Come one, come all to the Makers Market where Northland students, staff, and faculty are selling their handmade goodies! Paintings, plants, jewelry, crochet, and so much more will make perfect holiday gifts! There will be different forms of payment available (e.g., cash, Venmo) depending on the seller. This event is…
…runoff and the detours. People stopped coming up,” he said. “It’s slowly coming back for the past couple of weeks, but it was a major, major economic deficit to the area.” The project seeks to use two main efforts to reduce the amount of sediment moving downstream. The first is…
…women, and Native Americans. The Academy later became Northland College and our commitment to that original idea has never wavered. Northland was one of the first institutions of higher learning to offer a major in Native American studies and have hosted a spring powwow every year since 1974. Campus life…
…National Wildlife Reserve in Texas. Finally, I wound up back in Texas, tasked with revitalizing the McAllen Nature Center, which had been closed for seven years, and reopened shortly before my arrival. We’ve gone from 900 annual visitors to 20,000 annual visitors over the last two years! Last winter, I…
Two former Northland College graduates who teach in the Lake Superior region have been named as recipients of the first annual statewide educator awards. Nicole Boettcher, who graduated from Northland College in 2010 and now teaches at Washburn Middle School, received the Early Career Educator Award, an award presented to…
Sustainability, Community, and Music The annual Folk Festival was originally organized by John Everatt, Tom Perry, Chuck Perry, and Pop Wagner (above) in 1968. They were students at Northland College at the time and little did they know that the event would continue for so long. Now organized by the…
…annual Wisconsin Wildlife Federation meeting April 22 (Earth Day). Their resolution (below) passed. Resolution to Support Pollinator-friendly Solar Electricity Awareness and Production in Wisconsin (passed April 21, 2017) Whereas, Wisconsin is reliant on imported non-renewable sources of electricity which pollute the land, air, and water and negatively impact Wisconsin’s wildlife…
Northland College will officially proclaim the second Monday in October (Columbus Day), as Indigenous People’s Day Saturday at its annual Spring Powwow held on campus in the Chapple Gymnasium. President Michael A. Miller will read the proclamation at the start of the 1 p.m. grand entry, joining a dozen other…
