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Six individuals named to Board of Trustees

…diversity, and social justice—as well as keep us true to our core mission of being the premiere environmental college in the country.” Carla J. Bailey The daughter of former Northland College President Richard P. Bailey, the Rev. Dr. Carla J. Bailey, Esq. has made it her life’s work to serve…

Alec Drakenberg

Meet the Beast: Alec Z. Drachenberg

…A. “The Internet,” is the answer I have given innumerable times when the other students ask me how I even heard of Northland College. They wonder how a California dude heard of a tiny six-hundred-student college in Ashland, Wisconsin. I didn’t. I researched it on the Internet. During the summer…

Forest Lodge Educational Campus Takes Shape

…the depth of what Northland College can offer in partnership with the Forest Service and others at Forest Lodge. In addition to hosting adult learning retreats and onsite training sessions for Northland College Outdoor Orientation program leaders, Outreach Coordinator MaryJo Gingras has collaborated with Bro Professor Evan Coulson. Together they…

Chicago skyline

Northland Near You: Chicagoland

December 3, 2024, 6:30 pm8:30 pm

…and reflect on what makes Northland so special. Get some updated admissions materials from Britta and find a little piece of Northland in your neck of the woods. Don’t miss this opportunity to support Northland while catching up with friends old and new. Email alumni@northland.edu for questions or to RSVP….

From Treaty Rights to Oyster Flights

…in Lac du Flambeau, she encountered Northland College Professor Joe Rose of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. “When he started to describe Northland I was intrigued,” Smith recalled. “I couldn’t believe there was actually a college that one could pursue a course of study that included Native…

Northland College student plays golf.

Gilligan Personifies "Student-Athlete"

college can offer,” said Gilligan who has participated in basketball, golf and softball at one point during her three-and-a-half years at Northland. “The program here for biology and natural resources is outstanding. I think that I’m well-qualified to enter the field, which is what I wanted going in to college….

kids make soda bottle structure

A Highway, or Muddy Path, Shall Be There!

…degree in outdoor education. He worked as an admissions counselor and as an associate director of admissions, finding future Northland alumni. Max has been a member of the Northland College Alumni Board since 2011. Lorraine (Wolfe) Metz also graduated in 2010 from Northland with degrees in geology and water science….

Film class and wild rice parching

Filmmaker, Students Document Harvest

…associate professor of media arts and peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, Moore met Northland College alumna Danielle Taylor (‘98), who had established the blog, Voices of the Penokee Hills, detailing the development of taconite mining in the Penokee Hills, located near Northland College in northern Wisconsin. In…

Loons Spread the Good News about Menhaden

…their annual Chesapeake stopover. But, for this to work, the peanut menhaden prey base must be abundant, and that has been deficient for some twenty years. Since the early 1990s, menhaden have been overfished. One indicator of that was the reduction in the Bay’s annual loon count. When the Atlantic…

Northland College students do radio interview in early 1960s with photographer and curator John Szarkowski

Changing the Way We See

Ashland native John Szarkowski showed America a new way to look at photographs.

…Looking at Photographs. In 1990, Szarkowski returned to Northland College to receive a doctor of humane letters. Szarkowski died July 7, 2007. He was 81 years old. PHOTO: Northland College students interview John Szarkowski (holding cigarette), for the Northland College radio program at the Ashland WATW radio station. Left to…