The Riverland Community College Foundation will be hosting an Empty Bowls fundraiser to fight food insecurity for students on March 24, 2022 from 11:30 to 1 p.m.

The event is a partnership between Riverland’s ceramics students and the Riverland Foundation. The event will feature one-of-a-kind “empty bowls” created by Riverland’s ceramic students and faculty to build awareness about food insecurity issues.   Advance tickets are necessary and available for sale at www.riverland.edu/emptybowls.

Leaders in Government, Education, Health Care,
the Arts, Faith and Business Among 23 Previous Awardees

Nominations are open for the 2022 Riverland Community College Distinguished Alumni Award which recognizes contributions Riverland alumni make and increases the pride all alumni, students, staff and faculty have for Riverland.

Riverland’s team spirit and positive energy were on full display again while working on the “Books For Africa” service project this fall semester.  The project was initiated last spring when the bookstore needed to dispose of books to create more room—books that faculty were no longer using or older editions that could not be bought back.

Riverland Theatre continues its fall season with Anne of Green Gables, a one-act play adaptation of the classic novel by L.M. Montgomery. Anne of Green Gables will be performed Nov. 19 and 20 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. in the Frank W. Bridges Theatre on Riverland’s Austin Campus.

Riverland Community College has named Christy Tryhus as new academic dean of Business, Social Sciences, Public Safety, and Customized Training. She starts her new position Sept. 29.

Jerry Girton, a theater educator and director with a wealth of experience at Riverland Community College (1989-2011), at Perpich Center and across the state, was honored with the Minnesota Educational Theater Association’s (META) Dedicated Lifetime Award at the Communication & Theater Association of Minnesota conference on September 18, 2021.

After an eighteen-month pandemic hiatus, Riverland Community College Theatre is resuming in-person performances on the East Building of the Austin Campus at the Frank W. Bridges Theatre with The SpongeBob Musical.

Students considering their higher education options can apply for admission to any of the 30 colleges and seven universities of Minnesota State without paying an undergraduate application fee for all or part of October as part of Minnesota State Week and College Knowledge Month promotions.

Riverland Community College recently became one of only three colleges in the country to earn accreditation for its concurrent enrollment program this year. The National Association of Concurrent Enrollment Programs (NACEP) is the predominate accrediting body for dual enrollment college classes taught in the high schools. The Riverland College NOW Program is fully accredited.

Riverland Community College is pleased to announce the students whose academic achievement placed them on the 2021spring president’s and dean’s lists. Riverland congratulates these individuals for their outstanding academic accomplishments.

The trucking industry has been taking a bit of a detour lately.

Driver numbers are declining as the trucking business need keeps increasing.

Jonathan Rymer is an instructor at Riverland Community and Technical College.

"Most of the folks that are retiring, they've worked thirty, forty years in it. And they're retiring," he said. "There's just not enough young folks to come and replace them."

Today, on this anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, we honor how he has changed the world by posting the next Equity 2030 blog article, Minnesota State Leading the Way to Law Enforcement Education Reform, coauthored by Minnesota State Trustee George Soule, Minnesota Higher Education Commissioner Dennis Olson, and Minnesota State Associate Vice Chancellor Satasha Green-Stephen.  This article, as well as past and future blog posts, can be found on the Minnesota Equity 2030 webpage.

A house built as a collaboration between the Riverland Community College Carpentry and Electrical program and the Austin Housing Redevelopment Authority will soon be on the market.

Riverland’s team spirit and positive energy were on full display while working on a service project to donate books to “Books for Africa”. “Books for Africa” is a non-profit that collects book donations in the United States and distributes them to different countries and communities in Africa. The bookstore needed to dispose of some books to create space in the store. Books the faculty were no longer using or older editions that could not be returned to publishers.