The purpose of general education is to provide all students with learning experiences that are necessary to enable them to maintain responsible and satisfying relationships to society and the environment.
At the beginning of the 2022-23 Academic Year, the general education committee was charged with revamping general education assessment. The committee updated the general education competencies. The committee determined that these competencies should not only be assessed by transfer curricula but also career and technical curricula.
By Spring 2023, the committee identified eight competencies to address:
Beginning in Fall 2023 and completing during Spring 2024, the General Education Committee worked with faculty with the new Laker Learning Competencies.
It is the policy of Lake Land College to include in its General Education requirements course work on improving human relations. This policy includes improvement in understanding about race, ethnicity, gender and related issues as they impact on racism, gender bias, and sexual harassment. The General Education course work addresses the issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and other issues as they relate to racism and sexual harassment as a part of its discipline. Each discipline includes course work which is appropriate to that area of study.
Lake Land College has adopted the General Education Core Curriculum of the Illinois Articulation Initiative as the general education requirement for the Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees effective with students entering the College summer 1998 or thereafter. Associate in Engineering Science The AES degree is designed for students to complete some of the General Education requirements at the senior institution.