Lane Community College

After years of declining enrollment, LCC says it has nearly 10% more students this fall compared to last year.

Several local universities and colleges are holding their graduations this weekend.

The Eugene Public Library is hosting a series of monthly discussions on philosophy, as part of an effort to make the subject seem more accessible.

Lane Community College says it’s had a 10 percent increase in enrollment over last year for the fall term. The school says the larger student population will help it avoid staff reductions.

Lane Community College’s Board of Education is weighing a budget cut of $3.8 million. The prospect of positions and departments being eliminated worries employees.

A celebration was held Tuesday at a transitional housing site in Eugene. Roughly 30 people showed at Everyone Village to highlight the work of high schoolers from 16 Lane County schools, as well as the 16 shelters delivered or near completion from last year.

Lane Community College says a false alarm that led to a campus-wide lockdown in February shows the need for security improvements.

This spring, Lane Community College President Stephanie Bulger sent an email to employees with an announcement that caught many by surprise: The college was proposing to close its 50-year-old student health clinic.Nearly 100 students and staff arrived at the May board meeting to express disapproval of the plan. The proposal was tabled. Now-- a quickly convened task force is charged with offering recommendations to the Board of Education which will decide the clinic’s fate.

A former department store in downtown Eugene that’s sat vacant for a decade is still set to be torn down to make way for a mixed-income housing project.

Lane Community College broke ground Friday on a new school of industry and trade.

A multicultural support program that started nearly 30 years ago at Lane Community College is expanding.

Across the U.S., there’s a growing shortage of workers in skilled trades. The nation’s carpenters, electricians, and plumbers are getting older and hanging up their hard hats for good. Meanwhile, across Oregon, homeless people are struggling to find safe and secure shelter. A new program at Lane Community College aims to alleviate both those problems, called “Constructing a Brighter Future.”