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Parkland Campus and Facilities

Parkland’s unique campus is one of the finest and most advanced community college facilities in the nation. The New York Museum of Modern Art included the college’s architectural design in its 1979 “Transformations in Modern Architecture,” an exhibit and book featuring examples of outstanding late twentieth-century architecture.

The 233-acre campus is located in the center of District 505, near the intersection of interstate highways 57, 72, and 74 (see maps).

The brick exterior walls and sloping clay tile roofs of the campus add to the interior design where comfortable furnishings suggest a “home-away-from-home” atmosphere for the many students commuting daily from nearby communities. Special features of the building include slanted, open-ceiling lines; planned intermingling of career and transfer curriculum areas; and faculty-student modules (lounge and study areas located near classrooms and faculty offices). All college facilities are fully accessible to students with disabilities.

Parkland’s instructional classroom-laboratory wings and the administrative wing are interconnected and joined to the centrally located College Center. This design enables travel to any part of the center of campus without going out-of-doors, with the exception of the gymnasium. The interior traffic patterns of the campus promote a mix of people with maximum student and faculty contacts. A close cooperation and working relationship exist between faculty and students in both transfer and technical areas. The overall openness and integration of laboratories and classrooms enhance both kinds of programs.

A new instructional wing was completed in January 2002 and joins the College Center on the first floor and the C Wing through a second floor bridge. Second !o or connections to improve student flow between three other wings and the College Center were completed in fall 2001.

The Tony Noel Agricultural Technology Applications Center, located near the Duncan Road entrance, opened for instruction in February 2001. The multi-purpose facility contains classrooms, computer lab, and a large laboratory for demonstrating agricultural equipment for Agriculture Training Institute workshops, short courses, and programs to serve the agricultural community in east central Illinois, as well as a training facility for the Diesel Power Equipment Technology program. The Prairie Gardens Plant Lab opened for horticulture instruction fall semester 2006. In 2007 Parkland acquired the property at 1307-1319 N. Mattis Avenue. The building is home to the Parkland Business Development Center, the Construction Education Alliance, the Illinois workNet Center, and several Parkland Health Professions programs.

College Center	Parkland College Theatre
Parkland Art Gallery	Center for Excellence    in Teaching and Learning
College Bookstore
The Library	Computer Technology Center
Child Development Center	PCTV
WPCD
The William M. Staerkel Planetarium