Columbia Projects Receive $90,000 from Chicago Community Trust to Support Emerging News Sources
[November 6, 2009] Columbia College Chicago is among a dozen recipients to share $500,000 that the Chicago Community Trust has pledged to support the development of emerging local news sources. Columbia will receive $45,000 for a project in collaboration with... more ...
Studio Chicago
(October 29, 2009) INTRODUCING STUDIO CHICAGO A Year-Long Collaboration Celebrating the Working Artist and Creative Spaces October 2009 – October 2010 Program kicks off at Artists at Work Forum on October 29 at Chicago Cultural Center The Chicago Department of... more ...
Nami Mun Wins Whiting Writers' Award
[October 29, 2009] Nami Mun, assistant professor of Fiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago, has been awarded the prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award for her 2009 novel Miles from Nowhere. The award, which includes a $50,000 stipend, has been given annually... more ...
President Carter Signs Climate Commitment
[Oct. 28, 2009] Columbia College Chicago President Warrick L. Carter has signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC), thereby adding Columbia to a list of more than 650 higher education institutions to make this pledge. By signing... more ...
Columbia Night @ the 45th Chicago International Film Festival
[Oct. 16, 2009] VIDEO — Friends of Columbia got a sneak preview of Chicago Overcoat, the first feature film from Beverly Ridge Pictures, a Chicago-based company started by several young Columbia College Chicago alumni. The film saw its world premier... more ...
MAP Funding Restored for Spring
[Oct. 16, 2009] VIDEO — Columbia College Chicago students joined their peers from colleges and universities throughout Illinois at a rally in Springfield intended to urge lawmakers to vote for reinstatement of funding for the Monetary Award Program, or MAP... more ...