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The 2011 College Guide by Washington Monthly lists Northland College among the top 250 liberal arts colleges in the United States. The magazine says it attempt to offer an alternative to other college guides by evaluating schools' contribution to the public good in the categories of social mobility (recruiting and graduating low-income students), research (producing cutting-edge scholarship and Ph.D.s), and service (encouraging students to give something back to their country). Read More
First Year Experience (FYE)
Making a smooth transition to college life is an important step in achieving success at college and at Northland. The FYE will get you started on the right path by connecting you to the people, programs and activities that will help you get the most out of your first year. All first-year students participate in the FYE which runs during the first half of the Fall Term.
You will meet your FYE classmates on the Tuesday before academic classes begin. Each section of the FYE has 8-10 students and an upper-class student instructor. The course will introduce you to other first-year students as well as to many activities and opportunities at Northland and in the local community. This is unlike any other class you will take, so make the most of this time getting to know your fellow classmates and participating in fun activities. Listed below is a tentative schedule for the fall FYE, with some sample programs:
- Introductions, Information Sharing, and Planning
- Leadership Activities
- Sustainability Programming - community garden; composting; renewable energy production
- Extracurricular activities with your group - sports events, NCSA meetings, lectures, campus events
- Wellness Fair - may include: local health care; Pilates; self-defense, healthy eating
- Lifelong Learning Activities - example: organic seed collection; fly fishing; swing dance; musical jams
- Community Service Project - Bayfield Apple Festival; Humane Society; LoonWatch; beach clean-up, Faith in Action
- Reflection Presentations
- Prep for Winter Registration
Hulings Lecture: A New Home
Jan 17, 2013
Location Information
7 p.m. @ SOEI Sentry Room
Public Presentation
Augustus Lee Merrill is a native of Andalusia, Alabama. He began teaching in the Northland College English Department in January of 1970 and retired as chairman of the department in May of 1999. He has served on the boards of Voyageurs National Park, the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute, and the Washburn Community Education Foundation. He has also served as a volunteer mediator for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and as a member of the Wisconsin Arts Board peer review panel. His writing has appeared in College English, Poetry Now, the Wisconsin Academy Review, and Gray's Sporting Journal. A small book of his poetry is scheduled to appear in the Parallel Press poetry series published by the University of Wisconsin/Madison. Lee lives in Washburn with his wife Melinda Rose Guerra Merrill.
The Hulings Lecture Series is made possible by A.D. & Mary Elizabeth Andersen Hulings Distinguished Chair in the Humanities
Contact Information
Clayton Russell
crussell@northland.edu
Jan 17, 2013, Jan 24, 2013, Jan 31, 2013, Feb 7, 2013, Feb 14, 2013, Feb 21, 2013, Feb 28, 2013, Mar 7, 2013, Mar 14, 2013, Mar 21, 2013, Mar 28, 2013, Apr 4, 2013, Apr 11, 2013, Apr 18, 2013, Apr 25, 2013
NC Kendrigan Pool
Intramurals: Water Polo
Jan 17, 2013, Jan 24, 2013, Jan 31, 2013, Feb 7, 2013, Feb 14, 2013, Feb 21, 2013, Feb 28, 2013, Mar 7, 2013, Mar 14, 2013, Mar 21, 2013, Mar 28, 2013, Apr 4, 2013, Apr 11, 2013, Apr 18, 2013, Apr 25, 2013
Location Information
NC Kendrigan Pool
- Location: Northland College Kendrigan Pool
- Tabling dates: Nov. 31 - Dec. 2 during lunchtime
- Sign-up deadlines: Open
- Captain's Meeting: None
- Start date: Thursday, January 17th
- End date: Thursday, November 21st
- Tourney dates: None unless teams are formed.
- Times/days of week: Thursdays, 7:00 - 8:30pm









