The Alumni Challenge
Enhancing the Value of Your CCS Degree

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Good News Alumni: The College for Creative Studies has expanded to increase its status as a premier art and design institution in today’s competitive market, and enhance the value of your degree.

With an investment of more than $145 million, CCS is growing through a transformational initiative. CCS has revitalized Detroit’s historic Argonaut Building into the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education, creating a second site for CCS and its design departments. The new facility is an innovative, integrated learning community, focused on art and design extending from middle school through graduate school and beyond into the professional realm. Beginning in May 2010, CCS’s Cultural Center campus – renamed the Walter and Josephine Ford Campus – will be reorganized and enhanced, allowing departments to expand into space renovated for their needs.

CCS has launched its Advancing the Creative Spirit Campaign to raise needed funding for this important expansion. The Campaign will allow CCS to complete this project while sustaining funding for student scholarships and continuing to provide the highest quality of education.

A key component of the campaign is the Alumni Challenge, a unique opportunity to participate in shaping the future of CCS. The goal is about participation, with the challenge of raising 250 gifts from alumni.

Facility upgrades and new construction have enabled CCS to experience tremendous growth over the past 100 years. These under takings would not have been possible without the support of Alumni and the community, and now the College needs your help. Alumni who make a donation or pledge – at any level – will receive: