DCB catalog 2024-25

11 Campus Focus: “Nature, Technology and Beyond” Defined Established as the School of Forestry in 1906, Dakota College at Bottineau has consistently utilized the biological diversity of the region: Turtle Mountain Forest, prairie pothole region, J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge, International Peace Garden, and Lake Metigoshe. Using these as natural laboratories to strengthen the educational experience and continuously expanding academic and career programming, Dakota College at Bottineau integrates technology to prepare students not only for the present but also to go beyond and improve the future. Dakota College at Bottineau’s diverse, natural surroundings provide examples of how and why everyone must care for the environment. Technology aids in determining appropriate methods to solve problems and creates the change necessary to maximize positive consequences to all life. Through these and other appropriate actions, Dakota College at Bottineau will endeavor to leave students with an ethic of concern and care for the world.