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36 station staffed by contracted security officers in the lobby. Leased residential facilities are staffed by security personnel provided, supervised, and managed by the individual property management companies. CAMPUS SAFETY AND SECURITY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS (312) 369-3220 students.colum.edu/safety/emergency-communications-everbridge.html Everbridge is Columbia’s emergency mass notification communications system, which may be used to inform the campus community of emergency situations as well as cancelations and closures caused by severe weather. Students may sign up to receive text messages, phone calls, and/or emails as news pertaining to any form of emergency situation is issued. To receive these updates, students must provide the college with up-to-date emergency contact information to ensure they are notified. Students should update contact information in MyColumbia under MyProfile, Update My Contact Information. SECURITY ESCORT PROGRAM (312) 369-7233 students.colum.edu/safety/security-escort-program Columbia College Chicago has an after-hours Security Escort Program to help students and employees travel safely between campus locations and from campus locations to pre-designated mass transit stations. The Security Escort Program is available seven days a week from 6 p.m.–1 a.m. during the Fall and Spring semesters by calling (312) 369-SAFE. COLUMBIA HISTORY, TRADITIONS, AND CELEBRATIONS Columbia is a community rich with non-traditional traditions, history, and celebrations. Yes, Columbia has fun traditions like events. A notable example being Manifest, a massive end-of-year celebration that forefronts the work of graduating undergraduate and graduate students all wrapped up in a festival! Also, take some time to get to know the history behind the college. It is always inspiring to know what made this college what it is today. PS: Columbia was founded by a woman. Just sayin.’ HISTORY Columbia College Chicago was founded in 1890 as the Columbia School of Oratory by Mary A. Blood and Ida Morey Riley, graduates of the Monroe Conservatory of Oratory, now Emerson College, in Boston, Massachusetts. The school focused on the teaching of elocution, public speaking, and physical culture. In 1904 the school changed its name to the Columbia College of Expression and in 1927, the college aligned with the Pestalozzi-Froebel Teachers College, adding