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Faculty Profiles

Columbia College Chicago believes that faculty who are actively engaged in the subjects they teach are uniquely qualified to share their expertise in the classroom. We actively seek faculty who are accomplished in their fields, who bring their professional experience, along with industry-current aesthetics, techniques, and viewpoints to the classroom.

Among the faculty listed here, you'll find Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, Emmy Award-winning producers, and nationally recognized photographers, managers, artists, actors, writers, designers, dancers, and advertising and marketing professionals - faculty who do what they teach.

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Adam Brooks

Adam Brooks
Art + Design

 “I welcome dissent and encourage it.”

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James Falzone

James Falzone
First-Year Seminar

“John Coltrane said that every artist needs to believe that he is the center of the universe,” Falzone says. “That sounds silly, but he means that if you don’t think what you’re doing is important, then why keep doing it?"

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Michael Fry

Michael Fry
Television

"Devices and delivery mechanisms will change, but good storytelling remains a universal need—we are not defined by the device but rather by the stories told via the device.”

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Ann Hemenway

Ann Hemenway
Fiction Writing

“If I’m not learning more than the student, then I’m not doing my job.”

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Patrick Jehle

Patrick Jehle
English Department

"I try not to teach the same thing twice, but if I do, I teach it in a different way."

 

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Carol Rozansky

Carol Rozansky
Education

“What I want my students to do, as either current or future teachers, is to look at kids more expansively,” Dr. Rozansky says. "I want them to look for what kids do have—to look at their strengths as human beings and to build on those.”

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