Books and Journals

Columbia College Chicago
by R. Conrad Winke and Heidi Marshall, foreword by Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D.

Arcadia Publishing
$21.99
ISBN-13 978-7385-8349-5
ISBN-10 0-7385-8349-9

Now available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

All proceeds from the sale of this book will go toward the preservation of materials in the College Archives.

Back cover blurb:
Columbia College Chicago was founded in 1890 by Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley as the Columbia School of Oratory as a co-educational school “for the teaching of expression by methods truly educational.”  Following Blood’s death in 1927, the College, under the leadership of Norman Alexandroff, reemerged with a renewed focus on the growing field of radio broadcasting, later broadening its educational base to include television and other mass communication areas.  In 1961, Mirron (Mike) Alexandroff, became president and created a liberal arts college with a “hands-on minds-on” approach to arts and media education with a progressive social agenda. During the 1970s the College relocated to its permanent home in the South Loop.  The College encourages students to “author the culture of their times” and to realize their abilities according to the school’s motto “esse quam videri” (to be rather than to seem).

R. Conrad Winke is the Associate Dean of the Library and Academic Research at Columbia College Chicago.  He holds a M.A. in Library and Information Science from  Rosary College (now Dominican University), a M.A. in History from Northeastern Illinois University, and a B.A. French Commercial Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Heidi Marshall is the Head of College Archives & Digital Collections at Columbia College Chicago/College Archivist. She holds a M.S. in Library Science and a M.A. in American History from Simmons College.

Putting the Arts in the Picture:
Reframing Education in the 21st Century
edited by Nick Rabkin and Robin Redmond.

Putting the Arts in the Picture: Reframing Education in the 21st Century, our book on arts education, makes a powerful and original argument for placing the arts at the center of educational renewal. It suggests practical arts integrated strategies for educators, policymakers, school reformers, philanthropy, and parents that can place the arts within the reach of the poorest of schools and communities. It features essays by noted education scholars Madeline Grumet, Shirley Brice Heath, and Sir Ken Robinson. Read more...

Copies of Putting the Arts in the Picture can be purchased at Amazon.com or from the Office of Academic Research.

Teaching Artist Journal
edited by Nick Jaffe

published by the Taylor & Francis Group

The Teaching Artist Journal (TAJ) is a research initiative of the Office of Academic Research and has been published since 2003 four times a year, currently by Taylor & Francis. It provides an authoritative, timely, ongoing professional development resource for teaching artists. Teaching artists–professionals with skills in both teaching and the arts– have uniquely powerful perspectives, practices, and skills. They make significant contributions and are a crucial resource to arts-in-education programs, arts education and general education, and to the future of the arts as a whole. TAJ is the only professional forum for their learning and development in print.

Subscriptions to the journal are available only from the Taylor & Francis Group.  Subscribe now!

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