Université populaire
Jacques Lacan

Declaration of the founding
by Jacques-Alain Miller
Created Sunday 8 November 2009
in Paris

Barnard College

Barnard College is an official college of Columbia University,and all Barnard faculty are granted tenure by the college and Columbia.The university awards its degrees, which are signed by both the Barnard and Columbia presidents. In 1900, Barnard formalized an affiliation with the university which made available to its students the instruction and facilities of Columbia. Barnard currently pays an annual fee to the university to use Columbia facilities. The affiliation continues although Columbia College, the university's original undergraduate school, began admitting women in 1983 after a decade of failed negotiations with Barnard for a merger akin to the one between Harvard College and Radcliffe College. Despite the affiliation Barnard is legally and financially separate from Columbia, with an independent faculty and board of trustees. It is responsible for its own separate admissions, health, security, guidance and placement services, and has its own alumnae association. Nonetheless, Barnard students participate in the academic, social, athletic and extracurricular life of the broader University community on a reciprocal basis, and several of the university's undergraduate departments are based in the college. Most Columbia classes are open to Barnard students and vice versa, Barnard students and faculty are represented in the University Senate, and student clubs such as the Columbia Daily Spectator are open to all students.