SEMESTER IN CHINA provides enriching STUDENT EXPERIENCES
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Columbia College Chicago is partnering with Central China Normal University (CCNU) for a fall 2012 Semester in China program, offering scholarships for 30 Columbia students to spend 12 weeks learning Chinese language and culture.
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As part of the “China Initiative,” the college is forging partnerships with several colleges and universities in China, including the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Tongji University in Shanghai, and CCNU and Hankou University in Wuhan. Upon returning to Chicago,
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Through the Semester in China program, students will be able to learn about Chinese culture and customs. Photo: Lorraine Smith
participating students will serve as ambassadors to students from China. “Opportunities like this help to position Columbia College not just as a national leader in arts and media education, but an
COLUMBIA RECEIVES GRANTS Columbia College Chicago recently received the following grants: The U.S. Department of Education renewed Columbia’s Upward Bound project, with a total award of $1,739,170 for 2012 to 2017. Upward Bound offers counseling and tutoring, plus summer and bridge programs designed to generate the skills and motivation necessary for Chicago Public Schools’ students to complete high school and succeed in a postsecondary program. Upward Bound will serve 78 students annually from Foreman High School and Benito Juarez High School. The Alphawood Foundation gave $50,000 to support the Columbia Dance Center’s 2012-13 season, which will feature eight different shows from September through April. JPMorgan Chase awarded $75,000 to Columbia’s Center for Community Arts Partnerships (CCAP) to support its Project Arts Integration Mentorship (Project AIM) in Pilsen/Brighton Park Schools. The program will train teachers and artists to collaboratively create standards-based curriculum that translates the arts DEMO8
international leader as well,” said Mark Kelly, vice president of student affairs at Columbia College Chicago. “This is an incredible opportunity for our students to learn firsthand about an amazing country and its culture.”
across literacy, math, and science. With this grant, Project AIM will provide arts residencies in four Pilsen schools as well as training for teaching artists. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded the following to Columbia:
• $50,000 to the Center for Book and Paper Arts to support Expanded Artists’ Books: Envisioning the Future of the Book. This project aims to use mobile electronic tablets to enable public access to a vital, but largely inaccessible, art form: the artist’s book.
• $30,000 to the Dance Center for artist fees, production and marketing expenses, and direct administrative costs for a series of international contemporary dance engagement residencies during the 2012-13 dance season.
In the August 3 issue, preeminent film industry publication The Hollywood Reporter honored Columbia College Chicago as one of the top 25 film schools.
And the Nominees Are… Congratulations to Columbia College Chicago alumni for nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The winners will be announced on a live telecast on Sunday, September 23, on ABC.
• $15,000 to the Story Week Festival of Writers for the 2013 literary festival that will include readings, performances, conversations, panel discussions, and book signing events featuring some of the best local, national, and international writers, publishers, editors, reviewers, and interviewers. Photo: William Frederking
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Rock to Beat the Clock In record time, Columbia students worked across disciplines to create and market an EP and performance in only six days in July. The project was part of the new Music Industry Immersion Class, which involves the Music, Audio Arts and Acoustics (AA&A), and the Arts, Entertainment, and Media Management (AEMM) departments.
• $16,000 to Columbia’s Library for programs and book discussion groups featuring Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies, NEA’s Big Read book for 2013.
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