Richard Rogers

President – College for Creative Studies

Welcome and Keynote - 9:00 am, Wednesday, April 6th

Richard L. Rogers has been president of the College for Creative Studies (CCS) since 1994.  During Rogers’ tenure the College has more than doubled its enrollment and physical space, expanded to two campuses, established seven new undergraduate departments, launched its first graduate programs, developed community outreach programs serving 4,200 inner-city youth annually, and has been named one of the “Best Design Schools in the World” by Business Week.  Rogers is also chairman and president of Creative Urban Education, Inc., the governing body of Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies, a charter middle and high school of art and design operated jointly by CCS and the Henry Ford Learning Institute on the CCS campus.  He co-supervises the Detroit Creative Corridor Center, a collaboration of CCS and Business Leaders for Michigan, whose mission is to build a more robust creative economy in Southeast Michigan and attract more creative professionals and businesses to Detroit. He also serves on the boards of several organizations devoted to independent higher education, art and design education, and economic development in Detroit.  Prior to his appointment to the CCS presidency, Rogers was Vice President and Secretary at the New School for Social Research (now The New School).  He received a Master of Science in Education from Bank Street College of Education, a Master of Arts from the Yale Divinity School and a Bachelor of Arts from Yale College.