Central Lakes College will be holding several activities over the month of November in Celebration of Native American Heritage Month. About Native American Heritage Month What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made …
Read More »CLC Student Selected for 2014 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholarship
Jackson, MS – Bradley Aaesen (Brainerd/Baxter), a student at Central Lakes College, has been selected to receive a $1,000 scholarship from Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society as a 2014 Coca-Cola Leader of Promise Scholar. Selected as 2014 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholars, 207 Phi Theta Kappa members have been awarded …
Read More »Nominations Accepted for Educator of the Year
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 …
Read More »November Cultural Thursday Event: Cameroon
On November 6, Bemidji Schoolcraft French Instructor Megan Goplin will present on her time spent as an Agroforestry Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon. This month’s event will be held in the CLC Music Rehearsal Room (E471) on the Brainerd Campus from noon to 1:00 pm. Known as ‘Africa in miniature,’ …
Read More »Brainerd Woman Continues to Raise Funds for Late Husband’s Scholarship
In the fall of 2013, Faye Abrahamson helped establish a scholarship fund for her late husband, Pat Abrahamson, at Central Lakes College (CLC). On Thursday, October 2, Faye presented a check for $1,470 to Pam Thomsen, CLC director of research development and director of the CLC Foundation, for the “Patrick …
Read More »Community Invited in “Charting the Future”
Central Lakes College and other Minnesota State Colleges and Universities are engaged in a collaborative process called Charting the Future to develop specific actions to better serve our students and communities, strengthen our colleges and universities, and protect our unique character and autonomy. Charting the Future (CTF) implementation teams in …
Read More »CLC Costa Rica Travel Study
Early Enrollment Discount Fast Approaching PURA VIDA! Join three CLC Instructors as they take you through beautiful Costa Rica. Learn about the land, the language and the people of this peaceful nation. If you enroll for this opportunity by October 15, 2014, you will receive a $200 discount. You need …
Read More »CLC Science Faculty Engage Students with NASA Grant Funded Project
Central Lakes College instructors in Physics, Robotics, and Geoscience have been awarded a NASA grant to provide select students an opportunity to participate in a Quad-Copter competition. In this competition a team of 5 students will assemble, learn to fly, and modify a quad-copter. The project ends with a competition …
Read More »Student Success Day 2014
Featuring Guest: Speaker C.L. Lindsay The seventh annual Student Success Day at Central Lakes College was held on Wednesday, Sept. 24 on the Brainerd and Staples campuses. The day was dedicated to all CLC students’ success, with informative and enriching activities including sessions on time management, college budgeting, stress management, career …
Read More »Cultural Thursday: Hepokoski Experience in Chile
The speakers for this month are Bob Hepokoski and his wife Giselle, who will be taking the audience to South America and to share their experience of working with the Mapuche natives in present day Chile. The second Cultural Thursday event of the 2014-15 season will be held on October …
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