Vision, Mission, Values

Vision

Transforming lives through learning

Mission

Lane is the community's college: we provide comprehensive, accessible, quality, learning-centered educational opportunities that promote student success

Values

Learning

  • Working together to create a learning-centered environment
  • Recognizing and respecting the unique needs and potential of each learner
  • Fostering a culture of achievement in a caring community

Diversity

  • Welcoming, valuing and promoting diversity among staff, students and our community
  • Cultivating a respectful, inclusive, and accessible working and learning environment
  • Working effectively in different cultural contexts to serve the educational and linguistic needs of a diverse community
  • Developing capacity to understand issues of difference, power, and privilege

Innovation

  • Supporting creativity, experimentation, and institutional transformation
  • Responding to environmental, technological, and demographic changes
  • Anticipating and responding to internal and external challenges in a timely manner
  • Acting courageously, deliberately, and systematically in relation to change

Collaboration and Partnership

  • Promoting meaningful participation in governance
  • Encouraging and expanding partnerships with organizations and groups in our community

Integrity

  • Fostering an environment of respect, fairness, honesty, and openness
  • Promoting responsible stewardship of resources and public trust
  • Accessibility
  • Strategically growing learning opportunities
  • Minimizing financial, geographical, environmental, social, linguistic, and cultural barriers to learning

Sustainability

  • Integrating practices that support & improve the health of systems that sustain life
  • Providing 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
  • Equipping and encouraging 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