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News
Rend Lake College Welcomes Students to Campus, Marking the Start of the Fall...
INA, Ill. (August 19, 2025) — Rend Lake College was bustling with excitement as students return to campus for the first day of classes for the Fall 2025 semester. The start...
Join RLC for the Open House on Sept. 29
INA, Ill. (August 19, 2025) — Rend Lake College is happy to announce its next Open House will be on September 29, from 4:00 to 7:00 PM on all RLC campuses. The Open House...
New Degrees at RLC Help Students Take the Lead in Tech-Driven Agriculture
INA, Ill. (August 14, 2025) — Rend Lake College is proud to offer Southern Illinois’ only Agricultural Technology and Digital Agriculture Associate Degree programs — built...
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Resources
Get Started at RLC during Super Saturday
Get Started at RLC on Super Saturday Rend Lake College offers a chance for students to register for classes, pick up textbooks, get their Student ID, visit the Financial Aid...
RLC's Guide to CAREER Agreements (Joint Agreements)
Guide to CAREER Agreements (Joint Agreements) Rend Lake College District No. 521 is part of an interdistrict Comprehensive Agreement Regarding the Expansion of Educational...
RLC's 58th Commencement readies for nearly 400 graduates Saturday
INA, Ill. (May 16, 2025) — The stage is set outside the Wayne Arnold Rec Center on the Rend Lake College Campus in Ina where nearly 400 students will graduate tomorrow. The...
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Student Success
RLC Graduate Kaitlin Henderson Begins Career as Radiologic Technologist
INA, Ill. (September 12, 2025) — Elkville native and Rend Lake College graduate Kaitlin Henderson has taken major steps in her career just months after graduating from the...
RLC Alum Coty Compton Achieves Success as CRNA
INA, Ill. (September 10, 2025) — Rend Lake College graduate Coty Compton (Mt. Vernon) has turned his nursing degree from RLC into a very successful career as a Certified...
RLC Alumna Asher Bates Completes the Disney College Program
INA, Ill. (September 1, 2025) — Asher Bates from Sesser has reached a big milestone in her academic and professional career. Bates graduated from Rend Lake College in May...
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In the Community
RLC Theatre Prop Travels Hundreds of Miles to Florida Stage
INA, Ill. (September 10, 2025) — What started as just a prop in Rend Lake College’s April 2024 production of Grease has now traveled hundreds of miles to a stage in Tampa,...
RLC Welcomes Growers for Syngenta Grower Education Days
INA, Ill. (August 26, 2025) — Farmers, growers and agriculture professionals from across Southern Illinois headed to Rend Lake College’s Grow More™ Experience site on August...
RLC announces auditions for Fall Play 'Anne of Green Gables'
INA, Ill. (August 14, 2025) — The Rend Lake College Fall Play auditions for Anne of Green Gables will take place on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at 6 PM in the RLC Theater....
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RLC SUPPORTS MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS WITH NEW ZEN GARDEN
INA, Ill. (July 19, 2022) Rend Lake College constructed a COVID-friendly outdoor meditation space/Zen Garden for students and staff to have a place to seek a quiet space...
RLC's Upward Bound Gets Five-Year, $1.5M Renewal From FED
INA, Ill. (May 25, 2022)Students from several high school districts in the Rend Lake College area will continue to reap the benefits of college prep services from Upward...
