Barnard College

Barnard College is a single-sex, all-women educational institution in New York City. It was founded in 1889 and is affiliated with Columbia University, as Barnard students can take classes with Columbia students and officially their degrees are granted by the trustees of Columbia University. Barnard's other major affiliation is as a member of the Seven Sisters. Its campus is located between West 116th to 120th street.

Controversies.

Barnard has been the subject of several controversies, these are more or less all related to Barnard's standing with respect to the Columbia University undergraduate schools, and include:

• Barnard as a single-sex college-Barnard has been accused of being outmoded and even sexist in its attitude towards admissions, it has responded to these allegations by suggesting that a single-sex educational environment is necessary to foster educational equality for women. Barnard is unique amongst its peers in terms of its relationship to its parent Ivy. Institutes like Radcliife college, which once occupied a similar possition with respect to Harvard as Barnard does to Columbia today, was formally integrated into Harvard proper. Barnard has traditionally resisted such pressures to do the same since the 1960's. It has been argued that as the Columbia undegraduate division had an all-male admissions policy up untill 1980, Barnard served a vital role in granting women access to a Columbia quality education. However since Columbia became co-ed in 1980, it has been subject to repeated accusations of being obsolete.