The Université Columbia ( Columbia University or quite simply Columbia ) is a private university located at Manhattan, in the town of New York (the United States). It belongs to the group of the eight prestigious universities of the Ivy League. With more than 80 prizes winner among its former students and academic, it arrives at the head at the prize list of the price Nobels generated by the American universities.
This academic institution was founded in 1754 under the name of King' S College , which does of it one of the oldest establishments of Higher education to the the United States. In 1784, after the American Revolution, the name of origin was replaced by Columbia College , in the spirit of partriotic enthusiasm which reigned at the time. Into 1896, one changed again the name for Columbia University in the City off New York in order to be able to as a whole differentiate the institution Undergraduate (dating from the foundation) from the university, which included/understood at the time, in addition to Columbia College , a school undergraduate (short academic cycle) of Ingénierie and dies graduates (long academic cycle) in Science S, Ingénierie, Médecine, right, education, Commerce, Political science, and Philosophie.
Dies
Today, the official name of the university is always Columbia University in the City off New York , managed by The Trustees off Columbia University in the City off New York . Its dies Undergraduate are Columbia College (CC), Fu Foundation School off Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), and School off General Studies (GS). Columbia off has a very great number of dies graduate (accessible studies after a cycle undergraduate), most famous being the Columbia University College Physicians and Surgeons (training of doctors and surgeons), the Graduate School off Journalism (school of Journalisme), the Graduate School off Architecture, Planning and Preservation (school of Architecture), the Graduate School off Business or Columbia Business School (business school), the School off International and Public Affairs or SIPA (school of political science), and Columbia Law School (school of right).
Partners
The university is member of the Ivy League, which corresponds to the eight most prestigious universities of the the United States. It thus maintains the very close links with the other universities of the Ivy League such as Harvard or Yale. These bonds are found in the sporting field, because the eight universities of the Ivy League belong to the same division of NCAA.
Moreover, Columbia University has important agreements with Barnard College (nonmixed, member of the Seven Sisters , a group of liberal Undergraduate arts colleges founded between 1837 and 1889 to only accommodate and educate girls), with the Teachers College , the Jewish Theological Seminary and the Union Theological Seminary . From these close links, it is Columbia University which decrees the diplomas with the students of Barnard College and of the Teachers College .
Campus
Morningside Heights
Whatever the studied discipline, the majority of the students graduate and Undergraduate are gathered on a single campus, since such was the tendency at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of XXe, during the presidency of Seth Low in particular. The campus is the work of three recognized architects (McKim, Mead, and White), and it is regarded as one the their most remarkable achievements.The principal campus of Columbia occupies more than six New Yorkean blocks, it covers approximately 132 000 square meters with Morningside Heights, a district located between the Upper West Side and part of Harlem; one finds many educational establishments there. Columbia holds more 7 000 apartments with Morningside Heights in which place the academics, the graduates students and personnel of the university. The addition of new buildings often could be made only at the price very polemical debates. It should however be noted that the opponents with the enlarging of the campus sometimes developed arguments exceeding the simple matter of the architecture of the campus and often aiming the administration of the university.
It was for example the case of Uris Hall, built in the Années 1960 behind Low Library, just like of most recent Lerner Hall, a structure deconstructivist finalized in 1998 and supervised by Dean off Architecture of Columbia at the time, Berbard Tschumi. The same debates reproduced in the current problems of the expansion of the campus with Manhattanville, some blocks higher than the principal campus.
The 25 libraries of Columbia contain more than 8 million volumes. The interest of Avery Architectural and Fine Library Arts is very particular, since it is about the largest bookstore of architecture to the the United States, and perhaps even of the world. This library gathers close to a half million books, the majority being consultable only on the spot. The library launched out in the constitution of an index of the architectural publications, and Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is today a world reference for the search for relative informations to architecture in the periodic literature. The Avery index is extraordinarily complete for the publications dating from the years 1930 at our days, but the resources are limited for the former periods.
Other campuses
For the medical dies, the Columbia University Medical Center is located in the district of Washington Heights, fifty blocks higher. Baker Field is him also a property of Columbia University: one finds sports grounds there, tracks of race, tennis and one can practice the oar with the northern point even there Manhattan, in the district of Inwood. There exists a third campus on western bank of the Hudson River (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, in Palisades, in the State of New York), and even a fourth since Nebis Laboratories are located at Irvington, always in the State of New York. Columbia University is also present in Paris with Reid Hall, a pole of teaching located in a small private mansion, street of Chevreuse.
History
The Université Columbia was founded in 1754 by a charter emanating of the king d' Angleterre George II. It is the oldest institution of higher education in the State of New York. During its first years of existence, pupils as prestigious as Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Morris Governor or Robert Livingston attended the benches of Columbia. 'university experienced a great development thereafter, including 20 affiliated schools and instutions. She today is universally recognized like one of the most prestigious universities and its integration by the students is one of most selective country.The campus occupies six blocks and covers approximately 132 000 m ² in the Morningside Heights, a northern district of Manhattan. There exists another campus of the university more in the north, intended for medicine, in the island of Washington Heights. Columbia is thus the third more important landowner in New York after the municipality and the Catholic church. It is even one of the principal employers of Manhattan.
Life coed
Traditionally, the university of Columbia recruits its students among the American preparatory schools like Exeter, Deerfield, and Choate and among the best schools of New York like Horace Mann. today, the majority of the students come from the public lycées of all the the United States and from the whole world, making the campus extremely cosmopolitan.Columbia is in relation direct with the Juilliard School off Music, the American Museum of natural history of Central Park (American Museum off Natural History) but also with the university of Oxford and Cambridge in England or the Institut of political Studies of Paris. The college libraries shelter many manuscripts and rare books.
Key places of the life coed
- Alma MATER
Alma MATER is the statue of the goddess Minerve who throne on the steps of Low Library since 1904; it is said that in the event of annoying and unforeseen event coming to disturb this reign centenary, the university has several other versions of the goddess of wisdom, the war, sciences and arts in order to replace this symbol of Columbia as soon as possible. The statue was carried out by Daniel Chester French, who is also the author of the statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard. One says of him that he was an impassioned taxidermist, hiding an owl in many his works. One can see besides an owl in the folds of the clothing of Minerve, and the tradition of the university wants that the first student of promotion to be discovered or hides the owl will finish major of its year. At the time or Columbia was reserved to the boys, the legend wanted that any student who discovered the owl as of its first test would marry with a girl of Barnard College, close to Columbia.
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Butler Library
The principal library of the campus, very populated in period of examinations, is made up of three great parts: rays, rooms of work, and coffee. Often, the students leave their business to the office which they occupy during days of at a stretch, going away only a few hours to sleep (Butler Library functions 24 hours a day, which differentiates it from the majority of the libraries). During the partial ones, the students rise very early to obtain a good place. One finds in Butler 2 of the 8,6 million books which the university has, majority being literary works or social sciences. One can find also there books rare and manuscripts.
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Dorms
The first-year students generally live in buildings which theirs are reserved: Hartley, Wallach, John Jay, Furnald, or Carman. But for the attribution of the university room, the majority of the students passes by the housing lottery. According to what the fate their held, they can thus spend their year to Broadway, in East Campus, 47 Claremont, Hogan, McBain, To rivet, Ruggles, Schapiro, 600 W 113th, Watt, in Wien or Woodbridge. In spite of the appearance of the building, much regard the continuation in East Campus as best of the solutions. Indeed, they accommodate 6 students out of 2 stages with a kitchen, a common space of relaxation, roomy simple rooms and a calm environment. A continuation in Hogan is also seen as a very beautiful catch since the services are about the same ones but that moreover, the restaurants of Broadway and the subway stations are extremely close. The most extraordinary and lucky students can vivrent in the rooms of Watt, which are neither more nor less than of small studios.
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Steps
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Sundial
The stone headland which rises in the middle of the central place of the campus of Morningside is used today like estrade for varied declarations and speeches. However, it had been conceived to accommodate a large granite sphere which was supposed to indicate the hour thanks to its shade, to the manner of a sundial. It was besides the case of approximately 1914 to 1946, but the appearance of cracks in Sundial convinced the administration to withdraw it. Since the date on which it was withdrawn, everyone believed that the large stone ball had been destroyed, but it was found intact in fields of the Michigan in 2001. Today, in 2006, it appears not very probable that Sundial finds one day its place of origin.
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the tunnels
An immense network of tunnels traverses the basements of Columbia University, which is not without feeding some rumors. One speaks about tunnels crossing Broadway (while at the same time an underground line passes under this avenue, which returns the existence of a tunnel rather not very probable), stages contaminated by Uranium, and the rumors go good progress on the presence or not of a tunnel between such and such building. Ken Hetchman (today journalist - captured by the mode Taliban in 2001) is a legend of Columbia underground to have been a historical visitor of the tunnels of Columbia. The names of the enough bold students to risk a forwarding in the basements were engraved on the walls of the tunnels of Columbia. Today, half of the tunnels have a proven existence, the other half being simply attested by some exploring students.
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On the Internet
These last years, the life coed on line in Columbia experienced a marked development. It is necessary for example to note the notoriety very growing of Bwog (the blog of the magazine Undergraduate The Blue & White , who maintains the life and the rumors the campus under a literary form and artistic) and of CULPA (the Columbia Underground Listing off Professor Ability , a site which evaluates the courses and the professors since 1997). This last tool is regarded by much as a very invaluable help for the choice of the courses, since with its 10.000 criticisms, it is very complete. However, criticisms being posted anonymously, they are not always very objective (even clearly skewed), which justifies some reserves with regard to this site; for want of anything better, however, the students must compose with the sights sometimes very personal their predecessors. Obviously, this site is not recognized by the administration of Columbia University, which explains the use of the word “underground” in the acronym which indicates the site. Other resources on line, like CampusNetwork (on the same crenel as Facebook) and SpecBlogs (the blog of the Columbia Daily Spectator ) were more or less fallen through. Bored At Butler (an anonymous discussion forum), as for him, returns to the return to school 2006-2007.
Sporting and cultural life
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Columbia with the chance to have the second older student newspaper of the United States, the Columbia Daily Spectator . The humorous magazine Jester , was created in 1899 and was published by Allen Ginsberg; The Columbia Review , is the oldest university literary magazine; the magazine Blue & White date as for him of 1892;
- Each year the university spectacle ( Varsity Show ) turns in derision the traditions and the students of Columbia, as well as the other universities.
- the sport in Columbia has also a long story: the water sport was the first sport of the university. The football team is also one of oldest country. She even gained the Pink Bowl in 1934. The fight forms also part of the old traditions of the university.
- Of the sportsmen resulting from the rows of Columbia:
- Lou Gehrig (baseball)
- Sid Luckman (football)
History
Park Places and Rockefeller Center
In July 1754, Samuel Johnson (1696-1772) gives his first courses in the new school beside Trinity Church, located on current the Broadway at Manhattan. There was not whereas eight students in the class. In 1767 the King' S College (college of the king) establishes the first medical school in the United States. The Guerre of American independence caused the interruption of teaching during eight years. Among the first students and administrators of the King' S College , there was John Jay (which sat at the supreme court), Alexander Hamilton, Robert R. Livingston… In 1784, the establishment finds its activity and renamed Columbia College , in the honor of acquired independence. In 1849, the college moves of Park Place, towards the 49e street and Madison Avenue, where it remained during 50 years. The department of right is founded in 1858. The first school of the mines of the country, ancestor of the Fu Foundation School off Engineering and Applied Science is established in 1864. The medical school (1891) and that of the Masters (1893) followed.
Morningside Heights
In 1896, the campus must again change place and is fixed in the district of the Morningside Heights.
In 1893 the Columbia University Close are founded and one counts among his more prestigious publications the Columbia Encyclopedia (1935), and the Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer off the World, (1952).
In 1902, the tycoon newyorkais press Joseph Pulitzer made gift of a great amount of money at the university so that a school of journalism is founded, which was born in 1912 (Graduate School off Journalism).
Dwight Eisenhower was president of the university before becoming president of the United States.
Demonstrations of 1968
In 1968, the students of Columbia expressed to express their dissension vis-a-vis the decision building the gymnasium of the university on the site close to Morningside Park; the young people mobilized there saw an attack against the black community of Harlem, near. But these demonstrations also answered the position of the administration on another subject, since she refused that the university gives up its collaboration with Institute for Defense Analyzes (IDA), the Think-tank of the Pentagon on the questions of armament. During the movement, the students barricaded Hamilton Hall and the police force of the city was called in reinforcement to stop the rioters, or at least to counter them by the force. Another demonstration coed showed an occupation of Hamilton Hall, but also by an hunger strike. Thus, in 1983, of young activists tried to convince the administrators of the university to suspend any feeding investment directly or indirectly the supports of the segregationist mode in South Africa.
External bonds
- Official site
- CUSJ - Columbia Undergraduate Science Newspaper
- Seen satellite of the University Columbia
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