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Stroud Selected to Give Last Lecture

Northland College students have chosen Angela Stroud, assistant professor of sociology and social justice, to provide the last lecture of the school year and the last lecture seniors will hear before graduation. Sponsored by the Northland College Student Association in cooperation with the College’s commencement committee, Stroud will present “Learning…

The Northland College Symphonic Band performs in the Alvord Theatre

Northland Mid-winter Music

February 25, 7:00 pm8:30 pm

Enjoy a night of music provided by the Northland College Symphonic Band, the Northland Community Choir, and Northland College Choir members who have put together several entertaining pieces, including Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, made famous by the Andrews Sisters, and Robert Washburn’s Kilimanjaro: An African Portrait. This event is free…

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Finding My Northland Crowd

GUEST COLUMN BY ALMNUS Mark wolfe ’96, FOR THE ALUMNI ENEWSLETTER Before the Internet, email, smart devices, and Twitter took over the universe, Northland College was a conduit for bringing vastly different worlds together. In summer of 1992, after receiving my K-12 public education within a single school district in…

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Northland receives $1 million for grad programs

Northland College in Ashland, Wis., recently received $1 million from the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation to establish a graduate degree program. The gift is intended to fund all facets of development until the program can support itself. The College is currently working with a consultant to…

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Northland College Becomes First Wisconsin Bee Campus

Working to Promote Native Bees and Pollinators

Northland College has become the first educational institution in Wisconsin to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of educational campuses for the benefit of pollinators. “Northland College has a strong environmental ethic and mission that we’re advancing and honing every…

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"A Dreamer and a Doer" Cleans the Ravine

By Sean Devlin, ’15 Northland College forestry student Tim Koski is on his way to making the campus Bay City Creek ravine look like it should. Since March, Koski has been working on his senior project identifying and removing invasive species that pose a threat to the native plants in…

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Monitoring Vegetation in the Apostle Islands

Student-Faculty Research

Stockton Island is one of twenty-two Apostle Islands in Lake Superior near Northland College. The second largest island, Stockton, has many noteworthy characteristics—diverse plant life, including prolific blueberries, the highest concentration of black bears in the world, and a long stretch of “singing sand” that squeaks underfoot. At Julian Bay,…

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2017 Alumni Awards Announced

…the Northland College Archives. This volunteer run resource was saved by Ori-Anne and other thoughtful alumni under her direction. She has contributed countless hours to collecting, organizing, and cataloging items and documents which—without her effort—may well have been destroyed. She truly is the savior of our past, preserving it for…

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