The award I mentioned wasn’t published in the Spec as far as I know. I assume that the info was submitted by or through the Dept. head. The list was published on the web site of the agency that gave the award. </p>
<p>I suppose it is a good thing. Perhaps it will remain on the internet for posterity so whenever any prospective employer runs my daughter’s name on Google along with the words “Columbia University” it will immediately pop up, thus eliminated the need for any other so-called “background” check. Then again, the prospective employer might decide to check Facebook…</p>
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My daughter didn’t enroll at Columbia College and I don’t expect her to get a degree from that school… but my daughter certainly did enroll at Barnard College of Columbia University and I fully expect that she will get a degree from the University. </p>
<p>I don’t see what is so hard to grasp. If my daughter had opted instead to attend Gallatin School of Individualized Study, I fully would have expected her to end up with a diploma that said “New York University” at the top.</p>
<p>After your daughter receive Barnard degree, call Columbia University if she receive a Columbia degree… They will say your daughter never registered at Columbia and no columbia degree is awarded to her. The phone call will last less than 5 min. you can get very simple and clear answer. </p>
<p>It does not matter what spectator, diploma, … etc says. NO Columbia official web sites says Barnard is part of Columbia (it says it is affiliate) and no columbia degrees are awarded to Barnard students.</p>
<p>I will say hello to all the other graduates in a couple of weeks at the Columbia University commencement ceremony, where my daughter who is graduating from Barnard college, will receive her degree.</p>
<p>zzgirl, Barnard students are granted Columbia University degree according to the affiliation agreement. No argument about that. But since Barnard is also an independent college, the admission office of Columbia University does not have the records of Barnard students. That’s why you will not find the info of Barnard student if you call Columbia University.</p>
<p>zzgirl, apparently you do not understand the definition of “affiliate”. I would suggest that you look up the word in a dictionary.</p>
<p>You also need to understand that “Columbia College” and “Columbia University” are two different entities. Kind of like the city of New York is different from the state of New York, and yet the city is in the state.</p>
<p>I don’t believe zzgirl has any intention of even trying to gain any understanding at all of the affiliation of Barnard with Columbia University. For what ever reason…</p>
<p>I do know I am very excited about attending graduation in less than two weeks…both Barnard’s and Columbia U’s!</p>
<p>zzgirl, you are obviously a ■■■■■ and a very ignorant one at that, since you clearly are unaware of the role that Columbia University plays in areas such as determining which Barnard faculty get tenure. For you to make a statement that a Barnard student has “never enrolled” at Columbia demonstrates the ignorance – as one of the first steps of enrollment at Barnard is completing the paperwork and submission of photos for a CUID.</p>
<p>You also make an assertion without any evidence that if someone were to “call up” Columbia for verification of a degree they would be told that it had never issued. I kind of doubt that would be actually true, given the FACT that the physical degree states that it is issued by Columbia “University” and bears the signature of the President of Columbia University. I think it is more likely that there is a database somewhere that contains information as to ALL degrees conferred, including the specific college that conferred the degree. I simply don’t believe that Columbia would be so sloppy as to issue thousands of degrees to students at the affiliate colleges without keeping track of them, any more than I think they go about issuing CUID’s and Columbia email addresses without keeping a record. (I don’t know that they would release information by telephone in any case)</p>