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Northland College Nordic Skiing

Essential Eligibility Criteria

Annually the Brother Bear Fund supports the entry fee for two Northland College students (one male and one female) to ski the American Birkebeiner 50K Skate or 55K Classic ski races. The fund also provides each student a $50 stipend prior to the race for expenses. We have selected recipients…

Apostle Islands

External Scholarships

Many scholarships and grants are offered by private sources, such as fraternal and religious organizations, labor unions, professional associations, social groups, and ethnic associations. Because they are private and therefore not administered by Northland, it is up to you to research and apply for them on your own. The best…

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Happy Birthday, Earth Day!

…was chosen as the event name. Not everyone cheered. The right-wing John Birch Society and anti-communists worked to undermine the event that they saw as an attempt to honor Communist leader Vladimir Lenin’s 100th birthday on the same date. “Subversive elements plan to make American children live in an environment…

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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…

The Chequamegon Food Coop at night.

The Language of Local Foods

Meagan (Wilson) Van Beest ’97 manager at CFC

…management. She’s watched as the language of local foods moved into the region in the early 2000s and hit its stride in 2012, the same time she accepted a position at the co-op, managing the marketing and public relations. The food co-op signed the Superior Compact that year, committing to…

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Ojibwe Winter Storytelling

March 26, 5:00 pm7:00 pm

Join us for an evening of storytelling with the Bad River and Red Cliff language trainees. The feast is at 5 p.m. and storytelling will follow. Please bring a dish and tobacco to share if you are able. Everyone is welcome. This program is made possibly by a grant from…

Northland College alum Carl Sacks looks at GIS with students

Mapping for a Better World

Created "The Black Snake in Sioux Country" Map

…topo maps. They’re part of the Public Lands Survey System, which was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785. Usually, there’s nothing on the ground where those lines are on the map. But those lines empowered white settlers to turn land that Indigenous people didn’t think of as ownable into…