Barnard College

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• Barnard College provides the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research university. With a dedicated faculty of scholars distinguished in their respective fields, Barnard is a community of accessible teachers and engaged students who participate together in intellectual risk-taking and discovery. Barnard students develop the intellectual resources to take advantage of opportunities as new fields, new ideas, and new technologies emerge. They graduate prepared to lead lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally fulfilling, and enriched by love of learning.
• Enrolled at Barnard are 2,360 undergraduates from throughout the nation, almost all 50 states and more than 40 countries, who take degrees in more than 50 fields in the humanities, social sciences, arts, natural sciences, and interdisciplinary areas. Eleven percent of Barnard students are African-American or Latina. Twenty percent are Asian. The College is known for the achievement of its graduates. Barnard ranks third among more than 1,000 undergraduate colleges for the number of graduates who earned Ph.D.'s between 1920 and 1995; first among graduates of chemistry programs who go on to teach chemistry at the college level; and its 29,000 graduates have written over 3,000 books and earned seven Pulitzer Prizes.
• Barnard's neighborhood, Morningside Heights, is essentially a university town. Neighboring institutions include the Manhattan School of Music, Teachers College, Bank Street College of Education, Union Theological Seminary, and Jewish Theological Seminary.
• Barnard College is an independent partner of Columbia University. Barnard students are integral members of the University community, and students on both campuses may cross-register for classes and participate in joint activities, including varsity athletics, outside the classroom.
• Profile last updated: 01/01/2010.

In the News:

• Lois Smith Carter (The Riverhead News-Review)
  posted on July 5, 2011 at 09:23:47 pm
  Lois Smith Carter died June 22 in Edmonds, Wash., at the age of 83. She was born in Riverhead on April 16, 1928, to Reginald C. and Doris R. Smith. She graduated from Barnard College after a junior year abroad at the University of Geneva. In 1949, she married Robert E. Richard and moved to [...]
• Barnard president tapped as Goldman Sachs director (WAAY-TV Huntsville)
  posted on June 16, 2011 at 07:05:33 pm
  NEW YORK (AP) — Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Thursday that it named the president of Barnard College as an independent director on its board. Debora Spar's appointment will be effective immediately, the investment firm said in a release.
• Goldman Adds Barnard College President Debora Spar to Board (BusinessWeek)
  posted on June 16, 2011 at 06:03:25 pm
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the fifth- biggest U.S. bank by assets, added Debora L. Spar, president of the women-only liberal arts school Barnard College, to its board at a meeting today in London.
• Goldman Adds Barnard College President Debora Spar to Board of Directors (Bloomberg)
  posted on June 16, 2011 at 05:28:35 pm
  Spar, who turned 48 today, will sit on the audit, risk, compensation and corporate governance and nominating committees, New York-based Goldman Sachs said in a statement.
• Goldman Sachs taps Barnard president as director (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
  posted on June 16, 2011 at 04:54:27 pm
  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Thursday that it named the president of Barnard College as an independent director on its board.

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