• Portfolio: In Our Own Front Yard When Barack Obama chose Chicago’s Grant Park as the setting for his November 4, 2008, election-night rally, he inadvertently provided some Columbia College Chicago students with the teaching moment of a lifetime. more...
• Dismantling the Admissions Myth There are about 2,000 colleges in the U.S. that will accept anyone with a high school diploma. Columbia is not one of them. more...
• The Second Course No one has ever earned a degree in culinary arts from Columbia College Chicago. That hasn't stopped these Columbia alumni from finding success in the field. more...
• Poetic: The Elma Stuckey Poetry Award Poems by the 2008 Elma Stuckey Poetry Award winners, Jesse Crouse (first place) and Rachel Finkelstein (second place). more...
• Spot On: Nan Warshaw Nan Warshaw (M.A. ’93) issued the first release on her Bloodshot Records label around the time she was finishing up a master’s at Columbia. If she'd written her thesis on running a record company, she would not be here. more...
• Spot On: Teresa Prados-Torreira Teresa Prados-Torreira analyzes political cartoons as barometers of their eras, digging for telling historical details like a paleontologist sifting through bones. more...
• Spot On: Larry Zgoda Larry Zgoda says, “I never set out to be an artist ... but my parents wouldn’t let me have a car to tinker with.” more...
• Spot On: Eric Narciso Driving down I-90 toward the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, Eric Narciso (B.A. ’05) smiles. He took this route nearly every night after class to pursue his “other” education: poker. more...
• Vision: A Question for the President Vision: A Question for the President, Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D. more...
• Dear Alumni, Letter from Josh Culley-Foster, National Director of Alumni Relations. more...
• Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette / Polk Miller and His Old South Quartette more...
• Locrian / Rhetoric of Surfaces more...
• Soft Targets / Soft Targets Must Be Destroyed! more...
• Buddha for Beginners more...
• Hard Reds more...
• Demons in the Spring more...
• GrandpaDanny more...
• College-Sponsored Scholarship Funds to Increase by Nearly 50 Percent more...
• Studs to Students: “Take the dough and use it well” more...
• Seven Faculty Members Win IAC fellowships more...
• 2009 Distinguished Faculty Fellows Announced more...
• Successful Founders Lectures Series to Conclude with Richard Florida April 30 more...
• Journalism Department Joins Semester in L.A. more...
• New Campus Spaces more...
• $2 Million-plus in Grant Support for Columbia Centers and Departments more...