…assistant research associates and water resource specialists. Most students work approximately ten to twenty hours a week during the academic year, and up to forty hours per week during the summer. Lehr believes this model is beneficial to students because it helps them to understand resume building, job interviews and…
…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…
…an upper level course titled Wolf Ecology, Management, and Research. This year students in that course completed a survey of local attitudes regarding various wolf management strategies. Leadership will also come from Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute Executive Director Mark Peterson who is shepherding the move. “As a society, we have…
…She added a Native American studies major after taking an Introduction to Native American Studies course her first semester at Northland, spurring her interest in traditional ecological knowledge. “She’s just an incredibly dedicated, articulate, and smart Northland College student,” said Stacy Craig, coordinator of applied learning. Meyer said Northland College…
…widely studied, nor publicized, even in our contemporary times. Growing grapes is quite different than growing something like corn. But, the environmental historian in me immediately recognized that however beautiful vineyards might be, they are still monocultures, and of course, radically alter and simplify the ecosystems they replace. Q. In…
…suck the marrow out of life.” Travis would have liked to fit all six EcoLeague schools into his degree plan. He chose three: his home school Northland College; Prescott College in Arizona in 2014; and Dickinson College in Pennsylvania in 2015. “EcoLeague increases your course catalog by five hundred new…
