What we believe
Our Mission Support the college’s mission to be the leading workforce developer by graduating students who are courageous, creative thinkers with the skill set of visual communicators.
Our Vision Be the best 2-year design program on the planet.
Our Core values Heart Head Hand
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- empathy for the client
- passion for learning
- courage to be creative
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- curiosity
- creativity
- storytelling
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- craftsmanship and artistry in all things
Our Process
Design is a process for finding answers to questions
Good ideas come from having lots of ideas.
The process we follow is:
- Situation: what is the question to be answered?
- Investigation: what do we need to know to proceed?
- Insights: what have we learned?
- Ideation: how many different solutions are available?
- Execution: how do we make the ideas real?
- Reflection: what did we learn?
Our expectations of students
- Be here, on time and ready to work.
- Always be above average.
- Take responsibility for your learning.
Our expectations of faculty
- Prepare students for their future, not your past.
- Give every student the same chance to learn.
- Hold students accountable for their education.
College initiatives we support
Service Learning: many of our course projects are centered on designing for real clients from the non-profit community. We also encourage design students to expand their capacity for empathy by participating in college sponsored service-learning projects.
CPCC Center for Sustainability: we seek to incorporate “green” design solutions where appropriate within our problem solving process.
Our Vision Be the best 2-year design program on the planet.
Our Core values Heart Head Hand
- Heart
- empathy for the client
- passion for learning
- courage to be creative
- Head
- curiosity
- creativity
- storytelling
- Hand
- craftsmanship and artistry in all things
Design is a process for finding answers to questions
Good ideas come from having lots of ideas.
The process we follow is:
- Situation: what is the question to be answered?
- Investigation: what do we need to know to proceed?
- Insights: what have we learned?
- Ideation: how many different solutions are available?
- Execution: how do we make the ideas real?
- Reflection: what did we learn?
- Be here, on time and ready to work.
- Always be above average.
- Take responsibility for your learning.
- Prepare students for their future, not your past.
- Give every student the same chance to learn.
- Hold students accountable for their education.
College initiatives we support
Service Learning: many of our course projects are centered on designing for real clients from the non-profit community. We also encourage design students to expand their capacity for empathy by participating in college sponsored service-learning projects.
CPCC Center for Sustainability: we seek to incorporate “green” design solutions where appropriate within our problem solving process.
