无畏的历史

Over 130 Years of Majoring in Unafraid

In 1917, 约瑟芬围场, 1906届毕业生, was among the suffragists who picketed the White House to demand a voice for women in the government.

这个设想很大胆:
Create a rigorous and challenging college for women equivalent to the education offered by Columbia.

十大电竞游戏综合排名的故事

At the turn of the 20th century, suffragists were still campaigning for the vote, 哥伦比亚大学, like most other institutions of higher learning at the time, would only admit and educate white men. 最终, the Columbia 校董会 agreed to create a syllabus for women to earn a certificate from the University.

Still, they were prevented from joining regular classes. A group of 纽约市 women, led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, wanted more. They assembled a committee to support their vision and, after two years of petitioning, convinced the Trustees to create an affiliated college, which they named after Columbia’s recently deceased president, 弗雷德里克一.P. 十大电竞游戏综合排名, who argued unsuccessfully for the admission of women to 哥伦比亚大学.

成立于1889年, 十大电竞游戏综合排名是 the only college in 纽约市, one of the few in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging education available to men.

The school’s founding was largely due to the rallying efforts of Annie Nathan Meyer, a student and writer who was equally dissatisfied with Columbia’s stance and staunchly committed to the education of women. She joined forces with a small group of her peers to petition the University Trustees for an affiliated, self-sustaining liberal arts women’s college. In two years, she accomplished what she had set out to do.

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麦迪逊大道343号, circa 1889

Barnard’s first class met in a rented brownstone at 麦迪逊大道343号, just blocks from Grand Central Station; there were six 教师 members and 14 students in the School of Arts. Nine years later, the College moved to its current site in Morningside Heights. One of the original Seven Sisters colleges, 十大电竞游戏综合排名是, 从一开始, a place that challenged women intellectually.

In 1900, 十大电竞游戏综合排名是 included in the educational system of 哥伦比亚大学, with provisions unique among women’s colleges: It was governed by its own trustees, 教师, dean and was responsible for its own endowment and facilities, while sharing the instruction, 库, the degree of the university.  

In 1983, when Columbia College went co-ed, as 弗雷德里克一.P. Barnard had wanted more than a century before, one might have thought Barnard would easily be subsumed. 而不是, then-President Ellen Futter fought for the College to remain independent and worked toward a new and lasting agreement with Columbia in light of their decision to admit women.

Over the course of over 130 years and 13 great women leaders — from winning the right to hire 教师 in 1900 and the pivotal protests of 1968 to the historic admission of transgender women in 2016 — Barnard has continued to flourish and excel.

从一开始, Barnard’s mission has been to empower smart, ambitious women by offering rigor and relevance in an academic community where women lead. As our reach broadens, the mission grows ever more powerful. 几十年来, Barnard women have fought for suffrage, 和平, 性别平等, 社会正义, 气候行动, 和更多的.

Blazing Trails in STEM

Her family wanted her to become a debutante, but Elsie Clews Parsons from the Class of 1896 chose to go to Barnard and later became the first woman elected president of the American Anthropological Association.

Margaret Mead transferred to Barnard as a sophomore English major to join the Class of 1923. An anthropology class with the pioneering cultural anthropologist Franz Boas changed her life course — and the way we study human culture.

The only physician in the U.S. to be board-certified in internal medicine, 血液学, 内分泌学, 和新陈代谢, Lila Wallis ’47 founded the National Council on Women’s 健康 and served as its first president.

Dr. 海伦·盖尔,76届, the CEO of the Chicago 社区 Trust, led HIV/AIDS research efforts at the Centers for Disease Control for two decades, later serving on President Obama’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

Megumi Yamaguchi Shinoda, Barnard Class of 1928, was the first Asian American woman to graduate from Columbia Medical School

 A Long Tradition of Literary Stars

Zora Neale Hurston ’28, best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, was Barnard’s first black graduate. Today, the College is a leading institution for Hurston scholarship.

Ntozake Shange ’70 won an Obie award for her groundbreaking choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Shange remained an active member of the Barnard community until her death in 2018.

Edwidge Danticat ’90 drew on her Haitian heritage in Krik? Krak!, 26岁时, she became the youngest person ever nominated for the National Book Award for this short story collection. 她的小说 呼吸,眼睛,记忆 evolved out of an essay about her life that she wrote at Barnard.

After the publication of her critically-acclaimed novel 再问一遍 in 2019, Mary Beth Keane ’99 found herself in an unlikely place: in front of the millions of live viewers of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Erica Jong ’63 redefined a generation of feminists with her 1973 novel 飞行恐惧症. 在校园, the Erica Mann Jong ’63 Writing Center has been providing students with a resource for honing their writing skills since 1996.