COLUMBIA 2010 GOAL:

TO BE THE BEST STUDENT-CENTERED ARTS AND MEDIA COLLEGE IN THE WORLD.

Columbia College Chicago offers students a comprehensive learning experience in the visual, performing and media arts. Columbia College Chicago focuses on rigorous student learning outcomes, instructional excellence, service to students and an engaged, diverse campus community, with the purpose of being a student-centered college providing the best arts and media education in the world. Columbia College Chicago measures its success by the quality of the total student experience and the achievements of its community of learners -- students, alumni, faculty and staff.

OBJECTIVES

A. LEARNING: Innovate arts and media education and practice.

B. ENROLLMENT: Maintain and manage steady annual enrollment growth.

C. AFFORDABILITY: Make Columbia affordable for students at all income levels.

D. CAMPUS: Create a coherent, student-centered campus.

E. MARKETING: Build a reputation for excellence and innovation in arts and media education.