The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.

The Columbia, Colorado, and Mississippi watersheds meet at Three Waters Mountain in the Wind River Range of To the south, in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, the Columbia watershed is divided from the Great Basin, whose several watersheds are endorheic, not emptying into any ocean but rather drying up or sinking into sumps.

Great Basin watersheds that share a border with the Columbia watershed include Harney Basin, Humboldt River, and Great Salt Lake.

To the west and southwest the Columbia watershed borders a number of smaller watersheds that drain to the Pacific Ocean, such as the Klamath River in Oregon and California and the Puget Sound Basin in Washington.

Examples can be seen in the flood regions result from glacial Lake Missoula, which created the channeled scablands in the Columbia Basin region of eastern Washington.

* Queen Charlotte Basin, the continental shelf offshore of the British Columbia mainland

* Columbia Basin College, a mid-sized two-year institution now offering a four-year Bachelor of Applied Science program in Applied Management ( 8, 000 students ).

Columbia Basin College also offers higher education opportunities for residents of the Tri-Cities, as well as the Columbia Basin from Mattawa, Washington ( 50 miles away ) to Umatilla, Oregon ( 30 miles away ).

It is sponsored by Pasco, Kennewick, and Richland's school districts, Battelle, Washington State University Tri-Cities, and Columbia Basin College.

Within North America, there are northern pike populations in Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Michigan, Montana, Maryland, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa, Utah, Northern New Mexico and Arizona, Colorado, New York, Idaho, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec ( pike are rare in British Columbia and east coast provinces ), Alaska, the Ohio Valley, the upper Mississippi River and its tributaries, the Great Lakes Basin and surrounding states, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and parts of Oklahoma.

The Columbia Basin Reclamation Project, which began as a group of businessmen from Ephrata began looking for ways to make the area more viable.

While Salmon and Steelhead returns to the John Day Basin experienced a sharp decline during the past 50 years, mainly due to the construction of large dams on the Columbia River, the major watercourses of John Day Basin remain free of physical obstructions, and the numbers of returning Salmon and Steelhead have improved in recent years, marking some of the best fish runs recorded in the past half-century.

* Columbia Basin District – Quincy, Ephrata, Moses Lake, Coulee City area

* Jack Keahey, a St. Joseph native, was the president of the Tensas Basin Levee Board, based in Columbia, the seat of Caldwell Parish.

Sometime after journeying around the Willamette Valley and Columbia Basin, Moore bought title to approx.

Othello refers to the city as being in the " Heart " of the Columbia Basin Project.

In the early 1950s, the Columbia Basin Project brought irrigation to the Othello area, increasing both agriculture and commerce.

The reservoirs behind the dams made it possible to irrigate thousands of additional acres in the Columbia Basin.

In the years following the Revolution the poetic device " Columbia " was used as a symbol of both Columbus and America, King's College of New York changed its name in 1792 to Columbia, and the new capitol in Washington was subtitled District of Columbia.

1945 ), San Diego State College ( M. A., 1952 ) and Columbia University ( Ph. D., 1956 ), and did his doctoral thesis on the Thematic Apperception Test.

Broadway then runs past the proposed uptown campus of Columbia University, and the main campus of CUNY — City College ; the beautiful Gothic buildings of the original City College campus are out of sight, a block to the east.

* The mission of the Community College Research Center from Teachers College at Columbia University is to " conduct research on the major issues affecting community colleges in the United States and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that expands access to higher education and promotes success for all students.

After the American Revolutionary War, King's College briefly became a state entity, and was renamed Columbia College in 1784.

Image: Alexander Hamilton portrait by John Trumbull 1806. jpg | Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Columbia College

Image: Official portrait of Barack Obama. jpg | Barack Obama, President of the United States and Nobel Laureate, Class of 1983, Columbia College

Two other institutions of higher education, Stephens College in 1833 and Columbia College in 1851, were also established within the city.

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* Teaching for Democracy in an Age of Corporatocracy by Christine E. Sleeter, Teachers College, Columbia University.

After two years he left the seminary to attend Teachers College, Columbia University, obtaining an MA in 1928 and a PhD in 1931.

They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Black Hawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, recording a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin ( 1953 ), Jazz at the College of the Pacific ( 1953 ), and Brubeck's debut on Columbia Records, Jazz Goes to College ( 1954 ).

* Columbia College – Columbia, Missouri

New York: Teachers College, Columbia University.

In 1917 Columbia established the Lincoln School of Teachers College “ as a laboratory for the working out of an elementary and secondary curriculum which shall eliminate obsolete material and endeavor to work up in usable form material adapted to the needs of modern living .” ( Cremin, 282 ) Based on Flexner ’ s demand that the modern curriculum “ include nothing for which an affirmative case can not be made out ” ( Cremin, 281 ) the new school organized its activities around four fundamental fields: science, industry, aesthetics and civics.

* The Core Curriculum of Columbia College of Columbia University, is probably the best-known example of educational perennialism.

CI consists of a dedicated corps of about 950 Columbia University student volunteers participating in 25 community service programs, which serve more than 8, 000 people each year.

In the United States William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago developed the concept of extended education, whereby the research university had satellite colleges of education in the wider community, and in 1892 he also encouraged the concept of correspondence school courses to further promote education, an idea that was put into practice by Columbia University.

* The Four Pillars Drug Strategy, a comprehensive approach implemented in Vancouver, British Columbia that balances public order and public health in order to create a safer, healthier community.

His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria ( established in April 1811 ) was the first United States community on the Pacific coast.

This is because the founder of this seaside community, which is today part of the municipality of Richmond, British Columbia, was Manoah Steves, originally from Moncton.

Also named after him are the hamlets of Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant Falls in Columbia County, New York, where descendants of the early Dutch settlers still live and where the Dutch Reformed Church remains an important part of the community, as well as shopping centers, yacht clubs and other buildings and facilities throughout the area where the Dutch colony once was.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

* New Vancouver, a Kwakwaka ' wakw community on Harbledown Island in the Queen Charlotte Strait region of British Columbia

The county is also home to Columbia, a major planned community of 100, 000 founded by developer James Rouse in 1967.

Columbia is a planned community that consists of ten self-contained villages, located in Howard County, Maryland, United States.

For Slayton's contributions to the early planning of Columbia, the community center in the Wilde Lake village, Slayton House, was named for him.

Also dividing the community is the boundary line of the District of Columbia, which contains part of the original Gilbert tract.

Takoma Park is bounded by downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, a major urban center to the northwest, by Montgomery College campus ; East Silver Spring, a community of houses, apartments and small shops, along Flower Avenue and Piney Branch Road, to the north ; Langley Park, Maryland, a community of apartments and shopping centers, along University Boulevard to the northeast ; Chillum, Maryland, in Prince George's County to the southeast, bounded by New Hampshire Avenue, a state highway ; and Takoma, Washington, D. C. to the southwest, separated by Eastern Avenue, which follows the District of Columbia line.

* Fowler Creek is a tributary of the Salmon River near the community of Salmon Arm, British Columbia

* Port Belmont, British Columbia aka Belmont, a former mining community on Princess Royal Island

* Galena Bay, British Columbia, a ferry terminal, community and bay of the same name on Upper Arrow Lake, British Columbia, Canada

Lutefisk is very popular in Nordic-North American areas of Canada, especially the prairie regions and the large Finnish community at Sointula on Malcolm Island in the province of British Columbia, and the United States, particularly in the Upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest.

Columbia's position as a principal trade center began to decline ; however, Columbia sustained itself as a thriving farming community through the mid-20th century.

Major points of interest in the area include Columbia Community College, a two-year, community college.

The community itself grew around the intersection of Old Columbia Pike and the road to Sandy Spring.