Parkland Facilities & Computer Labs
Built on 233 acres of landscaped grounds in Champaign, Illinois, Parkland College is one of the most advanced community colleges in the nation. Our facilities include an FM radio station, an educational TV station, and an art gallery where graphic design students showcase their work every year. Our cultural center contains a 320-seat performing arts theater and a 50-foot dome planetarium, the second largest in Illinois. Parkland also has a child development center to serve the needs of faculty, staff, students, and families in our community.
The graphic design program uses a fully-equipped Macintosh computer lab with 20 workstations. The classroom is equipped with high-speed internet connections, an LCD projector, and the latest version of the Adobe Creative Suite.
Each semester, we schedule up to 20 hours of open lab per week in the graphic design computer lab. In addition, there are 8 Macintosh computers with matching software in a general lab with extended hours.
Parkland's library has a collection of over 120,000 volumes including an up-to-date collection of graphic design books, annuals and periodicals. We make an attempt to purchase every significant new title useful to graphic designers that Parkland's budget will allow.
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