Campus News

Courtesy of the Brainerd Dispatch • October 13, 2013 Visit Brainerd recently announced a partnership with the Marketing Principles class at Central Lakes College, to act as the subject of their class marketing project. Visit Brainerd markets the lakes area as it represents lodging establishments in Brainerd and Baxter. Marketing …

Courtesy of the Brainerd Dispatch • October 3, 2013 By Jennifer Stockinger, Staff Writer Happy Joe’s Cafe may be the perfect name for Central Lakes College (CLC) cafeteria. The cafeteria was recently named when the college awarded its three-year food service bid to Prairie Bay Grill & Catering in Baxter …

Central Lakes College wishes to announce that it will host a site review for initial accreditation of its Practical Nursing and Associate Degree Nursing Programs by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). You are invited to meet the site visit team and share your comments about the programs …

The U.S. Department of Labor announced that Central lakes College will receive a grant of $3.7 million as part of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grant (TAACCCT) Program. CLC ($3,710,338) applied as a part of a multi-state consortium of community colleges led by Pine Technical College …

The next CLC Cultural Thursday presentation is headed to Beijing, China, where speaker, Spencer Hartsock, spent five months as a student at Minzu University.  Through the worldwide Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) program, he received credits in Anthropology and the Chinese language.  “As I had no prior knowledge of …

The Central Lakes College (CLC) Practical Nursing department has been diligently working to prepare for an upcoming national accreditation visit. The Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) is the governing organization for national accreditation for nursing programs. ACEN supports nursing education, nursing practice and the public. Central Lakes College …

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 …

Central Lakes College is offering a travel study course to Italy during spring semester 2014.  Led by CLC English and Humanities instructor, Michael Soderlund, the class is open to both CLC students and community members. The Italian Renaissance Experience class will consist of two parts: a classroom exploration of the art and literature …

Courtesy of the Brainerd Dispatch • September 4, 2013 By Mike O’Rourke, Associate Editor  Facing an estimated $17 trillion federal deficit, members of a capacity crowd at the Central Lakes College cafeteria sharpened their pencils and went to work Wednesday night. Rep. Rick Nolan, D-Minn., co-sponsored the interactive public forum …

Verse Like Water, the visiting poet program series of Central Lakes College presents inaugural poet Richard Bianco in the Chalberg Theatre at noon on September 13. A meet and greet, book signing, and workshop will follow the reading. This literary event is sponsored by the CLC English Department and the CLC Foundation. …