You can help Lane Massage students learn & grow,
and can get a massage while doing so!

Come experience our
Professional Practices Massage Studio!

For information, or to schedule an appointment,
contact Chelsea at: (541) 954-7993

Paramedics on hand at the finish line got to enjoy watching the race with no hospital runs, at least through late morning. But a free massage station beneath the grandstands resembled a military field hospital. It had 25 tables and was staffed by students from the Lane Community College massage program. By four hours into the race, the tables were all in use and a crowd of stiff and sore runners sat in a makeshift waiting room for their turns.

Lane Massage is proud to be represented so professionally by our exceptional students, and to play such a welcome role in events that bring our community together!

• Willamette Valley Cancer Center (19.5 hours)
• U of O Dance-a-thon (15 hours)
• Sponsor’s Women’s Program (14 hours)
• Lane CC Health Fair (12 hours)
• Project Homeless (11.5 hours)
• Tamarack Wellness Center (10 hours)
• Looking Glass (8.5 hours)
• Umpqua Home for the Handicapped – Roseburg (8.5 hours)

Students also performed 50 hours of service at nursing and foster homes, and assisted living facilities. The Lane Massage Program is proud to have such dedicated and compassionate students!

As many of you may recall from your attendance at a pre-registration informational meeting, we recommend that most students take at least 6 terms to complete the massage program. This recommendation is based on the fact that you are developing not only new skills but also new sensory awareness, and it takes time to hone those skills and that new awareness before entering into massage practice.

We understand that some students have a relevant academic or health care background, or even come to us with experience practicing massage in other places, and may move through the program at a faster pace. Additionally, some students are managing very busy lives and full-time employment while attending school, and they may move through more slowly. The fact that we have an open entry-open exit program means that students are afforded endless options regarding how they arrange classes and at what pace they complete them.

This flexibility is generally a significant advantage to our program, compared to others that lock students into very strict scheduling. However, it also means that students may face increased scheduling conflicts as they mold the program around their lives, because class and instructor scheduling can only be organized to avoid conflicts based on one “ideal” plan. We feel the 6-term plan best balances students’ desires to become licensed and begin their practice with the need to give new knowledge, skills, and senses some time to develop. Therefore, that is the plan on which we base our class scheduling. Unfortunately, this means that if you have completed classes outside of that plan’s recommendations, you may face some scheduling challenges as you move through the program.

We understand that it can be frustrating when scheduling dictates, for example, that you extend your education by one term to complete just a single class… But we also hope you can understand how hard we work to reconcile instructor schedules (after all, our instructors are all working practitioners with busy lives!) with both student needs and the functional capacity of classroom availability. As enrollment at Lane increases, and more credit classes are held in the Downtown Center, our scheduling will become ever more constricted. Please refer to the 6-term plan as you plot your course through the program, and know that, despite our best efforts, any other plan may not be so well accommodated by scheduling. We will continue to do our part to try to meet students’ needs (a day/night class rotation, for instance), and are always brainstorming about how we can further improve both the massage program as a whole and our support to students specifically!

Thank you all for your curiosity, passion, and desire to learn!

Registration for continuing education classes opened just yesterday, on December 1st. If you were unable to register before now, that is why, but…

1. If you have ever taken a credit-level class at LCC, you are forever considered a credit-level student and must be released for registration by Kathy each term. This simply requires you to email Kathy with your name and L# at the start of registration so that she can override the system defaults.

2. Registration for courses that require you to have completed a pre-requisite will not be possible until you have finished this term and your instructor has entered your grade for that pre-requisite class.

Finally, please remember that if you wish to be in a class that appears online to be full, you are asked to come to the first day of class and discuss your options with the instructor. Students who are registered sometimes do not show up, making room for others. Accordingly, attendance on the first day of class is mandatory, so if you are registered for a class that you plan to attend through the term but you are unable to be present on that first day, you must contact the instructor (all instructors have an envelope icon next to their name in ExpressLane; clicking on it will allow you to email them) so that they do not offer your spot to someone else.

Please contact Kathy if you have registration questions, or the appropriate instructor(s) if you have any questions about particular classes. Thanks!

1. Registration opened just last Friday, on November 20th, for continuing education classes. If you were unable to register before that, this is why.

2. Also, if you have ever taken a credit-level class at LCC, you are forever considered a credit-level student and must be released for registration by Kathy each term. This may sound like a tedious process, but it simply requires you to email Kathy with your name and L# at the start of registration so that she can override the system defaults.

3. We have introduced pre-requisites into the computer system, so registration for courses that require you to have completed a pre-requisite may be impossible until you have finished this term and your instructor has entered your grade for that class. Please keep in mind that you are not alone, and that a number of other students are likely also blocked from registering until they have received a grade! In other words, there is little need for concern about whether or not you will be able to get into a class, especially if it has pre-requisites.

4. Although you will be able to register in the coming days, if you have not yet paid your Fall 2009 term bill your registration will be purged from the system on Wednesday, November 25th. So, we highly recommend waiting to register until you have paid your bill. We do not expect Winter term classes to fill as quickly or completely as Fall term classes did; therefore, waiting to register is not anticipated to be a problem.

5. And, finally, please remember that if you wish to be in a class that appears online to be full, you are asked to come to the first day of class and discuss your options with the instructor. It is not uncommon that students who are registered do not show up, making room for others. If you are registered for a class that you do plan to attend through the term but you are unable to be present on that first day of class, you must contact the instructor (all instructors have an envelope icon next to their name in ExpressLane; clicking on it will allow you to email them) so that they do not offer your spot to someone else. Since ATTENDANCE ON THE FIRST DAY OF CLASS IS MANDATORY, an instructor will not hold a spot for a registered student who has not communicated about missing the first day.

Hopefully, this clears up some confusion. We apologize for any anxiety you may have experienced while trying to register! Please feel free to contact Kathy if you have registration questions, or your instructors if you have any questions about particular classes. Thanks!

Please take note: we are mixing things up this summer and trying “intensive” sections in many courses, meaning that classes will run twice a week in either the first or last five weeks of the term. You will need to plan accordingly, keeping in mind that the same amount of material will be presented in a compressed format. That’s twice the studying and homework in half the time. There are advantages, of course, such as the chance to take half the summer off from school, or the opportunity to complete classes in a series that would normally take two terms to complete. So, have a look at the schedule and begin to plan for what will work best for you!

Here are the changes:
COMMUNICATION FROM THE HEART ONE was on Thursdays from 6-9pm, and is now on Wednesdays from 6-9pm

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES was on Wednesdays from 6-8pm, and is now on Thursdays from 4-6pm

APP 5 was on Wednesdays from 1-4pm, and is now on Thursdays from 9:30am-12:30pm

Thanks!