Barnard College

Both Barnard College and the School of General Studies must improve their systems for working with scholarship and fellowship applicants so that students have the best chance of winning these prestigious awards.

Just days after snagging the political spotlight, Morningside Heights is at it again.
U.S. Senator and former Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) will speak about achieving pay equity between men and women on Monday at Barnard College. The press conference will take place at 2 p.m. in Sulzberger Parlor, with a simulcast for students in the James Room.

Barnard’s Director of Financial Aid Alison Rabil, BC ’86, will step down from her position at the College in mid-October, Dean Dorothy Denburg announced in an e-mail.
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Gretchen Young, Program Specialist in the Study Abroad Office at the University of Connecticut, will begin her tenure as Barnard College’s Dean for Study Abroad Advising on August 18, 2008.

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Throughout the week, 1,207 young women received thick envelopes demarcating their admission to Barnard College. This spring, Barnard accepted 1,207 prospective students from a pool of 4,273 applicants, maintaining 2007’s admit rate of 28 percent.

Barnard College is an inclusive college that promotes unity on campus. Recently, the Student Government Association extended the spirit of unification and camaraderie to the Columbia University community by committing to a more comprehensive policy regarding Greek life at the University.

In light of her country’s upcoming elections, Fatima Bhutto, BC ’02 and the estranged niece of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, prefers the might of the pen to that of the sword—and political office.

Barnard students and administrators gathered Thursday evening to address the discussion of race and ethnicity in the classroom one day after student government representatives issued a statement calling for a diversification of the college’s general education requirements.

As Committee on Instruction administrators evaluate Barnard’s Nine Ways of Knowing, college student government representatives are calling for immediate diversification of the college’s requirements.

In joining the hunger strike, Dennis Dalton is bringing the ideas he teaches to life.