Academic Access and Excellence
Photo: Phil Dembinski '08.
Welcome to the website for Academic Access and Excellence at Columbia College Chicago.
As a college with a student population preparing to launch careers in the creative industries and professions, we are committed to providing an inclusive and comprehensive education that demonstrates excellence across the disciplines of the creative arts. The efforts of the Office of Academic Access and Excellence are intended to support the College’s mission to actively promote non-discrimination, access, and inclusion by providing students with a rich breadth of perspectives and creative and artistic paradigms as they prepare to author the culture of their times and attain leadership roles in their chosen careers.
Learn more about the Academic Non-Discrimination, Access and Inclusion Mission.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We collectively acknowledge that Columbia College Chicago occupies the appropriated ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg—Three Fires Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, as well as the Miami, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Illinois, Sac and Fox nations. Although the state of Illinois has only one federally recognized tribal land area, we acknowledge, support, and advocate for the sovereignty of all Indian nations, for the historic Indigenous communities in Illinois, for Indigenous individuals and communities who live in the Chicagoland area, and for those who were forcibly removed from their Homelands. By offering this Land Acknowledgment, we reaffirm our College’s Non-discrimination, Access, and Inclusion Mission Statement, affirm Indigenous sovereignty, and hold Columbia College Chicago more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.
Digital Land Acknowledgment
Columbia College Chicago occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg—Three Fires Confederacy of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi, as well as the as well as the Miami, Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Sac and Fox nations. Today, we are connecting online via a vast array of servers and computer devices. In the United States, much of this infrastructure sits on appropriated land . As an organization, we recognize this history and uplift the sovereignty of Indigenous people, data, and territory. By offering this Land Acknowledgment, we reaffirm our College’s Non-discrimination, Access, and Inclusion Mission Statement and hold Columbia College Chicago more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.
To view a map of indigenous territories, visit https://native-land.ca/.
Call to Action for Indigenous Communities
While land acknowledgments are intended to be respectful, we acknowledge that they may be perceived as oversimplifying complex tribal histories and failing to recognize the ongoing impacts on tribal communities. Some people, therefore, may prefer to state their personal commitment through a Call to Action for Indigenous Communities. A sample Call to Action is available at from EcoTrust.org. We encourage you to visit their website at https://ecotrust.org/call-to-action-for-indigenous-communities/.
