Barnard College

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

Barnard College is a women's college across 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).

Barnard is 'independent' institution affiliated with the University via an 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). Barnard degrees are conferred by Columbia University.

Barnard has a complicated relationship with Columbia.

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.

History

Barnard Class of 1913 students celebrate Ivy Day outside Brooks Hall

On October 23, 1890, the Spec welcomed Barnard with this editorial:

"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.

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!

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."

Campus

Main article: Barnard campus

Barnard's postage-stamp sized campus lies across Broadway from Columbia's main Morningside Heights spread, crammed into the half-block between Broadway, Claremont Avenue, 116th Street and 120th Street.

The nucleus of the Barnard campus is Barnard Hall, aligned with the Barnard gates and the main east-west axis of the Columbia campus. It was built in the style of Columbia's academic buildings across the street (it somehow also manages to house the college's athletic facilities, including LeFrak Gymnasium and the Barnard pool). Milbank Hall is the oldest building on the site. In between are a number of academic buildings, including Altschul Hall, Lehman Hall (home of the Barnard Library), and the new Diana student center (formerly known as Nexus and popularly nicknamed "The Vag").

Only a few Barnard students actually live in the campus enclosure, all of whom are in The Quad dorms immediately south of Barnard Hall. The rest live in Barnard dorms nearby (though some, like Cathedral Gardens, are very far-flung). Hewitt, the main dining facility for Barnard students, is located mostly below street level underneath these dorms.

The Barnard campus is entirely connected by open-access tunnels, which make traversing campus easy in inclement weather, which is more than can be said for Columbia's tunnels, which require virtual spelunking skills to access in some cases.

Academics

Barnard students, unlike their Columbia College counterparts, do not have a Core Curriculum, but rather engage in an elaborate distribution requirement known as the Nine Ways of Knowing, which includes a tailor-made First Year Seminar and a number of electives within a given number of categories.

Dining locations

• Hewitt Dining Hall
• The Diana Center

Housing

• Sulzberger
• Reid
• Brooks
• Hewitt
• 600 W 116th
• 616 W 116th
• 620 W 116th
• 601 W 110th
• Elliott
• Plimpton
• Cathedral Gardens
• Sulzberger Tower

Map

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External links

• Barnard College website