Lake College

Rend Lake College located in Ina, Illinois, is one of 48 two-year, open-admission colleges of the Illinois Community College System, organized under the Illinois Public Community College Act. It is located on the eastern shore of Rend Lake, offers a wide variety of degree programs and occupational certificates in more than 100 programs of study designed for transfer to a four-year university or training for a new career. The college was founded in 1955 as Mt. Vernon Community College and officially became Rend Lake College when it was organized December 20, 1966, under the Illinois Junior College Act. Voters of the eight-county district approved the establishment of Rend Lake College by nearly an 8-to-1 margin on October 22, 1966, a new governing board was elected from the district in December of that same year and on July 1, 1967, Rend Lake College assumed the assets, liabilities and responsibilities of Mt. Vernon Community College.