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Robin Wall Kimmerer at commencement

“We can’t just change light bulbs, we have to change hearts”

…said. “We can’t just change light bulbs, we have to change hearts. We have to change the story. “Together we can tip the balance, our acts have more meaning today than at any time in history. We need leaders, we need dreamers, we need gardeners and scientists and artists, as…

Forest Lodge Woods

Mamie Parker: On Fishing Not Kissing

…nature, but more importantly connected to adults that help me figure out the challenge that many children have today when they have decisions that they have to make, the peer pressure, the bullying, all those things. Of course, we all experienced them, but I had people that I could really…

Northland College alum Stuart Barnes Jamieson

Supporting the Next Generation of Non-Profits and Their Leaders

Stuart Barnes Jamieson '81

today was my working relationship with President Malcolm McLean. I served one year as NCSA president, and one year as student representative to the Board of Trustees. In both of those roles, I met and talked regularly with President McLean about important campus-wide issues, and I believe that he saw…

Northland College senior at powwow

Powwow to Spotlight Proclamation, New Dances

…the deep history behind ceremonial dancing at powwows as well as issues affecting Indigenous communities today. Head female dancer Carolyn Gougé will lead a Pink Shawl Dance, a special dance aimed at honoring and healing those affected by cancer in all its forms, including victims, patients, survivors, family and friends….

In Wildness and Wonder

…. truths that can encompass all.” Today, in the throes of our own Digital Revolution, the essential value of wild nature, and the wonder it inspires, continues to be affirmed. Richard Louv has demonstrated the sobering consequences of childhoods deficient in nature. Recent studies in the neurosciences have shown that…

2017 Loon poster Photo by Lorna Rohloff

Foot Waggling Loon Dad Cover of 2017 Loon Poster

…loons accompanied by the sounds of their enchanting calls,” said Kane-Rohloff. The back of the poster includes information about loons and their habitat. Order yours today. Thank you to our major 2017 poster sponsors. Conserve School Dan and Joanne Dugenske Michigan DNR-Wildlife Division USFS, Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest      …

Aerial shot of Ashland and Chequamegon Bay

Rural America: A Living Laboratory

Center for Rural Communities Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide

…government. Merging its location with social science, environmental education, and civic engagement, the College is teaching students how to contribute their minds and hearts to issues that will continue long after they are gone. Today it is roughly one of three undergraduate programs in the country and has become one…

Apostle Island rock

Politico: Waukesha puts Great Lakes Compact to the test

BY ERIC WOLFF, Politico Morning Energy WAUKESHA’S GREAT LAKES EFFECT: The Great Lakes Compact, a bipartisan, collaborative agreement that largely blocks diversions of Great Lakes water, will be tested today when eight states gather to decide if Waukesha, Wisc. can start pumping from Lake Michigan. As Pro’s Annie Snider reports,…

kayaking students

Lake Superior is the Classroom

…professors collaboratively designed the program to prompt interdisciplinary connections via a mosaic of coursework. “Along with textbooks, we’ve read personal journals and newspaper accounts of the early voyageurs [fur trappers and traders], soldiers, miners and lumberjacks to help us understand what’s going on today,” said McCormack. At Old Fort William…