Calling all juniors who still need to complete the PE requirement!

The Spring 2024 PE schedule is now in the Directory Of Classes:   http://www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/sel/PEDB_Spring2024.html

There are spots in all classes reserved for upper class students though November 16.  On November 16 first year students register and most classes will get filled.  Please plan to register for PE if you still have to, it won't be fun to fit it into your senior year schedule... 

Resource Reminder

These past few weeks have not been easy ones.  If you need any kind of support, please reach out -- Barnard has a lot of it.  Here are a few campus offices with peers, professionals, and clinicians who are ready to help.  

Furman Counseling Center offers several forms of support for Barnard students:

• Students may visit Furman for free individual counseling. To learn more about how individual counseling works and why it may be of help to you at certain moments in your Barnard career, visit this page of the Furman website.
  

• Our counselors offer one-hour workshops throughout the year to help students develop personal skills in a variety of areas, such as maintaining balance, stress management, romantic well-being, and smart emotional living. Watch for announcements and flyers about these workshops on the FY Blog and in the residence halls.

• Furman also offers free and confidential support groups to our students.  To join one of our groups, or for more information, please call our front desk at 212.854.2092.

Your class deans are available to meet with you by appointment and during walk-in hours.  Click this link to find your dean's appointment link. Need to see someone but can't find an available time that fits in your schedule? Call the Deans Office for Advising and Support 212-854-2024 any time 9-5, Monday through Friday.

• Worried about a class? Confused about registration?  Just need a friendly, nonjudgmental listener?  Have a question but aren't sure whom to ask?  We're here for all this and more.

The Wellness Spot is the health promotion program and wellness center at Barnard College. Our mission is to promote the health and wellness of Barnard students through a variety of programming activities. Our philosophical approach to wellness focuses on an integration of body, mind and spirit, which moves us toward a more proactive, healthier existence. We use as our model the Wellness Wheel which includes physical, intellectual, occupational, emotional, social and spiritual, service and cultural dimensions which represent all aspects of human growth. The open center of the wellness wheel reflects the notion that each "spoke" impacts on the others and that we cannot be truly healthy if we neglect any aspect of the wheel. However, it is important to remember that gaining total wellness is a journey and a process that continues throughout life.

Res Life staff are on site, trained, and ready to listen and support you.

Being Barnard's mission is to provide a holistic approach to sexual violence prevention through campus wide campaigns, educational programming, one on one health consultation services, community building, outreach, advocacy, and intervention. Sexual assault and interpersonal violence affect students of all genders, identities, and backgrounds and are widely recognized to not be isolated issues but part of a much larger societal picture. As such, it is our hope that by addressing a multitude of interwoven topics such as healthy relationships and sexuality, affirmative consent, personal boundaries, self care, bystander intervention, and social identities & power that we may help reduce and, one day, eliminate sexual
assault and violence from our campus and global communities.

Contact:  Want to know how to get involved? General questions and inquiries about the initiative can be directed to the Being Barnard office - BeingBarnard@barnard.edu!

Office of Title IX and Nondiscrimination

If you are a survivor of sexual assault or other physical violence, please click on the link below for a information about resources available to you at Barnard:
Title IX and Equity Resources

Columbia Sexual Violence Response & Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center 

105 Hewitt 212-854-HELP (4357)

The Rape Crisis /Anti-Violence Support Center (also referred to as the RCC or Center) provides peer and professional advocacy and education to the entire University student community. If you are a survivor of sexual assault and would like to talk to someone immediately, call 212-854-HELP to speak to someone and/or schedule a time to meet. Advocates assist survivors by accompanying them to the hospital, health services, the police, public safety, court, campus disciplinary proceedings and other resources. They also help survivors make informed decisions about reporting and disciplinary options. Advocates receive a minimum of 50 hours of training and are supervised by Columbia and Barnard counseling clinicians.

Learn more about sexual violence resources through men's peer education, RCC peer educators, and other advocacy/outreach services.

Nightline is an anonymous, nonjudgmental peer listening hotline that primarily serves the Columbia/Barnard community and its affiliates by providing them with a listening and referral service. Staffed by committed, caring, and trained Columbia/Barnard undergraduates, Nightline offers a safe space for you to talk about anything that is on your mind. Operating by the mottos, "We are here to listen" and "We are here to get you through the night," Nightline is here to listen to anything you have to say; no problem is too big or too small.

• Nightline is here to listen every night of the academic year from 10:00PM-3:00AM at (212) 854-7777.

• Anonymous: All Nightline peer listeners, excluding the Directors of Nightline (who no longer take calls) are anonymous, and remain so during the entirety of their time at Barnard/Columbia. Callers also have the privilege of anonymity--listeners do not ask callers to identify themselves, nor do they have means to gather this information. The phones used by Nightline have no caller ID.

• Nonjudgmental: No matter what you want to talk about, be it sexual orientation, depression, eating disorders, family, friends, or just stress, we are willing to listen and will never judge a caller on what you have to say. No problem is too big or too small.

Help Barnard Assess the Foundations Curriculum!

As a Barnard Sophomore, Junior or Senior, you are invited to participate in an assessment study focused on the Foundations Curriculum. The goal of this study is to gather feedback on the curriculum to better understand students’ experience navigating these Foundations requirements, including students’ perspectives on if and how the curriculum shaped their thinking, values, and/or skills. This assessment study is part of a larger effort at the College to review the Foundations Curriculum and articulate recommendations for future students. Your feedback is vital for informing the Foundations Curriculum at Barnard for the next generation of students.

 

Furman Group Therapy in Fall 2023

 

November 1: Academic Policies Workshop (In-person and online)

 

How do I withdraw from a class with a W by the Nov 16 deadline?

 The deadline to withdraw from a fall 2023 class is Nov 16. Withdrawn classes will not affect your GPA and you will not earn credit for them, but they will remain on your transcript, and a W will be entered place of the final grade. 

Note: You may not withdraw from a class if doing so would leave you with fewer than 12 credits.

 

To withdraw from a class, use this online form , following these steps:


1. Consult with your adviser.

2. Get an email from your adviser confirming they approve you to withdraw from this specific class.

3. Download that email as a PDF or save a screenshot of it.

4. Complete and submit the online W form on or before the W deadline, uploading your adviser’s confirmation email when prompted to do so.

5. You will receive an email confirmation once your W request is processed, ordinarily within two business days. 

Note that the W will not appear on your record until the end of the semester when final grades are entered.