The Admissions Team enticed an awesome group of Sterling Ambassadors to their office after lunch today with the promise of pie (apple & pumpkin) and materials that will allow these folks to spread the word about Sterling in their hometowns. Grassroots recruitment at its finest. Thanks to everybody who came!

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Sterling College knows that the most rewarding learning is hands-on learning. Whether offered on campus in a laboratory or seminar room, on the side of a mountain, or in a barn or pasture, classes at Sterling are small and foster experiential learning and deep inquiry through close relationships between faculty and students. Students will gain insight into theory, integrate research into study, and learn how to use tools such as a chainsaw, a compass, and a tractor as part of daily life. Sterling College removes the barriers between living one’s life and learning. We are a good fit for the student who wants to commit to ecological thinking and action and looks forward to the rigor and challenge of working with hands, mind, and heart.

Sterling CollegeJan 26, 2020 @ 9:45pm

Sterling is eager to make college affordable for you.

Check out our scholarships page for information on some of our newest opportunities, including the Hermit Thrush Scholarship that offers four years of free tuition.

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Scholarships – You have options! If you want to attend Sterling College, we will do everything possible to make sure financial challenges don’t keep you from pursuing an education advancing...

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Sterling CollegeJan 26, 2020 @ 2:42pm

A tale of ecological and cultural injustice that will make your skin crawl. Please pay attention to the scale of this project.

Revealed: Government officials say permits for mega-plantation in Papua were falsified

The allegation has been raised internally within the Indonesian government on multiple occasions, an investigation by Mongabay and The Gecko Project has found.An area nearly the size of Paris has already been cleared on the basis of the allegedly fraudulent permits, cutting a hole in

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Sterling CollegeJan 25, 2020 @ 8:41pm

Plan now for our Natural Cheesemaking course with David Asher of The Black Sheep School of Cheesemaking, focusing on Raw Milk Cheese.

This one-of-a-kind hands-on course will take you on a microbial journey from culture propagation to rennet coagulation and on to...

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“Natural Cheesemaking: Raw Milk Cheeses” offers a detailed, hands-on study of milk and how to safely create value-added, delicious, artisan cheese products.

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Sterling CollegeJan 25, 2020 @ 4:10pm

“Who cooks for you?” 🦉 Ecology student and budding nature photographer, Collin, spent some time in the woods this week and captured this very relatable moment with a local barred owl (Strix varia), tracking his progress through the snow at sunset.
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Sterling CollegeJan 25, 2020 @ 2:29pm

#ChooseVermont!

Vermont is invested in you and your education! That's why the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development and Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC) are teaming up to offer the Choose Vermont scholarship!

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“Choose Vermont Scholarship” Program to Award $60,000 in Scholarships to Vermont’s Incoming College Students Montpelier, Vt. − The Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Vermont Student Assistance Corporation and 13...

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Sterling CollegeJan 24, 2020 @ 9:37pm

BIPOC: Don't forget to apply for Soul Fire Farm's FIRE program for this summer! Applications opened last week!

The Seeds of Ancestors: A Day at Soul Fire Farm – Emergence Magazine

This profile of Black Kreyol farmer Leah Penniman explores how her work at Soul Fire Farm is guided by both her decades of learning on the land and her Afro-Indigenous spiritual lineages.

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“Who cooks for you?” 🦉 Ecology student and budding nature photographer, Collin, spent some time in the woods this week and captured this very relatable moment with a local barred owl (Strix varia), tracking his progress through the snow at sunset.
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Check out these grins! We present to you our Spring 2020 Student Leaders! These folks have stepped into serious leadership roles that deeply support the success of Sterling students and systems at the college. Where would we be without them?! ♥️🔥💪 P.S. peep Julian’s snowball! ⛄️
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#BLACKLIVESMATTER today, and every day.

Today is a great day to remind ourselves and others of the reasons why Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was disliked in his time, and probably would be today— for speaking truth to power, for being an analytical and critical thinker, for challenging oppressors, and for empowering people to go out into their communities and make meaningful change from the ground up.
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These are all lessons and values we take to heart, and around which we build our own community here at Sterling. Sometimes we falter— but we always try.
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To hold ourselves accountable in this community, we recently launched a new 10-year comprehensive Strategic Plan & Initiative rooted in tenets of racial, economic, and social justice. Read it here: https://sterlingcollege.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Sterling-College-SPI-Strategic-Plan-Initiative.pdf
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And if you have the means, we hope you’ll consider donating to Black Lives Matter @blklivesmatter (#linkinbio).

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We're looking backwards to some of our favorite moments from 2019!
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Alumna Izzy Ruffin '17 posted this photo last year. When we reached out about it, here's what she said: "I’m working at @chewonki Foundation, as their year-round full time farmer/educator. I started Feb. 1st!

Their semester school in Wiscasset, Maine collaborates with the farm in many ways, including a rotation of morning farm chores with us by cabin, and many work programs. Here, semester students from semester 62, who are in a Literature and the Land class, visited with us to explore the natural cycle of work being done on the farm around this time, including watching a logging demo with Bob our draft horse, and learning about why we choose draft power for our farm. In this moment, I was set up inside mending our electronet fences which we do this time every year, to get ready for the summer grazing season. Other farmers were washing spinach that we grew in our greenhouse, seeding pea shoots, unharnessing Bob, and fixing a broken wheelbarrow. The students cycled through and took notes on the work we were doing while we talked through why we do it and how it’s important to the farm as a whole. Their class is writing an essay about their experience on Salt Marsh Farm (Chewonki’s farm), which is both traditional and progressive in its similarities to how they farmed the land in the 1800s."
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Proud of you, Izzy! 🧠 💪
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We’re looking backwards to some of our favorite moments from 2019!
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DeAndre coaches a local elementary school student in proper belaying techniques to prepare her to belay her classmates on the high ropes course! The Foundations of Outdoor Leadership: Leadership & Facilitation course utilizes Sterling’s high ropes challenge course and climbing wall to offer a broad introduction to leadership and facilitation skills in the field of Outdoor Education.
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We’re looking backwards to some of our favorite moments from 2019!
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We had an unbelievable bumper crop this year! Maia led and organized a heroic collective effort to process apples from trees all over campus into all sorts of goodies that we will consume for the rest of the year.
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Dec 19, 2019 @ 1:04pm
Expedition 2019! https://t.co/mHiThOJvtF via @bfp_news

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Nov 18, 2019 @ 12:44pm
Wise words from @ackermanleistp in this higher ed commentary https://t.co/fTiI092oR4 via @timesargus

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Nov 15, 2019 @ 1:24pm
Welcome, Maxine, Dean of Finance & Operations! https://t.co/IRa6jNEv3u via @sterlingcollege

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Oct 22, 2019 @ 9:31am
We are thrilled to be welcoming #hemp #farmers & #entrepreneurs this week for #HempHack @sterlingcollege with Doug Fine @organiccowboy There is still space for a few more folks! https://t.co/Q7L5C3mbiX

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Oct 11, 2019 @ 11:03am
Listen in at 10:15 this morning as @organiccowboy Doug Fine talks to Dave Gram @DaveGramWDEV about School of the New American Farmstead's upcoming #HempHack Oct. 24 & 25 @sterlingcollege https://t.co/8Quzu5OeMO

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