BARNARD COLLEGE
Barnard College has been a distinguished leader in higher education for women for over 100 years. Small and selective, Barnard is an independent college with its own campus, faculty and administration but is affiliated with Columbia University, its neighbor across Broadway in New York City. The College offers students the intimacy and close mentoring of a small residential liberal arts college and access to the vast academic, social and athletic resources of a major research university. Founded in 1889, the College was the first in New York City, and one of the few in the nation at the time, where women could receive the same rigorous liberal arts education available to men. Barnard alumnae include pioneers like anthropologist Margaret Mead; Judith Kaye, the first female Chief Judge of the State of New York; and chemist Jacqueline K. Barton, named one of the 50 Most Important Woman in Science by Discover magazine in 2002, along with prominent figures such as choreographer Twyla Tharp; Ellen Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, and Helene Gayle, director of HIV/AIDS for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Nine Barnard alumnae have been recognized for their achievements with MacArthur "Genius" grants, more than any other college. Known for the strength of its writing program, eight Barnard alumnae have won or shared the Pulitzer Prize. Prominent writers who are Barnard alumnae include Edwidge Danticat, Mary Gordon, Francine du Plessix Gray, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Erica Jong, Jhumpa Lahiri, Anna Quindlen, and Ntozake Shange.
Barnard College
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
212-854-5262
http://www.barnard.edu