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Type | Private graduate school of education, health, and psychology |
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Established | 1887 |
Parent institution | Columbia University |
Endowment | $512.7 million (2021)[1] |
President | Thomas R. Bailey |
Provost | KerryAnn O'Meara |
Students | 5,299 |
Location | , , U.S. |
Campus | Urban |
Website | tc.columbia.edu |
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Teachers College, Columbia University (TC) is the graduate school of education, health, and psychology of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City.[2][3] Founded in 1887, Teachers College has served as one of the official Faculties and the Department of Education of Columbia University since 1898.[3][4] It is the oldest and largest graduate school of education in the United States.[5]
Teachers College alumni and faculty have held prominent positions in academia, government, music, non-profit, healthcare, and social science research. Overall, Teachers College has over 90,000 alumni in more than 30 countries.[6][7] Notable alumni and former faculty include John Dewey, Art Garfunkel, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Carl Rogers, Margaret Mead, Bill Campbell, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Thorndike, Rollo May, Donna Shalala, Albert Ellis, William Schuman (former president of the Juilliard School), Lee Huan (former Premier of the Republic of China), Shirley Chisholm (first black woman elected to the United States Congress), Hafizullah Amin (former leader of Afghanistan), Hamden L. Forkner (founder of Future Business Leaders of America), and E. Gordon Gee (has held more university presidencies than any other American including Brown University and Vanderbilt University).