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Columbia College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Located on 280 acres of forestland in California's historic Mother Lode, our college campus surrounds a peaceful 4½ acre lake and has been described as one of the state's most beautiful community colleges.
• The College actively promotes transformational learning through critical and creative thinking that is open to change and personal growth; civic, environmental, and global awareness and engagement; and individual and collective responsibility. At the heart of our mission is a desire to develop a zest for lifelong learning throughout the community, with the College serving as its educational and cultural center.
• Columbia College is fully accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
• The Career Center, located within the Manzanita Building adjacent to the Counseling area, offers materials and services to assist students with career information. The Center maintains a variety of resources including occupational publications, newsletters, college catalogs, and Eureka, a computerized vocational/educational information system.
• The Columbia College professional counseling staff provide essential academic advising, career counseling and life planning activities to continuing, new and returning students in order to enhance each students educational experience at Columbia.
• Profile last updated: 07/01/2009.

In the News:

• ICES: 30 years of enriching lives (The Union Democrat)
  posted on March 10, 2010 at 08:08:15 pm
  Infant-Child Enrichment Services will celebrate its 30th year March 17 and agency officials look forward to 30 more. “I think we’re really lucky to have them in our community,” said Marcia Williams, Early Childhood Services director for the Amador-Tuolumne Community Action Agency. ICES is a nonprofit agency, funded mostly by the state Department of Education. It started as a daycare center in ...
• Cause for optimism in face of dire fire situation (The Union Democrat)
  posted on March 2, 2010 at 12:22:46 am
  Pleading poverty, the Tuolumne Fire District is looking to annex — and tax — about 68,000 acres, including Ponderosa Hills and other neighborhoods.
• Students pen culture in essays (The Union Democrat)
  posted on February 26, 2010 at 08:22:25 pm
  Columbia College honored the winners of its essay contest in celebration of Black History Month on Thursday night with a dinner reception at the college.
• Datebook for Feb. 25 to March 3 (The Union Democrat)
  posted on February 25, 2010 at 10:22:34 pm
  • The Columbia College Choir will hold a concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Dogwood Theater to raise money for its four-day music and cultural tour to Southern California.
• Schuller: 55 years and counting (The Union Democrat)
  posted on February 25, 2010 at 08:07:25 pm
  Jenny Lind Fire Department Capt. Al Engel has a very clear memory of Richard Schuller. The firefighters were doing a training burn. They’d lit a house on fire and were working on methods of putting it out. Schuller, the fire chief at the time, waited to make sure that Engel got out.

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