2025 News
Students learn to facilitate restorative circles
Inspired by Indigenous practices, classroom circles are a framework for building community through respectful communication. This semester, human services students at Lakeland College met with facilitator Sharon Steinhauer and spent a day learning about how these restorative practices can be useful...
Health and wellness programs spark entrepreneurial spirit
Courtney Kinch's Lakeland College education was more than haircuts and manicures. The hairstyling student and esthetician alumna, Class of 2019, is already on track to start a business thanks to the programs' business courses. “I didn't expect to learn the business side of esthetics and hairstyling....
Lakeland experience motivates students to their fullest potential
For two business students, Lakeland College has meant seizing opportunity after opportunity. Beyond their second-year general business diploma studies, Mena Nighttraveler and Jayme Atcheynum are thrilled with their Lakeland experience, which has also included participating in Synergy Speakers'...
Students adapt and overcome for Beef Day
Beef Day 2020 was a success, despite students facing unprecedented challenges during the final weeks leading up to the annual event. Beef Day gives students with the Student-Managed Farm - Powered by New Holland (SMF) purebred beef, commercial beef and livestock research units the opportunity to...
School of Agricultural Sciences dean wins dairy award
Lakeland College is pleased to share that Josie Van Lent was honoured with the John J Kennelly Western Canadian Dairy Seminar Award of Merit. The award was presented to Van Lent, dean of the School of Agricultural Sciences, at the Western Canadian Dairy Seminar in Red Deer, Alta., on March 11,...