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Northland Volleyball student athlete

Student Athlete Handbook

This guide offers an overview and links to some of the most important policies and rules related to student-athletes. However, it does not replace or supersede the official Northland College Handbook—which provides the complete text of all College policies—or actual UMAC, NCHA, WIAC and NCAA rules and regulations. This handbook…

Snapping turtle

Turtles, Temperature & Sex

…and alligators survived, the hypothesis goes, is that the water regulated drastic temperature changes during incubation. This subject has fascinated Northland College Assistant Professor of Biology Kayla Bieser, Ph.D., since she went abroad as an undergraduate in Costa Rica researching leatherback sea turtles. She pursued graduate degrees studying red-eared slider…

Northland College student with journal

296 miles on the Superior Hiking Trail

Jane Dahlgren Hikes Solo for May Term

…the marketing coordinator for the Northland College Student Association, and studies chemistry and biology with an eye to nursing. Last winter, she started thinking about her options for May term, a one-month semester that provides opportunities for seminars, field experiences, independent study, internships, and off-campus and study-abroad experiences. She was…

Northland College students survey city

Sustainable Community Development

…acquire additional skills, and gain work and research experience through volunteering, internships, study-abroad opportunities, and employment in the Center for Rural Communities. The SCD major’s disciplinary range makes it attractive to employers in a variety of sectors. Past graduates have found immediate employment in governmental services, environmental consulting, urban and…

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Q&A with Helen Pent Jenkins, class of 2008

…separate times. The first was a semester abroad in Switzerland with SIT World Learning. I took classes at the UN and focused on international organizations and diplomacy. The second time was a summer abroad in Ecuador with IES Abroad. I took classes at Galapagos University and studied Ecuadorian ecology. And…

Rights and Responsibilities

Northland is committed to fostering a campus environment that is conducive to academic inquiry, a productive campus life, and thoughtful study and discourse….

Northland College student Gretchen Hamernik-Winters dogsledding as part of internship.

Working with Animals

…Ashland, the one-on-one opportunities with professors, and the potential for traveling abroad to study. The Wisconsin Tuition Grant played a critical role in her decision. “Financially, I never thought I could attend a private college—until I realized that with grants and scholarships, it was possible,” Gretchen said. Doctorate programs require…

Northland College students in kayaks in Iceland

Semester in Iceland

Alec Drachenberg talks about his experience with the Center for Ecological Living and Learning

Sigurd Olson Articles

Some of these articles were published in 1951 in North Country Magazine. Sigurd also wrote a couple of hundred short sketches for newspapers; he wrote a few between 1937 and 1939, but most were from 1940 to 1943, and were syndicated to a number of newspapers, mostly in the Midwest….