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Columbia College President Kwang-Wu Kim to Speak at City Club Thursday

 Music professor Kwang-Wu Kim is the new head of Columbia College Chicago.
Music professor Kwang-Wu Kim is the new head of Columbia College Chicago.
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THE LOOP — Columbia College Chicago President and CEO Kwang-Wu Kim will address the City Club of Chicago at its monthly luncheon Thursday.

Kim, a Hyde Park native who also serves on the college's music school faculty, will address the City Club members just after noon at Maggiano's Banquets at 111 W. Grand Ave.

Kim was chosen in early 2013 to head the 124-year-old college by Columbia's board of trustees, making him the school's 10th president and CEO.

When he joined the team, Kim said making a college education more affordable for potential Columbia students would be one of his main focuses.

"It's important that we talk about two things simultaneously: affordability and value," Kim said. "The notion of what is affordable is relative to how much we value something. That's the conversation I want to promote at Columbia. All parts have to be looked at at the same time."

Kim holds a doctorate in musical arts and was previously dean and director of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and a music professor at Arizona State University.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Yale University and studied music at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. As a pianist, he has played with orchestras in Baltimore, Milwaukee and London.

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