Can someone explain Barnard College’s affilitaiton with Columbia University?

Q. What are the origins of Barnard’s affiliation with Columbia?

A. Barnard was founded after Frederick A.P. Barnard, Columbia’s president from 1864 to 1889, argued unsuccessfully for the admission of women to the University. A key player in the founding of Barnard was Annie Nathan Meyer, who had enrolled in Columbia’s “Collegiate Course for Women” and found it decidedly inferior to the education men received at the University.

Barnard College opened its doors in 1889, and moved from a rented midtown brownstone to its own Morningside Heights campus in 1897, the same year Columbia moved uptown. Barnard formally affiliated with the University in 1900.

Q. Is Barnard an independent college?

A. Yes. We are legally separate and financially independent from Columbia University. Specifically, we have our own campus, administration, faculty, students, trustees, endowment, operating budget, and degree requirements, and we are accredited separately by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. We pay annual fees to Columbia to cover the costs of library use, faculty exchange, instruction, telecommunications and other services. And we are on our own when it comes to fundraising; in other words, we must raise our own money for everything from faculty research to campus renovation.

Q. How do Barnard and Columbia students benefit from the affiliation?

A. Obviously, Barnard students derive tremendous social and academic benefits from their college’s partnership with a great coeducational research university. It is widely known that Barnard students can take classes at Columbia, and that they have full access to Butler Library and other University resources. When they graduate, they receive a Columbia University degree, as do students of Columbia College, because degrees are granted only by the University, not by the undergraduate colleges of the University. Barnard students who meet the relevant qualifications can enroll in accelerated graduate-degree programs that Barnard sponsors with Columbia’s School of International & Public Affairs and the Columbia Law School. In athletics, Barnard students can join the University’s varsity teams and compete at the NCAA Division I level.

Unfortunately, much less attention is publicly paid to the benefits Columbia students derive from this partnership. Cross-registration flows both ways across Broadway, and in an average year, Columbia undergraduates attend 6,300 courses at Barnard. Columbia students majoring in or otherwise interested in dance, theater, architecture and urban studies benefit enormously from the Barnard connection, because in these disciplines, Barnard runs the official undergraduate programs for the entire University. Barnard also offers a program in teacher education for all University undergraduates.

Q. How does the affiliation with Columbia affect the Barnard faculty?

A. It profoundly affects our faculty members through all stages of their careers. Barnard and Columbia collaborate on faculty hiring in order to avoid duplication of resources, and Barnard faculty members teach about 40 graduate courses a year at Columbia. Barnard faculty members who are up for tenure must pass a review by the University once they have passed successfully through the College’s own review process. It’s a difficult double trial for our professors, but successful candidates join the tenured faculty ranks of both a superior liberal arts college and an Ivy League research university. So while our Columbia affiliation presents unique challenges to our faculty, it also helps Barnard attract top scholars-those who might otherwise not be attracted to a small liberal arts college, however excellent its reputation.

Q. How has the relationship between the two institutions changed over time?

A. Of course, the most significant changes occurred immediately before and after Columbia went co-ed in 1983. That was a very difficult period for Barnard, and thanks to the wisdom, strength and resolve of my predecessors -whose words and actions represented the overwhelming sentiment of the alumnae, the trustees, and the rest of the Barnard community-Barnard maintained its autonomy and successfully renegotiated its position within the University. I have made it a priority to build on that great accomplishment, and since I came to Barnard in 1994, I have worked with Columbia’s president to continually raise the level of communication, coordination and reciprocity between our two institutions.

Yes. Back in the 1800s and before, people didn’t much believe in the education of women as we do today. As such, most of the colleges of the time were men-only colleges. One of those men-only colleges of the time was Columbia College in New York City. When the idea of the education of women began to pick up steam, some schools decided, instead of going totally co-educational (men and women in the same classroom), to go with co-ordinate education (separate men’s college and women’s college within the same university). Hence, you had things like Columbia University having both Columbia College and Barnard College. Also, Radcliffe used to be the women’s college at Harvard University before it was turned into a research institute relatively recently.

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