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Commencement Honors 2,000+


Columbia College Chicago held its commencement ceremonies on May 5 and 6 at the historic Chicago Theatre. The college celebrated 2,000 graduating students, six honorary degree recipients, and three alumni of the year in six ceremonies.

Commencement 2012 

New Student Orientation

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Students beginning classes in the summer and fall semesters can now sign up for Orientation. Come to campus, pick your classes, and meet other new students.

Orientation 

Survival Techniques

Through July 1


This Museum of Contemporary Photography exhibit, featuring 14 international artists, looks at human conflict and the ways individuals and groups endure long-term hardships.

Survival Techniques

LAS Honors

First Honors Program Graduates


The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences started its Honors Program in the spring of 2010. The program has grown to roughly 20 Honors courses per semester and serves hundreds of undergraduates in the LAS Core.

LAS Honors

Inaugural Bowling Bash

Nationwide Alumni Event


On May 12, for the first time in CAAN history, alumni in various city chapters throughout the country joined in for an afternoon of bowling fun.

Inaugural Bowling Bash

Linsey Burritt and Crystal Grover

Quiet Activists


These eco-conscious entrepreneurs met at Columbia and turned their distaste for waste into booming window-design studio INDO.

Burritt and Grover 
Columbia College Fiction Writing Department receives $15,000 NEA Art Works grant to Support Story Week Festival of Writers 2013.
NEA Grant Supports Story Week
Columbia College Fiction Writing Department receives $15,000 NEA Art Works grant to Support Story Week Festival of Writers 2013.
Recently featured in Variety, Columbia College Chicago’s Semester in LA program gives students a head start on networking, jobs and internships in Hollywood.
Semester in LA featured in Variety
Recently featured in Variety, Columbia College Chicago’s Semester in LA program gives students a head start on networking, jobs and internships in Hollywood.
Interdisciplinary Arts students gain practical experience curating show for Columbia’s Center for Book and Paper Arts.
Students Create “Material Assumptions”
Interdisciplinary Arts students gain practical experience curating show for Columbia’s Center for Book and Paper Arts.
Arts in Media grant from National Endowment for the Arts to Fund Digital Presentation of Artists’ Books at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.
CBPA Receives $50,000 NEA Grant
Arts in Media grant from National Endowment for the Arts to Fund Digital Presentation of Artists’ Books at Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts.
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Events at Columbia
May 16, 2012
Columbia College Chicago’s BFA Fine Art Exhibition has been a tradition since 2001, and represents Fine Art students’ completion of the Bachelor of Fine Arts ...
DEPS is proud to present the 2012 MFA Photography Thesis Exhibition, featuring works by MFA candidates Garrett Baumer, Clarissa Bonet, Robin Carlson, Julie Renee Jones, ...
Games, Wars +Summits will showcase the art of alumni in response to this year’s Critical Encounters focus ‘Rights, Radials + Revolution’ and the upcoming NATO ...
Play Grounds: IAM at the Hokin showcases the work of graduating seniors in the Interactive Arts & Media Department (IAM). The exhibition presents a dynamic ...