February 19, 2025
While we are heartbroken that Northland College as we know it will close at the end of this academic year, we remain committed to our mission, which seeks to empower our broader community to act with integrity and courage to create a more sustainable and just future. At this moment in time, as other organizations are backing away from complex environmental and social challenges, our faculty and students remain steadfast in our dedication to diverse perspectives, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration.
Today, after the Trustees announced the impending closure of Northland College, a small group filed Articles of Incorporation for a new organization, The Northland Corporation for Environmental Liberal Arts. We invite partners who share our commitment to a sustainable and just future to join us as we revisit the collective visioning work done by our community last spring.
We remain grounded on the South Shore of Lake Superior, surrounded by northern forests, on land ceded by the Ojibwe people in the Treaty of La Pointe in 1842. We hope to work in true partnership with the Lake Superior Ojibwe and the diverse Indigenous peoples who have called this land home for millennia.
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