IN THE VC

• 5 minutes before tour starts:
  • Tour starts in 5 minutes
  • Tour will be an hour long
  • Some places to sit along the way
  • Bathrooms?

IN THE QUAD

• Have everyone circle up
  • Hello everyone! Thank you all so much for joining us today
  • Reminder to keep masks on at all times
• Introduce myself! Izzy, she/her or she/they pronouns, junior, Computing, Design, and Pedagogy major at Barnard which I created myself, I am from Brooklyn, and am involved with lots of STEM and Entrepreneurship related things on campus…I work in Admissions doing both tours, desk shifts in there and I also do social media…
  • Does anyone here follow @barnardadmissions on Instagram?
    • Have you seen any of my IG takeovers / asked any questions on Admissions before?
  • Along with working in Admissions, I work as a STEAM Student Educational Experience Designer, or STEAM SEED, in Barnard’s Office of Community Engagement and Inclusion
• If small tour
  • Everyone introduce themselves. Say names, pronouns (if you want), hometown, high schools, special academic or extracurricular opportunity you’re interested in hearing about!
• Also to note:
  • Campus tours will not be followed by an in-person info session.
    • You should have received a link to a recorded info session?
  • Please ask me questions throughout the tour!

BRIEF HISTORY OF BARNARD

• Barnard was founded in 1889 by a woman named Annie Nathan Meyer

• Annie was not satisfied that Columbia across the street only admitted men

• She rallied a group of her peers to petition the University Trustees for a new liberal arts college to be created that was specifically for women* and that was affiliated with Columbia

• Annie and her friends succeeded, and thus Barnard was born and named after the 10th president of Columbia University, Frederick A.P Barnard

  • Was he specifically pro-women’s education?

• A year after being founded, (1890), Barnard was officially included in the educational system of Columbia University

  • This is with some provisions
    • Barnard has its own Trustees, Faculty, Dean, and endowment
    • BUT it shares facilities, classes, libraries, and degrees with Columbia University
      • Barnard students graduate with a degree from both Barnard and Columbia University

• Barnard has been around for over 130 years and has maintained its position as the most sought-after women’s college in the nation

• Barnard has some pretty awesome stuff going on where you get to have the best of both worlds: a small, liberal arts, college experience & a big, research university (across the street!)

• For some quick stats: Barnard

  • Has about 2,500 students
  • 350 faculty members
  • 10:1 student-to-faculty ratio

• For some quick stats: Columbia

  • 3,000 classes to pick from each semester
  • 20 different libraries
  • 3 other undergraduate colleges + a whole bunch of graduate schools

Questions???

RESLIFE (HOUSING)