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Riverland Community College company history timeline

1940

According to Academic Dean Ruben Meland’s document “Austin Junior College – Nine Years of Community Service”, Austin Junior College opened on September 3, 1940.

1969

The original buildings located at the Heintz Center were completed in 1969.

1986

A classroom building opened on the campus in the fall of 1986 to initially house the Rochester Center of Winona State University at a cost of $2.9 million.

1988

The Plaza West building was renamed Memorial Hall in 1988.

1989

The campus further evolved in late 1989 with the completion of a $16 million construction project.

1993

Construction was completed in 1993 on the $17 million expansion facilities, which houses student services areas, classrooms, computer and science labs, as well as a number of interactive television classrooms.

1997

The former Minnesota Riverland Technical College-Rochester Campus facility was dedicated as Heintz Center on May 9, 1997.

1998

A March 3, 1998, memo from Tim McManimon, Owatonna community leader, to John Gedker, college president, reads, “Riverland Community College has served the Owatonna area for the past 13 years, primarily in the area of customized training for business and industry.

2008

On December 31, 2008, MnSCU finalized the sale.

2018

In May 2018, the Minnesota Legislature approved a bonding bill that included $23 million for the Plaza-Memorial Hall project.

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