Barnard College, to the Present

Barnard Of Late, 1962 - 2000
	1963	Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organize at University of Michigan; Tom Hayden among leaders of the "New Left."
**	1963	SNCC leads "Freedom Marches" throughout South; Barnard and Columbia students among the marchers.
	1963	Radcliffe undergraduates to receive Harvard degrees; Radcliffe & Harvard merge graduate schools.
	1963	November 22 -- President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, TX.
	1965	First university-based "Teach-In" at University of Michigan to protest American involvement in Vietnam.
	1965	President Johnson, at Howard University, calls for "affirmative action" to correct past injustices.
	1966	Rosemary Park resigns as Barnard President to take a position at UCLA.
	1967	Martha Peterson named 3rd president (6th head) of Barnard College.
	1968	Barnard junior, Linda LeClair, suspended for misrepresenting off-campus living with a Columbia College undergraduate.
**	1968	April 23-30 --Columbia and Barnard students occupy five Columbia buildings, protesting University's involvement in war, neighborhood policies and treatment of black students.
	1968	August -- Columbia President Grayson Kirk resigns. Andrew Cordier named Acting President.
	1969	January -- Andrew Cordier elected 14th president of Columbia; search for new president underway.
	1969	Yale University announces plan to accept women undergraduates in 1970 after merger discussions with Vassar break off .
	1970	President Nixon orders bombing of Cambodia which leads to nationwide campus protests. Barnard cuts short the academic year.
	1970	Radcliffe is academically merged with Harvard.
	1970	Vassar College admits men, after 110 years as a women's college.
	1970	William McGill elected 15th president of Columbia, first Roman Catholic president of Columbia.
**	1972	Congress and President Nixon approves "Title IX," outlawing discrimination against women
	1972	Dartmouth College decides to admit women undergraduates in 1973 .
**	1972	AAUP becomes bargaining agent for unionized faculties in City colleges and elsewhere.
**	1973	Production of PhDs by American universities peak at 33,000; oversupply widely acknowledged
**	1973	Columbia and Barnard trustees reach agreement on cross-registration and faculty tenuring.
	1975	Martha Peterson resigns as Barnard President. (goes to Beloit College)
	1976	Jacqueline Mattfeld named 4th president (7th head) of Barnard.
	1976	Amherst College admits women undergraduates after 156 years.
	1977	Princeton admits women undergraduates, after 231 years as a men's college .
**	1978	Supreme Court rules on "affirmative action,." alowing race to be a factor in dtermining admissions
	1980	Michael Sovern elected 16th president of Columbia, he is the first Jewish Columbia president.
	1981	Jacqueline Mattfeld is terminated as president. Trustee Ellen V. Futter named acting president of Barnard.
	1982	Ellen V. Futter named 5th president (8th head) of Barnard.
	1982	Columbia College decides to admit women in 1983 (for Class of 1987). It is the last Ivy to go co-ed. Barnard-Columbia relations change.
	1983	Columbia and Barnard effect a new affiliation accord in light of Columbia decison to admit women
**	1988	Department of Justice attacks financial aid practices of select colleges (Barnard among them)
	1988	September -- Barnard College opens Centennial Hall; enables the College, for first time, to house all students on campus.
	1988	November -- Columbia football team defeats Princeton, ending 44-game losing streak (back to 1984)
**	1991	Barnard and Columbia sign new 7-year intercorporate agreement.
	1993	George Rupp named 17th president of Columbia University.
	1993	Ellen V. Futter resigns as president of Barnard. College legal counsel Kathryn Rodgers named acting president.
**	1994	April -- Judith Shapiro named 6th president (9th head) of Barnard.
**	1994	October 27 -- President Shapiro's inauguraion in Riverside Church; speaks on "The Role of Women's Colleges"
	1997	July 1 -- Barnard Electronic Archive and Teaching Laboratory [BEATL] opens for business; Colin Purdy named Associate Director.
	1998	February -- Gayle F.Robinson (BC'75) succeeds Patricia F. Green as Chair of the Barnard Trustees.
	1998	March -- Barnard and Columbia extend their intercorporate agreement for an additional ten years.
	1998	May -- Barnard College Interactive History Project is launched. Perry Creedon BC '99 the prime mover
	1998	July -- BEATL launches Barnard College Interactive History Project.
	1998	October 7 -- Arthur Ross Greenhouse opens atop Milbank Hall.
	1998	October 26 -- BEATL presentation of its recent doings to awestruck Barnard Faculty.
	1999	Lefrak Gymnasium and Barnard Lobby Renovations Completed
	2000
		February - Jhumpa Lahiri '89 wins Pulitzer Prize; the 6th Barnard alumna to do so
		May -- Barnard Capital Campaign exceeds its goal by $25,000,000
		May 25 -- Sara Brubaker '00 and Laila Shetty '03 named to All-Ivy Women's Lacrosse and Tennis Teams
		June 21 -- The renovated 405 Milbank Hall opened as Krueger Lecture Hall