Adjunct Faculty information
Welcome to the Columbia College Chicago adjunct (part-time) faculty web site. Columbia offers the bachelor of arts, bachelor of fine arts, master of arts, master of fine arts, and master of music degrees.
As an adjunct instructor, you will receive an OASIS ID, and password. When you have these and are assigned courses by your department, you will have access to Learning Management System (LMS) through the Oasis portal. We encourage you to investigate and make use of this teaching support system.
Adjunct teaching at Columbia is governed by our union contract. The adjunct faculty union is P-fac, and following is their office information.
811G of the 600 S. Michigan Building (Alexandroff Campus)
open: M-F, 10am-3pm
phone: (312) 369-7485
e-mail: info@pfac.org
The Office of the Provost is happy to serve you if we can. If you have questions or problems that cannot be resolved in your department, you can email us at lbender@colum.edu and we will address your issues. If you have suggestions for information you would like to see on this web site, please use the same email address to let us know
IRIS is the college's administrative portal for accessing content such as policies, procedures, EPay, and administrative systems. To access IRIS, go to http://www.colum.edu/facultystaff. You will be prompted for your login and password. The login and password required are the same that you are using for your colum.edu email account. If you are using a Windows PC and are on campus, you will not be prompted for a login and password. If you have any questions or problems accessing IRIS, please contact User Support at 312.369.7001 or email usersupport@colum.edu.
Links:
P-FAC agreement (union contract) in PDF format.
The Survival Guide (in PDF format).
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
Frequently Asked Questions - Payment Issues.
Human Resources Policies and Procedures can be viewed here (intranet link).
Oasis - Learning Management System.
colum.edu email - email for all faculty.
Center for Instructional Technology
Center for Teaching Excellence
Students Experiencing Difficulty
IRIS - Access to administrative content: policies, procedures, EPay, and administrative systems