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HomePage Feature :: March 18, 2006

  • 03/18/06
From Campus Technology Magazine for March

Helping Students Find Each Other

Columbia College Chicago is aiming to be the most student-centered arts and media school in the world. That’s a tall order for what was historically an urban commuter school, although, in a recent switch, a quarter of the 10,000 students became residential. Yet still, there isn’t even a traditional student center on campus. And in the past, students have complained that it is hard to get to know the 1,500 faculty (1,200 of whom are part-time), and difficult to network with other students who aren’t in their classes... Read on!

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