Barnard is the all-female liberal arts college that is part of Columbia University (which did not admit women students until around 1983-84), whose President is Laura Rosenbury, a law professor and feminist legal theorist who taught at Washington University, St. Louis, before becoming Dean of the law school at the University of Florida Gainesville, and then President of Barnard. Philosopher Frederick Neuhouser is quoted in the story about the vote of "no confidence":
“I hope this vote has the effect of instigating real change in the way Barnard is run and organized, including long-term changes, especially around the issue of shared governance, shared faculty governance,” Neuhouser said. “Because the events of this academic year have revealed really clearly to us something we really weren’t aware of before, namely, that faculty participation in governance at Barnard is really very small and we have very few powers compared to the faculty at Columbia, for example.”
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