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COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY
Lee
Bollinger, President
Representative: Alan Brinkley, Provost
Columbia University, established
in 1754 as King's College and renamed Columbia College after the
Revolutionary War, is one of the country's oldest private institutions
of higher learning and an international leader among research universities.
Throughout its history, the school has been a center of advancement
in education and was one of the earliest academies to develop graduate
faculties. By offering research facilities and opportunities, Columbia
students have had the opportunity of working with leading scholars
such as Franz Boas, Mark Van Doren, Jacques Barzun, Enrico Fermi
and I.I. Rabi, among others. Columbia encompasses numerous top-ranked
schools and programs, including the Fu Foundation School of Engineering
and Applied Science, the School of Law, the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, the School of International and Public Affairs and
the Graduate School of Journalism.
Columbia's Graduate School
of Journalism was established in 1912 through an endowment from
Joseph Pulitzer, owner and publisher of The New York World newspaper.
The school is home to the Pulitzer Prizes for writing and the duPont-Columbia
awards for broadcast journalism as well as the Poliak Center for
the Study of First Amendment Issues, the George T. Delacorte Center
for Magazine Journalism and the Columbia Journalism Review.
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