Talk:Columbia College, Columbia University

Long lists
Do we need all this departmental information? mat334 | talk 09:59, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Should I take that as a no? OK, I'll delete it then. mat334 | talk 15:43, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

I culled the alummni from this site: http://www.drownout.com/columbia-alumni/

I think a long list of alumni is highly relevant for this page, though. For one thing, that other list includes people from other parts of the university, not the College. For another, this wiki entry is really short and seems written by some goofy current students. I wanted to add a little sense of history. Aroundthewayboy 15:52, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Other universities
I removed the statement "Columbia College therefore has the third lowest acceptance rate in the Ivy League after Yale and Harvard, in that order" from the end of the opening paragraph. It is factually correct but is basically about Yale (and, to a lesser extent, Harvard) rather than Columbia. It reads as if a Yale booster added it to promote his alma mater. Such information is perfectly appropriate in Yale's own entry but not those of other colleges. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.232.225.65 (talk) 04:52, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes did not attend Columbia College. He attended the school of the mines, and then dropped out after one year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.161.94.158 (talk) 03:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

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Confusion of facts
Columbia College, as it was founded in 1754, was not what it is today. Columbia College then is equivalent of Columbia University today, and Columbia College of today is one of the core undergraduate schools in the university. There is great number of confused facts failing to distinguish Columbia College of 1754, aka Columbia University, from Columbia College of today, a sub-school of Columbia University. The history and alumni sections should be modified accordingly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zoroastrama100 (talk • contribs) 23:50, 22 April 2010 (UTC)


 * Do you have reliable sources that support your contention? — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:26, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Much help needed
For such an illustrious school, and I do not mean that at all sarcastically, much of this article is very poorly written. I'm sorry if I sound overly critical: I try to refrain from such, but those sections which ARE well written tend to sound like a recruitment brochure, while other sections read more like a junior high project. There is some excellent factusl info here, material for a top-notch FA, but there is much work to be done. I believe wholeheartedly in crowd-sourced building of this encyclopedia. Far be it from me to discourage ANYone's contributions, but PLEASE, those of you with knowledge and writing skills who have dropped in to push your various agendas, take a few minutes to polish and tweak. Many hands make light work. I have neither time, resources, hardware, knowledge, nor Inclination to do a major rewrite, but I will try to fix a few problems, and if each of you fix a few problems, I think we will all find a .much better article as we check back over time. Thank you for your time and consideration. Rags (talk) 03:30, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Proposed merge of Core Curriculum (Columbia College) into Columbia College (New York)
I'm seeing some independent coverage but not enough to justify a standalone article. Only a few institutions have an "academics at X" article, let alone an article on a subtopic of academics at the institution. &#123;{u&#124; Sdkb  }&#125;  talk 18:53, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I think there is plenty of independent of coverage to justify this article. | This Wall Street Journal article just came out today, and talks at length about the Columbia Core. However, most sources you can find on the Columbia Core are going to be books, some of which are cited in the article right now. I do think that the article could use a little more expanding to help justify itself a little more, but just looking at the history of the Columbia Core Curriculum I think justifies its existence. It is the oldest great books program in the United States, and played a major role, through the efforts of Jacques Barzun, in kicking off the great books movement in the United States. It has inspired multiple other Core Curricula at other universities in the United States, including that of the University of Chicago and St. John's College., . Small changes in the core have been reported in the New York Times,, and its 75th anniversary merited coverage in the paper,, as have protests against the core., There also exists coverage on national news of protests against the Butler Library frieze, which is deeply connected to the Columbia Core and the general educational mission of the university.,  All in all, I don't think the history of Columbia University—a history deeply related to the history of the United States—can be understood without the context of the Core Curriculum. Sources aside (because I think it's self evident that the article meets WP:GNG) the mere existence of this incredibly conservative curriculum, and such a historically important curriculum at that, at one of the most protest-heavy universities in the United States, makes it of academic interest to the fields of history and education. Normsupon (talk) 21:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
 * P.S., if this merge goes through, you might want to have a look at the article on the open curriculum at Brown or the several articles about individual tests administered for subjects at Cambridge. Normsupon (talk) 21:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)

"Columbia College (New York" listed at Redirects for discussion
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