Instructional Equipment

Facilities Department · Sub-Level Shop · ext. 2120

The College’s position is that students should learn on equipment they will encounter in the field, maintained to the standard the field expects. Much of the College’s equipment was acquired new and has been kept in service through the College’s own maintenance program. Equipment is not replaced on a schedule; it is replaced when it can no longer be maintained or when the occupation has moved away from it.

The College employs a full-time maintenance supervisor and contracts specialty service for the range, the kitchens, the preparation laboratory, and the boiler plant. Instructional equipment is inventoried annually and tagged. The capital equipment request is submitted to the Board each January and is published at Capital Equipment Request.

Total insured value of instructional equipment (FY2026): $4,180,000. The escalator installation in the main corridor is carried separately on the College’s insured schedule of non-instructional fixed assets.

Equipment by division

• Division of Building, Structures and Site Services
• Division of Animal and Agricultural Sciences
• Division of Food, Fermentation and Culinary Production
• Division of Fiber, Textile and Personal Appearance
• Division of Funerary and Interment Services
• Division of Performance and Guest Services
• Division of Investigative and Protective Services
• Division of Anomalous Property and Nonstandard Conditions

Donated equipment is accepted under stated criteria; see Equipment Donations. Campus technology, computer labs, and classroom audiovisual equipment are described at Technology.