News and Stories
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...
Students take sustainable beef practices to the bank
An $18.52 cheque caused excitement among Lakeland College animal science technology (AST) students earlier this year. Students involved in the commercial beef unit of the Student-Managed Farm - Powered by New Holland (SMF) received the payment in March after an animal they sold was processed through...
Livestock Facility Growing
Livestock production-efficiency research at Lakeland College received a makeover with upgrades to the existing GrowSafe: Feed Intake (GFI) technology and two four-position GrowSafe Beef (GSB) units. The new equipment and upgrades will improve Lakeland's beef research activities and testing services...