<p>This is a uniquely dumb question, but I was wondering: on one’s diploma when she graduates from Barnard, does it read “Barnard College, Columbia University”?</p>
<p>Basically, I’m just confused as to the distinction between Barnard College and Columbia University-- how they’re connected, and how they’re not.</p>
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Barnard College, founded in 1889, is a liberal arts college for women that is a partner of Columbia University. Named for the tenth president of Columbia University, Fredrick Barnard, the college provides women with an intimate liberal arts education with the resources of a major research university. While Barnard students get a Columbia University diploma (yes, it is in Latin), Barnard College has its own president (Judith Schapiro) and its own board of trustees (chaired by Anna Quindlen).
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Source: <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/orientation/faq.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/orientation/faq.html</a></p>
<p>In honor of the 1000th posting of this question, I present to you my diploma!</p>
<p>(and some of my reflection, sorry. It's hard to photograph in its frame)</p>
<p>Google turns up this for SEAS:
<a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/cwo/picts/Columbia/My_BS_Diploma.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://people.csail.mit.edu/cwo/picts/Columbia/My_BS_Diploma.jpg</a>
<a href="http://columbia.bkstore.com/images/imaging/ShowBookLarge.asp?book_id=9912%5B/url%5D">http://columbia.bkstore.com/images/imaging/ShowBookLarge.asp?book_id=9912</a>
(yes, theirs is in English)
You see how the frame says CU at the bottom and has the University crest at the top? The bookstore sells the same frame but with Barnard College at the bottom (that's the one I bought; you can't see in my picture)</p>
<p>Can't find one of CC's, but you get the gist.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.barnard.edu/about/columbia.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.barnard.edu/about/columbia.html</a>
Here are some of the highlights. </p>
<p>My own favorite often overlooked fact: "Barnard faculty seeking tenure pass review both by Barnard and by the University-wide tenure system." A double-edged sword that ensures our professors will be a functioning part of the research university, and costs us some of our favorite teaching-focused faculty.</p>
<p>The degree is in Latin? That's pretty awesome. I definitely didn't realize that until now.</p>
<p>Thank you so much Primefactor! I had looked all over to try to find a picture of a Barnard grad's diploma to try to put this issue at rest.... but couldn't find anything other than those SEAS diplomas.</p>
<p>So the answer is: Barnard grads get a diploma from "CVRATORES VNIVERSITATIS COLVMBIAE" that is issued and signed by the president of "COLLEGII BARNARDINI".</p>
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In honor of the 1000th posting of this question, I present to you my diploma!</p>
<p>(and some of my reflection, sorry. It's hard to photograph in its frame)
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<p>Summa cum laude. Holy crap. Congratulations :)</p>
<p>Yeah, CC and BC still have Latin diplomas. I like it, too. I'm big on tradition and, well, to put it bluntly, pomp and circumstance and the whole ivory tower deal. There was some discussion a few years ago about "modernizing" the diploma (English, stupid background "shadow" images) but I think/hope it got shot down.</p>
<p>Heh, thanks, though Barnard unfortunately didn't reform summa til just AFTER I graduated, and everyone with above a 3.8 got it. Now it's just the top 5%, so it means a little more. Before, you could be summa and not Phi Beta Kappa (based on the GPA alone, I mean, obviously excluding other qualifications).</p>
<p>Echoing Calmom, thanks again for the photo of your diploma. I was also looking for one. It was also good to read your input again.</p>
<p>I, too am very glad to be reading your posts once again! It's been mighty lonely around here without ya!</p>
<p>I've never left! I'm insanely busy these days, but I check at least once a week to see if there are questions not being answered that I can answer. You guys usually seem to have it pretty well covered, though!</p>
