Columbia College Chicago

History 

Columbia College Chicago is a free, non-benefit human sciences school represent considerable authority in expressions and media disciplines, with roughly 9,500 understudies seeking after degrees in 65 undergrad and 15 graduate degree programs. Established in 1890, the school is situated in the South Loop locale of Chicago, Illinois. It is certify by the Higher Learning Commission. 

Columbia College Chicago is the host establishment of a few associated instructive, social, and exploration associations, including the Center for Black Music Research, the Center for Book and Paper Arts, the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the Sherwood Community Music School. 

Columbia College Chicago is not subsidiary with Columbia University, Columbia College Hollywood, or some other Columbia College in the United States. 

The School of Fine and Performing Arts is made out of nine divisions: Art and Design; Arts, Entertainment and Media Management; Dance; Dance Movement Therapy and Counseling; Music; Photography; Sherwood Conservatory; and Theater. 

The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences is made out of six offices: ASL-English Interpretation; Creative Writing; Education; English; Humanities, History, and Social Sciences; and Science and Mathematics. It is additionally home to the First-Year Seminar, the LAS Core Curriculum, the school's Honors Program, the Center for Community Arts Partnerships, and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media. 

The School of Media Arts is made out of eight offices: Audio Arts and Acoustics; Cinema Arts and Sciences; Interactive Arts and Media; Interdisciplinary expressions; Journalism; Marketing Communication; Radio; and Television. 

The college has recently included a School of Business and Entrepreneurship that will have majors like advertising and administration. 

It likewise is home to numerous exploration focuses and to the Garment Collection and the Center for Book and Paper Arts. It is likewise home to one of the not very many undergrad programs in social studies. 

History 

Columbia College Chicago was established in 1890 as the Columbia School of Oratory by Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley, both alumni of the Monroe Conservatory of Oratory (now Emerson College), in Boston, Massachusetts. Envisioning a solid requirement for open talking at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, which commended the 400th commemoration of Christopher Columbus' entry in the Americas, Blood and Riley were propelled to open their school in the piece city, Chicago, and receive the article's name. Blood and Riley turned into the College's first co-presidents, until Riley passed on in 1901; Blood served in this limit until her demise in 1927. The ladies set up a co-instructive school that "ought to remain for high goals, for the instructing of expression by techniques genuinely instructive, for the good news of optimism, and for the working of sterling great character" in the Stevens' Art Gallery Building, 24 East Adams Street. 

The school kept running as a sole restrictive business from 1890 to 1904 when the school got to be fused by the condition of Illinois. On May 5, 1904, the school fused itself again with a specific end goal to change its name to the Columbia College of Expression, adding coursework in educating to the educational modules. 

At the point when Blood kicked the bucket in 1927, George L. Scherger expected the workplace of administration in the wake of serving as a previous part on the Board of Directors. Under his authority, Scherger marked the printed material at the Board's yearly meeting on April 14, 1928 to change the School's name to the Mary A. Blood School of Speech Arts. Nonetheless, by April 30, 1928, the school returned its name to the Columbia College of Expression by the Board of Directors, George L. Scherger, Herman H. Hegner, and Erme Rowe Hegner. Amid Scherger's administration, the College turned into an official sister organization with the Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, a family-run school fixated on preparing its understudies for educating kindergarten. As the president of the Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, Bertha Hofer Hegner expected the part as the fourth president of Columbia College of Expression in 1929 when Scherger surrendered to wind up a colleague minister of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church. 

Hegner served as the establishments' head, albeit because of disease, her child, Herman Hofer Hegner served as acting president of the foundations from 1930 until 1936. By 1934, College educational programs additionally centered around the developing field of radio television. Herman Hofer Hegner contracted Norman Alexandroff, a radio software engineer, in 1934 to build up a radio educational modules for the Colleges as both establishments were enduring fiscally. At the point when Bertha Hofer Hegner resigned in 1936 because of wellbeing reasons, she was made president emeritus of the establishments and Herman Hofer Hegner turned into the foundations' official president. 

Amid Herman Hofner Hegner's administration, the Columbia College of Expression was publicized under various names including, Columbia College of Speech and Drama, the Radio Institute of Columbia School of Speech and Drama, and Columbia College of Speech, Drama, and Radio. In any case, the College was never consolidated under any of these names by the State of Illinois. As the radio project picked up noticeable quality, Alexandroff was named as the Vice President of the Columbia College of Expression and turned into a part on the Board of Directors at both organizations by 1937. 

The school left its association with the Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, named Norman Alexandroff as its leader, and documented the Columbia College of Expression as a not revenue driven partnership on December 3, 1943. On February 5, 1944, the College re-documented as a not revenue driven partnership and changed its name to Columbia College. Amid the late 1940s and mid 1950s, the school widened its instructive base to incorporate TV, news coverage, advertising, and different mass-correspondence regions. Alexandroff likewise regulated the improvement of the augmentation grounds of the School, Columbia College Pan-Americano in Mexico City, Mexico and Columbia Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. Both of these grounds got to be free of its guardian in the late 1950s. Success was fleeting, in any case, and by 1961, the school had less than 200 understudies and low maintenance workforce of 25. 

Norman Alexandroff remained the president of the College until his passing on May 26, 1960, and his child, Mirron (Mike) Alexandroff, expected the part of President by 1961. Mike Alexandroff had worked at the College since 1947 and as president, he made an aesthetic sciences school with a "hands-on brains on" way to deal with expressions and media instruction with a dynamic social plan. He built up a liberal affirmations strategy so that qualified secondary school graduates could go to school courses taught by probably the most powerful and imaginative experts in Chicago. For the following thirty years, Alexandroff attempted to incorporate the school with a urban foundation that changed the substance of advanced education. 

With this reestablished concentrate on building its scholastic program, the establishment was recompensed full accreditation in 1974 from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and in 1984, got accreditation for its graduate projects. In 1975, when the school's enlistment surpassed 2,000, it bought its first land, the 175,000-square-foot (16,300 m2) working at 600 South Michigan Avenue (the building is currently known as the Alexandroff Campus Center). At the season of Alexandroff's retirement in 1992, the school served 6,791 understudies and claimed or leased more than 643,000 square feet (59,700 m2) of instructional, execution, and authoritative space. 

From 1992 until 2000, John B. Duff, previous official of the Chicago Public Library and previous chancellor of the Massachusetts Board of Regents of Higher Education, served as the school's leader. On October 28, 1997, the school changed its name to Columbia College Chicago and the establishment kept on extending its instructive projects and add to its physical grounds by buying accessible structures in the South Loop. This had critical impact in its vicinity in the South Loop and downtown Chicago. Today, the school's grounds involves very nearly two dozen structures and uses more than 2.5 million square feet. 

In 2000, Dr. Warrick L. Carter turned into the school's leader. A teacher, jazz arranger, and performing craftsman, Carter joined the school from The Walt Disney Company, where he put in four years as executive of excitement expressions. Already, he had put in 12 years at Berklee College of Music in Boston, one of the world's-biggest free schools of music, where he served as dignitary of personnel and after that executive and VP of scholarly undertakings. 

Through 2010, under his authority, the school made new understudy based activities, for example, Manifest, the yearly urban expressions celebration observing Columbia's graduating understudies, and ShopColumbia, a store where understudies can showcase and offer their work on grounds; banded together with neighborhood colleges to develop the University Center; acquired new grounds structures; included new educational module; and regulated the school's first recently built building, the Media Production Center. 

As of late, the school has proceeded with forward with its central goal of giving a solid expressions and media training and has a developing project of worldwide trades, incorporating relationship with Dublin Institute of Technology, the University of East London, and the Lorenzo de' Medici Italian International Institute. Through the boundless differing qualities of understudies and graduates, the school brings a rich vision and an assortment of voices to American society, urging understudies to "creator the way of life of their times". 

In any case, Columbia has not been excluded from interior and outer feedback as of late. Amid the 2011–12 school year, the school organization endeavored to im