Mission:

Northland College integrates liberal arts studies with an environmental emphasis, enabling those it serves to address the challenges of the future.

Vision:

To be the nation’s leading environmental liberal arts college.

Values:

We value our mission as an environmental Liberal Arts college engaged in the pursuit of academic excellence and education that transforms the lives of our students.

We value the dedication of our faculty, staff, students, and Trustees: we are a caring and close-knit community that encourages each individual to grow, learn, and become an agent of positive change.

We value - as individuals and as a community - the place where we live and work, and we are committed to sustainability and good stewardship, in order to conserve this place for the generations that will follow us.

We value, finally, the humility and awe that these connections generate in us: connections that tie our fate to that of this planet.

Our Interconnecting Goals

We Provide Academic Excellence in a transforming learning community of faculty, students, and the broader region. Academic excellence includes rigor in thinking, integrity in the search for truth, discipline in study, and flexibility in building the conceptual frameworks necessary for understanding the world’s systems using the wisdom and perspectives of many different disciplines and cultures. We strive to achieve sustainability. To achieve long-term well-being, Northland’s stewardship of its own resources help move larger systems toward long-term health.

Human - Environmental - Financial

Northland College aims, by academic excellence and sustainable practice, to lead the way to a world where human and other biological communities can thrive together indefinitely.

Defining our Sustainable Future:

Northland College is the nation’s leading environmental liberal arts college, providing the best environmental education possible and demonstrating the best environmental practices.  We give our students practical, empowering educational experiences in leadership and creating change, and hands-on training at making their dreams come true. Students make a difference throughout the course of their education, so that they become competent, self-actualized, passionate, inquisitive agents of change, and leave Northland with the confidence to choose whatever career they love.  All Northland graduates are also prepared to be life-long learners and the truly engaged, global citizens the 21st century needs.

Northland College is a healthy, supportive community, built on our trust in each other and on good processes and communication.  Northland provides a model of sustainable work and right living, in which each of us has a voice in the decisions that affect us. 

We are a diverse and tolerant community of learners, in a culture that is loving, playful, and celebratory.  Everyone here is encouraged and empowered to be idealistic, take risks, work collaboratively, develop their potential, and carry out their ambitions. 

We are passionate about Northland College and its long-term vision.  We support that vision and show integrity in everything we do.