The Raw Milk Revolution
Sterling College student Sarah Morrison writes about rediscovering the benefits, pleasures, and social value of unpasteurized milk. Read the full article published on Emagazine.com. Read more.

New Scholarship Available to NEK Students
A new $3,000 - $6,000 scholarship opportunity for college-bound high school seniors from Vermont's Northeast Kingdom has been announced by Sterling College President Will Wootton. Read more.

Keeping Cool
For polar pros at Sterling College's Center for Northern Studies the issue of Climate Change is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Read full coverage. Read more.

AEE Organizational Member of the Year
Sterling College has been selected as The Association for Experiential Education's Organizational member of the Year. This is AEE's highest honor for an organizational member. Read more.

Sterling College Trustees Confer First Environmental Leadership Award
October 6, 2007- Over the past 50 years, Elizabeth Titus Putnam founded and helped build the Student Conservation Association into the nation's largest natural resource conservation organization, based on a plan she devised in her senior year at Vassar College. On October 6, 2007 she will be presented with Sterling College's first Trustees' Environmental Leadership Award. Read more.

Academic Calendar: 2007-2008
Click here to download the 2007-2008 academic calendar.

Faculty Publication: Rick Thomas
Rick Thomas recently wrote two articles on the Sterling College Draft Horse Program. The articles are published in the current issue of Rural Heritage. Read more online.

Alumni News: Ted Hobart
Alumni Ted Hobart will run the Burlington City Marathon May 27, 2007, to benefit Sterling College, and honor the memory of his friend Lollie Winans who was murdered while hiking the Appalachian Trail in 1997. Read the Press Release

New Exhibits & Publications
The Brown Library has just received a number of new works, and will be exhibiting student and local art throughout the Summer. Read the Press Release.

2007 Graduation Ceremony
Gov. Madeleine Kunin gave this years commencement address. She commended the graduates practical application of sustainability, and encouraged them to, "Be informed about what is going on in the world, and be involved." Read her speech. President Wootton's address is also available.

Student 1 of 8 Chosen Nationwide for Ecology Fellowship
The National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Program Fellowships are competitively sought by college students around the country. Ricky Chavez, an environmental studies major at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, VT is one of only eight selected nationwide for 2007. Chavez’s senior research project on carbon sequestration garnered him the award. Sterling College emphasizes the practical application of academic learning through its required and - according to students – challenging senior applied research project (SARP). Read the press release. Published in The Stowe Reporter.

Carbon Farmers of America Founder to Speak at Sterling College
Vermont farms play a vital role in addressing climate change, according to Abe Collins, co-founder of Carbon Farmers of American. Collins will speak on this topic at Sterling College. Read the press release.

Farm to Table: College Students Grow Their Own and Love It
Most colleges don’t expect students to grow their own food. At Sterling College, students help produce over 20% of their dining hall fare, and receive a wealth of sustainable agricultural instruction in the process. They have positively impacted regional farm economics, as well. Recently the College’s Farm to Table Project garnered a Vermont Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence and Pollution Prevention. The award will be presented at a reception in the House Chamber of the State House, Monday, January 29, along with recipients of awards in other categories. Read the press release.

Sterling College smallest fully accredited school
Nestled in the hills of an idyllic Northeast Kingdom town, Sterling College in December became New England's smallest fully accredited liberal arts college known for outdoor studies. Read the full article in The Barre Montpelier Times Argus.

ACPA Highlights Sterling's Integration of Sustainability and Academics
(September 2006) Read the article entitled, "Sterling College Integrates Sustainability in Student Learning and Development." The ACPA--College Student Educators International--is committed to supporting and fostering college student learning.

Publishing News from Sterling College Faculty
Sterling College faculty, Pavel Cenkl, Ph.D., has published This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire’s White Mountains 1984-1911. The book explores how our varied perceptions of the White Mountain’s, over time, has changed them physically and culturally through settlement, development and preservation. The book is available regionally or on-line. To learn more and read a review, connect with the book’s web page at the University of Iowa Press: http://www.uiowa.edu/uiowapress/thivas.htm

Faculty Member David Scott Gilligan has published, In the Years of the Mountains: Exploring the World’s High Ranges in Search of Their Culture, Geology, and Ecology (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2006.) Gilligan is a master mountaineer, explorer and writer, and has published numerous articles and books, including Friluftsliv in North America and The Secret Sierra.

Sustainable Sterling Effort Featured in Community Works Journal
“Community Sustainability as a Campus-Wide Experience,” by Christina Erickson was included in the Summer 2006 Community Works Journal (Vol 8, No. 1). The article outlines how Sterling College creates and sustains a strong sense of community and work ethic in its classes and overall academic work. Learn more about the article at the Vermont Community Works website.

2006 Graduate Profiled in Vermont Land Trust Publication
The story of Paul Lisai's plan to continue Vermont’s working landscape tradition is told in the Spring 2006 Vermont Land Trust newsletter. (Vermont Youth: The Origins of a Conservative Ethic.) Lisai majored in AgroForestry at Sterling College, a self-designed major that will “allow him to pursue his dual interests in agriculture and forestry." Visit the Vermont Land Trust’s website at www.vlt.org

Sterling College Instructor Wins Literary Prize
Our own Julia Shipley has been announced as the 2006 winner of the Ralph Nading Hill, Jr writing award, given by Vermont Life Magazine and Green Mountain Power. Her entry, “Coming into the Barn: Bales of Prose About a Small Dairy Farm” will be published in the autumn Vermont Life Magazine. Ms. Shipley earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College in 2001 and is the Director of Writing Studies at Sterling College.
Read the article that ran in the August 9, 2006, Inside section of the Burlington Free Press.

College Hosts 19th Annual Writers' Workshop
The Wildbranch Workshop in Outdoor, Natural History and Environmental Writing takes place from June 11-17, 2006. See website for more information.