2025 News
Clinical certificate amplifies Lakeland's esthetician program
Lakeland College's School of Health and Wellness is growing with a new clinical esthetician certificate program. The clinical esthetician program will share the same curriculum as Lakeland's esthetician program, with a third semester of advanced courses focused on clinical procedures: clinical...
Historic $4M gift establishes bison operation at Lakeland
Armin and Rita Mueller, owners of Canadian Rangeland Bison and Elk, are donating $4 million to Lakeland College to purchase land and establish a bison herd at the college. The gift will strengthen Lakeland's two-year animal science technology program at the Vermilion campus and provide more student-managed...
Armin and Rita Mueller invest in the future of bison
Armin and Rita Mueller emigrated from Switzerland to Canada in the 1970s. Through hard work and innovation, they succeeded first in the dairy industry and then in the bison industry. The owners of Canadian Rangeland Bison and Elk recently announced a $4 million donation to Lakeland College to...
New lab spaces improve student experience
Lakeland College put student experience at the forefront of newly renovated environmental sciences and agricultural sciences lab spaces. The four enhanced labs in Academic Link at the Vermilion campus opened at the beginning of the winter 2020 semester and will be used by hundreds of students...
60 years and counting for Emergency Training Centre
For more than six decades, Lakeland's Emergency Training Centre (ETC) has trained leaders for the frontline of emergency services. When ETC—then known as the Fire Officers Training School—opened in 1959 under the jurisdiction of the Alberta Fire Commissioner's Office, approximately 100 aspiring...