Country Ventures Repair & Maintenance has donated a used truck tractor worth nearly $26,000 for hands-on learning by students in the Heavy Duty Equipment program at Assiniboine Community College.
Assiniboine Community College will be presenting Brandon agricultural entrepreneur Ron Helwer with an honorary diploma in Agribusiness at the college’s upcoming graduation ceremony in Brandon on June 14, 2018.
Assiniboine Community College and Cape Breton University’s (CBU) Shannon School of Business are partnering to offer a Master in Business Administration (MBA) program in Community Economic Development starting January 2019 in Brandon, Man.
Assiniboine Community College student Javier Gutierrez won the silver medal in Network Administration Technology at the Skills Canada National Competition held in Edmonton earlier this week.
Brandon University and Assiniboine Community College are partners in a nation-wide project to increase community engagement, and a recent roundtable in Brandon has brought the community together to explore the opportunity.
Today, more than 1,300 students will graduate from Assiniboine Community College, putting the college’s total increase of graduates at more than 50 per cent since 2013. The college saw an eight per cent increase in the number of grads over this past year alone at the annual Brandon ceremony.
Most people don’t want weeds in their gardens. But at Assiniboine Community College, there is a whole garden dedicated to nothing but weeds. Homeowners, gardeners, farmers and anyone else having trouble figuring out what weeds are growing where they’re not supposed to can bring them to the weed garden for identification. All the weeds have signs identifying their species.
Assiniboine Community College is excited to announce today – National Indigenous Peoples Day – the generous gift of $250,000 made by the Louis Riel Institute, the educational affiliate of the Manitoba Métis Federation, to establish a bursary endowment fund known as the Louis Riel Bursary.
Twenty-four students from Assiniboine Community College’s Adult Collegiate will receive their high school diplomas at a ceremony tomorrow afternoon. The graduation ceremony takes place at 1:30 p.m. in the gymnasium of the college’s Victoria Avenue East Campus in Brandon.
The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) is partnering with Assiniboine Community College to provide a Heavy Equipment Operator program to 10 Indigenous students later this summer.
The community of Russell, Man. will be host Assiniboine Community College’s next rural rotating Practical Nursing program delivery site, with classes starting in January 2019.
Strawberries, tomatoes, sweet potatoes and other warm-weather crops could be grown in northern Manitoba, thanks to research being carried out at Assiniboine’s Sustainable Greenhouse.
Working in a real restaurant at Assiniboine Community College, serving real customers, gave Sherbet Doverte the opportunity to gain the experience she needed to apply to her summer job.
Tonight, in Ebb and Flow First Nation, 15 dogs will rest their heads in their own doghouses, custom-built by 30 Carpentry & Woodworking students at Assiniboine Community College. In summer, a doghouse provides shade. Come winter, these doghouses will provide insulated warmth to help protect dogs from the wind and cold.
A joint project bringing together instructors and students from Brandon University and Assiniboine College has received a grant of nearly $30,000 to begin building a virtual reality exploration of a First World War internment camp in Brandon.
Assiniboine Community College is projecting another lively academic year as the fall term kicks off on September 4. The college is prepared to welcome an estimated 4,000 students in programs delivered on campus and by distance for the 2018-19 academic year.
The friendly welcome of a “Big Hello” will greet students in Brandon as they return to campus for the fall semester at both Assiniboine Community College and Brandon University. And this year, everyone is eligible to win a prize pack just for participating.