<p>Sac, as best I can tell the relationship between Barnard and the rest of the Columbia academic community (note exquisitely delicate phrasing 
) is sui generis. Although the Claremont consortium colleges field some joint athletic teams for interscholastic competition, like Columbia and Barnard do, and have some joint academic programs where some students may end up taking the exact same set of classes in their major yet end up graduating from different “colleges” - like Columbia and Barnard students can - I don’t know of any other relationship where the students from different colleges get diplomas from the same “University” - as is the case with Columbia College, SEAS and Barnard - but there is still some further (and certainly vague) distinction between them. </p>
<p>I do have to comment that it’s just sad that some people have to make insistent statements like “in no way can u say that [Barnard] is part of Columbia” when in fact the relationship - whatever it is - is as historically and functionally intertwined as that between Columbia and Barnard.</p>