Due to a rise in job openings, local partners are working together to increase awareness and develop skills for entry into careers in the manufacturing employment sector. A FastTRAC Manufacturing grant in the amount of $100,000 is supporting the plan to build career pathways for unemployed/underemployed people. Partners are Rural …
Read More »Food shelf and bookstore update
The Brainerd campus of Central Lakes College has a new location for some important student-centered functions. You can now find the Student Life Center upstairs (C226) in the area that was formerly occupied by the Veterans Resource Center. This area includes a student lounge space, video games, pool tables, foosball, …
Read More »Fall term begins
They may need a little extra time to negotiate the College Drive construction zone for the next seveal weeks, but students arriving at the Brainerd campus of Central Lakes College today were energized and welcomed to the 2012-13 academic year at the community and technical college. Pam Smith and her Post-Secondary Enrollment …
Read More »Economic development forum
The Rosenmeier Center for State and Local Government at Central Lakes College (CLC) will host a Forum on the Economic Development Future of the Brainerd Lakes Area from 7 to 9:30 p.m., Wed., Sept. 5, in the Chalberg Theatre on the Brainerd campus. With the country still on shaky economic …
Read More »Caution on College Drive
When the fall semester at Central Lakes College begins Monday, Aug. 27, motorists and pedestrians will find College Drive in front of CLC ‘s Brainerd campus open with limitations. The reconstruction project is nearing completion, with an additional lane of traffic both ways eventually allowing for efficient transport and safe …
Read More »Welcome Week opens academic year
The fall semester of the 2012-13 academic year at Central Lakes College (CLC) in Brainerd and Staples, a community and technical college ranked by the Aspen Institute as one of the Top 120 in the U.S., begins Monday, Aug. 27. The first five days constitute Welcome Week for the more …
Read More »Bequests
The Central Lakes College Foundation, Brainerd and Staples, has announced the inception of two endowments – one bequest for a student engineering-science scholarship and one to support the activities of the Gordon Rosenmeier Center for State and Local Government at CLC. Roberta Rott of Maple Plain has provided $10,000 for …
Read More »International students
Eight new international students enrolled at Central Lakes College are being introduced this week by adviser Megan Heppner on the Brainerd campus. They are part of the Community Colleges for International Development program and have come to CLC for one year. “We have been BUSY in Chicago all week,” Megan said last …
Read More »Broadcasters program
KSTP-TV news anchor Jessica Miles, a Brainerd-area native, joins her media director husband, Cory Kampschroer, on Thursday, Aug. 16 at Central Lakes College (CLC) to discuss “What’s Happening to Broadcast News?” The Center for Lifelong Learning at CLC is hosting the one-hour program which starts at 4 p.m. and will …
Read More »Congressional debate
The Brainerd campus of Central Lakes College will host a debate among three DFL candidates for the 8th Congressional District on Monday, Aug. 6 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Debate Minnesota, a nonpartisan organization, will sponsor the debate among Tarryl Clark, Jeff Anderson, and Rick Nolan. The debate will take …
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