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 and the Schafer Pat-On-The-Back 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.