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  Columbia University in the City of New York
Feagin has spent 30 years in development and alumni relations at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Michigan, and she has had leadership roles in three major University development campaigns.
In 1974, she received a bachelor of arts degree cum laude from Columbia University's School of General Studies, and in the same year joined the Columbia University development office.
She served on the School of General Studies Advisory Council until 2002 and received the General Studies alumni "Owl" Award in 1998.
alumni.columbia.edu /evp   (172 words)

  
 Columbia University
Columbia University, legally known as Columbia University in the City of New York, and incorporated under the name Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, is an Ivy League university located in New York City.
Columbia is internationally recognized as one of the world's foremost and most prestigious research universities.
Columbia's main campus occupies six blocks, 32 acres (132,000 m²), in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, and its largest satellite campus, Health Sciences, is situated some fifty blocks uptown in the island's Washington Heights.
www.keywordmage.net /co/columbia-university.html   (2081 words)

  
 Colleges.com, college search, undergraduate search
According to the school, Columbia Universiry, School of General Studies is one of the four undergraduate colleges at Columbia University.
While students at Columbia College, Barnard College, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science generally go to college directly after high school, students at the School of General Studies must have had a break of one year or more in their education since high school to qualify for admission.
General Studies students take the same courses and study with the same professors as students in Columbia College, Barnard College, and the School of Engineering and Science.
www.colleges.com /admissions/collegesearch/college_search.taf?_function=detail&Type=4&school_id=3000305   (253 words)

  
 Columbia University School of General Studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Columbia University School of General Studies is an undergraduate school at Columbia University for non-traditional students.
The school is unique in that it is the only such college in the Ivy League.
Harry Morgan Ayers, (1942-1948) Director of University Extension (re-established as School of General Studies in 1947).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Columbia_University_School_of_General_Studies   (839 words)

  
 Columbia University, School of General Studies - College Closeup
The School of General Studies (GS) of Columbia University is one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the country dedicated specifically to students with nontraditional backgrounds seeking a traditional education at an Ivy League university.
Most students at the School of General Studies have, for personal or professional reasons, interrupted their education, never attended college, or are only able to attend part-time.
The School of General Studies offers a traditional liberal arts education designed to provide students with the broad knowledge and intellectual skills that foster continued education and growth in the years after college as well as providing a sound foundation for positions of responsibility in the professional world.
www.petersons.com /ugchannel/code/IDD.asp?orderLineNum=611822-3&inunId=5898&typeVC=InstVC&sponsor=1   (1232 words)

  
 Graduate Legal Studies
The program of graduate studies at the School of Law is designed for students who, having earned a basic law degree (the U.S. Juris Doctor [J.D.] degree or its foreign equivalent), wish to pursue a further course of full-time study in preparation for teaching, public service, or the international practice of law.
An individual program of study is arranged to meet the needs of each student, whether the aim is to broaden one's general preparation, to specialize in a particular field, or to acquire knowledge of the American legal system, international law, or other legal systems.
An exception to the prohibition of part-time studies is made for students who for family reasons (the care of children or elderly parents) may spread their studies over a three-semester period, taking eight points per term.
www.law.columbia.edu /llm_jsd/grad_studies   (414 words)

  
 Columbia University Office of Undergraduate Admissions - Applications & Admission Process
Columbia College and The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science allow talented juniors to enter accelerated programs with Columbia’s Law School or the School of International and Public Affairs, graduating in six years with a BA/JD or BS/JD in law, or in five years with a BA/MIA/MPA or BS/MIA/MPA in International Affairs/Public Affairs.
The Columbia University first-year class of approximately one thousand students in the College and three hundred students in The School of Engineering and Applied Science is chosen from a large and diverse group of applicants.
The School of General Studies is Columbia’s college for nontraditional liberal arts students who want to earn a BA while attending full- or part-time during the day and some evenings.
www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu /admissions/faq/admissions.php   (4632 words)

  
 Breaking News
Columbia University is the fourth Ivy League institution to become a Phi Theta Kappa Senior Institution Scholarship Partner.
The School of General Studies (GS) is Columbia University's undergraduate college for returning and nontraditional students.
Columbia has long had a commitment to supporting students who make the transition from two-year colleges to a four-year university.
www.ptk.org /breakingnews/feb03/columbia_schol.htm   (397 words)

  
 Congressman José E. Serrano, NY16 - {title}
Columbia University’s School of General Studies and School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the City University of New York’s Hostos Community College have established the Serrano Scholars Program, which will prepare minority and non-traditional students for careers in foreign affairs.
Peter J. Awn, dean of the School of General Studies, hailed the program as “an innovative public and private partnership” between CUNY and Columbia University.
In addition, the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, in conjunction with faculty at the participating institutions, is developing digital resources to further enhance the learning experience of the participants.
www.house.gov /serrano/pressarchive/pr_020225_HostosColumbia.html   (738 words)

  
 TIME.com: For Adults Only -- May 8, 1964 -- Page 1
Hence the unique reputation of Columbia University's School of General Studies, where a student body of 4,000 housewives, executives and workers, as well as under graduates who have switched from other colleges, has instilled scholarly vigor into the pallid pastiche that often passes for adulted.
University President Grayson Kirk, attempting to correct what he calls a "substantial veering" from the original role of G.S., has revived proposals to boost the minimum age from 20 to 21.
Now both generations are housed under one roof in a fruitful familial relationship, with the younger students setting the academic pace and the older ones contributing their store of experience.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,897174,00.html   (770 words)

  
 Columbia - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Columbia (city, Mississippi), city in south central Mississippi, the seat of Marion County, located on the Pearl River.
Columbia (city, Missouri), city, seat of Boone County, central Missouri; settled 1819; incorporated 1826.
Columbia University - Columbia College and Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
ca.encarta.msn.com /Columbia.html   (136 words)

  
 THE ALUMNI NEWSLETTER OF THE SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
While at Columbia, Roy Bercaw was the chairman of a committee of students that met with a special committee of the Columbia Trustees in 1968-70.
Of her university days, Winchinchala remarked, “Well, my breath, my spiritual core, is from my father, but my ability to interpret the world and my belief in myself and the power of teaching well is from Columbia University, in particular a woman at HEOP, Barbara Moss.
She entered Columbia University School of Architecture Preservation and Planning and received her Master of Science in Historic Preservation in 1988, with a concentration in landscape preservation.
www.alumni.gs.columbia.edu /owlnet/springsummer2001/alumninotes.htm   (4827 words)

  
 Division of Neonatology: Raymond Stark, MD
Measurements of fetal breathing, fetal heart rate and heart rate variability and fetal EEG are made continuously during the last two to four weeks of gestation during steady-state resting behavior and during a number of experimental interventions.
Stark is also studying the physiology of neurohypophyseal peptide hormones using a chronic sheep preparation with catheters placed in the ventricles of the brain.
Changes in the level of such hormones as vasopressin and corticotropin-releasing factor are monitored under a number of rigidly controlled conditions.
cpmcnet.columbia.edu /dept/neonatology/faculty/stark.html   (193 words)

  
 Center for Career Education: School of General Studies Main Page
The range of experience that the School of General Studies student body has is as varied and as broad as can be found in the world outside Columbia’s gates.
Although the reasons for a student to come to the School are many, what the students share is the conviction that their lives will be enhanced by acquiring a rigorous liberal arts education.
It is, therefore, the variety of experiences, both personal and professional, that General Studies students have had which makes this the most heterogeneous of colleges – not only at Columbia but in American higher education.
www.cce.columbia.edu /gs   (308 words)

  
 Columbia University Office of Undergraduate Admissions - Combined Plan Program
Founded in 1864 as the Henry Krumb School of Mines, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science’s curriculum provides an education that is a combination of instruction in scientific and engineering fundamentals at the highest level supported by a solid liberal arts base.
Under this plan, the pre-engineering student studies in the appropriate college for three years, then attends The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science for two years and is awarded the Bachelor of Arts degree and the Bachelor of Science degree in engineering upon completion of the fifth year.
Columbia will meet 100% of demonstrated financial need with an award that is comprised of federal loans, work-study and University grant.
www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu /admissions/engineering/combined.php   (2303 words)

  
 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is one of the most prestigious schools of journalism in the United States.
The School is located in Journalism Hall on the campus of Columbia University.
Though such theory-oriented programs are popular at other journalism schools, Columbia has eschewed unproven these media studies, regarded as nonsense to many veteran journalists, sticking instead to its tried and true news-gathering techniques that have served generations of its alumni in writing the first draft of history.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Columbia_University_Graduate_School_of_Journalism   (1320 words)

  
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Education Columbia University, School of General Studies, New York, NY Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Religion, May 1999 Honors: Dean’s List.
Columbia University, Department of Civil Engineering, New York, NY Computer Systems Administrator, 8/96 - 6/99 Maintaining software, hardware, and network components of departmental computer network for machines running AIX, IRIX, Windows NT, and Windows 95/98.
Columbia University, Jewish Student Office, New York, NY Freshman Orientation Coordinator, 5/94 - 9/94, 5/95 - 9/95 Planned a subset of Columbia’s Freshman Orientation Program.
www.ctr.columbia.edu /people/OTHER/Resume_06-20-00.doc   (434 words)

  
 Albert A. List College of Jewish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary
Because students at List study texts in their original language, proficiency in Hebrew, while not a prerequisite for admission, is a critical segment of the List curriculum.
Applicants to the Joint Program with Columbia University's School of General Studies submit an application and supporting documents to List College only; copies of all materials will be forwarded to Columbia University.
In addition to the application, a candidate must submit a letter from his or her current dean indicating that he or she is a student in good standing and has approval for this program.
www.jtsa.edu /list/admissions/arp.shtml   (716 words)

  
 Thomas Jefferson University - JMC Admissions
Jefferson Medical College is one of 24 medical schools in the English speaking world who have entered into a joint arrangement with the IMU to assist it in the establishment ultimately of an M.D. degree granting institution in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Representatives of the partner schools have been involved from the outset in the design and evaluation of the educational program offered at the IMU through membership on its Academic Council.
Jefferson Medical College and the Jefferson College of Graduate Studies jointly sponsor a program for the training of medical scientists that requires approximately seven years of study and leads to both the MD and PhD degrees.
www.jefferson.edu /jmc/admissions/programs.cfm   (917 words)

  
 THE ALUMNI NEWSLETTER OF THE SCHOOL OF GENERAL STUDIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
Social gatherings are more than often fraught with cheerful greetings and ice-breaking questions such as: “What do you do?” or “Where do you work?” Gillian Hollenberg, known to her GS brethren as Gillian Wachsman, sampled many professions before choosing one tried and true: homemaker, or, to be politically correct, domestic engineer.
Gillian graduated from Columbia University, School of General Studies, in 1994.
Gillian met her husband Henri while studying at GS through his younger sister, who was an exchange student in a Ph.D. program at Columbia studying American Literature.
www.owlnet.onlinecommunity.com /owlnet/springsummer2001/hollenberg.htm   (1067 words)

  
 Admission to Brown Medical School -Postbaccalaureate Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The purpose of this route is to enroll students who will add diversity to the student body by virtue of their life experiences, employment, and other post-college activities.
The Medical School is particularly interested in enrolling students who are age 25 or older, who became interested in medicine as a career after college, and who have engaged in activities other than formal education between college and the present.
Generally, several places are available for postbaccalaureate applicants.
biomed.brown.edu /admissions/postbacc.html   (143 words)

  
 CareerJournal | Increasingly, Professionals Use Grad School to Change Careers
While graduate schools are eager to recruit professionals who want to make a career switch to return for another degree, such a change can also be attractive to employers -- if it is accompanied by the right degree of focus.
Curtis Rogers, dean of admissions at Columbia University's undergraduate School of General Studies, says that students are making more radical changes than in earlier decades.
Shazia Ahmad, associate director for career services at the Department of Journalism at New York University and a former deputy managing editor at the New York Observer, says it can be a plus when applicants have worked in a different profession.
www.careerjournal.com /myc/school/20060308-singh.html   (852 words)

  
 Columbia University School of General Studies: Campus Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The Dodge Fitness Center is a multi-purpose facility utilized by Columbia University students, faculty, administration, staff, alumni, their families, and members from affiliated schools and organized community groups.
Dodge Hall is home to Columbia’s School of the Arts (founded in 1948), as well as the 700-seat Kathyrn Bache Miller Theatre and the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies.
It is also where students go to pick up their University Ids, pay school bills, inquire about registration, and adjust their class schedules during registration periods.
www.gs.columbia.edu /kevinmap/index.htm   (444 words)

  
 Alternative Undergraduate Degree Programs on The Princeton Review
The School of General Studies (GS) at Columbia University in New York City is ideal for nontraditional students who want to pursue a traditional, rigorous, undergraduate education from one of America's top colleges at their own pace.
NYU's McGhee Division, within the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, provides adult students the opportunity to earn their undergraduate degrees on-campus from one of the largest and most prestigious universities in the United States.
University of Phoenix is the largest private accredited university with over 200,000 students nationwide.
www.princetonreview.com /cte/career_resources.asp   (438 words)

  
 School of General Studies Minor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
The Concentration in Music is designed to take its place within the liberal arts program of the School of General Studies.
A student should plan the Concentration in Music with the director of undergraduate studies in the first semester of the student's sophomore year.
Prospective majors and concentrators must satisfy the prerequisites by the end of their sophomore year and are encouraged to complete them by the end of their first year as a Columbia student.
music.columbia.edu /undergraduate/gs/minor.html   (400 words)

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