Campus News

National and internationally known artists will converge on the Brainerd Lakes area as part of the 2011-12 Cultural Arts Series sponsored by Central Lakes College Theatre. Series producer Patrick Spradlin calls this the most ambitious season of the series’ history, with 15 scheduled events and plans to add additional programs …

On a sunny, late summer day the fall semester of the 2011-12 academic year began today at Central Lakes College, Brainerd and Staples. At each entrance and in various locations inside each building, staff members helped students find their classes. Kari Christiansen, vice president of administrative services, helped Hannah Hinnenkamp …

Central Lakes College hosted more than 100 high school instructors, counselors, and administrators on Thursday, Aug. 18 for an in-service day at the Brainerd campus. The College-in-the-Schools program allows high school students to take college-level courses taught in their home district by qualified high school instructors. The credits are fully …

A sure sign that the fall semester of classes at Central Lakes College is fast approaching was the return of instructors. On Wed., Aug. 17 they convened in the cafeteria of the Brainerd campus, greeting colleagues old and new for the first of two Duty Days. Included in the agenda …

Heidi Wille, a 2010 Central Lakes College grad now a senior at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, recently studied abroad in Cuernavaca, Mexico, through the Latin American Context program. The experience was life-changing. Heidi has found that “it is much easier to feel compassion for people when you understand what they …

The fall 2011 season for the Central Lakes College Community Band will begin on Monday, Sept 12 at 7 p.m. in the rehearsal hall of the Brainerd campus. “European Night,” the theme for the fall concert, will be the atmosphere of the music. All wind band players of at least …

Scott Thiss, chair of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees, and Cecilia Retelle, manager of the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Education and Labor Management Policy Committee and a lobbyist for Minnesota business, came to Central Lakes College Tuesday, Aug. 16, to visit with administration and tour some …

Larry Kellerman was busy on the Brainerd campus the week before faculty returned for the 2011-12 academic year at Central Lakes College. The librarian was adjusting the display of nation flags that occupies the cross beams on the south side of the center of campus, along the vision wall. Larry …

The Central Lakes College Community Band tour of Central Europe is the first Cultural Thursday program of the new academic year at Central Lakes College, Brainerd. It is Thursday, Sept. 1. The free, 50-minute public event starts at noon in Chalberg Theatre. It will showcase the July 18-28 concert tour …

The volleyball season at Central Lakes College has begun, with 12 student athletes joining Head Coach Jane Peterson and Assistant Ken Miller for drills as of Aug. 12. The team hosts an eight-team scrimmage on Thursday before its official opener in a two-day intensive at Ridgewater (Willmar) vs. teams from …