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TCampus Facilities & Off-Campus Siteshe permanent campus of Luzerne County Community College is situated on a 167-acre site at 1333 South ProspectStreet in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania. Of the sixteen buildingswhich make up the College’s permanent facilities, the GeneralAcademic Building and the Technical Arts Building containclassrooms, laboratories, and faculty offices.The Campus Center, which opened in June 1998, houses several administrative offices including the Office of the President,student lounges, a cafeteria, a fitness center and aerobics room,the College Bookstore, the Schulman Gallery, student club rooms,and other student activity offices. In addition, Counseling andStudent Support Services Offices, such as the tutoring center, arelocated in the three-story structure.The James T. Atherton Gymnasium includes a two-stationgymnasium used for academic classes as well as the College’sintercollegiate and intramural sports teams. The AdministrativeBuilding houses the majority of the College’s administrativeservices.The Physical Plant Services Building contains a warehouse,repair shops, and an office/conference/training area.The spacious Library, located in Building 6, contains studyareas, periodical and reference areas, archives, computer area, andcomplete facilities for the College’s media and book collections.See page 180 for more services offered at the Library.The Educational Conference Center includes six seminarrooms of varying sizes, two auditoriums and a spacious diningarea.The Faculty Office and Classroom Building will be locatedin the former Medical Arts Complex (Building 9). The buildingwill contain faculty offices, classrooms, and the Career ServicesOffice.The Advanced Technology Center is an 85,000 sq. ft. building which houses the College’s technology programs, student-runmedia including a radio and television studio, and automotiverelated facilities. Also housed is the Commercial Art Departmentwith numerous art studios, lecture rooms, computer labs, andphotography studios and darkrooms.The Science Building contains general classrooms, five science laboratories and faculty offices.The Business and Computer Building contains eight computer labs, two classrooms and faculty offices for instructors ofthe College’s Business and Computer Information Systems curriculums.The Joseph A. Paglianite Culinary Institute opened duringthe Fall 2010 semester. The new 22,000 sq. ft., state-of-the artfacility provides the College’s Hospitality Programs with a newteaching kitchen, line kitchen, pastry kitchen, chocolate room,four smart classrooms and faculty offices, as well as an 80-seatclassroom/theater with audio visual capabilities to host visitingscholars, chefs and prominent hospitality leaders to provide additional learning opportunities for students and the community.Beginning with the Fall 2011 semester, the Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, Surgical Technology, Dental Hygiene, DentalBusiness Assisting, and Emergency Medical Services programswere relocated to the new Health Science Center in downtownNanticoke. This 51,000 sq. ft. facility in the former KanjorskiBuilding houses the College’s 24 chair Dental Clinic, five X-rayrooms, nursing simulation equipment and labs, respiratory andlung function labs, ten smart classrooms, seven labs, and 30faculty offices.The Public Safety Training Institute is a 32-acre facilitylocated on land across the street from the College’s Main Campus. The present facility includes an administrative building anda burn building/training tower used to help train first responders. Phase II, which was recently completed, consists of a roadcourse, skid pad, maneuver pad, helipad, off-road course, confinespace training prop, and vehicle extrication pad. The road coursewill allow driver training for emergency responders, teenagers,employees who drive company vehicles, senior citizens, and thegeneral public.BERWICK CENTERLuzerne County Community College’s Berwick Centeris located in the Eagles Building located on Market Street indowntown Berwick. The facility was made possible by a partnership with the Berwick Industrial Development Association.The Berwick Center offers day and evening classes leading to acertificate, diploma, or associate degree to students who wish toimprove job skills, prepare for a new career, or transfer to a fouryear institution.The Berwick Center is a complete educational facilityequipped with six classrooms, two networked computer labs, amultipurpose room, and a conference room. Unique to the Berwick site is a three-phase electrical lab for high-end training.Students enrolled in the Dental Assisting program can complete most of the general education courses as well as clinicalexperiences on-site at the Berwick Center.CORPORATE LEARNING CENTERIn partnership with the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber ofBusiness and Industry, Luzerne County Community College5

established a Corporate Learning Center located on Public Squarein downtown Wilkes-Barre.While responding to the training needs of business andindustry, the Corporate Learning Center also provides a varietyof opportunities for high school graduates and working adults toupgrade skills or learn new ones through both credit and creditfree programs.The Center is a complete educational training facility featuring three networked computer labs, seminar rooms, traditionalclassrooms, video-conferencing equipment, “smart classrooms,”roll-about units, and complete presentation equipment. TheCenter also offers unique 10-week class schedules for students’convenience.ity features seven classrooms and two computer labs along withconference space and a multi-purpose room.KULPMONT CENTERThe Kulpmont Center was established through a partnershipwith Luzerne County Community College and the NorthumberlandCounty Housing Authority. The goal of the Center is to provide astate-of-the-art nursing education facility for the region. Applications are accepted every other year for the A.A.S. Nursing DegreeProgram. General Education courses required for the NursingProgram can be taken year round at the nearby NorthumberlandRegional Higher Education Center located in Shamokin.NORTHUMBERLAND REGIONALHIGHER EDUCATIONAL CENTERHAZLETON CENTERIn cooperation with the Alliance to Revitalize Center CityHazleton, Luzerne County Community College began operatinga branch extension center in Hazleton, PA during the Fall 2000semester. Through a grant from the Luzerne County Office ofCommunity Development, students in the region can take LCCCcourses close to home at an affordable tuition rate.The goal of the center, which is located at 100 Broad Street, isto offer day and evening credit courses leading to degrees in a variety of programs. In addition, career-oriented educational coursesand workshops are available to residents in southern LuzerneCounty and the surrounding area. These noncredit programs aredesigned to train people for employment in the region. The facil-The Northumberland County Commissioners and officials fromLuzerne County Community College announced in March 1999,that the College would be operating a branch extension center inShamokin, PA. Because of Northumberland County’s sponsorship of the venture, students throughout the region can take LCCCcourses at the in-county tuition rate.The goal of the center is to offer career-oriented educationalcourses and life-long learning opportunities to residents of Northumberland and surrounding counties. The nine-classroom facilityis used for credit and non-credit courses. The State System ofHigher Education also offers academic programs at the Center.HistoryOne of the most significant events in the establishment of LuzerneCounty Community College occurred on December 15, 1965, whenthe Luzerne County Board of Commissioners adopted a resolutiontentatively agreeing to act as sponsor of a two-year community college. Shortly thereafter, in response to a request from the CountyCommissioners, the CountyBoard of School Directorsagreed to serve as an agent inconducting the needed studies and surveys and in doingthe planning necessary to develop a community collegeproposal in Luzerne County.On August 17, 1966, theLuzerne County Board ofCommissioners requestedthe Pennsylvania State Boardof Education for permissionto establish and operate acommunity college. Suchpermission was granted bythe State Board of Educationat its September 15, 1966meeting.LCCC formally beganoperation on November 7,1966. On that date the Board of Trustees held its first meeting forthe purpose of organizing and electing officers. The President of theCommunity College was appointed by the Board of Trusteestwo months later, and the College opened its doors for thefirst time on October 2, 1967. The College’s first class, numbering 210, was graduated in June 1969.The College’s permanent facilities in Nanticoke, PA wereoccupied at the beginning of the Spring Semester, 1974.As of May 2012, the College had graduated more than25,500 students who are currently employed in more than200 area public and private businesses and institutions, orwho have transferred to more than 60 four-year colleges anduniversities for further study.6

Anti-Discrimination/Harassment PolicyLmay include, but are not limited to: unwanted sexual advancesor requests for sexual favors; sexual jokes and innuendo; verbal abuse of a sexual nature; commentary about an individual’sbody, sexual prowess or sexual deficiencies; leering, whistlingor touching; insulting or obscene comments or gestures; displayin the workplace/academic environment of sexually suggestiveobjects or pictures; and other physical, verbal or visual conduct ofa sexual nature. It also includes conduct that is not overtly sexualbut is directed to an employee or student because of his or hergender.Sexual harassment does not refer to occasional complimentsof a socially acceptable nature. It refers to behavior that is notwelcome and is personally offensive to the recipient or otherswho are witness to the behavior.uzerne County Community College is committed to awork and academic environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. Each individualhas the right to work and study in a professional atmosphere thatpromotes equal employment and educational opportunities andprohibits discriminatory practices, including harassment. Therefore, the College expects that all relationships among persons atthe College will be professional and free of bias, prejudice andharassment.It is the policy of the College to ensure equal employment andacademic opportunity without discrimination or harassment onthe basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, nationalorigin, or any other characteristic protected by law. No employee,student, vendor, visitor to the College or any other individual,either male or female, is expected to have to endure insulting,degrading or exploitative sexual treatment, or any other type ofdiscrimination, by other employees, supervisors, other students, or non-employees present in the workplace. The Collegetherefore prohibits any form of discrimination, including sexualharassment, as well as any retaliation against any individual whoreports discrimination or harassment or participates in an investigation of such reports.Other Unlawful HarassmentHarassment on the basis of any other protected characteristicis also strictly prohibited. Under this policy, such harassment includes verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of his/her race, color,religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability,marital status, citizenship or any other characteristic protected bylaw or that of his/her relatives, friends or associates, and that: (i)has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive work/academic environment; (ii) has the purpose or effectof unreasonably interfering with an individual’s work/academicperformance; or (iii) otherwise adversely affects an individual’semployment/educational opportunities.Harassing conduct includes, but is not limited to: epithets,slurs or negative stereotyping; threatening, intimidating or hostileacts; denigrating jokes; and written or graphic material thatdenigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individualor group and that which is placed on walls or elsewhere on theemployer’s premises or circulated in the workplace/academicenvironment.DEFINITION OF UNLAWFUL HARASSMENTSexual HarassmentThe College is committed to (1) assuring that no employee’sjob, continued employment, evaluation, promotion or otheraspect of career development will be dependent upon a favorableresponse to sexual advances or demands; (2) assuring that nostudent’s status, grade, or other aspect of his/her education, willbe dependent upon a favorable response to sexual advances or demands; (3) providing a means of resolving what is considered bythe employee or student to be sexual harassment; and (4) takingprompt and appropriate action to correct any such situations.Sexual harassment constitutes discrimination and is illegalunder federal, state, and local laws. It is defined as unwelcomesexual advances (either verbal or physical), requests for sexualfavors, and other verbal and/or physical conduct of a sexualnature that is unwelcome, personally offensive, lowers moraleand, therefore, interferes with work or academic effectiveness. Italso includes conduct that is not overtly sexual but is directed toan employee or student because of his or her gender. It generally refers to situations in which one or more of the following arepresent (this list is not all-inclusive):(1) submission to such conduct is made an implicit or explicitterm or condition of one’s employment or academic status;(2) submission or rejection of such conduct is used as a basisfor employment or academic assessment decisions; and(3) such conduct has the purpose or effect of unreasonablyinterfering with an individual’s work or academic performance orcreating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive work environmentSexual harassment may include a range of subtle and not sosubtle behaviors and may involve individuals of the same or different gender. Depending on the circumstances, these behaviorsINDIVIDUALS AND CONDUCT COVEREDThis policy applies to all applicants for employment, employees, students and visitors to the College, and to conduct engagedin by fellow employees, supervisors, managers, students oranyone not directly connected to the College, including but notlimited to customers, consultants, and outside vendors.Conduct prohibited by these policies is unacceptable in theRight-To-Know Open Records PolicyLuzerne County Community College will follow the Pennsylvania Right-To-Know Law (Act 3 of 2008, as signed by Gov.Edward G. Rendell on February 14, 2008, effective January 1,2009) regarding public access to a record or an agency’s writtennotice to a requester granting, denying or partially granting andpartially denying access to a record and for insuring a promptresponse to a request when appropriate.7

CONCLUSIONworkplace/academic environment and in any work- or academicrelated setting outside College property, such as during businesstrips, business meetings, and business-related social events, fieldtrips, sporting competition events and other College-related activities.The College has developed this policy to ensure that all of itsemployees, students, vendors and all visitors to the College canwork and study in an environment free from harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. The College will make every reasonableeffort to ensure that all individuals are familiar with this policyand aware that any complaint in violation of such policies will beinvestigated and resolved appropriately. Any employee who hasany questions or concerns about this policy should talk with theDean of Human Resources.False and malicious complaints of harassment, discriminationor retaliation as opposed to complaints which, even if erroneous,are made in good faith, may also be the subject of appropriatedisciplinary action.Finally, this policy should not, and may not, be used as a basisfor excluding or separating indivi

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