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| Motto | Transforming Lives Through Learning |
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| Type | Publiccommunity college |
| Established | October 19, 1964[1] |
Academic affiliations | League for Innovation in the Community College Space-grant |
| President | Stephanie Bulger |
| Students | 15,000+[2] |
| Location | ,, United States 44°00′36″N123°01′58″W / 44.01007°N 123.03284°W /44.01007; -123.03284 |
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Sporting affiliations | NWAC |
| Mascot | Ty the Titan |
| Website | lanecc.edu |
Lane Community College is apubliccommunity college inEugene, Oregon, with additional facilities in downtown Eugene,Florence,Cottage Grove, and the Lane Aviation Academy atEugene Airport. As of 2023-2024, Lane serves more than 15,000 credit and non-credit students annually in a 5,000 square-mile (~8047 km2) service district, including most ofLane County as well as individual school districts inBenton,Linn, andDouglas counties.
In 1964, Lane County citizens voted overwhelmingly to establish Lane as a comprehensive community college (approving it 5,944 to 1,282).[3] The new college was able to build upon successful traditions of the Eugene Vocational School,[4] which had been established in 1938 to provide manual education and training to high school students and unemployed adults.
Lane is governed by a Board of Education consisting of seven publicly elected, unpaid members who have responsibility for establishing policies and overseeing programs and services of the college.[5] Lane is one of seventeen Oregon community colleges authorized by the Oregon legislature and regulated by theOregon Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development.[6]
Lane Community College offers two-year transferassociate degrees, career-technical applied associate degrees and certificates, as well as non-credit career training, English as a Second Language (ESL), andGeneral Education Development (GED) classes. As of September 2024, Lane began offering aBachelor of Applied Science degree.[7]
Lane isaccredited by theNorthwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU).[8] Individual career programs are also recognized and accredited by career and vocational associations.[9]
The maincampus is located in central Lane County between south Eugene andSpringfield, just west ofI-5.
TheMary Spilde Center and student housing complex, Titan Court,[10] are located in downtown Eugene, across from theEugene Public Library. The Mary Spilde Center[11] offers continuing education, non-credit classes, adult education and GED preparation, and ESL classes. It also houses the Lane Small Business Development Center and an Americorps Senior Companion Program.
The Cottage Grove Center[12] and Florence Center[13] offer continuing education, GED preparation, and other community classes.
The Lane Aviation Academy[14] at the Eugene airport houses programs: Aviation Professional Pilot and Aviation Maintenance Technician. The Lane Aviation Academy also offers a Aviation Unmanned Aircraft Systems (drone) program, which holds classes on the main campus.
Lane's values are learning, diversity, innovation, collaboration and partnership, integrity, accessibility, and sustainability.[15]
The college's numerous sustainability efforts include a Learning Garden for students, landscaping with native plants, electric vehicle charging, use of solar energy, and manyLEED certified buildings. Lane has also earned a SilverSustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) rating and Bee Campus certification.[16]
Sculptures made by students and faculty can be found throughout campus. Art is also represented by two art galleries, a Center for Performing Arts, a literary magazine, and anArt-o-mat.[17]
Lane has many student clubs and six student identity unions: the Asian and Pacific Islander Student Union (APISU), the Black Student Union (BSU), the Gender & Sexuality Alliance (GSA), Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), the Native American Student Association (NASA), and the Neurodivergent Student Union.
In December 2010, the school became the secondcommunity college in the United States to open a triballonghouse,[18] afterPeninsula College, which opened its longhouse in 2007.[19] The college has over 650American Indian students, and annually hosts one of the largestpowwows in thePacific Northwest.[20] Since 2006, the college has offered two years ofChinuk WaWa language study that satisfy second-language graduation requirements of Oregon public universities.
The public radio stationKLCC began broadcasting in February 1967. Lane Community College owns the license forNPR affiliate KLCC. KLCC broadcasts at 89.7 FM in Eugene and on various repeater frequencies, serving 88,000 listeners each week in Western and Central Oregon. KLCC offers NPR News, local news, and an eclectic music blend. KLCC airs NPR'sAll Things Considered,Morning Edition andWeekend Edition, along withWait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, and other news and talk shows. On weekends KLCC airs a mix of music shows including jazz, blues, folk, Americana, Celtic and world music.[21][22]
Lane Titans compete in ten varsity sports and participate in theNorthwest Athletic Conference (NWAC) with 35 other Oregon, Washington, and Canadian colleges.[23]
Getting Straight, starringElliott Gould andCandice Bergen, was filmed at Lane in 1969. As the campus was still under construction at the time, the "occupation scenes" were easier to shoot.[24]
The Grateful Dead performed a concert on campus as a benefit for the college and White Bird Clinic on January 22, 1971, drawing a crowd of approximately 7,000 fans.[25]
In January 1996, KLCC reporter Alan Siporin covered the arrival ofKeiko, theorca ofFree Willy fame, at his new home in the NewportOregon Coast Aquarium forNational Public Radio and theDiscovery Channel.[1]
In August 1996,Warner Bros. shot a scene for the filmPrefontaine at Lane because the track's black surface fit the "vintage" time period of the 70s. The track was upgraded weeks later, and resurfaced in blue.[1]
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