Community and Expectations
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Participating in a Community
Health, Safety, Security, Conduct
Substance Use Prohibition
Photography, Recording, Documentation, Social Media, Distribution
Participating in a Community
Everyone who works in the Ceramics Area works as a participant within a community. Our participants benefit from the support and context of the community, and the community is enriched by the presence of each of our participants, and all benefit from shared respect, responsibility, cooperation, fairness, and open communication. All who work in the Ceramics Area aspire to create, grow, and succeed, and all share a responsibility of maintaining an environment that fosters the realization of these aspirations for all participants.
To work as a participant within our community is a privilege, but those who wish to work from a position of privilege, or operate from a mentality of exceptionalism, will be unhappy working in our community, wherein we look out for and carefully balance the needs and goals of all our participants, and hold everyone to the same standards. Everyone cleans up their own messes. Everyone waits their turn. Everyone works within the rules. Everyone plays fair. Everyone deserves respect. Everyone is important. No one is more important.
If you cannot abide by these basic principles, and operate in alignment with the principles underlying all of our stated missions, commitments, acknowledgments, and expectations, you cannot work in our community and should not bother applying to our programs or enrolling in our classes.
Health, Safety, Security, Conduct
Everyone who works in the Ceramics Area is provided with a document titled “General Expectations, Precautions, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and Health/Safety Considerations for the Ceramics Area” and is required to complete documentation verifying receipt and review of this Health/Safety Document prior to beginning work in the Ceramics Area.
All participants working in the Ceramics Area must comply with all health, safety, and security protocols, policies, and expectations, and must comply with all CSULB standards of conduct.
If you cannot abide by these standards, you cannot work in our community and should not bother applying to our programs or enrolling in our classes.
Substance Use Prohibition
The Ceramics Area is an alcohol-free, drug-free, cannabis-free, tobacco-free, no-smoking, no-vaping environment. These standards are strictly maintained in the Ceramics Area and are maintained (with the rare exception of special permitted events where alcohol is served) throughout the CSULB campus, so you can’t just go outside the building or go sit on a bench elsewhere on campus to consume.
If you cannot abide by these standards, you cannot work in our community and should not bother applying to our programs or enrolling in our classes.
Photography, Recording, Documentation, Social Media, Distribution
In the Ceramics Area, we expect that no persons present in the area photograph or record other persons in the area, or any artwork in the area, without first asking and receiving permission from the other persons or the creators of the artworks.
Additionally, we expect that no persons currently or previously present in the area post or otherwise distribute photographs, recordings, or other information regarding other persons in the area, or any artwork in the area, without first asking and receiving permission from the other persons or the creators of the artworks.
With these expectations stated, we cannot further actively prevent such photography, recording, sharing, posting, or otherwise transferring, distributing, or publishing of such photographs, recordings, or information. Most of the spaces on the CSULB campus are public spaces, and with the proliferation of cameras, recording devices, and communication devices in public spaces, being present in these spaces comes with an assumption of the possibility of one’s self and/or property being photographed, recorded, or otherwise documented, and the possibility of such photographs, recordings, or documentation being distributed.
As with all matters of conduct, photographing other persons is subject to both university conduct policies and legal codes.
