Columbia University


Columbia University is a private university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is one of the eight Ivy League universities.

The institution was established by the Church of England, receiving a royal charter in 1754 as King's College from George II of Great Britain, and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. During the early years of its history, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Robert Livingston studied at King's.

The university is legally known as Columbia University in the City of New York and is incorporated as The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Its undergraduate schools are: Columbia College (CC), the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS), and, for students who want to begin or resume their education after years of interruption, the School of General Studies (GS). The university has numerous graduate schools, the most notable of which include the Graduate School of Business (Columbia Business School or CBS), the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia's medical school), the Graduate School of Journalism (J-School or CJS), the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), the Columbia Law School, the Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Columbia University School of the Arts (SoA), Columbia University School of Social Work, and Teachers College (the Graduate School of Education of Columbia University). Some graduate students also attend the engineering school. The School of Continuing Education offers classes for non-matriculated elective course students, Master of Science Degrees, Postbaccalaureate Certificates, English Language Programs, Overseas Programs, Summer Session, and High School Programs.

The university is also affiliated with: Barnard College (BC), an undergraduate liberal arts college for women, and one of the Seven Sisters; the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS); and the Union Theological Seminary (UTS); all located nearby in Morningside Heights. A joint undergraduate program is available through the Juilliard School.

Campus

Morningside Heights

Most of Columbia's graduate and undergraduate studies are conducted in Morningside Heights on Seth Low's late-19th century vision of a university campus where all disciplines could be taught in one location. The campus was designed along Beaux Arts principles by acclaimed architects McKim, Mead, and White and is considered one of their best works. Its original open, urban feel has been somewhat modified by the addition of such buildings as Butler Library, which have served to almost fully enclose its interior open space.

Columbia's main campus occupies more than six city blocks, or 32 acres (132,000 m²), in Morningside Heights, a neighborhood located between the Upper West Side and Harlem sections of Manhattan that contains a number of academic institutions. The university owns over 7,000 apartments in Morningside Heights, which house faculty, graduate students, and staff. Several undergraduate dormitories (purpose-built or converted) are also located in the surrounding neighborhood.

New buildings and structures on the campus, especially those built following the Second World War, have often only been constructed after a contentious process often involving open debate and protest over the new structures. Often the complaints raised by these protests during these periods of expansion have included issues beyond the debate over the construction of any of the architectural features which diverged from the original McKim, Mead, and White plan, and often involved complaints against the administration of the university. This was the case with Uris Hall, which sits behind Low Library, built in the 1960s, as well as the more recent Alfred Lerner Hall, a deconstructivist structure completed in 1998 and designed by Columbia's then-Dean of Architecture, Bernard Tschumi. Elements of these same issues have been reflected in the current debate over the future expansion of the campus into Manhattanville, several blocks uptown from the current campus.

Columbia's library system includes over nine million volumes. One library of note on campus is the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library which is the largest library of architecture in the United States and among, if not the largest, in the world. The library contains more than 400,000 volumes, of which most are non-circulating and must be read on site. One of the library's prominent undertakings is the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, which is one of the foremost international resources for locating citations to architecture and related topics in periodical literature. The Avery Index covers periodicals thoroughly back to the 1930s, with limited coverage dating to the nineteenth century, up to the present day.

Several buildings on the Morningside Heights campus are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Low Memorial Library, the centrepiece of the campus, is listed for its architectural significance. Philosophy Hall is listed as the site of the invention of FM radio. Also listed is Pupin Hall, also a National Historic Landmark, which houses the physics and astronomy departments, where initial experiments on the nuclear fission of uranium were conducted by Enrico Fermi. The uranium atom was split there ten days after the world's first atom-splitting in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Other campuses

Health-related schools are located at the Columbia University Medical Center, twenty acres located in the neighborhood of Washington Heights, fifty blocks uptown. Columbia also owns the 26-acre Baker Field, which includes the Lawrence A. Wien Stadium as well as facilities for field sports, outdoor track, tennis, and rowing at the northern tip of Manhattan island (in the neighborhood of Inwood). There is a third campus on the west bank of the Hudson River, the 157-acre Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, and another, the Nevis Laboratories, in Irvington, New York. The university also operates Reid Hall in Paris.

History

Columbia is the oldest institution of higher education in the state of New York. Founded and chartered as King's College in 1754, Columbia is the sixth-oldest such institution in the United States (by date of founding; fifth by date of chartering). After the American Revolutionary War, King's College was renamed Columbia College in 1784, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University. Columbia has grown over time to encompass twenty schools and affiliated institutions.

King's College: 1754-1776

Discussions regarding the foundation of a college in New York began as early as 1704, but serious consideration of such proposals was not entertained until the early 1750s, when local graduates of Yale and members of the congregation of Trinity Church (then Church of England, now Episcopal) in New York City became alarmed by the establishment of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), both because it was founded by "new-light" Presbyterians influenced by the evangelical Great Awakening and as it was located in the province just across the Hudson River, a fact which provoked fears of New York's cultural and intellectual inferiority. They established their own "rival" institution, King's College, and elected as its first president Samuel Johnson. Classes began on July 17, 1754, with Johnson as the sole faculty member. A few months later, on October 31, 1754, Great Britain's King George II officially granted a royal charter for the college. In 1760, King's College moved to its own building at Park Place, near the present City Hall, and in 1767 it established the first American medical school to grant the M.D. degree.

Controversy surrounded the founding of the new college in New York, as it was a thoroughly Church of England institution dominated by the influence of Crown officials, such as the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Crown Secretary for Plantations and Colonies, in its governing body. Fears of the establishment of a Church of England episcopacy and of Crown influence in America through King's College were underpinned by its vast wealth, far surpassing all other colonial colleges of the period.

The American Revolution and the subsequent war were catastrophic for King's College. It suspended instruction in 1776, and remained so for eight years: beginning with the arrival of the Continental Army in the spring of that year and continuing with the military occupupation of New York City by British troops until their departure in 1783. The college's library was looted and its sole building requisitioned for use as a military hospital first by American and then British forces. Additionally, many of the college's alumni, primarily Loyalists, fled to Canada or Great Britain in the war's aftermath, leaving its future governance and financial status in question. Although the college had been considered a bastion of Tory sentiment, it nevertheless managed to produce many key leaders of the Revolutionary generation - individuals later instrumental in the college's revival. Among the early King's College students had been John Jay, who negotiated the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Great Britain, ending the Revolutionary War, and who later became the first Chief Justice of the United States; Alexander Hamilton, military aide to General George Washington, author of most of the Federalist Papers, and the first Secretary of the Treasury; Gouverneur Morris, the author of the final draft of the United States Constitution; and Robert R. Livingston, a member of the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence. .
Arguably King's College's most famous alum, Alexander Hamilton (shown here as a young man)

Hamilton's first experience with the military came while a student during the summer of 1775, after the outbreak of fighting at Boston. Along with Nicholas Fish, Robert Troup, and a group of other students from King's, he joined a volunteer militia company called the "Hearts of Oak" and achieved the rank of Lieutenant. They adopted distinctive uniforms, complete with the words "Liberty or Death" on their hatbands, and drilled under the watchful eye of a former British officer in the graveyard of the nearby St. Paul's Chapel. In August of 1775, while under fire from the HMS Asia, the Hearts of Oak (a.k.a. the "Corsicans") participated in a successful raid to seize cannon from the Battery, becoming an artillery unit thereafter. Ironically, in 1776 Captain Hamilton would engage in the Battle of Harlem Heights, which took place on and around the site that would later become home to his Alma Mater over a century later


Early Columbia College: 1784-1857

Although the college had been tainted by its association with the Loyalist establishment prior to the war, the remaining alumni, including Hamilton and Jay, and especially the would-be governors of King's College, argued passionately for its reopening. Nevertheless, it was probably ultimately the fact that New York State governor George Clinton was forced to send his nephew DeWitt out of state for a college education (specifically, to the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University) that prompted local sentiment to favor the need of a local college to retain him, and a renewed King's, which could easily provide the necessary facilities, was the logical choice. In 1784, the school reopened as Columbia College, the romantically patriotic name meant to demonstrate its commitment to the new republic.

The nature of the reopening, however, made possible via the encouragements of Governor Clinton and the state legislature, ensured that Columbia College would be an institution as distinct as much in kind as in name. The new charter made no mention of the college's former Church of England/Episcopalian affiliations. Its governance was to be handled by a board of Regents representing all the counties of New York State, with Governor Clinton as Chancellor. As a state asset under state control, Columbia was to become the basis for a statewide public education system.

As the state proved negligent in its funding of the institution, this arrangement became increasingly unsatisfactory for both. An expansion of the Regents to 20 New York City residents had placed Hamilton and Jay at the helm, and they, along with New York City mayor James Duane, argued for privatization of the college. In 1787 a new charter was adopted for the college, still in use today, granting power to a private board of Trustees. Samuel Johnson's son, William Samuel Johnson, became its president.

For a period in the 1790s, with New York City as the federal and state capital and the country under successive Federalist governments, Columbia, revived under the auspices of Federalists such as Hamilton and Jay, thrived. George Washington, notably, attended the commencement of 1790, and nascent interest in legal education commenced under Professor James Kent. As the state and country transitioned to a considerably more Jeffersonian era, however, the college's good fortunes began to dry up. The primary difficulty was funding; the college, already receiving less from the state following its privatization, was beset with even more financial difficulties as hostile politicians took power and as new upstate colleges, particularly Hamilton and Union, lobbied effectively for subsidies. What Columbia did receive was Manhattan real estate, which would only later prove lucrative.

Columbia's performance flagged for the remainder of the 19th century's first half. The law faculty never managed to thrive during this period, and in 1807 the medical school, hoping to arrest its decline, broke off to merge with the independent College of Physicians and Surgeons. Contention between students and faculty were highlighted by the "Riotous Commencement" of 1811, in which students violently protested the faculty's decision not to confer a degree upon John Stevenson, who had inserted objectionable words into his commencement speech. Though the college was finally able to shake its embarrassing reputation for structural shabbiness by adding several wings to College Hall and refinishing it in the more fashionable Greek Revival style, the effort failed to halt Columbia's long-term downturn, and was soon overshadowed by the Gibbs Affair of 1854, in which famed chemistry professor Oliver Wolcott Gibbs was denied a professorship at the college, from which he had graduated, due to his Unitarian affiliation. The event demonstrated to many, including frustrated diarist and trustee George Templeton Strong, the narrow-mindedness of the institution. By July, 1854 the Christian Examiner of Boston, in an article entitled "The Recent Difficulties at Columbia College," noted that the school was "good in classics" yet "weak in sciences," and had "very few distinguished graduates".


Expansion and the move to Madison Avenue

In 1857, the College moved from Park Place to a primarily Gothic Revival campus on 49th Street and Madison Avenue, where it remained for the next fifty years. The transition to the new campus coincided with a new outlook for the college; during the commencement of that year, College President Charles King proclaimed Columbia "a university". During the last half of the nineteenth century, under the leadership of President F.A.P. Barnard, the institution rapidly assumed the shape of a true modern university. Columbia Law School was founded in 1858, and in 1864 the School of Mines, the country's first such institution and the precursor to today's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, was established. Barnard College for women, established by the eponymous Columbia president, was established in 1889; the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons came under the aegis of the University in 1891, followed by Teachers College, Columbia University in 1893. The Graduate Faculties in Political Science, Philosophy, and Pure Science awarded its first PhD in 1875. This period also witnessed the inauguration of Columbia's participation in intercollegiate sports, with the creation of the baseball team in 1867, the organization to the football team in 1870, and the creation of a crew team by 1873. The first intercollegiate Columbia football game was a 6-3 loss to Rutgers. The Columbia Daily Spectator began publication during this period as well, in 1877.


Morningside Heights

In 1896, the trustees officially authorized the use of yet another new name, Columbia University, and today the institution is officially known as "Columbia University in the City of New York." Additionally, the engineering school was renamed the "School of Mines, Engineering and Chemistry." At the same time, University president Seth Low moved the campus again, from 49th Street to its present location, a more spacious (and, at the time, more rural) campus in the developing neighborhood of Morningside Heights. The site was formerly occupied by the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum. One of the asylum's buildings, the warden's cottage (later known as East Hall and Buell Hall), is still standing today.

The building often depicted as emblematic of Columbia is the centerpiece of the Morningside Heights campus, Low Memorial Library. Constructed in 1895, the building is still referred to as "Low Library" although it has not functioned as a library since 1934. It currently houses the offices of the President and Provost, the Visitor's Center, the Trustees' Room and Columbia Security. In addition, the Columbiana Archives are located in the building. Patterned on several precursors, including the Parthenon and the Pantheon, it is surmounted by the largest all-granite dome in the United States.

Under the leadership of Low's successor, Nicholas Murray Butler, Columbia rapidly became the nation's major institution for research, setting the "multiversity" model that later universities would adopt. On the Morningside Heights campus, Columbia centralized on a single campus the College, the School of Law, the Graduate Faculties, the School of Mines (predecessor of the Engineering School), and the College of Physicians & Surgeons. Butler went on to serve as president of Columbia for over four decades and became a giant in American public life (as one-time vice presidential candidate and a Nobel Laureate). His introduction of "downtown" business practices in university administration led to innovations in internal reforms such as the centralization of academic affairs, the direct appointment of registrars, deans, provosts, and secretaries, as well as the formation of a professionalized university bureaucracy, unprecedented among American universities at the time.

In 1893 the Columbia University Press was founded in order to "promote the study of economic, historical, literary, scientific and other subjects; and to promote and encourage the publication of literary works embodying original research in such subjects." Among its publications are The Columbia Encyclopedia, first published in 1935, and The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, first published in 1952.

In 1902, New York newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer donated a substantial sum to the University for the founding of a school to teach journalism. The result was the 1912 opening of the Graduate School of Journalism — the only journalism school in the Ivy League. The school is the administrator of the Pulitzer Prize and the duPont-Columbia Award in broadcast journalism.

Columbia Business School was added in the early 20th century. During the first half of the 20th Century Columbia and Harvard had the largest endowments in the country.

By the late 1930s, a Columbia student could study with the likes of Jacques Barzun, Paul Lazarsfeld, Mark Van Doren, Lionel Trilling, and I. I. Rabi. The University's graduates during this time were equally accomplished — for example, two alumni of Columbia's Law School, Charles Evans Hughes and Harlan Fiske Stone (who also held the position of Law School dean), served successively as Chief Justices of the United States. Dwight Eisenhower served as Columbia's president from 1948 until he became the President of the United States in 1953, although he spent the majority of his University presidency on leave as Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe.

Research into the atom by faculty members John R. Dunning, I. I. Rabi, Enrico Fermi and Polykarp Kusch placed Columbia's Physics Department in the international spotlight in the 1940s after the first nuclear pile was built to start what became the Manhattan Project.

Following the end of World War II the School of International Affairs was founded in 1946. Focusing on developing diplomats and foreign affairs specialists the school began by offering the Master of International Affairs. To satisfy an increasing desire for skilled public service professionals at home and abroad, the School added the Master of Public Administration degree in 1977. In 1981 the School was renamed the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). The School introduced an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy in 2001 and, in 2004, SIPA inaugurated its first doctoral program — the interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Sustainable Development.

In 1997, the Columbia Engineering School was renamed the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, in honor of Chinese businessman Z. Y. Fu, who gave Columbia $26 million. The school is now referred to as "SEAS" or simply, "the engineering school."

As of November 2006, the university has purchased 65% of 17 acres to the north of the present campus, from 125th Street to 133rd Street. The $7 billion plan includes demolishing all but three buildings, eliminating the light industry which has been there since the Industrial Revolution, and permanently displacing about 400 people. Advocates of West Harlem residents are largely opposed to these plans.


Academic reputation

In 2006, U.S. News and World Report.[44] ranked the undergraduate program at Columbia University ninth (tied with the University of Chicago and Dartmouth College) among national universities. Shanghai Jiaotong University's Institute of Higher Education ranked Columbia seventh worldwide in scientific research. The Washington Monthly rankings, meant to counterbalance the U.S. News rankings with a different methodology and intent (attempting to measure schools as an engine of service, beneficial research, and upward mobility), places Columbia at 36th overall nationally in 2006.


Awards and honors

As of October 2006, 81 Columbia University affiliates have been honored with Nobel Prizes for their work in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, and economics.

Other awards/honors won by current faculty include:

* MacArthur Foundation Award: 28
* National Medal of Science: 4
* The National Academies: 99 (sum of 41+20+38, below)

* National Academy of Sciences: 41
* National Academy of Engineering: 20
* Institute of Medicine of the National Academies: 38

* American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 143

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Die Columbia University (deutsch Columbia-Universität; offiziell Columbia University in the City of New York oder Columbia Universität in der Stadt New York) zählt zu den ältesten Universitäten der USA und ist eine der renommiertesten dort. Diese Einrichtung ist älter als die Vereinigten Staaten selbst. Die Columbia University liegt in Morningside Heights, gleich nördlich von der Upper West Side, im New Yorker Stadtteil Manhattan. Sie ist Teil der Ivy League und Mitglied der Association of American Universities, einem seit 1900 bestehenden Verbund führender forschungsintensiver nordamerikanischer Universitäten. Derzeit sind 20.222 Studenten eingeschrieben.

Das Motto der Universität ist "in lumine tuo videbimus lumen" (Ps. 35:10 in Vulgata; dt. "in deinem Licht werden wir Licht sehen").


Geschichte

Die Columbia University wurde 1754 als King's College unter königlichem Erlass von König Georg II. gegründet. Es ist die älteste höhere Schule im Staat New York und die fünftälteste in den Vereinigten Staaten. Columbia gilt als eine der angesehensten Universitäten der Welt.

Im Juli 1754 fand die erste Vorlesung durch Samuel Johnson (1696 - 1772) in einem Gebäude, das mit der Trinity Church verbunden war, statt. Heute befindet sich dort der untere Broadway in Manhattan. Die Vorlesung wurde vor acht Studenten gehalten. 1767 wurde dem King's College gestattet, als erste amerikanische medizinische Hochschule den Doktor der Medizin zu verleihen.

Der Amerikanische Unabhängigkeitskrieg brachte der Schule 1776 eine achtjährige Aufhebung der Lehrtätigkeit. Zu den ersten Studenten und Kuratoren des King's College gehörte John Jay, der erste Chief Justice of the United States, Alexander Hamilton, der erste Finanzminister der Vereinigten Staaten und Robert R. Livingston, einer der fünf Männer, die die Unabhängigkeitserklärung entwarfen.

1784 wurde das College als Columbia College wieder eröffnet. 1849 zog das College vom Park Place, in der Nähe der heutigen City Hall, in die 49. Straße und Madison Avenue, wo es für die nächsten fünfzig Jahre verblieb. Während der letzten Hälfte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts nahm das Columbia College die Züge einer modernen Universität an. Die Law School wurde 1858 gegründet und die ersten akademischen Vorlesung im Bergbau, als Vorgänger der heutigen Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, wurden 1864 gehalten. Das Barnard College, das zunächst nur Frauen vorbehalten war, wurde an Columbia 1889 angegliedert. Die Medical School wurde 1891 unter die Schirmherrschaft der University gestellt, gefolgt vom Teachers College 1893.

Die postgraduierten Fakultäten der Politologie, Philosophie und Wissenschaftstheorie wurden im Columbia College zu einem der ersten Zentren für postgraduierte Weiterbildung.

1896 wurde durch die Kuratoren der neue Name des Colleges, Columbia University, festgelegt. Zur gleichen Zeit zog der Campus von der 49. Straße zum 10,5 Hektar großen Campus in den Morningside Heights (von der 114. bis zur 120. Straße, Broadway bis Amsterdam Avenue West), wo die Universität sich noch heute befindet. Der Campus wurde durch die bekannten Architekten der Firma McKim, Mead und White gestaltet.

1902 wurde durch den New Yorker Zeitungsmagnaten Joseph Pulitzer eine hohe Summe an die Universität gespendet, um einen Fachbereich für Journalismus einzurichten. 1912 öffnete die Graduate School of Journalism - der einzige journalistische Fachbereich der Universitäten in der Ivy League. Die Schule verleiht jährlich den Pulitzer-Preis und den Dupont Award im Rundfunkjournalismus.

1928 wurde mit dem Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center der zweite Campus der Columbia University in den Washington Heights (von der 165. bis zur 168. Straße, Riverside Drive bis Audubon Avenue) eröffnet.

Die Columbia Business School wurde 1916 hinzugefügt, zum Teil durch die Initiative des damaligen Präsidenten der Chase Manhattan Bank, Alonzo Barton Hepburn.

Die atomare Forschung durch die Fakultätsmitglieder I. I. Rabi, Enrico Fermi und Polykarp Kusch plazierte die physikalische Fakultät in den Blickpunkt der Weltöffentlichkeit in den 1940er Jahren, nachdem der erste Atommeiler gebaut wurde und so das Manhattan-Projekt begann.

Im Frühjahr 1968 hielten protestierende Studenten fünf Gebäude eine Woche lang besetzt. Sie protestierten gegen den Bau einer Sporthalle im Morningside Park, die Präsenz von Offizieren und Regierungsbeamten auf dem Campus zur Rekrutierung von Vietnamkämpfern und gegen die Universitätsverwaltung generell. Der Entwurf für die Sporthalle hatte viele Studenten und örtliche Aktivisten empört, da das Gebäude einen kleineren Eingang im Hinten für die Öffentlichkeit haben sollte. Da die meisten Leute in der Gegend schwarz waren, erinnerten die Pläne an das gehasste Jim Crow-System, d.h., die Rassentrennung im Süden, wo die Schwarzen immer die Rücksitze in den Bussen besetzen sowie streng getrennte Schulen, Parks, Wasserbrunnen, Restaurants, Hotels und soweiter benutzen mussten. Angeordnet durch den damaligen Universitätspräsident Grayson Kirk, wurde die Besetzung der Universitätsgelände durch die New Yorker Polizei gewaltsam beendet. Kirk selbst musste jedoch zurücktreten, nachdem die Studenten daraufhin die Abschlussfeier boykottierten.

Der Stern der Columbia University sank zwischen den 1970er und 1980er Jahren. Während der 1990er eroberte die Universität unter ihrem Präsidenten George Rupp eine der Spitzenpositionen in der Reihe der führenden Universitäten des Landes zurück.

Die Universität leidet stark unter der Einengung durch das urbane New York. Die Universität plant zur Zeit, im Laufe des kommenden Jahrzehnts schrittweise die Gelände nördlich des heutigen Morningside Heights-Campus und westlich des Broadways aufzukaufen und sie zum dritten Campus der Universität umzubauen, was allerdings bisher einige Proteste der in der Umgebung lebenden Bevölkerung zur Folge hatte.


Organisation

Fakultäten

* Allgemeine Studien
o Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program
* Architektur, Planung und Erhaltung (Graduate School)
* Ingenieurwesen und Angewandte Wissenschaften (The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science)
* Internationale und Öffentliche Angelegenheiten
* Journalismus (Graduate School)
* Künste
* Künste und Wissenschaften (Graduate School)
* Medizin (College of Physicians and Surgeons)
* Öffentliche Gesundheit (Mailman School of Public Health)
* Pflege
* Rechtswissenschaften
* Sozialarbeit
* Weiterbildung
* Wirtschaftswissenschaften (Graduate School)
* Zahn- und Mundchirurgie
* Columbia College

Weitere mit der Columbia verbundene Einrichtungen

* Bernard College
* Jüdisches theologisches Seminar (Affiliate)
* Teachers College (Affiliate)
* Union Theological Seminary (Affiliate)


Sport

Die Columbia University gehört zu der sog. "Ivy League", einer Sportliga im Nordosten der USA, in der mehrere bekannte Eliteuniversitäten vertreten sind (wie Yale, Princeton, Harvard u.a.). Die Sportteams werden die Lions genannt.


Berühmte Persönlichkeiten

Gewonnene Preise

* Nobelpreise: 72 (siehe auch Columbia Nobelpreisträger, 1906-2004)
* MacArthur Foundation Award: 20
* National Medal of Science: 10
* National Academy of Sciences: 32
* American Academy of Arts and Sciences: 107

Liste der Absolventen und Professoren

* Max Abramovitz - Architekt
* Mortimer Adler
* Madeleine Albright, US-Außenministerin unter Bill Clinton
* Hafizullah Amin
* Virginia Apgar - medizinische Fakultät 1933,
* Isaac Asimov
* Paul Auster
* Jacques Barzun
* James Blish
* Konrad Emil Bloch
* Franz Boas
* Sorrell Booke (Schauspieler)
* Warren Buffett - amerik. Investor
* Nicholas Butler, Präsident der Universität, Kandidat für das US-Präsidentenamt 1920, gewann 1931 den Friedensnobelpreis
* Whittaker Chambers
* Homer Collyer
* Langley Collyer
* Sidney Darlington - Physiker und Ingenieur - Erfinder der Darlington-Schaltung
* Gray Davis - Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Gouverneur of California
* Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) - Bibliothekar
* Theodosius Dobzhansky
* Abba Eban - israelischer Außenminister und israelischer Botschafter in der UNO
* Dwight D. Eisenhower, Präsident der Universität, 34. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
* Crystal Eastman
* Milton Friedman
* Enrico Fermi
* Lou Gehrig, 1922 - 1925, verließ die Universität zu den New York Yankees
* Allen Ginsberg 1948
* Ruth Bader Ginsberg - Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät
* Benjamin Graham - Vater der fundamentalen Wertpapieranalyse
* Jake Gyllenhaal
* Maggie Gyllenhaal
* Richard Hamilton - Mathematiker
* Roald Hoffmann
* Herman Hollerith
* Charles Evans Hughes
* Arthur Jensen
* Ernst Jaeckh - deutsch-amerikanischer Publizist: 1940 Professor für Politikwissenschaft, 1948 Gründung des "Middle East Institute" an der Columbia-Universität.
* Jack Kerouac
* Grayson Kirk, Präsident der Universität
* Dr. Fritz Klein, Psychiater und Therapeut, Pionier der Bi-Bewegung
* Stephen D. Krasner - amerikanischer Politologe
* Polykarp Kusch
* Irving Langmuir
* Paul Lazarsfeld
* Ursula K. Le Guin, Autorin
* Seth Low
* Li Lu - Rechtswissenschaftliche/Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Führer des Protestes auf dem Tiananmen
* Frederic Macaulay - Namensgeber der Macaulay Duration
* Tom de Marco - Autor
* Isamu Noguchi - Bildhauer
* George Pataki - Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Gouverneur von New York
* Anna Paquin
* Mario van Peebles (Schauspieler)
* Edmund S. Phelps - Wirtschaftswissenschaftler (Nobelpreis, 2006)
* Isidor Isaac Rabi
* Hyman Rickover
* Paul Robeson
* Franklin D. Roosevelt - Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät 1907
* Theodore Roosevelt - Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät
* Ben Rosen - Gründer von Compaq
* Simon Schama - Kunst-Historiker
* Laura Schlessinger Radiomoderatorin, Lebensberaterin
* Benjamin Spock - medizinische Fakultät 1929
* David Stern - Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät, NBA-Commissioner
* Claire Shipman
* Ben Stein
* Fritz Stern - Historiker dt. Herkunft
* Julia Stiles
* Stephen Strimpell - Jurist, Schauspiellehrer, Theater-, Film - und Fernsehschauspieler
* Hunter S. Thompson
* John Kennedy Toole – Schriftsteller
* Lionel Trilling, Literaturkritiker
* Mark Van Doren
* Suzanne Vega
* Walter Wager (US Schriftsteller)
* Herman Wouk, Schriftsteller

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