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-{{University
-|name=Columbia University
-|image=Columbiashield.png
-|text=rgb(78,167,225)
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-|type=Private
-|city=[[New York, New York]]
-|sports=archery, baseball, basketball, cross country, fencing, field hockey, football, golf, lacrosse, heavyweight rowing, lightweight rowing, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, wrestling<ref>http://www.gocolumbialions.com</ref>
-|colors=light blue, white
-|degrees=Bachelor's, Master's, Doctoral<ref>{{cite web|work=College Board|format=HTML|language=English|accessdate=May 28, 2010|title=College Search - Columbia University - At a Glance|url=http://collegesearch.collegeboard.com/search/CollegeDetail.jsp?collegeId=3853}}</ref>
-|mascot=Lions
-|website=http://www.columbia.edu/
-}}
-'''Columbia University''' is the oldest and most prestigious university in [[New York City]], in Manhattan's Morningside Heights neighborhood, adjacent to [[Harlem]].  More [[Nobel Prize]] laureates graduated from Columbia University than any other university in the [[United States]], and it is the seventh largest private employer in New York City.<ref>http://neighbors.columbia.edu/pages/manplanning/jobs_economics/index.html</ref>  It is a member of the [[Ivy League]], and began admitting women in 1983.<ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,955006-1,00.html</ref>  Columbia University accepts applications from [[homeschooled]] students if they have four [[SAT II]] subject exam scores.
-== History ==
-Columbia University is the fifth oldest college in the nation, founded under the name "King's College" in 1754 under a royal charter by [[King George II]] of [[England]].  Its original religious affiliation was [[Anglican]].  Samuel Johnson held the first classes in a new schoolhouse next to Trinity Church in downtown [[Manhattan]].  Columbia's early students and trustees included future [[Chief Justice]] [[John Jay]], future [[Secretary of the Treasury]] [[Alexander Hamilton]], future drafter of the [[U.S. Constitution]][[Gouverneur Morris]], and future co-author of the [[Declaration of Independence]] [[Robert R. Livingston]].
-== Programs ==
-Columbia has a law school, a medical school, and the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science.
-== Campuses ==
-[[Image:Columbia Univ.jpg|200x|right|thumb|Columbia University]]
-Columbia has a large campus in Morningside Heights in northern Manhattan.  It also owns Nevis Laboratories in Irvington, [[New York]] to study high-energy experimental particle and nuclear physics. That 60-acre estate was once owned by Alexander Hamilton's son.  In addition, Columbia owns the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, which allows study of global climate change, earthquakes, volcanoes, and environmental issues.
-== Controversy ==
-Columbia came under fire from conservatives and free speech activists when [[Minutemen Project]] founder [[Jim Gilchrist]] and Minuteman Marvin Stewart were attacked by a crowd of student protesters while attempting to give a speech at the school, forcing them to abandon their speech. <ref>http://www.nysun.com/article/41020?page_no=2</ref> "They have no right to speak here", said one student.
-[[Iranian]] president [[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]], who had called for the destruction of the nation of [[Israel]] and called for the execution of homosexuals, was luckier than Gilchrist and Stewart. He was allowed to speak at Columbia on September 26, 2007.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/09/26/ahmadinejad.columbia/index.html</ref>
-== References ==
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-== External Links ==
-*[http://www.columbia.edu Official Website]
-{{Nb_US_universities|New York}}
-[[Category:United States Universities]]

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