Lebanon Valley College to Serve as Harrisburg Area Community College’s Lebanon Campus  

Neidig-Garber Science Center building exterior

Lebanon Valley College and HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, are formalizing a new partnership relocating HACC’s Lebanon campus to LVC in August 2025. Through the lease agreement, LVC will host HACC’s administrative and instructional space for three in-person courses on the ground floor of the Vernon & Doris Bishop Library. HACC-Lebanon lab instruction will be held in LVC’s Neidig-Garber Science Center. LVC and HACC will remain separate educational institutions and will not merge curriculums, faculty, or classes. 

About 25 HACC students plus faculty and staff will be on campus at any given time. Along with access to Bishop Library, HACC students can apply for commuter parking passes and purchase meals at Metz dining services locations on campus. Thirty additional LVC commuter parking spaces are now available in Annville’s municipal lot.

“This partnership forms an educational hub for Lebanon County that opens doors of opportunity,” said Dr. James M. MacLaren, LVC President.

Students who complete degrees at HACC will find support for and ease of transferring to LVC. LVC offers a $1,000 LVC-HACC dual admission transfer scholarship and provides easy transfer pathways for HACC students. In October, the College announced that it received a $250,000 American Talent Initiative IDEAS Fund Grant to support community college students who transfer to LVC. A full-time Transfer Student Advisor joined LVC on March 10, 2025, to launch the initiative.

Intermediate Unit 13’s School-to-Work program occupies space on the ground floor of Bishop Library. That space will be used to host HACC’s in-person classes, and LVC can schedule classes there too if needed. IU13 will move to the Allan W. Mund College Center this summer after planned renovations to the ground and main floors are completed. The move will bring School-to-Work students into the center of student activity.

A celebratory event marking the LVC-HACC arrangement will be held in Bishop Library on April 23.

Questions about LVC’s welcoming of HACC-Lebanon should be directed to Molly O’Brien-Foelsch, Vice President of Marketing and Communications, at 717-867-6038 or
mobrien@lvc.edu. 

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