Columbia College Chicago
Faculty Handbook Edit Log

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Previous reading: The information in this handbook has been prepared to inform you about current Columbia College Chicago practices, policies, and benefits so that our working relationship will be one of mutual understanding and cooperation. This Handbook is not intended to be, and is not, a contract of employment, nor does it create any contractual or other legal rights.  Rather, this Handbook is simply an explanation of existing policies and procedures and is designed solely as a guide.  All items contained in the handbook are subject to the above provisions.

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Previous reading: 2002-2003... [the following names were added to the list of committee members:

120

Previous reading: Columbia College Chicago complies with all local, state, and federal laws and regulation concerning civil rights. The College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, religion, or sexual orientation in its programs and activities. Inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies should be directed to the Equity Issues Officer at 312-344-8215. (source: the Equity Issues Office - http://www.colum.edu/about/mission.html)

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Previous reading: Columbia's intent is to educate students who will communicate creatively and shape the public's perceptions of issues and events and author the culture of their times. Columbia is a distinctly urban commuter institution whose students reflect the economic, racial, cultural, and educational complexities 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 Chicago the city.

At the undergraduate level, it is Columbia's Purpose:

• To educate students for creative occupation in diverse fields in the arts and media, and to encourage awareness of their aesthetic relationship and the opportunity of professional choice among them;
• To extend educational opportunity by admitting without restriction (at the undergraduate level) a student population with creative ability in, or inclination to, the subjects of Columbia's interest;
• To provide a an unpressured college climate that offers students an opportunity to try themselves out, to freely explore and discover what they can and want to do;
• To give educational emphasis to doing, to the work of a subject, by providing a practical setting, professional facilities, and the example and guidance of an inventive faculty who work professionally at the subjects they teach;
• To teach students to do expertly the work they like, to master the crafts of their intended occupations, and discover alternative opportunities to employ their talents in settings other than customary marketplaces;
• To help students find out who they are and enjoy themselves, discover their own voices, respect their own individuality, and improve their self-esteem and self-confidence; and
• To offer specialized graduate programs which combine a strong conceptual emphasis with practical professional education, preparing students with mature interests to be both competent artists and successful professionals.

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Previous reading: It is the responsibility of each officer, supervisor, department chairperson, and employee to ensure that his/her own operations and activities are in compliance with these basic policies. While the ultimate responsibility rests with the College's senior administrations, the active cooperation, assistance, and implementation by each and every employee is required. Please report violations for these basic policies to the Office of the Executive Vice President. Columbia College is a smoke-free environment. Smoking is allowed in personal offices.

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Section 365 deals with Faculty Evaluation: There is no Section 365.3. The correct reference would seem to be Section 370

365.1

Unknown reference to "Section 321": The correct reference would seem to be Section 324.1. The full discussion of the Post-Tenure Review Process is to be found in the Tenure Document, Article VIII.