Normandale Community College

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Normandale Community College


Established	1968
Type	Public community college
President	Kathi Hiyane-Brown, Ed.D.
Students	8,200
Location	Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
Website	http://www.normandale.edu/

Normandale Community College is an urban, two-year college located in Bloomington, Minnesota, serving primarily the communities of the southwestern metropolitan region of the Twin Cities. Established in 1968 as Normandale Junior College with an initial enrollment of 1,358 students, today Normandale annually enrolls more than 10,000 students. Normandale is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system.

During 2001, Earl C. Joseph, Sr. was recognized by Normandale Community College Foundation for his sustained support with helping to expand funding of higher education student scholarships.^[1]

Nine Mile Creek transects the college campus near East Marsh Lake Park's wetlands and was the initial site for their host city's "Adopt-A-Wetland" service learning prototype (2003-2004).

[edit] The Paper Lantern

The Paper Lantern is the Literary Magazine for Creative Writing at Normandale Community College. Its first issue was published in April of 2005. The Creative Writing Club of Normandale, the group that reads over the magazine's submissions, reviews not only poems, fiction, and nonfiction, but also screenplays, paintings, and drawings. Thus far, all submissions have been accepted anonymously.

When first beginning, the Creative Writing Club of Normandale only had money that could be gathered from the remains of loans given to other clubs. The Paper Lantern had twenty-eight submissions in its first semester. During the second semester, the Paper Lantern chose twenty-seven submissions and, as an added bonus, an experiment that was started by Cory Salveson, president of the Creative Writing Club in Spring and Fall 2006. This experiment was entitled “The Words.” It was an online collaboration of creative writing. Contributors edited the work anonymously, and published it, despite the fact that it was unfinished. However, Creative Writing Club members agreed that the point was not to finish it, but to consider it as another form of creative writing in itself.