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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Barnard's faculty is distinct from that of Columbia College. The relationship either of these undergraduate schools have with Columbia University as whole doesn't seem to be relevant to the classroom experience.

Barnard maintains its own science facilities, including research laboratories. These facilities will be greatly enhanced by a new science building set to open in 2026. Barnard faculty and students may use the "core" lab facilities of Columbia University. [/quote]
Except that is not the point. They are not distinct from Columbia faculty, because they ARE Columbia faculty. Even if they are approved promotion by Barnard, Columbia is looking at a professor's research output to see if they should be faculty; this actually occurred with Dr. Bashir Abu-Manneh, who is a great post-colonial scholar that was denied tenure from Columbia, but not Barnard, due to his lack of research productivity and consequently had to leave the institution.

No one is denying the autonomy of Barnard, but there is an institutional order which says that undeniably Barnard faculty aren't distinct from Columbia faculty.[/quote]
In the absence of your having made a distinction between Columbia College and Columbia University, I've found it difficult to follow your reasoning. [/quote]
Because no one made that distinction...[/quote]
This is what made that poster's language very hard to follow — the term "Columbia" was used without clarification as to whether Columbia College or Columbia University was being discussed. [/quote]

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