November 18, 2020

Lake Superior College held its first modified and socially-distanced Open House of the academic year on Thursday with LSC's Firefighting and Truck Driving Open House at the ERTC. All guests were required to wear masks, complete the COVID-19 screening survey, practice social distancing and were all scheduled over a three-hour window to keep tours small and spaced out. Despite these unique circumstances, guests said it was still a great experience seeing the facility, trucks and equipment firsthand - and several have already applied to LSC! Thanks to all who helped make this event a success! WDIO and Fox 21 were both there to cover the event.

As a reminder, these Open Houses are being held much differently than they've been in the past. These are very much both marketing and recruitment events/opportunities. Once a prospective IceHawk expresses interest in a program, one of our talented recruitment team members reaches out to them with more information and explains how the Open House will work and/or offers to set up a tour and follow-up meeting at a different date and time - either in person or virtually, giving prospective students several safe options. We had over forty guests who chose to attend in person last week, spread out over the three hours, and several others chose to set up individual tours on different dates/times.

These events allow us the opportunity to market and highlight all of our campus locations and unique programs, and the results have been outstanding. Just as a few examples, the month-long targeted marketing campaign (digital, radio and social) for the ERTC Open House generated the following:

Kudos to our marketing and recruitment teams for their outstanding work to help make this such a success, especially during these unique and challenging times. Thanks also to Erik Simonson, Brad Vieths and instructors at the ERTC for helping coordinate the event and especially helping with some follow up questions and connections. While we can't have a lot of staff/instructors at these events (for every employee there, that's one less student we can host since it's all based on keeping the number of people at the facility capped), the other connections happen after the tours when students want more information. That's when we help get them connected to advisors, financial aid and other student support services, walk them through the application process, etc.

The next event in this series is the Integrated Manufacturing Open House, scheduled for Thursday, December 10, 2:00-6:00 p.m. at LSC's Downtown Center. RSVPs are required and tours are limited to small groups. To help ensure the safety of all in attendance, masks and social distancing are required and guests will be asked to complete a COVID-10 Screening Survey. If you have any questions about these Open Houses, please contact Daniel.Fanning@lsc.edu.

Lake Superior College has been nationally ranked among the Most Affordable Online Associate's in Computer Science for 2021. EduRef.net also published detailed profiles outlining each school on the list. Students can use these profiles to evaluate each school's net price, acceptance rates, accreditation and other helpful information.

Congratulations also to LSC's Medical Assistant program which was recently ranked among the 6 Best Medical Assistant Programs in the State by MedicalAssistantAdvice.com.

Individuals with disabilities may request reasonable accommodations by contacting LSC's Disability Services, (218) 733-7650/(800) 432-2884, S155, or Georgia Robillard at georgia.robillard@lsc.edu