<p>No, I think you are mistaken – only the Columbia grads have <em>automatic</em> access to the online services – the other have to contact tech support to activate their UNI’s. (Barnard students DO have active UNI accounts – it looks likes those simply aren’t carried over automatically at graduation, probably because of the tie-in to the email system).</p>
<p>More info on the Columbia Alumni Association site here:
[Columbia</a> Connection - The site for all alumni of Columbia University](<a href=“http://alumni.columbia.edu/connect/s1_4.html]Columbia”>http://alumni.columbia.edu/connect/s1_4.html)</p>
<p>It is clear from the list on that page that the CAA is an umbrella organization for the separate Alumni Associations for each different college and schools, including affiliates. </p>
<p>What would be true is that Barnard grads probably could not join the separate Columbia College Alumni Association, which has a separate web page here - [Alumni</a> | Columbia College](<a href=“http://www.college.columbia.edu/alumni/]Alumni”>Columbia College Alumni Association) – and might possibly offer some different features. </p>
<p>I say “probably” because if I go to the Barnard alumni association web site, I can look up my own name and my daughter’s father’s name, and find us both listed. Plus I get all sorts of Barnard Alumni Association email addressed to me – so I think that at least on the Barnard end of things, there is some category of “membership” open to parents. (Probably the “we hope you might send us a check” category – again, Alumni Associations really like to fund raise – I do also get regular phone calls reminding me of that).</p>