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Lake Region State details enrollment rebound, wind turbine program, and $6M deferred‑maintenance request
Summary
Lake Region State College told appropriators it has recovered from pandemic lows, expanded career and technical enrollment (notably nursing), hosts unique wind and apprenticeship training, and seeks capital funds to fix roofs, parking and electrical upgrades totaling roughly $6.0 million.
Lake Region State College President Doug Darling told the Appropriations - Education and Environment Division that the college has regained and modestly exceeded pre‑pandemic enrollment levels and is seeking capital funding and legislative attention to deferred maintenance and program expansion.
Darling said Lake Region’s fall and spring enrollments have risen to roughly 1,900 students and that the campus now places a larger share of students in career and technical programs (about 71%) than in traditional transfer tracks. Nursing enrollment has notably expanded: the program has grown from about 40 students several years ago to 126 in the most recent fall intake, and the college operates nursing cohorts in multiple locations, including a site that will move onto Altru Health’s Grand Forks campus.
Why it matters: Lake Region described several campus‑level and regional…
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