October 11, 2002

Higher Education in the High Latitudes

By BURTON BOLLAG

Arctic colleges band together to serve indigenous people and preserve a fragile environment

For many centuries the harpoon, the fishhook, and the reindeer lasso were the tools needed to live in the frozen expanses of the Arctic. But now Inuit hunters are falling through sheets of ice thinned by global warming; industrial pollutants from lands to the south are being found in alarming concentrations in the breast milk of nursing mothers; and massive petroleum pipelines crisscross the

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