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Ethiopian girl stretches before running (Girls Gotta Run Foundation)

If You Give a Girl a Pair of Sneakers . . . .

Dr. Patricia E. Ortman '71 Creates Girls Gotta Run Foundation

…and worldwide efforts to educate and empower girls and women, like the Girls Gotta Run program for girls in Ethiopia that I and my husband co-founded are more important than ever. And the backlash to the backlash, as evidenced by the national and international women’s marches that took place the…

A photo of North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green

North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green

January 15, 9:00 am10:00 am

…Jaki Shelton Green teaches Documentary Poetry at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies and was the 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer in Residence at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additionally, she received the George School Outstanding Alumni Award in 2021. Her publications include: Dead on Arrival,…

Students hiking on York.

7 Things to Do When You Visit Campus

…Pack your bathing suit and a picnic and spend sunrise, sunset, or anytime in between at one of the dozen beaches within an hour of campus. Hike Take a sunrise or sunset walk along the lakeshore in Ashland or take one of the many hikes in the region. Here’s three…

SOEI Youth Programs

Girls Empowered Trails: Mt. Ashwabay

August 12August 15

We are still accepting registrations for youth programs! We will know by mid-April if our summer programs will be able to run or not. All registrations will be 100 percent refunded if a trip gets canceled. Girls Empowered Trails is for girls 10–13 years old interested in getting outside, working…

A trail through the pines on Isle Royale

Girls Empowered Leadership and Adventure: Backpack—Isle Royale

July 17July 26

We are still accepting registrations for youth programs! We will know by mid-April if our summer programs will be able to run or not. All registrations will be 100 percent refunded if a trip gets canceled. Girls Empowered Leadership and Adventure: Backpack—Isle Royale is for girls 13–15 years old interested…

Forest Lodge Woods

Mamie Parker: On Fishing Not Kissing

…still not a lot of women and not a lot of girls that believe that they can do it. I was told that this is not a job for girls, and that you should go and become a medical doctor, or you should go and become a teacher, that you…

Northland College student with journal

296 miles on the Superior Hiking Trail

Jane Dahlgren Hikes Solo for May Term

Jane Dahlgren had never camped alone when she decided to hike solo for 296 miles. For college credits. While the extroverted sophomore was not familiar with solo tripping, she was no novice to adventure. A Seattle native, Dahlgren had hiked with her dad and brother on the Wonderland Trail, a…

December Graduates Champagne Toast

December 13, 2023, 5:00 pm6:00 pm

The venue for this event has changed—it will now be held in the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute. It was initially to be held in the President’s House. All other details remain the same. Attention, December graduates! As is our custom, I take great pleasure in inviting you to a celebratory…