Riverland Community College Theatre kicks off their 2019-2020 season with the play Wilson’s Girl: Unpacking the Beef in a Minnesota Town. In this world premiere, local Minnesota playwright Eva Barr adapts Cheri Register’s 2001 memoir about coming of age in Albert Lea during the 1959 Wilson’s meatpacking plant strike.

A groundbreaking for a new transportation, trade, and industrial education center was held Tuesday at Riverland Community College’s Albert Lea campus.

Riverland Community College Theatre Director Lindsey Duoos Williams announced the Riverland’s 2019-2020 lineup today. The new season will present a variety of plays and musicals, including a world premiere of a new play by a local playwright to be performed at both the Austin and Albert Lea campuses.

Auditions for Wilson’s Girl will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 27 and 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. Auditions for Once Upon a Mattress will be held Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 9 and 10 from 6 to 8 p.m. 

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society announces Magulado
named Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar

Dani-Annkay Magulado, a business major from Riverland Community College is one of 207 Phi Theta Kappa members named a 2019 Coca-Cola Leaders of Promise Scholar and will receive a $1,000 scholarship.

The two performance choirs will join forces for the
Season providing more opportunities for musicians

The 2019-2020 concert seasons for the Northwestern Singers and for Riverland Community College’s College Choir will look remarkably similar.

That’s because the Riverland College Choir and the Northwestern Singers are joining their choirs together for the season. Although the missions of the two groups are different, their overall goal is the same: to make and share great music.

Riverland Community College and Minnesota State University, Mankato
host an open house for working adults pursuing business degree

If you are a working adult looking to start or complete a degree, Riverland Community College and Minnesota State University, Mankato have partnered to deliver an innovative, fully online, flexible program. Learn more about our innovative FlexPace^SM program that allows working adults to earn business degrees at an Open House scheduled for June 26 at the Owatonna Campus from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The event will also be streamed live via the internet for those that can’t make a personal appearance.

Out of 1,300 chapters in nine countries, Riverland Community College’s Phi Theta Kappa Zeta Eta chapter honors student organization has been named a Distinguished Chapter at the 2019 Phi Theta Kappa International Catalyst convention in Orlando, Florida, this past weekend.

Riverland Community College is proud to announce Kim Hansen and Heidi Schara have been selected to receive the College’s 2019 Outstanding Educator Award. Instructors were nominated by faculty, students, and staff, and completed an extensive portfolio of their work and accomplishments at Riverland in order to be considered for the award.

An Austin student is hoping to become president of a group that represents college students across Minnesota, and he's focusing on an issue that's being felt in places you might not think.

More than 300 firefighters from more than 100 different departments in Minnesota gathered in Rochester this weekend for fire and rescue training.

Why college? To fully understand all the benefits that a college can provide in achieving a future career, it helps to be on a college campus. All Pacelli junior and high School students have been provided such a visit this spring to Riverland Community College.

Rochester Community and Technical College has seen a nearly 21 percent drop in enrollment during the last seven years, a fall that has prompted officials to investigate ways of reversing the trend.

Last month, RCTC President Jeffery Boyd used his blog to call for changes at the college and invited a dozen faculty and staff to participate in an Enrollment Summit.

Developing the future generation of agricultural leaders, Riverland Community College sent its best to the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization conference last week.
More than 600 career-ready professional agricultural students, their collegiate advisors and industry representatives gathered in Loveland, Colorado, for three days of national-level competition, workshops to develop their networking skills as well as going on industry tours.

ST. PAUL — The President of Riverland Community College was appointed Friday to the state’s Commission on Judicial Selection.

In the Minnesota College Athletic Conference, men's basketball teams in the Southern Division battled from start to finish in the regular season with several teams in the hunt for post-season spots.  In the end, two teams tied for top honors with St. Cloud Technical & Community College and Riverland Community College claiming co-champion honors.  Western Technical College had a chance to extend their season until a final victory by Rochester CTC over M State-Fergus Falls provided passage for the Yellowjackets to capture the fourth seed in the post-season.  Anoka-Ramsey Community College claimed a third-place regular season spot to allow them to participate in the Region XIII tournament held on their campus, while Ridgewater College and Minnesota West CTC will look to rebuild for a run at the 2019-2020 campaign.  Coach-of-the-Year voting was as close as the Divisional race and was decided by one vote; Derek Hahn of Riverland Community College claimed COY in the Southern Division for 2018-19. 

The 14-player MCAC Southern All-Division selections- as nominated by and voted on by Conference coaches - has been named and is available at this link.

Riverland Community College put together one of the strongest regular-season resume's of any tournament team, rolling to a 22-5 overall record and 10-4 Conference mark. 

Austin’s arts community continues to grow, as does the city’s diversity – which is the focus of a photography exhibit at Riverland Community College.