After a long day recently, I just wanted to flop on the couch and watch my Miami Heat. Instead, within minutes, I had a splitting headache —...
My last name is Orozco, and with that is a long line of Guatemalans rooted deep in the culture. When my dad came to America, he quickly learned...
The first thing I remembered was the ambulance ride to the rehabilitation center. A sudden cardiac arrest in early Febuary 2023 left me with...
I have a vivid memory of the Halloween-themed “trail mix” that would sit in a crystal glass bowl on my grandmother’s counter each year....
The invitation sounded simple enough: a Halloween party in a second-floor walk-up, packed with costumes, music and friends. But before I could...
Chicago doesn’t need more fear right now. With all of the immigration raids, the affordable housing crisis and economic instability, many residents...
To help address its budget shortfall, Columbia cut 18 majors across the college and laid off 43 full-time faculty this past spring. For students...
Queer women have been in television and films for a long time, but shrouded in coding and stereotypes without using the words queer or lesbian. One...
In his campaign to return to the White House, then-candidate Donald Trump relied on a familiar tactic: weaponizing immigration to energize his...
In a recent story for New York magazine, writer James D. Walsh paints a bleak picture of academia unraveling under the weight of AI-fueled dishonesty....
The next couple months will be jam packed with music festivals such as Lollapalooza, Riot Fest and Sueños. Artists like The Weeknd, Beyonce...
Brian Thompson shouldn’t be dead. He should be alive and well, spending time with his wife and sons, working–denying sick people health care–living...
As an international student from Colombia, I know well that Election Day can be a charged and tense experience. Election officials in my country...
Students from the “Cartooning” course in the School of Design collaborated with students from the “Covering Politics” journalism course...
The presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump has dominated headlines, but local elections are where real change happens, especially...
Columbia will end its lease at the Arc at Old Colony after Spring 2026 as campus housing demand continues to decline, with occupancy dropping...
For the first time in three years, Columbia is holding tuition flat. It’s a welcome relief after months of anxiety over the college’s financial...
More than 9,000 flights have been canceled nationwide since the Federal Aviation Administration ordered airlines to reduce schedules last week,...
Columbia’s Manifest Arts Festival — a campus tradition that celebrates graduating seniors — will move to the Saturday of graduation weekend...
On Tuesday Oct. 21, President and CEO Shantay Bolton had her first formal sit-down meeting with students since becoming president. The...
During the annual State of the College meeting last week, President and CEO Shantay Bolton told faculty and staff that the budget deficit had...
When Columbia rolled out its new Student Information System this fall, the goal was to simplify access to academic and financial tools. But...
According to the Student Voice Survey from Fall 2024 and Spring 2025, students not only preferred in-person classes, but they also completed...
Following the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, President Donald Trump argued that TV broadcasters should have their licenses revoked...
The U.S Department of Education has eliminated discretionary grants for Hispanic-Serving Institutions. For Columbia, with...
Earlier this week, the Trump Administration announced the start of an ICE operation in Chicago to target undocumented immigrants with criminal...
At Convocation last week, Columbia’s new President and CEO Shantay Bolton told students she wants them to feel “seen, valued and heard.”...
As we wrap up this school year and congratulate the new graduates, the usual pomp and ceremony are tinged with a deeper significance. Our graduates...
Columbia has many safety programs throughout the campus, including the very recognizable blue light phones, but one of the services that they...
More than 550 higher education leaders have signed a letter opposing the Trump administration’s actions against colleges and universities,...
When I was in middle school in St. Louis, another cheer mom told my mother that therapy was “white people shit.” My mom, a social worker...
Every day in America, airlines break about 31 wheelchairs. Earlier this year, mine was one of them. I watched as an Aer Lingus...
In high school, I wasn’t interested in exploring my cultural heritage. Being Filipino just felt like another box to check under “Asian,”...
When Teen Vogue’s website folded into Vogue.com earlier this month, it did more than erode a brand. It erased and reshaped what youth media...
When I lay in bed at night, my brain felt like an overrun engine, thoughts loud and sticky for hours. These weren't just worries, they were intrusive,...
College systems are built for the healthy, leaving chronically ill students like me fighting to participate in the experience we were promised....
Every year, I lead two creative writing study abroad programs for Columbia College Chicago. In January, we will travel to Paris. In the summer,...
Like a lot of people, I grew up thinking that candy corn was the worst candy you could get on Halloween. For years, decades even, I dodged candy...
Columbia is in a period of transition. With President Shantay Bolton now at the helm, the college is reshaping its administrative structure and...
At the Columbia Chronicle, we take seriously our responsibility to be the voice of the campus community. Our reporting strives to be transparent,...
Last week, along with 19 faculty colleagues, I was fired without cause as a casualty of Columbia College Chicago’s continuing “adverse circumstance,”...
As a Democrat, I do not have great faith in Trump’s ability to enforce a consistent distinction between “legal” and “illegal” protest....
Changes in the school and its curriculum over the past couple of semesters have deeply affected faculty and students alike, creating a need for...
The college laid off 23 full-time faculty members this week, a historic dismissal that the Chronicle reported after Interim President and CEO...
As an international exchange student at Columbia this fall, I had a fantastic opportunity to explore the vast array of culture in Chicago, from...