Columbia University

("In thy light shall we see light " )

The Columbia University ( formally Columbia University in the City of New York and Columbia University in the City of New York) is one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the United States. The decor is older than the United States itself, the Columbia University is located in Morningside Heights in Manhattan, New York. It is part of the Ivy League and member of the Association of American Universities, an existing association of leading research-intensive since 1900, North American universities. Columbia cuts regularly in university rankings among the ten best universities in the world. Currently around 25,000 students are enrolled.

The motto of the university is in lumine tuo videbimus volume (Ps 36:10 VUL in the Vulgate; German In your light we shall see light).

History

Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King's College under royal charter by King George II. It is the oldest university in the state of New York and the fifth oldest in the United States. Columbia is one of the most prestigious universities in the world.

In July 1754, the first lecture was by Samuel Johnson ( 1696-1772 ) held in a building that was connected to the Trinity Church. Today it is the lower Broadway in Manhattan. The lecture was held to eight students. In 1767 King's College allowed to give the first American medical school, the doctor of medicine.

During the Revolutionary War, the teaching was interrupted from 1776 for eight years. Among the first students and trustees of King's College were John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States, Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury of the United States and Robert R. Livingston, one of the five men who drafted the Declaration of Independence.

1784, the College was reopened as Columbia College. 1849 moved the college from Park Place, near the present-day City Hall, in the 49th Street and Madison Avenue, where it remained for the next fifty years. During the last half of the nineteenth century, the Columbia College took on the features of a modern university. The Law School was founded in 1858 and the first academic courses in mining, as a predecessor of today's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, were held in 1864. The Barnard College, which was initially reserved for women, was founded in 1889 affiliated with Columbia. The Medical School was in 1891 under the auspices of the University, followed by Teachers College in 1893.

The postgraduate faculties of political science, philosophy, and philosophy of science were in Columbia College as one of the first centers for postgraduate training.

1896 by the curators of the new name of the colleges by the female national personification of the United States, "Columbia", set to " Columbia University ". At the same time, the campus of 49th Street moved to the 10.5 acre campus in the Morningside Heights (from the 114th to 120th Street, Broadway to Amsterdam Avenue West), where the university is today. The campus was designed by the famous architect of the firm McKim, Mead, and White.

1902 was donated to the University to establish a Department of journalism by the New York newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer a large sum. 1912 opened the Graduate School of Journalism - the only journalism faculty of the universities in the Ivy League. The school annually awards the Pulitzer Prize and the DuPont Award in broadcast journalism.

1928 was opened (from the 165th to 168th Street, Riverside Drive to Audubon Avenue ) with the Columbia -Presbyterian Medical Center, the second campus of Columbia University in the Washington Heights.

The Columbia Business School in 1916 added, partly through the initiative of the then president of Chase Manhattan Bank, Alonzo Barton Hepburn.

The atomic research by faculty members II Rabi, Enrico Fermi and Polycarp Kusch moved into the 1940s, the physical faculty in the focus of world public opinion after the first nuclear reactor was built and had begun as the Manhattan Project.

In the spring of 1968, student protesters held five buildings occupied for a week. They were protesting against the construction of a gymnasium in Morningside Park, the presence of officers and government officials on campus to recruit fighters Vietnam and against the university administration in general. The design for the sports hall had many students and local activists outraged as the building in the rear western part should get a smaller entrance to the public. Since most people were black in the area, remembered the plans to the odious Jim Crow system, that is, the racial segregation in the South, where blacks always occupy the rear seats in the buses and strictly segregated schools, parks, water fountains, restaurants, hotels had to use and so on. Arranged by the then University President Grayson Kirk, the occupation of the university campus was forcibly terminated by the New York Police Department. After the students had subsequently boycotted the closing ceremony, Kirk was forced to resign itself, however.

The star of the Columbia University declined between the 1970s and 1980s. During the 1990s, the university captured under President George Rupp returns one of the top positions in the series of the leading universities in the country.

The university suffers greatly from the constriction by the urban New York. The University is currently planning over the next decade, the terrain gradually north of today's Morningside Heights campus and west of Broadway buy and rebuild it for the third campus of the University, but this so far had some protests of people living in the surrounding population. 2007 gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the occasion of the annual World Leaders Forum, a controversial speech.

Organizational structure

  • General Studies Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program

Other affiliated with Columbia Facilities:

  • Barnard College
  • Jewish Theological Seminary ( Affiliate )
  • Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory
  • School of International and Public Affairs ( SIPA ), founded in 1948 by Ernst Jäckh with the Middle East Institute
  • Teachers College ( Affiliate )
  • Union Theological Seminary ( Affiliate )

Students

Of the 24,417 in the academic year 2005/2006, enrolled students were around 51 percent of women and 49 percent men.

After ethnicity / origin structured:

Sports

Columbia University is one of the so-called " Ivy League ", a sports league in the northeastern United States, in the several well-known elite universities ( such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton ) are represented. The sports teams are called the Lions.

Famous people

Awards received

List of major graduates and professors

  • Nicholas Georgiadis, painter, costume and set designer
  • Allen Ginsberg, 1948
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Faculty of Law
  • Benjamin Graham, the founder of fundamental securities analysis
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Richard Hamilton, mathematician
  • Roald Hoffmann
  • Herman Hollerith
  • Charles Evans Hughes, governor of New York, U.S. Secretary of State
  • Jim Jarmusch
  • Arthur Jensen, a psychologist
  • Jäckh Ernst, German - American author in 1940 Professor of Political Science, 1948 Establishment of the Middle East Institute
  • Dakis Joannou, Cypriot industrialist, art collector
  • Mary Jobe Akeley, a naturalist and cartographer
  • Radovan Karadzic, psychiatrist, poet and war crimes suspects
  • Jack Kerouac
  • Grayson L. Kirk, president of the University 1953-1968
  • Fritz Klein, a psychiatrist and therapist, pioneer of Bi - motion
  • Antonio Knauth, German - American lawyer
  • Shulamith Koenig, UN Human Rights Award winner
  • Stephen D. Krasner, American political scientist
  • Polycarp Kusch
  • Irving Langmuir
  • Paul Lazarsfeld, Austrian-American sociologist
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, author
  • Anna Di Lellio, sociologist
  • Juan Linz
  • Seth Low
  • Li Lu, Rechts-/Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche faculty, leaders of the protest at Tiananmen
  • Sid Luckman, American football player, entrepreneurs
  • Frederick R. Macaulay, namesake of the Macaulay duration
  • Dan Maffei, politicians
  • Mahmood Mamdani, an anthropologist, a political scientist
  • Martin Manulis, TV producer
  • Tom DeMarco, Author
  • Jerrold Nadler, politicians
  • Isamu Noguchi, sculptor
  • Barack Obama, Columbia College, 1983 44th U.S. President
  • Katherine Pancol, French journalist and writer
  • Anna Paquin, the Canadian- New Zealand actress
  • George Pataki, Faculty of Law, Governor of New York
  • Mario Van Peebles, actor and director
  • Edmund S. Phelps, economist
  • Isidor Isaac Rabi
  • Hyman Rickover
  • Manuel Rivera- Ortiz, documentary photographer
  • Paul Robeson
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, Faculty of Law in 1907
  • Theodore Roosevelt, Faculty of Law
  • Ben Rosen, founder of Compaq
  • Karen Russell, author
  • Simon Schama, art historian
  • Laura Schlessinger, radio host, life coach
  • Muzaffer Serif, Turkish social psychologist
  • Shi Jiuyong, Judge at the International Court of Justice
  • John Siegal, U.S. American football player
  • Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, Faculty of Medicine 1929
  • David Stern, Faculty of Law, NBA Commissioner
  • Fritz Stern, a historian of German origin
  • Robert A. M. Stern, architect
  • John Cox Stevens, businessman and yachtsman
  • Julia Stiles, Actress
  • Stephen Strimpell, lawyer, acting teacher, actor
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • John Kennedy Toole, writer
  • Lionel Trilling, literary critic
  • Mark Van Doren
  • Suzanne Vega
  • Walter Wager, U.S. writer
  • Duncan Watts, a sociologist
  • Ernst Florian Winter, political scientist, historian, diplomat
  • Herman Wouk, writer
  • Donald Yamamoto, Diplomat
  • Lotfi Zadeh, computer
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