News and Stories
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...
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...
Lakeland's Safe Spaces: allies to the LGBTQ+ community
A visual representation of support for individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, two-spirited, queer and questioning (LGBTQ+) are now in various areas of Lakeland College. Marked around the Lloydminster and Vermilion campuses are rainbow-hued Safe Space stickers, a design approved...
Lakeland honoured as 2019 NKBA College of the Year
The National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) named Lakeland College the 2019 NKBA College of the Year for its interior design technology program. Lakeland previously won this accolade in 2017. “Our interior design technology diploma program is very diverse and comprehensive. We do not set...