…fierce advocate for women in leadership in the outdoors. Franz raised funds, including her own, among alumni and others who support the idea behind the Women in Leadership internship: having young women gain experience in natural resources management and interpretation, receive professional development, and receive leadership mentoring. And it’s already…
…AN EMPHASIS: On top of the core of the major, choose to go in more depth in one of four areas (or design your own): Adventure Leadership You will acquire critical skills—both technical and interpersonal—for working with people in the outdoors. You’ll lead others, matching the leadership style to the…
…scholarship interview is required after admission. Lake Superior Scholarship $1,000 ($4,000 over 4 years) Competitive scholarships designed for applicants who have demonstrated academic excellence or extracurricular experience that related to their area of interest. To qualify for this scholarship, a scholarship interview is required after admission. Northland Leadership Scholarship $1,000…
After college, Audra (Jung) Willing ‘ 05 moved to Seattle to work for the National Outdoor Leadership School as a wilderness field instructor and later as a program supervisor for the mountaineering program. Without Northland, she says she would have likely lived a different life. “I didn’t even know what…
Major: Sustainable Community Development Employment: Research Assistant, Center for Rural Communities Last Act: Senior Class Commencement Address Hometown: Arlington, Virginia Q. What have you learned about leadership during your time at Northland? A. The most important aspect of leadership is compassion. It’s the only way to understand differences in a…
…Northland Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and also participates in a new student-athlete leadership group that takes members of different Northland teams and brings them together to work on leadership techniques and work toward understanding different leadership qualities and styles. Gilligan’s collective experiences during her time near beautiful Lake Superior have…
…by hosting a workshop where culture informed the narrative of climate change to inspire an audience of millennials,” Janssen said. Craig helped facilitate the conference which she described as “peer leadership, peer sharing, peer teaching at its best.” “We’re empowering our students to take leadership roles on these topics because…
…many of the people in our lives,” she said. For the next twelve years, she developed additional courses in women’s growth and development and created an area of emphasis in women’s growth and development within the human development degree, and helped create a minor in women’s studies. She provided leadership…
Makoons is the author of Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings (hardcover 2009, paperback 2023) and the editor of Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask (2015, written by her mother Mary Siisip Geniusz). Her mother’s Cree and Métis family…
