Weather Update
Due to the storm, Barnard College closed at 4pm Friday, for non-essential personnel. “Essential personnel" include staff in Facilities, Public Safety and Residence Halls.
Friday evening and weekend classes are cancelled but events are going forward as planned unless otherwise noted. The Athena Film Festival programs are also scheduled to go forward as planned but please check http://athenafilmfestival.com/ for the latest information.
The Barnard Library and Archives closed at 4pm Friday and will remain closed on Saturday, Feb. 9. The Library will resume regular hours on Sunday opening at 10am.
Please be advised that due to the conditions, certain entrances to campus may be closed. The main gate at 117th Street & Broadway will remain open. For further updates on college operations, please check this website, call the College Emergency Information Line 212-854-1002 or check AM radio station 1010WINS.
3:12 PM 02/08/2013
USA Today published a piece by Anthropology Professor Lesley Sharp on a "troubling trend" in higher eduction. An excerpt: "I was shocked and dismayed by USA TODAY's front-page article 'More schools vary tuition by major.' It opens with the troubling statement, 'Having a hard major is getting more expensive,' and it flags 'math, science and business programs' as exemplary of 'hard' fields of study. I could only shake my head in dismay. If 'hard' means 'difficult,' such an assessment most certainly varies according to individual students' abilities and tastes."
Read the full piece here.
Prof. Sharp is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Anthropology at Barnard and a Senior Research Scientist in Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
A medical anthropologist by training, Prof. Sharp is most concerned with critical analyses of the symbolics of the human body, where her research sites range from cosmopolitan medical centers within the United States to urban centers in sub-Saharan Africa. From 1986 until 1995, her work as an Africanist was based in a polycultural plantation community of northwest Madagascar, where initial research addressed spirit mediumship and the gendered nature of healing. She later returned to the same site in the mid 1990s to examine other forms of affliction, most notably the effects of the state's short-lived socialist project in shaping the historical and political consciousness of Malagasy school youth. Prof. Sharp is the recipient of four separate teaching awards, two of which were bestowed on her by Barnard.
