Trinity Health Foundation celebrated the most recent Nursing Scholarship recipients at a Scholarship Nursing Banquet last week. The event brought students and supporters together to recognize recipients and honor contributors to the Foundation’s Nursing Scholarship Endowment.

Governor Doug Burgum has proclaimed February as Career and Technical Education Month. There is a level of academic content and skill that is required for success in today’s career and technical, formerly known as vocational, careers. Despite the ongoing marketing of Career and Technical Education (CTE), there are many people who are not aware of the impact CTE programs provide, the career opportunities available in the state, and what North Dakota students can do after completing career and technical education and training.

Dakota College at Bottineau is proud to share its nurse instructor’s academic achievement. Though a hectic personal schedule and busy lifestyle created balancing challenges, Paige Baade persevered in nurse educator school with honors.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota (BCBSND) Caring Foundation has awarded scholarships to twenty-six health profession students attending North Dakota colleges, universities or technical colleges. The health profession scholarship program helps fulfill the BCBSND Caring Foundation’s goal of improving the health and well-being of North Dakotans by investing in the education of tomorrow’s health care professionals. This is the third year the Caring Foundation has offered this scholarship to North Dakota students.

Dakota College, Bottineau has been awarded top ranking status for multiple degree programs by Intelligent.com. Intelligent.com provides unbiased research to help students make informed decisions about higher education programs. The website offers curated guides which include the best degree programs as well as information about financial aid, internships and even study strategies. With comprehensive, user-friendly guides and hundreds of program rankings, Intelligent.com is a trusted source among students and prospective students.

Dakota College at Bottineau announced the 2019 season of Lumberjack football would be its last. The program is being discontinued due to its high cost and the need to reinvest these resources into academic programming and other services at the college.

Students in the Agriculture and Horticulture programs have spent time this semester discussing the pros and cons of plant-based protein substitutes. Companies such as Beyond Meats and Impossible Foods have created substitutes for a traditional beef burger that have come as close to any replicating the flavor and essence of a hamburger. Students in DCB’s world food crops class listened to a podcast on the Future of Meat and discussed the implications of increased consumption of plant-based meats on crop and livestock farmers. While DCB’s horticulture science class read articles for and against the Beyond Meats and discussed their opinions and views from both sides of the argument.

Dakota College at Bottineau is pleased to announce the hiring of Corey Gorder as its new Athletic Director. Gorder will assume his duties with the start of the new semester in January 2020. Wayne Johnson and Mike Getzloff will continue as interim co-Athletic Directors through the end of the fall semester, 2019.

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC) is participating in NASA’s pilot program for their newly developed content related to NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. As a partner in piloting these activities, Dakota College at Bottineau’s (DCB) Associate Science Professor Angie Bartholomay attended the Next Gen STEM Commercial Crew Program Pilot Space Grant Training last spring. She was trained on the newly developed NASA content which aligns with NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, including virtual reality training.