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Transforming lives through learning

Mission

Lane is a learning-centered community college that provides affordable, quality, lifelong educational opportunities that include: 

• Professional technical and lower division college transfer programs
• Employee skill upgrading, business development and career enhancement
• Foundational academic, language and life skills development
• Lifelong personal development and enrichment, and
• Cultural and community services

Core Values

Learning

• Work together to create a learning-centered environment
• Recognize and respect the unique needs and potential of each learner
• Foster a culture of achievement in a caring community

• Welcome, value and promote diversity among staff, students and our community
• Cultivate a respectful, inclusive and accessible working and learning environment
• Work effectively in different cultural contexts to serve the educational and linguistic needs of a diverse community
• Develop capacity to understand issues of difference, power and privilege

• Support creativity, experimentation, and institutional transformation 
• Respond to environmental, technological and demographic changes
• Anticipate and respond to internal and external challenges in a timely manner
• Act courageously, deliberately and systematically in relation to change

• Promote meaningful participation in governance
• Encourage and expand partnerships with organizations and groups in our community

• Foster an environment of respect, fairness, honesty, and openness 
• Promote responsible stewardship of resources and public trust

• Strategically grow learning opportunities
• Minimize financial, geographical, environmental, social, linguistic and cultural barriers to learning

Sustainability

• Integrate practices that support and improve the health of systems that sustain life.
• Provide an interdisciplinary learning environment that builds understanding of sustainable ecological, social, and economic systems, concern for environmental justice, and the competence to act on such knowledge.
• Equip and encourage all students and staff to participate actively in building a socially diverse, just, and sustainable society, while cultivating connections to local, regional, and global communities.

Strategic Directions

Transforming Students' Lives

• Foster the personal, professional, and intellectual growth of learners by providing exemplary and innovative teaching and learning experiences and student support services.
   
• Commit to a culture of assessment of programs, services and learning. 
   
• Position Lane as a vital community partner by empowering a learning workforce in a changing economy.

• Create a diverse and inclusive learning college:  develop institutional capacity to respond effectively and respectfully to students, staff, and community members of all cultures, languages, classes, races, genders, ethnic backgrounds, religions, sexual orientations, and abilities.
   
• Create, enhance, and maintain inviting and welcoming facilities that are safe, accessible, functional, well-equipped, aesthetically appealing and environmentally sound. 

• Achieve and sustain fiscal stability.
   
• Build organizational capacity and systems to support student success and effective operations.
   
• Promote professional growth and provide increased development opportunities for staff both within and outside the College.

           Sustainability Core Value added January 10, 2007