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Photographer and Columbia professor Paul D’Amato has spent 12 years documenting Pilsen and Chicago’s Lower West Side neighborhoods, including Little Village and Back of the Yards. The experiences and challenges D’Amato faced have shaped his documentary work. “I learned a lot about myself and I grew a lot as a photographer doing that work, so I’m super...
The college would allow some students to take certain courses in their major to count for core requirements under a proposed restructuring plan. The initial list of courses, shared on Columbia’s website, include “Experiential Anatomy” in the Dance Department, “Accounting” in Business and Entrepreneurship Department for the arts management major and...
The college may need to downscale its unique commencement ceremony, which features live student musical performances and a dancing parade of administrators, as well as the annual Manifest Arts Festival to help to curb the looming $38 million deficit. President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim disclosed the potential cuts in an email this week outlining $17.3...
The Humanities, History and Social Sciences Department is at the center of the radical changes to restructure the college, including making the academic experience for students more focused on their disciplines, with fewer general education requirements. In his draft advisory proposal, President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim proposed reducing the college’s...
Students would have more options to transfer coursework from other accredited institutions and to earn credits for bilingual literacy and alternative high school education under three initiatives before the Faculty Senate. The Academic Affairs Committee of the senate unanimously approved the changes last week. The initiatives, which still need the...
The Provost’s Office told full-time faculty who had applied for tenure that no new appointments would be made until next fall, postponing a critical, and celebratory moment, in the career of an academic. The assistant professors had expected to hear if they were being awarded tenure by the third Monday in March, which was March 18. The process is outlined...
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