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Adult Mental Health First Aid Training

April 8, 9:00 am12:30 pm

This is a two day course, happening on Tuesday, April 8, and Thursday, April 10, from 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. each day. Registration below is for both sessions. Are you ready to make a difference in someone’s life? Join us for an Adult Mental Health First Aid Training! Mental…

Northland College alum in bee helmet

Wustner Brings Beekeeping to Larger Audience

…become so dependent on chemicals. I’m teaching to carry on the tradition of chemical-free beekeeping that’s been lost in the last thirty years.” His online course has proved so successful that Wustner hopes to offer intermediate and advanced courses in the future. He has also started a new endeavor, milking…

Ethiopian girl stretches before running (Girls Gotta Run Foundation)

If You Give a Girl a Pair of Sneakers . . . .

Dr. Patricia E. Ortman '71 Creates Girls Gotta Run Foundation

…a small private women’s college in Washington DC. She was the first to teach Psychology of Women and Gender, a course that had been created and approved by a retiring professor, but not yet taught. “That course was life-changing for both me and my students, as well as undoubtedly for…

Student in courtroom

Pre-Law

…major that has relevance to the type of law you want to practice and pursue a course of study that best fits. You will explore courses that will develop skills in: analytical and problem solving, critical reading, writing, oral communication and listening, and general research. In an agreement, Northland sends…

Northland Volleyball student athlete

Student Athlete Handbook

This guide offers an overview and links to some of the most important policies and rules related to student-athletes. However, it does not replace or supersede the official Northland College Handbook—which provides the complete text of all College policies—or actual UMAC, NCHA, WIAC and NCAA rules and regulations. This handbook…

Peter Annin at beach

Q & A with "Great Lakes Water Wars" Author Peter Annin

…your favorite place or experience on Lake Superior. A. Several years ago my wife and I were wilderness camping on a remote uninhabited island in Lake Superior with our two sons, who were quite young at the time. We were far off the grid, a long way from the ambient…

TWA Wolf Awareness Week poster by Bateman

TWA Selects Artwork for 2018 Wolf Awareness Week Poster

Canadian Artist Robert Bateman Featured

…a fleeting glimpse of a handsome male as he is about to vanish behind a live oak into the evening shadow,” Bateman said. “Let us hope that we can put his species back into the picture of our vanishing wilderness.” Bateman painted Sierra Evening in 1994, four years before the…

aerial view of campus

Conventional & Unconventional Best Lists

…friendly . . . with a penchant for activism and outdoor activities. In fact, life at Northland begins with a required Outdoor Orientation trip, in which first-year students participate in five- to 12-day adventures in the Wisconsin wilderness.” Northland College freshmen recently completed their August wilderness trips before starting classes…

Northland College alum Rocky Barker's photo of the house that sunk on Lake Superior

The House that Kicked Off a Career

…broken ice ran in newspapers from Miami to Tel Aviv. The Los Angeles Times ran it on the front page. Barker’s future in journalism was sealed. Barker has been an environmental reporter at the Idaho Statesman for the last twenty-one years, covering stories about endangered species, salmon recovery, wilderness, wolf…