Hannah Janzen (Palisade, MN), a student at Central Lakes College, has been named a 2014 Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team Silver Scholar. The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation sponsors the Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team program by recognizing 50 Gold, 50 Silver and 50 Bronze Scholars, and providing nearly $200,000 in scholarships …
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CLC Viticulture Enology Science and Technology Alliance (VESTA) students Christy Paulson and Luke Sombke were awarded the Elmer Swenson Scholarship at the Cold Climate Conference at the Grand Awards Banquet in St. Paul. This is the second year Christy received the award. Minnesota Grape Growers Association award of $1,000 is …
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Winners Announced in the 29th Annual Educational Advertising Awards – CLC Wins Gold for Newspaper Advertising Winners were announced in the Twenty-Ninth Annual Educational Advertising Awards, sponsored by Higher Education Marketing Report. The Educational Advertising Awards is the largest educational advertising awards competition in the country. This year, nearly 2,000 …
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As Central Lakes College celebrates its 75th anniversary, officials will be recognizing and honoring 75 distinguished alumni. The CLC Foundation is now seeking CLC alumni nominations specifically for the following years: 1942-46, 1953-56, 1961, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1987, 1992, 1999, 2000, 2005, 2007, and 2012. If you …
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Connie Frisch, Dean of Allied Health Programs The Dental Assisting program participated in Give Kids A Smile on February 7th. CLC provided free dental services for children up to age 18. Radiographs, mechanical polishing and fluoride varnish along with a dental exam were free on this day. This is the …
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Steve Dornfeld will present at the Rosenmeier Center Forum on Monday, December 2nd at 7 pm at Central Lakes College’s Chalberg Theater in Brainerd. Dornfeld, who is writing a biography of the State Senator, states that Gordon Rosenmeier was perhaps the most powerful Senator of his time. Award-winning journalist Steve …
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Verse Like Water: the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, in collaboration with Crossing Arts Alliance, has been granted $65,422 to fund first class literary arts events across 2014. The American poets Billy Collins, Sherman Alexie, Tracy K. Smith, and Robert Hass will present a series of afternoon readings …
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The MnSCU Board of Trustees is now accepting nominations for Educator of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award is an honor bestowed upon Minnesota State Colleges & Universities faculty to acknowledge and reward exceptional individual professional accomplishment and to encourage ongoing excellence in teaching. Central Lakes College …
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Courtesy of the Brainerd Dispatch • September 13, 2013 By Mike O’Rourke, Associate Editor Growing up as a “barely middle class” immigrant in Miami, poet Richard Blanco said there were pressures that led him toward the practical choice of an engineering degree. He’s worked, on and off, for 20 years …
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The North Central Minnesota Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Central Lakes College (CLC) was recently awarded $42,000 per year for the next two years to provide management consulting services to small businesses in 11 counties of central Minnesota. The funds were awarded through the Business Competitive Development Grant program …
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