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… Introduces Parental Leave Benefit for Eligible Employees The College will begin offering paid parental leave this … access to a new benefit: paid parental leave.  This is a first in the institution’s history. Eligible employees who … to stronger parent-child bonding, improved caregiver well-being, and healthier cognitive and social development for the …

… Grants Support Sustainability and Diversity Projects The Inclusion and Climate Action Grants distributed more than … and equity on campus, especially those that relate to well-being and sustainability.  Meanwhile, the Sustainability … Action Grant Recipients   “We are thrilled to support this first cohort of Student Climate Action Grant recipients,” …

… 2021 [Main photo, above: Students conducting coursework on the Hudson River] Barnard students have a long-standing … and Inclusion , Barnard set a goal to build the nation’s first “ Circular Campus ,” a holistic approach based on … her attention on her hometown of Evanston, Illinois, after being inspired by the refrigerators that Chicago’s The Love …

… Combating Climate Change As Miami’s first chief heat officer, Jane Gilbert ’87 is working on a robust plan to protect the city’s residents from the threats of rising temperatures … about the climate threat that most impacted their well-being, the environmental scientist was in a critical position …

… Barnard Magazine Barnard magazine Summer 2024 What do the circus, parkour, augmented reality, and Edgar Degas’s … “I always felt frustrated seeing art that felt like it was being made for other artists, for those already indoctrinated … Barnard’s Dance in Paris summer program. “That was when I first really saw that dance could be many other things, that …

… Going Circular in the City Barnard made circularity a campus imperative, and … of the Francine A. LeFrak Foundation Center for Well-Being construction project, she has been working on clearing … to avoid creating it, and the associated emissions, in the first place,” Goldmark explained. “But the first step is …

… Arts Library) Librarian Jean Blackwell Hutson ’35 Meet the librarian who transformed the Schomburg Collection into a … not shield her from racism; and finding housing was her first challenge. Barnard’s dean, Virginia Gildersleeve , … assumed that they knew all there was to know just by being Black, but there is much more to the history of Black …

… edition, with Professor Nara Milanich, shines a light on the government’s practice of incarcerating refugee mothers … on the floor next to overflowing toilets. They described being taunted by Border Patrol agents who threw away food in … from bringing them on the dangerous trip north in the first place.  Milanich’s Media Hits: " No Way Home ," for The …

… Lives Matter, and what shows to watch. July 29, 2020 As the vice president for inclusion strategy at Netflix, Vernā … a degree from Harvard Law School, and in 1992, as the first executive director of the Boston Law Firm Group, Myers … work, it’s because people have a sense of themselves as being good people and as a good person they couldn’t possibly …

… mentorship and Barnard’s Summer Research Institute (SRI), the two are continuing to collaborate to better understand … that I would be an astronomy major but realized after my first year that I was more interested in learning about … and did my schooling there, I was really interested in being able to compare the experiences of students in the U.S. …

… Admissions Admissions Admissions Admissions Being Part of a Learning Lab Eligible Birthdates for 2024-25 Where to Begin Visiting the Center Tuition Important Dates Frequently Asked Questions … Can Be Toddlers Welcome and thank you for your interest in the Toddler Center! For the 2025-26 School Year Admissions or …

… Curriculum & Courses Psychology is the study of behavior and experience, from love to aggression, from the first babbling of infants to creativity, from sexuality to … empirical, and applied advances in the science of well-being and self-actualization. Consideration will be given to …

… Barnard Magazine Barnard magazine Spring 2018 For the first time, the story of the last survivor of the last slave … the slaughter of his West Africa community; his experience being held in a “barracoon” or enclosure used for slaves; his …

… her graduate adviser in 2001, she found herself drawn to the anthropological and religious aspects of early societies, … City is an ideal place to delve into the subject. In her first six weeks as a New York City resident, she’s been to … learned that solidarity among women is not a given—that being Christian, Muslim, wealthy, poor, rural, urban, and so …

… How the Barnard Community Contributed to the Fight Around … From offering hot-meal deliveries for medical staff to being frontline workers themselves, they zeroed in on how … because there are more people in need. We are serving many first-time visitors to our soup kitchens and food pantries. …

… by Columbia. This course considers key questions at the foundation of political thought. What is justice? How do … contemporary American political phenomena, as well as being more likely to engage with politics and elections … is reflected in two ways- preparation and focus. First, the course carries a substantial reading load designed …

… With … Climate Justice Activist Parisa Harvey ’26 The Laidlaw Scholar traces the policy effects of climate … processes. Wendy Schor-Haim , [the director of the First-Year Writing Program ], shared the framework, “I’m … climate justice is addressed at the conference despite it being housed in a city that runs on fossil fuel wealth and is …

… Shirley Adelson Siegel's ’37 pioneering legal work laid the foundations for some of the country’s most basic civil … become the only woman in her class at Yale Law School, the first head of the Civil Rights Bureau at the New York State … of 125. Though Adelson Siegel is not one to complain, being a female, Jewish law student and lawyer in that era was …

… At Reunion: Technology Makes the Trip By Judi Hasson ’73 Barnard Magazine Barnard magazine … known as a klutz, falling on smooth surfaces and not being able to get up. But, in 2007, a doctor realized I had … I think Sherry and I may have made Barnard history as the first classmates to attend Reunion together in such a manner. …

… Davies ’05 Barnard Magazine Barnard magazine Winter 2016 The streets of Morningside Heights directly led Charlotte … Online Film Fund with a script imagining teenage girls as being as passionate about British politicians as they are … other women, to write about female experiences.” Dinkin first performed at the Fringe Festival in 2013, but last …