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The Classroom and Beyond Are you ready to pursue your passions and design your own path? Academics at Sterling College let you craft a unique, personalized education in ecological thinking…
Below you will find the Sterling College course catalog. Sterling College reserves the right to make changes in course offerings, degree requirements, policies, and procedures in this catalog as educational…
In my third year of teaching Education and Culture I have been asked to reflect on the aspects of this course that have been most meaningful—to me. You will have…
View moreAs featured on HuffPost. Throughout American history, colleges and universities have provided leadership on the social and political issues of the day. One criterion of the health of our democracy…
View moreMichael Tessler '09 started catching creepy crawlies at a very young age. This passion was evident during his time as a student at Sterling. This love was further fostered in graduate school, first working on moss ecology at Fordham University and then on leech evolution...
Cob oven skill swap full of clay shaping, hay snipping, watermelon harvesting, and dancing on cattails at the Wendell Berry Farming Program. The work IS the reward, students are excited for upcoming pizza nights at Hope Hill Farm!
A look back on the accomplishments of Matthew Derr during his tenure as Sterling College President.
As Matthew Derr’s last day as president approaches, October 31, we acknowledge the vision and passion that he has brought to his nearly ten years. Through...
As nature has demonstrated, the only constant is change and disturbances are important for health and evolution. When a tree falls in the forest - a disturbance - there is a loss but also an abundance of opportunity and potential for new growth. Speaking in...
EMERGENCY TO EMERGENCE PODCAST // Laura Beebe joins Emergency to Emergence hosts, Nakasi and Dakota, for a rich conversation on the importance of the backcountry to human development -- her own and her students. Resisting a guide’s tendency to define backcountry in geographical terms or...
Ashland Tann found the Wendell Berry Farming Program challenging. “It’s definitely the kind of place where you have to take an active part in your own education. You have to determine for yourself what you are going to get out of it.” It fueled his...
