Lane’s Innovations of the Year

Every year the League honors outstanding innovations that have been recognized by member institutions as Innovations of the Year. These innovations represent capstone achievements and the continuing renewal of the spirit of innovation and experimentation upon which the League was founded.

 The criteria used to select the Innovation of the Year are:

1. Effectiveness

2. Efficiency

3. Affordability

4. Replicability

5. Creativity

Lane’s Innovation of the Year Award is selected every April by a committee that consists of a volunteer pool of previous award recipients 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. Click here for Innovation of the Year nomination details.

Innovation of the Year winners can be found at the League for Innovation, Innovation of the Year web site.

Lane Innovation of the Year Winners:

1998 Community Learning Centers
Team Members: Anne Bacon, Nick Cheshire, Paul Colvin, Debra Lamb, Cynde Leathers, Bea McRae, Carol Lynn Morse, Jerry Nehring, Bob Vogel, Larry Warford

1999 Guided Studies Program
Team Members: Joan Benz, Mason Davis, Linda DeWitt, Phyllis Geyer, Edna Grass, Gail Hemsoth, Dan Hodges, Pat John, Cheryl Kempner, Ellen Lacey, Carolyn Litty, Maureen McGory, Carol Lynn Morse, Leigh Alice Petty, Elaine Pray, Leslie Rasor, Alice Whitenack, Tom Wiedeman, John Winquist, Linda Wong

2000 The Lane County Undergraduate Teacher Education Program
Team Members: Shelley Gaudia, Dixie Maurer-Clemons, Brian Moore, Derek Mpinga, Andrea Newton, Ann Marie Prengaman, Gayle Smith, Julianne Stermer, Larry Warford, Ginger Yamamoto

2001 Evening Weekend Project
Team Members: Diane Dann, Shannon Kracht, Debra Lamb, Eilene LePelley, Linda Loft, Kay Lutz-Ritzheimer, Carol Lynn Morse, Ken Murdoff, Sylvia Sandoz, Matt Schubert, Linda Simmons, Bob Way

2002 Spanish Program’s Learning Strategies Component
Team Members: Devon Budz, Juan Cuadros, Roma Cusimano, Armand Gagnon, Elizabeth Hall, Matthew Luke, Sylvie Matalon-Florendo, Bojana Stefanovska, Gloria Zabala

2003 Energy Management Program
Team Members: Roger Ebbage, Energy Management Program/NEEI Director, Kyle Hammon, Science Division Chair, Coco Sutton, Project Specialist, Ginny Young, Administrative Specialist

2005 Lane Community College Health Clinic
Team Members: Marie Matsen, Sandra Ing-Wiese, Dennis Carr, Mona Arbuckle, Duke Vandervort