 The Red Lake Nation College hosted an open house today to tell potential students about the possible opportunities that are available to them. Lakeland News reporter Cheryl Moore tells us about the new things happening at the institution. The environment is awesome, the staff is friendly, classes are unique. The Red Lake Nation College opened their doors today to let students know exactly what it is they're all about. We're open to the public, so anyone can attend here. You don't have to be just a Red Lake tribal member or a natives, which are most of our students, but anybody is welcome to attend here. What we're hoping to provide here to students is an engaging atmosphere where students attend not only their classes, but they can come and work out. They can come and bring their children while they're attending classes. The colleges of this open house let people know what they're working on. Right now, they offer an Associate of Arts degree as well as an Associate of Applied Science, not to mention a GED program, and their basic classes are all based in culture. Any way that we can incorporate the language, the culture, the art into our courses, we're definitely always striving to do better with that. The college is always looking to expand, and right now that means focusing on adding student dorms that they hope will be completed by the fall of 2021. The plan is to get funding to have 250 bed dormitory right here, you know, lakeside views, so that we can serve our tribal members and non-tribal members who live out of the area so we'd have more recruiting capacity there. And of course, after a student's time is up at the college, they're encouraged to soar to their next steps in their education. We don't want them to just get a two-year degree and stop. We want them to get a two-year, four-year, master's, doctorate, professional degrees, and then come back and help the reservation. Born in Red Lake, Shrommore, Lakeland News. In addition to the dorms, the college is also looking into adding new certificate programs as time goes by. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.