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Students establish industry connections at livestock information field day
Close to 100 agricultural sciences students attended Lakeland's Canadian Angus at Lakeland Technology & Information Field Day last month at the Centre for Ag Technology and G.N. Sweet Livestock Research Facility. Featuring industry experts from the Canadian Angus Association (CAA), Growsafe,...

HOPE students hired to Energy Centre operation
Lakeland College offers a tremendous opportunity studies for second-year heavy oil power engineering students to take their first career steps during their studies. Students are hired as student operators and tasked to operate the Lloydminster campus and Energy Centre boilers on weekends. “Working...

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 lessons continue to inspire agribusiness alumna
Agribusiness alumna Makayla Moen was drawn to Lakeland's Vermilion campus because of the rodeo team and opportunity to study both business and agriculture simultaneously. She liked the community so much, she ended up staying. Now, using the lessons she learned during her time at Lakeland, Moen...

Co-operative values drive alumna's success
Working for purpose is how Leanne Hawes has approached her work at Lloydminster and District Co-op (Lloyd Co-op) for nearly a decade. It's also how this Lakeland College business alumna will continue to approach her work as the organization's new chief executive officer (CEO). “It's truly about...