Sterling College (Vermont)
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| Motto | Working Hands - Working Minds |
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| Type | Environmental Stewardship |
| Established | 1958 |
| Endowment | $1.1 million |
| President | Matthew Derr |
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Academic staff
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45 |
| Students | 125 |
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Craftsbury Common, Vermont, U.S. 44°39′08″N 72°22′56″W / 44.6523°N 72.3823°WCoordinates: 44°39′08″N 72°22′56″W / 44.6523°N 72.3823°W |
| Website | http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/ |
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Sterling College is an undergraduate college of environmental stewardship located in Craftsbury Common, in the U.S. state of Vermont. Sterling is one of seven colleges in the Work College Consortium and its curriculum is focused on environmental stewardship through Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Outdoor Education, Sustainable Agriculture, and Sustainable Food Systems. The college is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.
Sterling School was founded in 1958 as a boys' college preparatory school by former Berkshire School faculty member Norman Rioux. The school's educational philosophy was influenced by that of Outward Bound founder Kurt Hahn. The school's transition to higher education in the 1970s began with the Academic Short Course in Outdoor Leadership, a 21-day program. In 1974, Sterling School was faced with closure and a small group of faculty launched the educational model that became Sterling College.
In 1974, a small group of faculty established an academic year-long program similar to Outward Bound programs known as Grassroots Project in Vermont at Sterling Institute. By 1983, Sterling had developed into an accredited college offering an Associate of Arts degree in resource management with full accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges granted in 1987.
Since 1997, Sterling College has been accredited as a four-year college. It awards Bachelor of Arts degrees in Ecology, Environmental Humanities, Outdoor Education, and Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems. Sterling College joined the Work Colleges Consortium in 1999.
In 2013, Sterling College announced that it would be the first college in Vermont, and the third college in the nation, to divest its endowment from fossil fuel extractors.
The Sterling College Environmental Stewardship educational model of study, work, and community represents a challenging and overlapping set of theory-based and applied learning experiences.
Sterling defines Environmental Stewardship as our understanding of the natural world (Ecology), interpretation of the human experience with the natural world (Environmental Humanities), understanding human adaptation of and to the natural world (Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems), and preparation of ourselves and others for experience in and with the natural world (Outdoor Education).
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