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Students provide real life solutions to Forest Service

…coursework, students spent the first three weeks of class touring and measuring the Forest Lodge buildings, looking over blue prints, and researching accessibility laws and historic building preservation guidelines. Their task was to identify accessibility challenges and to recommend solutions which meet or exceed Architectural Barrier Act Standards and comply…

Forest Lodge Boathouse

Student projects save USFS $100,000, receive recognition

Northland College President Michael Miller, left, Assistant Professor of Outdoor Education Evan Coulson, middle, and Supervisor of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Paul Strong accept the Accessibility Accomplishment Award at a ceremony at Forest Lodge. In an unprecedented move, the USDA Forest Service for the second year in a row awarded…

Northland College student repackage leftover food.

Students Combat Food Insecurity

…Rural Communities, ninety-three percent of households in Ashland and Bayfield County agree that everyone in this community should have access to healthy food. “By recovering and donating food, Northland aligns with regional community’s goals and values to increase the accessibility of healthy food,” said Todd Rothe, food systems manager. ⠀…

Forest Lodge Educational Campus Takes Shape

…two-day overnight residential program for regional Girl Scouts as well as studied and developed accessibility plans that apply the Architectural Barriers Act to renovation of the buildings and grounds at Forest Lodge. This student-driven work in outdoor education and universal design leads on a higher path towards a civilization as…

Beach Group Walking

Accommodations

Northland collaborates with and empowers students who have qualifying disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act by working together proactively to determine reasonable and appropriate accommodation measures. Northland is committed to providing an equal opportunity to fully participate in its courses, programs, and activities. Students who have a disability and…

Accommodations

Northland collaborates with and empowers students who have qualifying disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act by working together proactively to determine reasonable and appropriate accommodation measures. Northland is committed to providing students who have disabilities with an equal opportunity to fully participate in its courses, programs, and activities. Students…