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Columbia College, Chicago

President Warrick L. Carter

Consortium Representative:
David Flatley
Executive Director, Center for Community Arts Partnerships
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
dflatley@colum.edu

Lott Hill
Director, Center for Teaching Excellence
Columbia College Chicago
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
lhill@colum.edu

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Featured Program

Critical Encounters

Beginning as an idea and initiative of the Provost's Office, Critical Encounters is a project that intends to be a model for interactive, community-inclusive civic engagement that exploits and explores the relationship between art and social science, artistic action and revolution.  Critical Encounters addresses two sets of goals -- one written primarily from the perspective of Columbia College and the other written with ultimate consideration of the community partners and society at large.  For Columbia College, Critical Encounters will: 

• Provide teaching and learning opportunities within and across the disciplines at Columbia College.
• Lead to the development of new educational resources and models for teaching that engage students and faculty in crucial conversations that translate the liberal and practicing arts into the habits of active citizenship and life-long learning.
• Strengthen Columbia College’s ties to the local, national and global communities.
• Build bridges through ongoing scholarship that culminate in public events, programs and publications.
• Revolutionize the way that students, faculty and staff at Columbia College may think about the relationship between art and activism.

In its commitment to community, Critical Encounters will:

• Seek the knowledge and expertise of those outside the walls of Columbia College in an effort to expand the scope of critical discourse.
• Lead to the development of new knowledge, information, programs and initiatives that will serve the needs and concerns of the community groups that partner with Columbia College.
• Strengthen Columbia College’s ties to the local, national and global communities by presenting a visible commitment to civic engagement.
• Revolutionize a collective understanding of social activism through critical, creative and conscious engagement of the arts in issues most relevant to the future success of humanity.  

The 2008/2009 theme is Human|Nature.  The theme examines the relationships and tensions between humankind and the natural world and will consider how factors such as the culture, wealth, geography, and history of societies have influenced humanity’s stewardship, exploitation, understanding, and artistic representations of the natural environment.  It investigates how past actions have resulted in local and global environmental crises and weigh potential solutions. Human|Nature surveys how societies either choose to collectively protect their shared resources or retreat from cooperation and the impact these decisions have had on humanity and human rights. 

For more information, visit the Critical Encounters website.