01.31.23
Cyclones Athletes Volunteer at Kids Fighting Hunger
Last week, 80 Cyclones athletes and coaches volunteered their time with Kids Fighting Hunger. They packaged 77 boxes of food for a total of 16,416 meals! Kids Fighting Hunger in Sauk Rapids is a...
01.30.23
Reception for Pres. Kloos Welcomes Community, SCTCC
On Friday, Jan. 27, community members, faculty, staff, and students gathered in the main entrance to welcome President Lori Kloos to her newly appointed presidency after serving as interim president...
01.27.23
Marketing Sales Management Advisory Board Tours Bernick's
Advisory boards at SCTCC are an important part of the programs - they include several community members from various companies who give input on industry trends, business updates, economic influences...
01.24.23
Lori Kloos Named SCTCC President
St. Cloud Technical & Community College (SCTCC) is excited to announce that Lori Kloos has been named to serve as president by the Minnesota State Board of Trustees. Kloos has been serving as interim...
01.19.23
Dr. Sangeeta Jha Recognized with Award
SCTCC instructor Dr. Sangeeta Jha was honored with the MLK Community Celebration 2023 Humanitarian Award on Monday, Jan. 16. Jha was recognized for outstanding community contributions and service for...
01.02.23
CAE-CD Student Newsletter January 2023
This is the first monthly SCTCC Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to pass along to our Cybersecurity students’ important articles in the news...
12.27.22
Practical Nursing Club Donates Blankets
The SCTCC Practical Nursing Club got together over Advising Day to make tie blankets to donate to the CentraCare Coborn Cancer Center. “The Nursing Club likes to do a philanthropic project each...
12.19.22
Artwork at SCTCC to Inspire, Educate
SCTCC has a new piece of artwork on its walls after Vice President Debra Leigh met artist Brian Dow at the Powwow held at Tech High School in November. The painting, entitled “The Powwow Trail,” is a...
12.13.22
Students' Best Hacks for Finals Week
We asked SCTCC students on Instagram for their best study tips, just in time for finals week! From getting someone to go over material with to listening to music, there are so many different options...
12.02.22
PTK Welcomes New Members
SCTCC’s Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) Honor Society branch welcomed new members on Nov. 30 with the fall semester induction ceremony in the Library lounge. Inductees invited their loved ones to celebrate...
12.02.22
DECA Students Attend Leadership Academy
SCTCC Collegiate DECA Student Leaders Montanna Jensen, Vice President, Amy Dvorak-Palmer, Student Senate Representative, and Tatianna Washington, Public Relations, attended the 2022 Emerging...
11.22.22
DECA Students Get the Edge at Innovation Summit
Collegiate DECA students at SCTCC attended and participated in the Minnesota Collegiate DECA Innovation Summit at the Mall of America in October. The members networked and learned from several...
11.22.22
Auto Body Students Attend SEMA Trade Show
The Auto Body students recently attended the SEMA event in Las Vegas to learn about automotive specialty equipment manufacturers and new, innovative products in the automotive world. SEMA, Specialty...
11.18.22
Surgical Technology Students Visit CentraCare
On Nov. 9, Surgical Technology students had the opportunity to attend a Student Education Day at the CentraCare St. Cloud Hospital as part of their Operating Room Techniques Lab class. Surgical...
11.14.22
SCTCC Concurrent Enrollment Receives Accreditation
SCTCC’s concurrent enrollment program, Discovery Academy, is now accredited by the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) effective Spring Semester 2022. Discovery Academy...
10.21.22
Cyclones Volleyball Acknowledges Faculty and Staff at Appreciation Night
On Wednesday, Oct. 19, the Cyclones Volleyball team took to the court to take on nationally ranked Minnesota State and to thank faculty and staff for the support they’ve given the players. Before the...
10.10.22
2022 EPIC is Back On Campus
On October 28, 2022, students from more than 25 schools will gather at SCTCC to participate in EPIC (Exploring Potential Interests & Careers), a career exploration event for high schoolers in Central...
10.07.22
Summer 2022 President's and Dean's Lists
Congratulations to all SCTCC honor students! Students earning a 4.0 GPA were named to the President's List; students earning a 3.5 to 3.99 GPA were named to the Dean's List. Don't see your name...
10.07.22
SCTCC Celebrates Groundbreaking for Advanced Manufacturing Lab
On Wednesday, Oct. 5, SCTCC celebrated the groundbreaking of its Advanced Manufacturing Training Lab, which is slated to be completed in 2023. The lab’s groundbreaking brought together community...
10.03.22
Student Leadership Club Take Part in Fall Cleanup
The SCTCC Student Leadership Club recently took part in the 2022 Days of Caring event hosted by the United Way of Central Minnesota. The club members helped with fall cleanup at Country Manor, a...
09.30.22
SCTCC to Hold Groundbreaking: Advanced Manufacturing Training Lab
St. Cloud Technical & Community College (SCTCC) is excited to announce that the groundbreaking for the Advanced Manufacturing Training Lab will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. on the SCTCC...
09.28.22
SCTCC Alumni Brings Education Full Circle
When members of the Active Minds club worked to bring photographer Barb Kellogg’s exhibit on campus in 2019, it was like it was meant to be: the artist was an alumni of SCTCC and putting her degree to...
09.27.22
Community is Key to TRIO
The TRIO Student Support Services program at SCTCC is celebrating 25 years. TRIO is a federally funded grant that is open for applications from students who are first-generation, income eligible, or...
09.02.22
First Grill and Chill Held Aug. 31
The first-ever SCTCC Grill and Chill was held on Wednesday, Aug. 31. Students, community members, and SCTCC employees all stopped to have a snack, enjoy the music by DJ Relleck, and chat with others...
08.19.22
Center for Teaching and Learning Academic Year 22-23
Welcome back to the new semester! We are building on the success of the past CTL work this year. After talking with faculty, reviewing other CTL programs, and working with our CTL Advisory Board, we...
08.04.22
Spring 2022 President's and Dean's Lists
Congratulations to all SCTCC honor students! Students earning a 4.0 GPA were named to the President's List; students earning a 3.5 to 3.99 GPA were named to the Dean's List. Don't see your name...
07.12.22
Two SCTCC Students Place at National SkillsUSA
SCTCC students Nick Lanham and Alec Schrupp brought the SCTCC spark to the SkillsUSA National competition held June 20-24 in Atlanta, Ga. Lanham competed in the Electrical Construction Wiring and...
06.29.22
10 Things to Do This Summer on a College Budget
Part-time jobs or internships don’t typically fund an extravagant lifestyle, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have any fun. Here are ten ways to have fun this summer without breaking the bank...
06.09.22
30 Cyclones Named to the MCAC All-Academic Team
The Minnesota College Athletic Conference has named 345 student-athletes to the 2022 Spring MCAC All-Academic Team , of which 30 Cyclones received the honor. Recognized student-athletes combined...
06.07.22
Softball Cyclone Raianna Stangle named NJCAA All-American
Softball Cyclone Rainna Stangle was named to the NJCAA Division III All-American Second Team for 2022. The All-American selections are made by the NJCAA Division III Softball Committee. Stangle holds...
05.23.22
Cyclones Baseball on its way to NJCAA DIII World Series
The St. Cloud Technical & Community College Cyclones Baseball Team is on its way to the NJCAA Division III World Series, held May 28-June 2 in Greeneville, TN. After two weekends of Region XIII...
05.18.22
Multicultural Center hosts SCTCC’s first Academic Excellence and Achievement Graduation Celebration
The Multicultural Center hosted SCTCC’s first Academic Excellence and Achievement Graduation Celebration on May 11, 2022. The celebration recognized graduates who are first generation college students...
05.17.22
Cyclones Softball Clinches Regions, Headed to Nationals
The St. Cloud Technical & Community College Cyclones Softball Team is headed to the NJCAA Division III National Tournament after clinching the Region XIIIA Championship on Saturday, May 14. The...
05.12.22
Baseball Cyclone Lessman Named NJCAA Pitcher of the Week
Cyclones Baseball pitcher Christian Lessman was named the NJCAA Division III Pitcher of the Week. Lessman struck out 10 batters and gave up no earned runs across seven innings during a game with...
05.10.22
Environmental Science Students Visit Bemidji State
Environmental Science students had the opportunity to take part in a research project at Bemidji State University when instructor Khaldoun Ahmad took his class to BSU in April. “The students had a...
05.10.22
LAS Displays On Campus Feature New Class, Z-Degree
The Liberal Arts and Sciences Division has made updates to their displays around campus – by the classrooms near Doors 16 & 15 and near the Academic Advising Center toward Door 6. The displays...
05.09.22
SCTCC Students Secure Wins at SkillsUSA Competition
Several SCTCC students took part in the statewide SkillsUSA State Leadership and Skills Conference held April 7-10 in Minneapolis, and two are set to represent SCTCC at the national level. The state...
05.02.22
Congratulations SCTCC Collegiate DECA ICDC 2022 Participants
Collegiate DECA Members travel to Baltimore, MD to compete in the Collegiate DECA International Career Development Conference with 900 students from across the nation and other counties. Students from...
04.28.22
Medium Heavy Truck Students Ready to Graduate 2 Years After Electrolux Closure
In 2020, right in the middle of a pandemic, a group of 70 students started at SCTCC after Electrolux in St. Cloud closed, taking advantage of a program through CareerForce to jumpstart a new career. (...
04.22.22
Students Tour Bernick's
Students in the Marketing & Design and Marketing Sales Management programs got a taste of the inner workings in the beverage industry when they toured Bernick's of St. Cloud on April 20. Instructors...
04.21.22
Dental Hygiene Students Hold Table Clinics
The second-year Dental Hygiene students were well-received at an event held by the American Dental Hygiene Association on April 8 in St. Cloud. The students were available at table clinics for about...
04.13.22
Sonography Club Attends Conference, Places Third in Poster Contest
The Sonography Club got a chance to network and attend lectures during a yearly conference held April 1-2, and two of the members placed third in the poster contest. Dana Doering and Kristen Mueller’s...
04.11.22
DECA Members Receive Donation for Trip to Nationals
When Bobby Konnight read about the SCTCC Collegiate DECA students who were headed to nationals, he knew he had help out. The St. Cloud Subaru General Manager had taken classes at SCTCC years ago, and...
03.31.22
Assessment Tools
We all have learning objectives that we want to focus on in our classes, but how can we align assessment to measure and evaluate student achievement for a given learning objective? Prefer to watch and...
03.25.22
Humanizing your courses
Humanizing Your Courses Do you want to make your students feel more connected, build a sense of community, and allow for positive engagement no matter the course delivery method? Humanizing your...
03.18.22
Cyclones Cupboard Opens for Student Support
After years of support from faculty, students, and staff, SCTCC opened the door to the Cyclones Cupboard on March 16. As students walked past the new Cyclones Cupboard near door 4, Student Support...
03.18.22
Supporting Students’ Mental Health in the Classroom
Students face a spectrum of challenges which can interfere with their academic success. One of those challenges may be related to mental health. Whether it is dealing with everyday life stressors, a...
03.16.22
Lori Kloos Named Interim President Effective July 2022
Lori Kloos has been named to serve as interim president of St. Cloud Technical & Community College. The appointment becomes effective on July 1, 2022. “I have great admiration and respect for what...
03.10.22
Softball Cyclone Raianna Stangle named NJCAA Player of the Week
Softball Cyclone Raianna Stangle was named a NJCAA Player of the Week for the week of Feb. 28-March 6. Stangle hit four home runs and 16 RBI to secure this week's Division III Player of the Week slot...
03.04.22
D2L Video Assignments
Did you know D2L has a video assignments feature? Maybe you already use the feature, or maybe you didn’t know it was there! Check out this week’s blog for more information on the D2L video assignments...