Author: Ashlei Watson

Valade Family Gallery

The Valade Family Gallery is located on the first floor of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education. The Gallery offers 5,500 square feet of event space available for internal and external use.

The Valade Family Gallery showcases the work of visiting artists, alumni, faculty, and staff. Programming of the Gallery includes special events, benefits, student exhibitions, and artist receptions. The space can accommodate up to 150 people and provides a flexible layout to accommodate all types of exhibitions and events.

Emergency Response

All Academic Facilities shop managers, staff and work-study technicians are certified in First Aid, CPR, and AED. Campus Safety has implemented a step-by-step response plan for accidents, injuries and fire that may occur in the shops. The plan is posted in each area. Faculty should familiarize themselves with these procedures.

When anyone is injured, the supervisor at the shop must fill out an Accident/Injury Report Form at the CCS Security Office.

Director of Academic Facilities

The Director of Academic Facilities oversees all Academic Facilities operations, equipment, technology, and strategic planning. The Director works with faculty, staff and students to  strengthen the infrastructure for teaching and learning in an interdisciplinary environment through the safe operation of the academic facilities. The Director of Academic Facilities provides direction and support for pedagogy, research, operations, equipment purchasing, training, growth, and technology. The Director is an ex-officio member of the Health and Safety Committee of the Faculty Assembly that works to create policy that improves and supports a safe and healthy working environment campus- wide, and communicates those policies to the larger CCS community.

Image Collections

CCS’s extensive digital image collections are accessible through the Luna database. A login and password are required to obtain institutional content. Collections include CCS Images for Teaching and AMICA, which consists of digital images contributed by twenty-one art museums. Together with AMICA and common collections, faculty, students, and staff have access to 262,109 images for research and teaching.

Faculty must obtain basic training and sign a contract in order to obtain high-resolution images suitable for classroom use. Library staff provide instruction, research help, and fill image requests for teaching needs.

Library Director

The Library Director oversees all library operations, collections, technology and strategic planning. The Director works with the faculty, students and staff to develop library collections and services. The Director is an ex-officio member of the Library Committee of Faculty Assembly. The Director provides pedagogical support to faculty, as well as research assistance and instruction to students, faculty and staff.

Assessment Program

The College engages in assessment of student learning to evaluate outcomes that demonstrate the effectiveness of the curriculum in meeting the educational goals and objectives of the undergraduate and graduate programs and to foster continuous improvement of the curriculum. Assessment initiatives are coordinated and administered via the office of Academic Affairs under the direction of the Dean of Academic Affairs.

The Assessment Committee of the Faculty Assembly consists of faculty members across all majors who serve a three-year term and support the College’s engagement in assessment initiatives. The Dean of Academic Affairs is an ex officio member of the Assessment Committee, and also works closely with the Deans and Department Chairs, who are responsible for the implementation of assessment initiatives, evaluation of departmental student learning outcomes, and continuous improvement of the curriculum within their respective majors.