ARCTICenter is an interdisciplinary center that brings together faculty, staff and students from social and natural sciences, education and humanities, as well as Indigenous knowledge holders, to understand and address Arctic change at the local, national and global scales.

Arctic, Remote, and Cold Territories Interdisciplinary Center (ARCTICenter) is an interdisciplinary center that brings together faculty, staff and students from social and natural sciences, education and humanities, as well as Indigenous knowledge holders and Arctic community members. The center is a nationally recognized institution for Arctic social sciences and sustainability research.

ARCTICenter's research serves to address critical national and global issues, such as adaptation to changing environment and sustainable development. The center is a hub for training the next generation of scholars at the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral levels. It is a locus for community engagement as it pertains to remote, northern, rural and Indigenous communities in the Arctic and beyond. ARCTICenter has a strong engagement with Indigenous communities.

The University of Northern Iowa honors the ancestral stewards of the land on which our university rests. Among these stewards are the Báxoǰe or Bah Kho-Je (Iowa), oθaakiiwaki‧hina‧ki (Sauk) and Meškwahki·aša·hina (Fox), Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Sioux), Umóⁿhoⁿ (Omaha), and Hocąk (Ho-Chunk), as well as those tribal nations who are contemporary caretakers of land in Iowa, including the Meskwaki: Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa. We acknowledge the sovereignty of the tribal nations, respect their knowledge and wisdom, and recognize the violent and painful histories of removal and dispossession as the original caretakers of the land.