [5][6][7]

A minor national controversy grew around the issue of granting tenure to Nadia Abu El Haj, an anthropology professor. Nadia Abu El Haj (born 1962 and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. Critics allege that her book, Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, denies the existence of the ancient Israelite kingdoms. Facts on the Ground Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society is a 2001 book by Nadia Abu El Haj based on her doctoral thesis The history of Ancient Israel and Judah is known to us from classical sources including Judaism 's Tanakh or Hebrew Bible (known

Nine Ways of Knowing

There is a program of required courses for graduation termed the Nine Ways of Knowing, a program of distribution requirements. Requirements include one course in each of the following disciplines: Social Analysis, Cultures in Comparison, Historical Studies, Reason and Value, Quantitative and Deductive Reasoning, Visual and Performing Arts, and Literature. The program is very flexible, as students choose from a long list of courses in each area. Each student is also required to take two courses in one Laboratory science, and study a foreign language through the fourth semester.

Notable alumnæ, faculty & medalists

Main article: List of Barnard College people

This article includes lists of Barnard College alumnæ, faculty and medalists exclusively. The following is a list of notable individuals associated with Barnard College through attendance as a student service as a member of the faculty or staff or award of the Barnard Medal For a full list of individuals associated with Columbia University and its affiliates see the List of Columbia University people. This is a partially sorted list of notable persons who have had ties to Columbia University.

Barnard College in Popular Culture

References

  1. ^ The Barnard / Columbia Partnership, accessed July 26, 2006
  2. ^ [http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drglance_2708_brief.php ]. Events 657 - Battle of Siffin. 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine Emperor Nicephorus Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Accessed May 29, 2007. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
  3. ^ "Ban on Shorts Threatens Classic Barnard Couture", New York Times, April 28, 1960, p.  1.  
  4. ^ "Administrative Regulations: Campus Etiquette", Barnard College Blue Book, 87-88.  
  5. ^ Newsweek, April 8, 1968, p. 85 and Newsweek, April 29, 1968, p. 79-80.
  6. ^ The Woman Question
  7. ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=Rq8FS3juFzAC&pg=PT229&lpg=PT229&dq=linda+leclair&source=web&ots=G-mYOk--NM&sig=4Dy1fNcYeAtQCL0iNvbXYZPLy0U#PPT229,M1

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