An annual showcase featuring performances by our music students.
School of Arts & Sciences
At Columbia College's School of Arts and Sciences, we celebrate diverse perspectives, champion creative thinking, and foster an environment where you can learn, grow and shape your future.
Meet Dean David Karr
Dean Karr joined Columbia College as a history professor in 2007 and served for ten years as a department chair before becoming Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences. His work has centered on supporting faculty, strengthening academic programs, and helping programs respond creatively to the changing needs of students.
As Dean, he is committed to collaborative leadership and to helping students recognize the enduring value of the arts and sciences. He believes these disciplines prepare students not only for their careers but also for thoughtful, adaptable, and engaged lives.
In his work as a professor of history, Dean Karr has taught courses in world and European history, British history, the Enlightenment, and historical research. His scholarship focuses on British radicalism in the age of the French Revolution, particularly the writer and reformer Thomas Holcroft. He is co-author of British Jacobin Politics, Desires, and Aftermaths: Seditious Hearts (Routledge, 2021) and has published in several leading historical journals.
Learn, Grow & Shape Your Future
Visit Our Professional Art Galleries
Greg Hardwick Gallery
The Greg Hardwick Gallery, created primarily for the exhibition of three-dimensional art, is also used for alternative media, including video.
Sidney Larson Gallery
The Larson Gallery displays professional work by nationally and internationally known artists, and by outstanding Columbia College students.
Share Your Talent
Our annual celebration of high school talent and creativity.
Shaping The World
Get to know your Columbia College faculty
Our faculty - champions in their fields, are ready to fuel your success with their wealth of knowledge. They don't just teach—they shape the future, making history every single day.
Together, we're not just learning—we're creating, innovating, excelling.
Meet your facultybecause a future built by you is a future built for you.
Too many people have been made to feel that higher education isn’t a place for them — that it is someone else’s dream. But we change all that. With individualized attention and ongoing support, we help you write a new story for the future where you play the starring role.