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Home Study: Columbia’s Long-Distance Experiment

Posted on 2020-12-08 by University Archives

In the 1800s Columbia preferred that its students live at home. And the first women students in the 1880s also had to stay at home since they could not attend lectures. But a 1919 initiative enabled Columbia to offer new educational opportunities to students at home all over the world. […]

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