| Northern Lakes College | |
| Established: | 25 August 1999 |
| Type: | Public comprehensive community college |
| President: | Glenn Mitchell |
| Administrative Staff: | 275 in 2003 |
| Undergrad: | 1,864 full time and part time credit students and 3,341 non credit students. |
| Postgrad: | not available |
| Other: | vocational |
| Province: | Alberta |
| Country: | Canada |
| Coor: | 55.2745°N -114.7774°W |
| Former Names: | Alberta Vocational College Lesser Slave Lake |
| Website: | Northern Lakes College |
Northern Lakes College is a publicly funded comprehensive community college in northern Alberta, Canada.
Administrative offices are located in Slave Lake and Grouard, Alberta, with a staff of more than 275 working in more than 25 community campuses. The college connects students from throughout the region with the latest in real-time teaching and learning technology to create manageable class cohorts.
The college is a member of the Alberta Rural Development Network.
The college offers education and training programs that include: trades and apprenticeship, career education, university studies and work force development. Career choices include the following:[1]
The following communities are served by Northern Lakes College:[2]
In 1970 and 1971, in Grouard, Alberta, First Nations students received adult education basic training to prepare to become instructors in Community Vocational Centres (CVC's) area.[3]
In 1988 the Alberta Vocational Centre in Grouard amalgamated with a network of 26 community vocational centres for First Nations students in northern Alberta to form the Alberta Vocational College.[3] The governance of the converted into a college governed by a public board from a provincially administered school on September 1, 1997.[3]
The current name, Northern Lakes College, replaced the name Alberta Vocational College on August 25, 1999.[3]