This document provides information about Columbia College Chicago, including that it is an art school located in Chicago with over 12,500 students enrolled across 90 undergraduate programs. It details Columbia's mission to provide a comprehensive educational opportunity in the arts within a liberal context. The document also describes the First Year Experience Office, which aims to help new students and parents replace fears with excitement through orientation and other programs during a student's first year. It provides an organizational chart for the First Year Experience Office and lists some of its responsibilities like workshops, orientation, and living learning communities. Finally, it includes a link to a student perspective video about Columbia's Weeks of Welcome program.

1. First YearFirst Year
Experience OfficeExperience Office
Columbia CollegeColumbia College
ChicagoChicago
By Laura Rademacher

2. Columbia College ChicagoColumbia College Chicago
First off, it’s an art school
Has over 90 undergraduate programs
Over 12,500 students attend Columbia
Campus in located in Chicago’s South
Loop area and consists of 22 buildings
Has over 70,000 alumni- the most of any
art and media college in the world
Largely commuter- only about 2,700
students living in res halls

3. Columbia’s MissionColumbia’s Mission
“Columbia College Chicago is an undergraduate and
graduate institution whose principal commitment is to
provide a comprehensive educational opportunity in
the arts, communications, and public information
within a context of enlightened liberal education.
Columbia’s intent is to educate students who will
communicate creatively and shape the public’s
perceptions of issues and events and who will
author the culture of their times. Columbia is an
urban institution whose students reflect the economic,
racial, cultural, and educational diversity of contemporary
America. Columbia conducts education in close
relationship to a vital urban reality and serves an
important civic purpose by active engagement in the life
and culture of the city of Chicago.”

4. First Year Experience OfficeFirst Year Experience Office
“an office dedicated to helping you and your
parents replace any fears and anxiety with
excitement and understanding. Starting
with summer, fall, or spring orientation and
throughout the first year experience, The
Office of New Student Programs is here
for you.”

5. Office Org ChartOffice Org Chart
Director
Emily
Assistant Director
Toni
Assistant Director
Melinda
Administrative
Assistant
Natalie

6. Responsibilities of the FYEResponsibilities of the FYE
Networking workshops
First Year Leadership Academy
First Year Advisory Board
Weeks of Welcome
Convocation
Living Learning Communities
Orientation
Mini-Grant Program

7. Student PerspectiveStudent Perspective
http://www.youtube.com/user/CreatinChange#
About Weeks of Welcome
Put together by a First Year student at
Columbia