Lane Community College

Main Campus 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 the Oregon Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development . [ 6 ]

Lane Community College Building 1 Lane Community College offers two-year transfer associate degrees , career-technical applied associate degrees and certificates, as well as non-credit career training, English as a Second Language (ESL), and General Education Development (GED) classes. As of September 2024, Lane began offering a Bachelor of Applied Science degree . [ 7 ] Accreditation Lane is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). [ 8 ] Individual career programs are also recognized and accredited by career and vocational associations. [ 9 ]

Main campus view of Dr. Dale P. Parnell Center for Learning and Student Success The main campus is located in central Lane County between south Eugene and Springfield , just west of I-5 . The Mary Spilde Center and student housing complex, Titan Court, [ 10 ] are located in downtown Eugene, across from the Eugene 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 an Aviation Unmanned Aircraft Systems (drone) program, which holds classes on the main campus.