Our Mission and Vision

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.

The Northland Promise

Northland’s distinctive environmental liberal arts program, passionate faculty, and beautiful natural location create a community of engaged learners who develop the skills and experience to prepare for advanced studies and meaningful lives. 

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 through empowering experiences in leadership, hands-on training, and opportunities to create positive change.
• 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

Providing 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.

Achieving 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.