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Lake Land College offers several non-credit dance classes this fall

Check out the fall line up of dance classes offered by Scott and Cheryl Sweet through the Lake Land College Office of Community and Professional Programs.  Learn the slow, smooth, sophisticated and passionate Tango for Beginners, course number CE-RECR197-19479, on Sundays, Sept. 12, 19, 26 and Oct. 3 at 4:10 p.m.-5:10 p.m. on the Mattoon campus in Webb Hall room 081.  Cost of the class is $27. 

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Lake Land sustainability efforts recognized at international conference

Lake Land College's sustainability efforts are coming full circle and gaining international attention. The college will soon obtain an elite status when it comes to green energy efforts – it will fulfill three important components – decreasing energy use, generating a return on investment on green technologies and teaching students to attain green jobs.

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Lake Land College offers Computer Basics in Charleston

The Lake Land College Office of Community and Professional Programs will offer a course titled Computer Basics on Monday and Thursday, Sept. 20 – Oct. 7, 10a.m. – 12 p.m., at the LifeSpan Center, 11021 E. Co. Rd. 800 N., in Charleston. 

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Lake Land College dental hygiene clinic offers affordable oral healthcare

The Lake Land College dental hygiene clinic has a new location and more room to offer affordable dental care to the public, while also providing students a state-of-the-art education.

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Lake Land College hosts Let’s Build a Robot

LLC Summer College for Kids program, Let’s Build a Robot, helped students learn how to design, build, program and test three different robots. Participating students front row from left are, Matthew Dunn, Pana; Lane Gass, Mattoon; Kaleb Lynch, Charleston; C.J. Schmidt, Effingham; Ben Kruger, Effingham and Matthew Woomer, Effingham. Second row from left, Philip Salyers, Mattoon; Paul Elder, Sullivan; Matthew Kreke, Watson; and Nathan Carpenter, Mattoon.

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State cuts Lake Land College Adult Education funding

The Lake Land College Adult Education program recently received word from the state of Illinois that funding would be drastically cut for the fiscal year 2011 budget. Effective July 1, the fiscal year 2011 allocation was $303,774, a 66 percent decrease from the 2010 allocation of $693,465.

 

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Lake Land College offered Living a Purposeful Life

The Lake Land College Office of Community and Professional Programs helped community members give back this summer through a non-credit course titled Living a Purposeful Life. Participants included, from left, Jilian Beck, Mattoon, Chloe Borders, Mattoon, Katie Auer, Mattoon, Julia Griffin, Charleston.

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Lake Land College students reveal summer IT projects

Lake Land College students show off their summer projects.  Ben Cervi, Pana, is pictured here with the bionic hand that he helped create.  Through a black-wire glove, Ben controls the bionic hand, and it mimics his physical hand’s movement.   

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Lake Land College TRiO students travel to Champaign

TRIO ETS students in the locker room of the Fighting Illini basketball team.  Students kneeling from left are Kaitlyn Yorde, Brownstown; Javiera Green, Mattoon; Mayline Canseco, Pana, and Ashton Oakley, Beecher City; Standing from left, Tisha Niebrugge, Beecher City, Nicholas McGee, Brownstown; Valerie Lynch, outreach advisor, Pana; Blaine Morrison, Pana; Devin Friesland, Ramsey; Caleb Moody, Altamont; Alaina McCormick, Mattoon; Samantha Strobel, Ramsey; Logan Plummer, Pana; Shanisa Dunn, Brownstown; Doug Krueger, Beecher City; Autumn Kistler Wollin, Brownstown, and Jordan Koehler, Brownstown.

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Practical nursing graduates are pinned

Jane Slaughter, division chair allied health, left, is pictured here with the winners of the Practical Nursing Peer Award, given in each of the locations where the practical nursing program is taught. Pictured left to right are, Lori A. Baker of Mode, winner of the Kluthe Center for Higher Education and Technology Peer Award; Katherine M. Loudon of Charleston, winner of the Western Region Center Peer Award and Staci H. Tuthill of Charleston, winner of the Lake Land College campus Peer Award.    

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Green energy projects keep 2011 Lake Land budget in the black

Green projects are paying off at Lake Land College. The 2011 budget the board of trustees will vote on Monday night is $320,000 less than it could be.

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Lake Land College announces full-time spring semester honors list

Lake Land College released the 2010 spring semester full-time academic honors.To qualify for the president’s list, a student must have completed at least 12 credit hours per semester in courses numbered 040 or higher, excluding summer term, with a GPA of 3.8 – 4.0.

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Lake Land College announces part-time spring semester honors list

Lake Land College released the 2010 spring semester part-time academic honors list.

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Lake Land College adds new Highway Construction Careers Training Program

Through a new training program offered by Lake Land College and the Illinois Department of Transportation, people interested in the highway construction trade can prepare to transition into a union apprenticeship program.

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Lake Land College’s GIS certificate provides marketable skills

Everyone is searching for an advantage in the job market. Here’s your chance to put yourself above the rest and train for an emerging career field. “GIS is transforming the world. From Google Earth to plotting data in the business, agriculture, civil engineering, geography, conservation and wildlife professions, GIS is helping people solve problems, improve services and launch new initiatives,” said Mike Rudibaugh, GIS geography/earth science instructor.

 

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After just one semester, student applies new skills in internship

Hopefully, the work Adam Rush is doing for one of his projects as a GIS intern at the Edgar County Highway Department will never be needed. But, if it is, first responders will have extremely accurate footprints of every building in the area.

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Lake Land College hosts Let’s be a Rocket Scientist

Let’s be a Rocket Scientist, a Lake Land Summer College for Kids program, proved to be an exciting time for students 8 to 18. Scott Rhine, IT-Network Administration Program Coordinator, taught how to build two rockets made out of household materials. The students built an air powered rocket and a two liter bottle rocket powered by compressed air and water. Holding their two liter bottle rockets were, front row from left, Auggie Heal, Effingham; Trent Pearcy, Effingham; Jarrett Jones, Effingham; Aiden Short, Sullivan and Tim Ratliff, Ashmore. Back row from left were, Kaleb Lynch, Charleston; Austin Landreth, Toledo; Scott Rhine, instructor, Mattoon; Austin Sudkamp, Casey; Gabriel Stoll, Mattoon; Nathaniel Stoll, Mattoon and Nathan Carpenter, Mattoon.

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