Mary Sam, Dean of Students, Equity and Inclusion at Central Lakes College, was selected to serve on the National Junior College Athletic Association Equity & Inclusion Council. “This role will help lift up the need for training and development to ensure NJCAA and partner colleges are working to reflect the student …

Community members are invited to attend the Central Lakes Jazz Orchestra and Wind Symphony’s concert titled Fall Winds: Voracious & Vivid. The event is at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at the Chalberg Theatre, Central Lakes College Brainerd campus. Tickets are $5 for adults and CLC students and children …

Students, community members, staff and faculty are invited to nominate a Central Lakes College instructor for the upcoming Minnesota State Board of Trustees Educator of the Year Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award is an honor granted upon Minnesota State faculty to acknowledge and reward exceptional professional accomplishments and …

Fueled by a lifetime of love, loss and leaving it all behind, Minneapolis singer/songwriter Rachel Ries brings her music group called Her Crooked Heart to Brainerd on November 7. The show debuts the Dryden Theatre Cabaret Series of events, a subset of the Central Lakes Community Performing Arts Center’s Cultural …

Community members are invited to a family-friendly Fall Festival at Central Lakes College’s Brainerd campus from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, October 25 in the cafeteria. Free activities include: crafts, snacks, fun activities, door prizes and cookie decorating. Other activities for a small donation include caricatures, a photo booth and face …

Student Life, the Drug and Alcohol Committee, and the Department of Equity and Inclusion are teaming up again this year to bring a series of events to our campuses in recognition of National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. Below is a list of events, locations and times. We hope to see …

Take 3 guys with big ambitions and an utter lack of common sense. Add a coffee house, hand shadow puppets, a trip to Zaire, things that disappear (and reappear), a gorilla running loose at a piano contest, and a very unfortunate appearance on national television. Result: Triple Espresso, the funniest …

Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program of Central Lakes College, will kick off its eighth year of programming by introducing Iranian-American Poet Kaveh Akbar at noon on Friday, Oct. 25 in the Chalberg Theatre, Brainerd campus. The event is free and open to the public. Akbar was born in …

Central Lakes College is please to have awarded 10 additional Workforce Development Scholarships to students for fall semester. The scholarships, totaling $2,500 each, will help students launch a career in a high-demand occupation in Minnesota. These scholarships were made possible by a $7 million appropriation from the Legislature after a …

In conjunction with Hispanic Heritage Month, Oscar Gonzalez will speak about Puerto Rico at noon on Thursday, Oct. 3 in the Chalberg Theatre at Central Lakes College’s Brainerd campus. Gonzalez, a Brainerd resident, will share about what it was like to grow up in Puerto Rico and move to the …