• Reel Jem / For Real The sound: Neo-soul/rock more...
• Bumpus / All the People The Sound: Pop more...
• Soft Targets / We Hate You Soft Targets! The Sound: Post-punk/indie more...
• Miniature Elephants are Popular Short fiction read by Joe Meno. Click the green play button to listen right now. more...
• Using the Body to Heal the Mind Columbia’s graduate program in Dance Movement Therapy is on the leading edge of creative, holistic approaches to mental health. more...
• College Implements Emergency Alert System A part of its overall emergency preparedness plan, Columbia has acquired an emergency alert system that can notify thousands of students, faculty, and staff immediately in the event of a crisis or urgent situation. Such emergencies might include imminent safety threats, unexpected building closures, or class cancellations due to inclement weather. more...
• Making an Impact Columbia College Chicago Impact Award honoree Jeremy Piven makes his home in Malibu, but his roots are in Chicago, where he was born and raised. more...
• Dear Alumi, Letter from Josh Culley-Foster, National Director of Alumni Relations. more...
• The After-Death Room By Michael McColly, Reviewed by Lott Hill more...
• Class Pictures By Dawoud Bey. Reviewed by Audrey Michelle Mast. more...
• Where the River Ends By Alexis J. Pride. Reviewed by Micki Leventhal. more...
• The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry By Kathleen Flinn (’92). Reviewed by Elizabeth Burke-Dain. more...
• Shakespeare's Sonnets By Samuel Park. Reviewed by James Kinser. more...
• Dear Readers, Letter from Ann Wiens, Editor of Demo. more...
• The Traditional Iconoclast Artist/curator Marci Rae McDade (B.A. ’01) believes in timelessness and finds inspiration in art history—then unapologetically turns it on its head. more...
• Hello Goodby Thomas Kemeny was born in Hungary, raised in Wisconsin, and defied death as a zombie in a student movie at Columbia College Chicago. And he appears set to continue down some unusual paths. more...
• Three New Members Join Board of Trustees Columbia’s board of trustees has named three prominent business leaders with strong ties to their communities as its newest members. more...
• Backstory: 1960 In 1950, only 12 percent of American households had television sets. By the time this photo was taken in 1960, the number was 87 percent and climbing (it’s held steady at 98 percent since 1980).  more...
• President's Advisory Council Debuts Columbia president Warrick L. Carter conducted the first meeting of the new President’s Advisory Council this fall. more...
• Trustee Among World's Most Influential Women Forbes.com’s list of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” includes Columbia College Chicago trustee Renetta McCann as number 41. more...
• We're Getting Greener: Columbia Recycles Despite operating with little budget and no full-time employees, Columbia’s recycling program gathered about 180 tons of paper (360,000 pounds) and eight tons of commingled material (16,000 pounds of plastics, glass, and aluminum) from August 2006 through August 2007, the first year for which statistics are available. The college also recycled 476 pounds of alkaline batteries and 41 pounds of nickel-cadmium batteries. more...
• Columbia Embarks on Re-accreditation Self-Study As Columbia approaches the 10-year mark since its last review by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (HLC/NCA), the college has launched a self-study evaluation to begin the re-accreditation process. more...
• Columbia Gets Press: Center for American Places, Noted Publisher of Art Books Leveraging the college’s image, vision, and continued ambition to contribute to the creative and cultural world, Columbia has signed an agreement of acquisition with the Center for American Places (CAP), an imprint known for its fine-art photography books. more...
• Fundraising Tops $13.5 Million Fueled by substantial increases in government grants and giving by college trustees, Columbia recorded the best fundraising total in its history in fiscal year 2007. more...
• New Student Spaces Constructed Campus-Wide A slew of renovations around campus has resulted in modernized spaces, new services and resources for students, and operational efficiency for the college. more...
• New Dorm Opens; Record Number of Students Now Live on Campus With the transformation of a historic, downtown building into a dormitory for Columbia students, the college now has over 2,600 students living on campus—about 22 percent of the total student population, and the highest number ever for the school. more...
• Carter Outlines Reasons to Eschew U.S. News Rankings Adding his voice to those of a growing number of college and university presidents who are electing to forego the U.S. News & World Report college ranking process, Columbia president Warrick L. Carter wrote a letter to U.S. News last spring explaining his institution’s decision to stop participating in the rankings. more...
• Students Create Smoke-Detector PSAs for Fire Department When the Chicago Fire Department asked Columbia’s music department to come up with a jingle they could use to educate the public about smoke detectors, they were anxious to find alternative ways to get their message out to the people of Chicago. They were put into contact with faculty member Laurence Minsky, whose ad-agency classes have launched several successful campaigns for area non-profits. more...
• Faculty Member Is First Donor to the Alexandroff Legacy Society As a music major performing at a Columbia commencement ceremony in the early ’70s, Albert “Bill” Williams listened to then-president Mirron “Mike” Alexandroff address the 800 or so in attendance. “I sat there and thought, the president of this college is hipper and more radical than the students,” says Williams. “I was so happy to be here.” more...
• Dear Friends, Letter from Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., President, Columbia College Chicago more...