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Professor Joel Glickman conducts an orchestra.

Forty Years Conducting

…large ensembles. Glickman’s colorful addition to Northland’s music program has developed collaboration between students, faculty and alumni. Glickman directs three large ensembles including Jazz band, Chequamegon Symphony, and Northland Winds. These ensembles incorporate college students, Northland alumni and community members. “A combination of community and friends, the ensembles create bonding…

Northland College alum Audra (Jung) Willing installing solar panels on top of a roof.

Climbing roofs? No problem.

Audra (Jung) Willing '05 uses outdoor ed skills for solar design

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…

Northland College Diversity Coordinator Ruth deJesus teaches a session outdoors.

Diversity Every Day, All Day

Q&A with Ruth deJesus

Ruth de Jesus was hired last year as the first diversity and inclusion coordinator at Northland College. De Jesus has spent her adult life working with nonprofits, earned her master of divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and has served students of color and advancing equity in higher education. Buckles: What’s…

Chaplain David Saetre at podium

Saetre Awarded Doctor of Humane Letters

…campus minister of Northland College. You have been a soothing presence in times of sorrow, the voice of reason during times of conflict, and an enthusiastic leader in times of celebration. Your words and deeds have meant so much to so many at Northland College. This place and the people…

Northland College alum Kinsey Neal standing in Lake Superior

Be Bold, Be Radical, Be Respectful

Kinsey Neal '18 on Leadership and Pushing for Change

…most respectful ways to break the rules for a little healthy disruption. Q. What advice do you have for younger students wanting to step into leadership at Northland College and beyond? A. There are few places where your impact will be as visible as it will be Northland, and you…

Former faculty member Jim Meeker

James E. Meeker Remembered

…mentor stands out in Northland’s history. In that spirit, an endowed fund has been initiated to honor Jim’s legacy. The James E. Meeker Award for Excellence in Natural Resources Research will honor an undergraduate student annually who has done excellent research on a natural resources topic at Northland College. This…

Northland College student Hattie Hoffman plays guitar

In Pursuit of Biology, Music, & Environmental Justice

…parts of the Northland community. “Northland gives you everything you need to succeed in anything you want to do, and is one of the most supportive communities I have ever been in,” she said. Looking toward her future at Northland and onward, Hattie hopes to keep the future an open…

Northland College student in garden

Nonprofit Partner for Student Internship

…as well as the president of Northland College 1971-1987. This student internship, named the Wendy & Malcolm McLean Internship, will start in summer 2015 with one Northland College student working a minimum of 10 weeks at CTI headquarters in St. Paul, plus one week in a developing country. Founded in…

Northland College graduate Matthew Koszuta

Koszuta ’18 Heads to OSU

Researching Orographic Precipitation

Name: Matthew V. Koszuta Major: Meteorology & Mathematical Sciences Hometown: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Q. How did you find Northland? A. My introduction to Northland College was through my friends/coworkers at a Milwaukee County Council Boy Scout Camp—LeFeber Northwoods Camps. This occurred the summer prior to my Senior year of high school….

Group shot with Northland College President Michael Miller signing document alongside U.S. Forest Service

Historic Signing

U.S. Forest Service and Northland College sign historic property lease at Forest Lodge. The Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and Northland College signed a historic property lease Monday allowing Northland College to operate and maintain Forest Lodge. Forest Lodge, located eight miles east of Cable, Wisconsin, is a unique 872-acre estate that…