Vision, Mission, Core Themes and Core Values
2015-16 through 2020-21
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.
Core Themes
- Responsive Community Engagement
- Accessible and Equitable Learning Opportunities
- Quality Educational Environment
- Individual Student Achievement
Core 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 and 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