Ilisagvik College

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  1. Kizmet

    Kizmet Moderator

  2. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    I like this unique school.

    https://www.ilisagvik.edu/

    Here's a photo of some of their campus buildings.

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    It's an Inuit/Eskimo tribal college, and it's certainly in an exotic location, the northernmost point in the United States! (Stop laughing, Canadians, we think it's cool. Literally.) Actually Barrow/Utqiagvik is north of Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, home of Canada's Nunavut Arctic College. Ilisagvik College appears to me to to be the northernmost college anywhere in North America.

    It's right on the beach, just like Hawaii except that this is the Arctic Ocean.
     
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  3. Phdtobe

    Phdtobe Well-Known Member

    I am showing off my Inuktitut and I am guessing the Alaska dialect: Ilisag, learning- Vik, place. Ilisagvik, place of learning.
    Anyway, Iqaluit is below the circle, and in Nunavut there are colleges above the circle. In my community about the circle these is college that offers certificates and once in a while teacher B.ed.
    There is also a universitity above the circle in Finland I believe.
     
  4. Phdtobe

    Phdtobe Well-Known Member

    This morning I ask my Inuit staff about Ilisagvik. It just another name for school/college.
     
  5. Kizmet

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  6. heirophant

    heirophant Well-Known Member

    The place to go for high arctic universities seems to be Murmansk Russia.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmansk

    Not only do they have Murmansk Arctic State University

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    But also Murmansk State Technical University

    Welcome to the most Northern technical university in Russia!

    The latter is proud owner of the large and impressive STS Sedov sail training ship. 3,500 tons, 117 meters long. This was originally pre-war German, built by Krupp in 1920, tied up in the Baltic somewhere, and Russia took it in 1945 at the end of the War. They assigned it to a maritime training school in Murmansk that was eventually rolled into MSTU, I believe. Here it is becalmed on glassy seas, far south of Murmansk I'd guess. It has an auxiliary engine.

    Click here
     
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  7. Johann

    Johann Well-Known Member

    Brrr! Arctic weather makes a good case for distance learning!

    J.
     

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