Professional's Guide

Columbia’s curriculum, faculty and facilities are angled toward professional outcome in creative fields. The Portfolio Center in particular is loaded up with programming that brings students together with our many professional friends and associates. Please let us know if you’d like to engage with our students. (Contacts are listed below)

What we can do for you:

• Talent Pool: Scout creative talent- all kinds, all levels- with Talent Pool, our homegrown database of student and alumni profiles and portfolio samples. 
• ColumbiaWorks: Post jobs and internships on our job board.
• Internship Programs: Locate the appropriate academic department and coordinator for your opportunity.

What you can do for our students:

• Industry Trend Sessions: We have ongoing panel discussions, presentations, and workshops that task professionals with talking about their creative work and how they intersect other media. Hugely helpful for students trying to get a line on creative industries.
• Industry Events: A series of receptions and reviews that take place each spring that put our graduating students and their work samples in a room with professionals from their area of study and related fields. All about networking.
• Portfolio Reviews: 20-minute review sessions with students whose portfolios and reels (and they, themselves) are works-in-progress. 
• Field Trips: Can’t make it on campus but want to inform students about your part of the creative industry? We’ll round up 15 or 20 students and bring them to your place.

Please Contact

For more information on Portfolio Center programming and on working with our students, please contact one of our Creative Industry Liaisons:

Colin DeKuiper 
AEMM, Early Childhood Education, Art Education, Elementary Education, Cultural Studies,
Audio Arts & Acoustics, Music, Music Composition for the Screen, Theatre (Performance)

Julie Ford
Film & Video, Television, Radio, Fashion Studies, Interactive Arts & Media, Journalism

Rob Funderburk
Art & Design (Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Product Design, Advertising Art Direction, Illustration, Interior Architecture), Fiction Writing, Poetry, Creative Writing: Nonfiction,
Interdisciplinary Arts, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media, Interdisciplinary Book & Paper,
Marketing Communication (Advertising, Marketing, PR), ASL, Theatre (Tech and Design)