Ashland, WI, April 4, 2024 —The Northland College Board of Trustees today voted to declare financial exigency, setting off a process designed to provide a final, good faith effort to save Northland College. The decision comes after a March 11 fundraising appeal to raise $12 million by April 3 to avoid closure and instead continue…
My name is Brianna Hauke, and I’m a senior at Northland majoring in climate science. My time here has been amazing. I’ve met so many people, done so much, and taken so many classes with the best professors ever. I came to Northland because of the opportunities to work with and form connections with professors.…
I found Northland through a book in my guidance counselor’s office that listed majors and the in-state schools that offered them. For meteorology, this list was limited to three options: the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Northland. As I hadn’t heard about Northland until that day, I went home and researched it.…
I transferred into Northland my junior year, and from my first day on campus I knew Northland was what I needed. My backstory is that my first two years of college were at a large state school where my major was environmental science. I had a really hard time academically there, not because of how…
Northland is home for me and has been since I first got to come to campus during one of the Visit Days in 2019 prior to enrolling. Truthfully, I think I knew it the moment I spoke to my admissions counselor. You see, I’ve moved around a lot in my life, and none of those…
I chose Northland for its smaller class sizes and environmental curriculum at first. When I arrived, everything else about the school—professors’ expertise in their fields, campus location, and vested commitments to the surrounding communities—were solidified following the orientation trip. I would say the best part of my Northland experience has been the lifelong friends I’ve…
I was the first one in my family to seek higher education. In the college search, state campuses were too large for my liking, so I had been set on Northland or Ripon College. It wasn’t the beautiful scenery along the lake, or the quaint town of Ashland that drew me in. It was more…
Northland community, This is a critical week in our fundraising appeal as we near the April 3 deadline. We continue to be heartened and inspired by the community in support of Northland – from future visions and plans to student and alumni stories to individual fundraising efforts and beyond. We also recognize the unease and…
Northland College was founded in 1892 with a vision and a promise. The vision of a school that would provide an education for all students of the north country, a region decimated by the “great cutover”—the clear cutting of the northern pine forests. The promise of an institution dedicated to people at the margins, from…
Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of the New York Times bestseller and Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award-winning Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants, wrote a powerful letter of support for Northland College. Dear colleagues, I recently learned of Northland College’s financial emergency that was announced on March 11, 2024.…
