The University now operates under a 1787 charter that places the institution under a private board of trustees, and in 1896 it was further renamed Columbia University.

However, the award's advisory board — the trustees of Columbia University — objected to the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes, and overruled the award's advisory committee, awarding no Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1963.

However, the committee's selection was overruled by the award's advisory board, the trustees of Columbia University, because of the play's then-controversial use of profanity and sexual themes.

Simpson has been a member of the board of trustees at Queen's University ; the board of overseers at Green College, University of British Columbia ; the advisory board of the Review of Constitutional Studies at the University of Alberta ; the editorial board of The Queen's Quarterly, and the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto.

The winners were selected by the Columbia University trustees.

Though he completely supported American participation in the First World War, he resigned from Columbia on Oct. 8, 1917, charging that " the University is really under the control of a small and active group of trustees who have no standing in the world of education, who are reactionary and visionless in politics, narrow and medieval in religion.

He was president of the Columbia Female Academy's board of trustees, a communicant at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Columbia, and president of the Maury County Agricultural Society.

The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.

On the consolidation of the College of Physicians and Surgeons with Columbia in 1860, he was chosen one of its trustees.

On the one hand, Butler clearly supported policies at Columbia that discriminated against Jews, whether they were applicants for admission, students or potential members of the board of trustees.

Later in life, he was an overseer of Harvard University and on the Columbia University board of trustees.

While Teachers College holds its own corporate status ( including a separate board of trustees, budget, and endowment ), the College is also a Faculty and academic department of Columbia University, serving as the University's Department of Education.

Armacost received a Bachelor of Arts in international relations from Carleton College in 1958, an honorary degree in 1989, where he was chairman of the board of trustees from 2004 to 2008, and earned his Ph. D. from Columbia University.

Besides the four honorary trustees — the lieutenant governor, the viceregal consort, the Chief Justice of British Columbia, and the Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor — the foundation also has trustees elected for three year terms from artistic, horticultural, historical, and legal segments of provincial society.

In 1921, the policyholders voted to nominate Professor Samuel M. Lindsay of Columbia University to represent them on the TIAA board of trustees.

Despite this merger, the College of Physicians and Surgeons retained its independence from Columbia and it was only in 1860 that the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at that time occupying buildings across West Fifty-ninth Street from the Roosevelt Hospital ( its major teaching hospital at the time ), after severing its ties to the New York Board of Regents and through agreement between the trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons and Columbia, became the official medical school of Columbia University.

* Assistant Secretary of State and Columbia trustees chairman George Lockhart Rives ( Class of 1868 );

He was a member of the first board of trustees for King ’ s College ( now Columbia University ) in 1754 and a member of the royal council of New York in 1754-1755.

In October 1917, after Columbia University passed a resolution that imposed a loyalty oath to the United States government upon the entire faculty and student body, the board of trustees fired Professor of Psychology and Head of the Department James McKeen Cattell for having sent a petition to three US congressmen, asking them not to support legislation for military conscription.

Backers of a new college also included several disaffected Columbia University trustees and faculty.

The protests hurt Columbia financially as many potential students chose to attend other universities and some alumni refused to donate money to the school.

De Haviland had refused to accept an offer to portray famed abolitionist Elizabeth Blackwell in an upcoming film for Columbia Pictures.

Realizing this, Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn used the Stooges as leverage, as the demand for their films was so great that Columbia eventually refused to supply exhibitors with the trio's shorts unless they also agreed to book some of the studio's mediocre B movies.

Columbia University Press subsequently refused to offer reprints or new editions.

Riskin had written his screenplay specifically for Robert Montgomery, but MGM refused to loan him to Columbia.

Davis anticipated that her reception would encourage Warner Bros. to cast her in more important roles, and was disappointed when Jack Warner refused to lend her to Columbia Studios to appear in It Happened One Night, and instead cast her in the melodrama Housewife.

However, because Russell Simmons felt that Slayer's music was not in line with Def Jam, and because Def Jam ’ s then-distributor, Columbia / CBS Records, refused to release it, it was released through Geffen Records, and Rubin took the rights of the release to the new label with him after the split.

In 1947, Columbia Pictures offered Hellman a multi-year contract, which she refused because the contract included a loyalty clause that she viewed as an infringement on her rights of free speech and association.

So impressed was Warner Brothers that they tried to buy Hayworth's contract from Columbia, but Cohn refused to release her.

Among the universities that refused to provide information directly to Maclean's in the fall of 2006 were: University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, McMaster University, University of New Brunswick, University of Manitoba, Université du Québec network, Simon Fraser University, University of Alberta, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, Ryerson University, Université de Montréal, University of Ottawa, York University, Concordia University, University of Western Ontario, Lakehead University, Queen's University, Carleton University, and University of Windsor.

She was offered the standard seven-year contract at Columbia Pictures, which she quickly refused, afraid of Hollywood's typecasting policies for Hispanics.

During a contentious period in February 1792, Andrew Ellicott, who had been conducting the original boundary survey of the future District of Columbia ( see: Boundary Stones ( District of Columbia )) and the survey of the federal city under the direction of the Commissioners, informed the Commissioners that L ' Enfant had not been able to have the city plan engraved and had refused to provide him with the original plan ( of which L ' Enfant had prepared several versions ).

In 1902 Charles B Cory, the president elect of the AOU refused to attend a meeting of the District of Columbia Audubon Society stating that " I do not protect birds.

Also, the track " Money " was re-recorded as Capitol Records refused to license the track to Columbia / CBS Records.

As the dominant railway in British North America, GTR was reportedly asked by the federal government soon after Confederation to consider building a rail line to the Pacific coast at British Columbia but refused, forcing the government to enact legislation creating the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ) to meet British Columbia's conditions for joining Confederation.

In Billy Wilder's 1957 film adaptation of Charles Lindbergh ’ s The Spirit of St. Louis, Deacon portrayed the chairman of the Columbia Aircraft Corp, Charles A. Levine, who, in February 1927, refused to sell Lindbergh his company's recently acquired Bellanca monoplane for Lindbergh ’ s trans-atlantic flight unless his company could choose the pilot.

The band recorded a third album in 1977, but due to poor sales of the first two albums, Columbia refused to release it, hastening the band's split.

Metro officials argued the facility was highway-related, since it provided parking, but the Federal Highway Administration refused to allow the District of Columbia use its funds to pay for the parking garage.

In 2008, following numerous doping scandals, some teams were refused entry to the Grand Tours: Astana did not compete at the 2008 Tour de France and Team Columbia did not compete at the 2008 Vuelta a España.

's database, because Columbia Pictures, who own the name as part of their rights to film Spider-Man, refused.

He was one of very few professors there who refused to sign a statement issued by the Columbia Law School that termed the militant student protests at Columbia in 1968 as being beyond the " allowable limits " of civil disobedience.