无畏的历史

130多年的无所畏惧专业

In 1917, 约瑟芬围场, 1906届毕业生, was among the suffragists who picketed the White House to demand a voice for women in the government.

The vision was bold: creating a rigorous and challenging college for women equivalent to the education offered by Columbia.

在20世纪之交, suffragists were still campaigning for the vote, 和哥伦比亚大学, like most other institutions of higher learning at the time, 只招收和教育白人男性. 最终, the Columbia 校董会 agreed to create a syllabus for women to earn a certificate from the University. Still, they were prevented from joining regular classes. A group of 纽约市 women, led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, wanted more. They assembled a committee to support their vision and, 经过两年的请愿, convinced the Trustees to create an affiliated college, which they named after Columbia’s recently deceased president, 弗雷德里克一.P. 网赌软件排行榜.

In 1889, 网赌软件排行榜 became the first college in 纽约市 to offer degrees to women. 从那时起, generations of bold 网赌软件排行榜 women have challenged themselves and one another to redefine — and keep redefining — what it means to be a woman, 一个学者, 一个积极分子, 一个领导者.

打开门，推开门

重新定义“女性学者”

The first 14 网赌软件排行榜 students took classes in Greek, Latin, math. When the administration began hiring its own instructors, one third of them were women.

扩展我们的参照系

We’re focused on increasing access to a 网赌软件排行榜 education for students of color, 第一代学生, 低收入家庭的学生.

重新考虑健康

专注于心灵与身体的联系, 网赌软件排行榜 is expanding the definition of student well-being to include mental, 物理, 甚至是财务健康.

安布尔·麦基18岁

As a member of the American Political Science Association’s Minority Fellows Program, 学者活动家安布尔·麦基 uses the skills she learned at 网赌软件排行榜 to improve public policy and everyday lives. 她正在攻读博士学位.D. with support from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship.

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STEM领域的创新之路

Her family wanted her to become a debutante, but Elsie Clews Parsons from the Class of 1896 chose to go to 网赌软件排行榜 and later became the first woman elected president of the American Anthropological Association.

Margaret Mead transferred to 网赌软件排行榜 as a sophomore English major to join the Class of 1923. An anthropology class with the pioneering cultural anthropologist Franz Boas changed her life course — and the way we study human culture.

全美国唯一的医生.S. to be board-certified in internal medicine, 血液学, 内分泌学, 和新陈代谢, Lila Wallis ’47 founded the National Council on Women’s 健康 and served as its first president.

Dr. 海伦·盖尔，76届, 芝加哥社区信托基金的首席执行官, led HIV/AIDS research efforts at the Centers for Disease Control for two decades, later serving on President Obama’s Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

山口伸田惠美, 网赌软件排行榜1928届毕业生, was the first Asian American woman to graduate from Columbia Medical School

从一开始, 网赌软件排行榜’s mission has been to empower smart, ambitious women by offering rigor and relevance in an academic community where women lead. As our reach broadens, the mission grows ever more powerful. 几十年来, 网赌软件排行榜妇女为选举权而斗争, 和平, 性别平等, 社会正义, 气候行动, 和更多的.

 文学明星的悠久传统

Zora Neale Hurston ’28, best known for her novel 他们的眼睛注视着上帝， 网赌软件排行榜的第一位黑人毕业生是谁. Today, the College is a leading institution for Hurston scholarship.

Ntozake Shange ’70 won an Obie award for her groundbreaking choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Shange remained an active member of the 网赌软件排行榜 community until her death in 2018.

Edwidge Danticat ’90 drew on her Haitian heritage in Krik? Krak!, 26岁时, she became the youngest person ever nominated for the National Book Award for this short story collection. 她的小说 呼吸，眼睛，记忆 evolved out of an essay about her life that she wrote at 网赌软件排行榜.

After the publication of her critically-acclaimed novel 再问一遍 in 2019, Mary Beth Keane ’99 found herself in an unlikely place: in front of the millions of live viewers of 吉米·法伦主演的今夜秀.

Erica Jong ’63 redefined a generation of feminists with her 1973 novel 飞行恐惧症. 在校园, the Erica Mann Jong ’63 Writing Center has been providing students with a resource for honing their writing skills since 1996.

一代一代的变革者

他们的政府? 我们的政府.

Passionate 网赌软件排行榜 women debated suffrage, 在政治家, held mock elections during the decades-long struggle for the 19th Amendment.

难忘的一年

In 1968, 网赌软件排行榜妇女集会, 占领建筑, helped persuade 网赌软件排行榜 and Columbia to change their policies.

# MeToo

网赌软件排行榜 women continue to lend their voices to the chorus opposing sexual, 的关系, domestic violence in all of its forms.

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你的投票，你的声音

Lala Wu ’07 left a career as a practicing lawyer to launch Sister District, a project dedicated to organizing and supporting progressive volunteers and voters. 四年后, 姐妹区已经发展到50个,000 volunteers across the country and connected with over 3 million voters.

 

产生影响