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COVID-19 Updates

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Campus Reopening Plan

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The Virus Has Demonstrated That Faculty Can Be Full Partners In Changing The Higher Education Business Model

For the higher education business model to change, faculty need to be key partners in this effort. We have learned from this crisis that faculty, who have often been characterized as slow and loathe to change, can be extraordinarily nimble and creative. Beyond moving all of their courses online in less than two weeks, many…

The Virus Has Demonstrated That Faculty Can Be Full Partners In Changing The Higher Education Business Model

Giving Back to Her Tribal Community

The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation announced Friday they had selected Northland College sophomore Shyanne Eustace as a 2020 Udall Scholar. This scholarship will provide up to $7,000 for Eustace’s junior year of academic study. A sixteen-member independent review committee selected this…

Giving Back to Her Tribal Community
Northland Named Number One in Sustainable Curriculum

One of the smallest and most remote colleges in Wisconsin has been named the top performer in sustainable curriculum. Northland College, located at the tip of the state near Lake Superior and with a student body of 600, was named first in sustainable curriculum by…

Northland Named Number One in Sustainable Curriculum
Adrian Bethel Finds the Winning Combination

Hometown: Eau Claire, Wisconsin Year: Junior Major: Forestry Position: Pitcher, Right Field Did you come here to play baseball? I wasn’t recruited. I found out Northland had a team when I got here. I thought that was cool. Why did you come? I had family in…

Adrian Bethel Finds the Winning Combination
Reflections of a First Year Student

Hometown: Portland, Oregon Year: Freshman Major: Sustainable Community Development Sport: Cross Country Why Northland? Because action, not just words, is what will bring us closer to a sustainable future. The Northland College community has repeatedly exhibited their commitment to the environment through innovative and alternative…

Reflections of a First Year Student
Turning Waste into Everyday Materials

In the world of research, it takes a lot of failures before you get a hit. For Professor Nick Robertson and four students that hit came the day then-student Ariah Law walked into Robertson’s office and told him a solid substance had formed and wouldn’t…

Turning Waste into Everyday Materials
First Person: Golf, Hockey, and the College Experience

I started golfing because my dad is a golf course superintendent, so I grew up on the golf course and learned how to play. I golfed in high school at Aberdeen Central in South Dakota and placed all-state my junior year. As a team, we…

First Person: Golf, Hockey, and the College Experience