The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) awarded Alexandria Technical and Community College a $750,000 grant as part of the Drive for 5 Workforce initiative.

Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once wrote, “a goal without a plan is just a wish.” At Alexandria Technical & Community College, we have embraced a very results-driven goal setting culture. When establishing enrollment goals we look not only at total headcount, but at full year equivalent (FYE)—the total number of credits sold divided by 30. Looking at both metrics allows us to establish goals toward serving more students and ensuring a balance between full- and part-time students. Since establishing our five-year plan (2020-2024), our primary goals have been to increase headcount to more than 4,000 (+8.7%), and increase FYE to more than 2,000 (+15.7%). These are optimal numbers for the college given our facilities and program capacity, and after years of hard work and monitoring, these goals are now within our reach.

Lucas Melson, Kaden Feldt, and Dominic Finken earned three of the top six awards in the college division at the American Welding Society’s (AWS) annual Behind the Mask competition for high school and college students in Fargo, N.D., on March 20, 2024.

Alexandria Technical and Community College is conducting open tryouts for its new Legends Archery team on Saturday, April 27, 2024 from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Alexandria Shooting Park.

Second-year Alexandria Technical and Community College carpentry student Joshua Venenga accepted an opportunity to serve as a full-time intern from April 1 to May 3, 2024, with the Alexandria Building Department.

Alexandria Technical and Community College has partnered with the Alexandria City Council and the local community to build and support a new childcare townhome project.

The American Advertising Federation Central Minnesota (AAF-CM) honored fifteen Alexandria Technical and Community College Communication Design students with various awards and named Cailey Birchem, a communication design instructor, as the 2024 AAF-CM Emerging Leader during the 2024 American Advertising Awards held in St. Joseph, Minn., on Feb. 24, 2024.

The sounds of the Polish language filled the Alexandria Technical and Community College law enforcement center’s tactical warehouse on February 23, 2024.

Students from Alexandria College’s Communication Design program earned their spots in the national Business Professionals of America (BPA) competition in Chicago.

Training includes basic NFPA 1001 (firefighter 1) classes and more specific, detailed department drills including live burn, confined space, auto extrication, grain bin rescue, and farm machinery rescue.