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Barnard
College aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education
to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the
unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college
in partnership with a major research university. With a dedicated
faculty of scholars distinguished in their respective fields,
Barnard is a community of accessible teachers and engaged
students who participate together in intellectual risk-taking
and discovery. Barnard students develop the intellectual resources
to take advantage of opportunities as new fields, new ideas,
and new technologies emerge. They graduate prepared to lead
lives that are professionally satisfying and successful, personally
fulfilling, and enriched by love of learning.
As
a college for women, Barnard embraces its responsibility to
address issues of gender in all of their complexity and urgency,
and to help students achieve the personal strength that will
enable them to meet the challenges they will encounter throughout
their lives. Located in the cosmopolitan urban environment
of New York City, and committed to diversity in its student
body, faculty and staff, Barnard prepares its graduates to
flourish in different cultural surroundings in an increasingly
inter-connected world.
The
Barnard community thrives on high expectations. By setting
rigorous academic standards and giving students the support
they need to meet those standards, Barnard enables them to
discover their own capabilities. Living and learning in this
unique environment, Barnard students become agile, resilient,
responsible, and creative, prepared to lead and serve their
society.
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Approved by the Trustees of Barnard College, June 2000
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