Our initiatives help us ensure that we’re a responsible community partner all while fulfilling our mission as the community’s college. Learn more about our current initiatives and Lane’s active role in improving access, equity, and opportunities.
Strategic Plans
Our strategic plans are our roadmap for the next five years, and work with each other to help us prioritize our work and guide us towards realizing the college mission.
- Strategic Plan
- Academic Plan
- Facilities Plan
- Diversity Plan
- Climate Action Plan
- Strategic Enrollment Management
Guided Pathways
Guided Pathways is about simplifying the student journey from application to graduation in order to promote student success. Learn more, and see how you can get involved.
Equity Lens
Our comprehensive Equity Lens framework works to ensure considerations of equity and social justice are applied throughout the institution. A series of questions and considerations highlight issues and opportunities for improving access, equity and inclusion. Learn more about the Equity Lens.
Access, Equity, and Inclusion
One of the ways we implement our core value of diversity is through the ongoing work from our Office of Access, Equity, and Inclusion. Through workshops, training, Cultural Competency Professional Development, and more, this office offers students and staff timely opportunities for professional and personal growth regarding access, equity, and inclusion themes. Explore the Office of Access, Equity, and Inclusion.
Institute for Sustainable Practices
The Institute for Sustainable Practices (ISP), helps us realize our core value of sustainability. By integrating practices that support sustainability within our everyday activities, we can ensure that we’re constantly improving our ecological footprint. ISP helps us learn and understand sustainable ecological, social, and economic systems, gain concern for environmental justice, and achieve the competence to act on such knowledge. Learn more about the ISP
Eldon G. Schafer Award for Innovation & Innovation of the Year
Each year, Lane Community College holds a competition to identify projects that embody the spirit of innovation envisioned by past president Eldon F. Schafer.
The Schafer Innovation Awards are selected in collaboration with the Innovation of the Year, sponsored by The League for Innovation in the Community College.
The projects are selected based on the following criteria:
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Affordablity
- Reliability, and
- Creativity
Lane is committed to a culture of innovation, and every year we recognize projects which have improved our campus and student experience. Lane's Innovation of the Year Award is selected every February by a committee that consists of a volunteer pool of previous award recipients, LCC Foundation staff and Board members, and Lane's League Representative. In the event that none of the nominations are deemed to be of a caliber of nationwide recognition, no award will be made for that academic year.
Lane Forward Fund
The Lane Forward Fund supports innovative projects to enhance the fulfillment of the 2022-2027 Strategic Plan. The Fund encourages fresh ideas, creativity, and imagination to benefit student success and achievement, the student experience, employee professional development, and operational excellence through cross-disciplinary, departmental, institutional collaboration, and/or outside entities.
For the "Commons Grove" Lane Forward Fund Project, students in ART 292 - Art for Public Spaces designed an amphitheater and other common spaces to build on Lane's main campus.
This take on amphitheater seating will utilize flowing benches and a variety of micro-spaces where small groups or individuals can gather or host class lectures. This ADA accessible space will create a dynamic space that fosters bonding and learning through flexible seating, interesting materials, and a diverse landscape of predominantly native plants. It will be located on the hill between Building 6 and Building 11, next to Bristow Square.
For the "Commons Grove" Lane Forward Fund Project, students in ART 292 - Art for Public Spaces designed an amphitheater and other common spaces to build on Lane's main campus.
Crafted by 3D Visual Arts students, this wooden gridshell shelter will cover the new patio outside Building 32, for use as a gathering space or outdoor classroom.
For the "Climate Solutions" Lane Forward Fund Project, Sustainability Coordinator Luis Maggiori and Earth Sciences Instructor Rick Glover worked together to build interdisciplinary sustainability and climate justice curricula across campus.
The "Common Read" Lane Forward Fund project created an opportunity for the campus community to come together around a single book, share ideas, and learn together. The chosen book was the hopeful, "solar-punk" novella A Psalm for the Wild-Built, with its relevant themes of artificial intelligence, environmentalism, and existentialism.
Author Becky Chambers visited campus and led an interdisciplinary workshop about world-building and making connections across disciplines, as well as an author talk, "The Future Is Always Fiction," on the powerful, sometimes subversive act of imagining hopeful futures in the midst of a world in crisis.
The "Common Read" Lane Forward Fund project created an opportunity for the campus community to come together around a single book, share ideas, and learn together. The chosen book was the hopeful, "solar-punk" novella A Psalm for the Wild-Built, with its relevant themes of artificial intelligence, environmentalism, and existentialism.
As part of the project, multiple "tea parties" were held where LCC faculty, staff, and students could gather and discuss the book and its themes.