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To understand Sterling College you may have to suspend some of your ideas about college, about how people learn, and how communities function. There is no other college quite like Sterling College. Our environmental focus, commitment to experiential academics, and community is not for everyone, but it may be right for you.

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Sterling Receives $10,000 Grant for Stream Research

In the coming year, Sterling College students Angie Salonikios ’10 of Rocky Hill, CT, and Eric Ellison ’11 of Boulder, CO, will assist in an intensive study of the local Wild Branch River, within the Lamoille River watershed. Professor Farley Brown will oversee the bio-assessment of this river, which is part of a larger project evaluating the watershed of the Lake Champlain Basin and finding strategic solutions to reducing the existing pollution in the Lake. Sterling College received a $10,000 grant from Vermont EPSCoR and the Streams Project to purchase equipment and support research.

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Finding A Sense of Place in the Northeast Kingdom

Sterling College, nestled in The Northeast Kingdom of Vermont--known for its incredible beauty, variety of natural habitats and glacial wonders--is part of a patchwork landscape where softwood and hardwood forests mix with expansive rolling green fields and pastures.

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The Sterling College Forest Garden: Photo Essay

Over the last three years Sterling has offered a Special Topics Course in Permaculture, and each year the class has contributed to the Sterling College forest garden as a class project.  For those who are not familiar with permaculture an explanation might be required.

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Black River Sketches, a Course Preview

Taught by Leland Peterson
M.A., Art Therapy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
B.A., Psychology, De Paul University

The Black River valley’s rich agricultural history and changing cultural landscape present a unique opportunity for Sterling students to chart the legacy and development of the region’s working culture and ecology. Last fall, students in Black River Voices followed the process of collecting oral histories from residents of the local community from idea to publication. On the heels of the oral history project comes Black River Sketches. This fall, students will create art related to the landscape of the Black River watershed, working at sites from Craftsbury Common to Lake Memphremagog, to capture salient features of the local landscape which will be used to illustrate the histories of the region.

Look for illustrations and writings from both classes in the winter issue of News & Views.