Columbia College Chicago
Columbia College Chicago seal
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| Motto | Esse Quam Videri |
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Motto in English
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To be, rather than to seem |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1890 |
| Endowment | $142.6 million |
| President | Kwang-Wu Kim, D.M.A. |
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Academic staff
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2,000 |
| Students | 9,442 |
| Undergraduates | 9,671 |
| Postgraduates | 471 |
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Chicago, Illinois, United States 41°52′26″N 87°37′30″W / 41.87391°N 87.62498°WCoordinates: 41°52′26″N 87°37′30″W / 41.87391°N 87.62498°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
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Columbia College Chicago is an independent, non-profit liberal arts college specializing in arts and media disciplines, with approximately 9,500 students pursuing degrees in 65 undergraduate and 15 graduate degree programs. Founded in 1890, the school is located in the South Loop district of Chicago, Illinois. It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
Columbia College Chicago is the host institution of several affiliated educational, cultural, and research organizations, 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 affiliated with Columbia University, Columbia College Hollywood, or any other Columbia College in the United States.
The university has newly added a School of Business & Entrepreneurship that will host majors like marketing and management.
It also is home to many research centers as well as to the Garment Collection and the Center for Book and Paper Arts. It is also home to one of the very few undergraduate programs in cultural studies.
Columbia College Chicago was founded in 1890 as the Columbia School of Oratory by Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley, both graduates of the Monroe Conservatory of Oratory (now Emerson College), in Boston, Massachusetts. Anticipating a strong need for public speaking at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, which celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, Blood and Riley were inspired to open their school in the exposition city, Chicago, and adopt the exposition's name. Blood and Riley became the College's first co-presidents, until Riley died in 1901; Blood served in this capacity until her death in 1927. The women established a co-educational school that "should stand for high ideals, for the teaching of expression by methods truly educational, for the gospel of good cheer, and for the building of sterling good character" in the Stevens' Art Gallery Building, 24 East Adams Street.
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