With a national reputation for excellence in vocational-technical and academic instruction, We’ve been making history for more than 50 years.
Come make your own history with us.
Parkland College faculty and staff are dedicated and united in their passion for serving students. In addition to competitive salaries and robust benefits, you will enjoy the support, commitment to professional development, and collegial relationships that you will find here. Parkland employees enjoy coming to work and the community we've built here- and you will too!
Parkland is a fully accredited, public community college established to serve the needs of District 505, the third largest community college district in Illinois. Our college is a center for educational opportunity and community enrichment in east central Illinois and has earned a national reputation for its excellent academic standards, innovative programs, and quality instruction.
At Parkland we celebrate the diversity in both our community and our world. Our goal is to recognize, promote, utilize, and educate one another regarding the unique qualities and shared humanity of our people and cultures.
The mission of Parkland College is to engage the community in learning.
The following purposes are of equal importance in fulfilling the mission of Parkland College:
Parkland College has an institutional commitment to becoming an inclusive and welcoming place for all who work, study, or visit here. The Parkland College Mission and Purposes statement includes the following purpose:
Serve students by providing a climate throughout the college that values and promotes integrity, inquiry, diversity, inclusion, active citizenship, global awareness, and academic freedom.
The vision of Parkland College is to create a cohesive college community where we share, value, and understand the various cultures at the college. We promote learning by delving into the complexities of our multifaceted identities (including age, gender, gender identity, race, religion, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, nationality, and ability). We express this in our Statement of Core Values.
As an institution of learning, Parkland College cultivates inquiry, practical application of knowledge, and broad enrichment across our community. The following values are important to the fulfillment of Parkland College’s mission to provide programs and services of high quality to our students and community.