1811

1811 in Columbia history:

• William Harris succeeds Benjamin Moore as college president
• Creation of the post of Provost to compensate John Mitchell Mason for not gaining the presidency
• The "Riotous Commencement", in which students violently protested the faculty's decision not to confer a degree upon John Stevenson, who had inserted objectionable words into his commencement speech.

Preceded by 1810

History of Columbia University  1811

Succeeded by 1812