Our First Year - Columbia College Chicago

This new series, Things to Do In Chicago, will highlight events around the city that celebrate and affirm our identities. For March we found these and more!

-Chicago Theatre Works, Coffee and Mental Health, Hip Hop and R&B Open Mic

-National Puerto Rican Museum ASL Tour

-Women’s History Month Craft Market 

This episode is available on our Spotify and Apply Podcast pages, “Our First Year - Columbia College Chicago”.

Enjoy, and see you there!

All things love during Valentine's Day this year! No matter what you are doing today, we hope you are feeling loved and supported. <3

Welcome to the Spring semester! With a lot on our minds coming in, Rea and John talked about what they are thinking about as they welcome our peers back and are excited to meet students who are new to the campus. 

“Break was very restorative, but maybe not exactly how I thought it would look. Is it January 60th?” 

“I hope everyone is feeling pride and joy as they are starting this semester.” 

“Welcome to Columbia!!”

The Peer Support program Presents our first Book Club episode of Our First Year!

The goal of this series is to provide our listeners with the information and tools held in books and give it back to you all. It is meant encourage the act of reading, but you do not need to read any of the books we discuss to listen. We will talk about a book we love and see how the information applies to us as college students. 

The first book we discuss is “We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice” by adrienne maree brown, a book that reframes the discussion of “cancel culture” for us, in a way that points to possible paths beyond this impasse. 

 In SDI and the Peer Support Program, we always say the work of diversity and inclusion takes a community. We also name that it can feel hard if you feel like you have not found an on campus community yet. In this episode of Our First Year, peer mentor Mar talks with campus about how normal it actually is to still feel like you a searching for your place on campus. 

Peer Mentor John discusses all the exciting thoughts around our Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) event on November 1st. 

In our work of community peer support in diversity and inclusion, we believe it is so important to understand how we respond to saying the “wrong thing”. In this new episode of “Our First Year”, Mar and special guest I’Ja discuss how they respond to both hearing and saying the “wrong thing” in a community. 

Learning to set boundaries, realizing what you can and cannot control, processing emotions, and navigating a brand new city: all of these are part of the this episode discussing the “growing pains” of being someone new at Columbia College Chicago. We are committed to growing together! 

As part of our "what is it...?" series, we wanted to answer the question , “What is Title IX ?” Learn about office that supports advocacy work on campus and resources available to students. 

Our mentors and guests discusses their love of k-pop of this episode! Hear how they got into the genre, what is on their minds about it today, and it impacts their lives as creative students.