Editing Barnard College (section)

=== Founding ===
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From its founding in 1754 until the mid-1980s, [[Columbia College, Columbia University|Columbia College]] of [[Columbia University]] admitted only men for undergraduate study.<ref name="farmer20080825">{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/record/coeducation.html |title=College Marks 25 Years of Coeducation |website=The Record |last1=Farmer |first1=Melanie |access-date=October 23, 2014 |archive-date=April 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429224549/http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/record/coeducation.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Barnard College was founded in 1889 as a response to Columbia's refusal to admit women. Classes took place in a rented brownstone at 343 Madison Avenue, where a faculty of six offered instruction to 36 students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Barnard College: An Early Timeline, To 1939 {{!}} Barnard 125 |url=https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/ram31/timelines/barnard-college-timeline-to-1945-under-construction/ |access-date=October 12, 2020 |language=en-US |archive-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918134154/http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/ram31/timelines/barnard-college-timeline-to-1945-under-construction/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The college was named after [[Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard]], a [[deaf]] American educator and mathematician who later served as Columbia's president for over twenty years. He advocated for coeducational settings and proposed in 1879 that Columbia admit women.<ref name="jstor368780" /> Columbia's Board of Trustees repeatedly rejected Barnard's suggestion,<ref name="jstor368780" /> but in 1883 agreed to create a syllabus that would allow the college's students to receive degrees. The first such graduate received her bachelor's degree in 1887.  A former student of the program, [[Annie Nathan Meyer|Annie Meyer]],<ref name="rosenberg" /> and other prominent New York women persuaded the board in 1889 to create a women's college connected to Columbia.<ref name="jstor368780">{{cite journal |date=Spring 1991 |title=Social and Cultural Stratification in Women's Higher Education: Barnard College and Teachers College, 1898–1912 |journal=History of Education Quarterly |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1–25 |jstor=368780 |author=Weneck, Bette |doi=10.2307/368780 |s2cid=144543745}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=First Barnard Board of Trustees, 1889 |url=https://edblogs.columbia.edu/histx3570-001-2014-1/numbers/first-barnard-board-of-trustees-1889/ |website=Alma Mater: The History of American Colleges & Universities |access-date=July 3, 2020 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806000132/https://edblogs.columbia.edu/histx3570-001-2014-1/numbers/first-barnard-board-of-trustees-1889/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Men and women were evenly represented among the founding trustees of Barnard College.<ref name="Putnam">{{cite journal |last1=Putnam |first1=Emily Jane |title=The Rise of Barnard College |journal=Columbia University Quarterly |date=1900 |volume=II |issue=3 |pages=209–217 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9IZMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA212 |access-date=July 2, 2020 |archive-date=July 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714130931/https://books.google.com/books?id=9IZMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA212 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|212}}