Barnard College,officially titled as Barnard College,Columbia University,is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer,who petitioned Columbia University's trustees to create an affiliated college named after Columbia's recently deceased 10th president,Frederick A.P. Barnard.
Columbia University,officially titled as Columbia University in the City of New York,is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan,it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York,the fifth-oldest in the United States,and one of nine colonial colleges founded prior to the Declaration of Independence.
The Seven Sisters are a group of seven highly selective liberal arts colleges in the Northeastern United States that are historically women's colleges:Barnard College,Bryn Mawr College,Mount Holyoke College,Smith College,and Wellesley College are still women's colleges. Vassar College is currently a coeducational college and Radcliffe College was absorbed in 1999 by Harvard College.
Jean Louisa Kelly is an American actress and singer. After making her film debut as Tia Russell in Uncle Buck (1989) alongside John Candy,she appeared in a wide range of other films including The Fantasticks (1995) and Mr. Holland's Opus (1995). From 2000 to 2006,she portrayed Kim Warner on the CBS sitcom Yes,Dear.
Dorothy Kunhardt was an American children's-book author,best known for the baby book Pat the Bunny. She was also a historian and writer about the life of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Annie Nathan Meyer was an American author,an anti-suffragist,and a promoter of higher education for women who founded Barnard College. Her sister was the activist Maud Nathan and her nephew the author and poet Robert Nathan.
Marina von Neumann Whitman is an American economist,writer and former automobile executive. She is a professor of business administration and public policy at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business as well as The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Judith R. Shapiro is a former President of Barnard College,a liberal arts college for women at Columbia University;as President of Barnard,she was also an academic dean within the university. She was also a professor of anthropology at Barnard. Shapiro became Barnard's 6th president in 1994 after a teaching career at Bryn Mawr College where she was chair of the Department of Anthropology. After serving as Acting Dean of the Undergraduate College in 1985-6,she was Provost,the chief academic officer,from 1986 until 1994. Debora L. Spar was appointed to replace Shapiro,effective July 1,2008.
Debora Cahn is an American writer and producer of television and film. She was a writer and executive producer on the Showtime series Homeland for its final two seasons (2018–2020). She was also a writer and consulting producer on FX's Fosse/Verdon (2019),for which she won a Writers Guild of America award for Best Adapted Long Form Television. In 2018,she wrote the HBO film Paterno,starring Al Pacino and directed by Barry Levinson. She was a writer and co-executive producer for Martin Scorsese's HBO series Vinyl (2016). From 2006 to 2013,she was a writer and producer of Grey’s Anatomy. She began her career as a writer and producer on The West Wing from its fourth to seventh and final season (2002–2006). More recently,Cahn signed a multi-year overall deal with Netflix. Under the deal,she will serve as executive producer and showrunner on the political thriller drama series The Diplomat.
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust is an American historian and was the 28th president of Harvard University,and the first woman to serve in that role. She was Harvard's first president since 1672 without an undergraduate or graduate degree from Harvard and the first to have been raised in the South. Faust is also the founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has been ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes,including as the 33rd most powerful in 2014.
Kathryn Kolbert is the Co-Founder and Producing Director of the Athena Film Festival and served as the Founding Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies from 2009 - 2018. She is a former president of People for the American Way and the People for the American Way Foundation.
Reynold Levy is an American businessperson and author. He was president of Lincoln Center for 11 years,overseeing a $1.3 billion overhaul before stepping down in 2013. Levy served as president of the Robin Hood Foundation from 2015 to 2017. Among his books are They Told Me Not to Take That Job:Tumult,Betrayal,Heroics,and the Transformation of Lincoln Center.
The Athena Film Festival is an annual film festival held at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City. The festival takes place in February and focuses on films celebrating women and leadership. In addition to showing films,the festival hosts filmmaker workshops,master classes and panels on a variety of topics relevant to women in the film industry. The Athena Film Festival was co-founded by Kathryn Kolbert,Founding Director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College and Melissa Silverstein,founder of the Women and Hollywood initiative and the festival's Artistic Director.
Azita Raji was an Iranian-born American diplomat,banker,and philanthropist. She was nominated by President Barack Obama in October 2014 to serve as the United States ambassador to the Kingdom of Sweden,and confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate in February 2016. She presented her credentials to King Carl XVI Gustaf on March 15,2016,and completed her tour of duty on January 20,2017.
Loretta J. Mester is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Raymond Vernon was an American economist. He was a member of the group that developed the Marshall Plan after World War II and later played a role in the development of the International Monetary Fund and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. He was the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School,becoming emeritus on his retirement. His formulation of the Product life-cycle theory of US exports,first published in 1966,in turn influenced the behavior of companies.
Rosemary Park was a scholar,academic leader,advocate for women's education and the first American woman to become president of two colleges and vice chancellor of a major university. During her career Park served as the 5th president of Connecticut College from 1947 to 1962,the 6th president of Barnard College from 1962 to 1967 and the first female vice chancellor in the University of California system at UCLA from 1967 to 1970.
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee was a Chinese-American women's rights activist and minister who campaigned for women's suffrage in the United States. Later in life,Lee became a Baptist minister,working with the First Chinese Baptist Church in Chinatown.
Linda A. Bell is the Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Barnard College of Columbia University in the City of New York. In addition to serving as Provost of Barnard College,she holds the position of Clair Tow Professor of Economics at the College. She is an empirical economist and scholar of labor markets and public policy. She has dedicated her teaching and research to examining compensation,union concessions,and discrimination,most recently focusing on disparities in gender compensation.
Jacquelyn Anderson Mattfeld is a retired musicologist and academic administrator. She served as president of Barnard College from 1976 to 1980.
