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Lake Superior College and Mesabi Range Community and Technical College will receive an “Innovation in Student Affairs Programming” award from the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system for the Northern Bridge program.

The colleges collaborated to create the Northern Bridge program, a network of disability service coordinators and education and employment planning professionals in northeastern Minnesota and Wisconsin.  Northern Bridge promotes professional growth through networking and best practice discussions, and connects service providers in the area. The collaboration helps to remove barriers for students with disabilities and overcome obstacles in their transition to higher education.

Georgia Robillard, LSC’s Disability Coordinator, was a key contributor to the project.

The award is one of several “Outstanding Achievement in Academic and Student Affairs” honors that are conferred annually.  Selected by a panel of academic and student affairs administrators from various campuses, recipients will be  given awards in four categories for work in the 2008-2009 academic year.  The awards are being presented on May 28 on the Eden Prairie campus of Hennepin Technical College. This is the ninth year the awards have been presented.

“These awards reflect the creative and innovative leadership of faculty and staff at our colleges and universities to better serve students,” said the system’s Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs Linda Baer.  “I am heartened, that during difficult times, our college and university communities remain grounded in their commitment to serve students first through quality programs and services.”

A complete list of the awards recipients is available at http://www.mnscu.edu/media/newsreleases/current/article.php5?id=93.

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