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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.