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The approximate cost of attendance for 2012-2013 for domestic students:
- Tuition: $27,622
- Fees: $946
- Room & Board: $7,150
- Total direct costs $35,718
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
Apr 5, 2013
8:00 - 4:30 pm @ Alvord Theathre - Ponzio Campus Center
'Wilderness Expeditions - Trip Reports from around North America - SOEI 40th Anniversary Event
Apr 5, 2013
Location Information
8:00 - 4:30 pm @ Alvord Theathre - Ponzio Campus Center
An all day Event consisting of speakers who share their Adventures from around North America
8-8:50 a.m. - "Pam's Journey to the Arctic Ocean and
Beyond" by John Olson- John has been an active lifetime paddler and
wildlife biologist for 37 years with the WI DNR .
9-9:50 a.m. - "One Man, One Canoe, Two Countries" by
Dave R. Doering- Dave is an independent film maker, owner of "Sun Ridge
Moving Pictures" and Bayfield Public School Teacher.
10-10:50 a.m. - "Baffin Island 2007: Exploring The
Frontlines of Climate Change" by Elizabeth K. Andre- Elizabeth is an
Assistant Professor of Environmental Education and Outdoor Education at
Northland College.
11-11:50 a.m. - "Ideas of the North" by Conor Mihell-
Conor is an editor-at-large with Canoe and Kayak magazine and an
award-winning environmental and adventure travel journalist based in
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
12-12:50 p.m. - Lunch on your own
1-1:50 p.m. - "Traversing the Brooks Range by Canoe:
Haul Road to the Chukchi Sea" by Geoffrey Smith-Geoffrey is an Aquatic
Ecologist for Voyageurs National Park and has worked for the National
Park Service for over 30 years.
2-2:50 p.m. - "Pikes Portage: East onto the Barrens
from Great Slave Lake with lessons from Sigurd Olson" by Bob Henderson-
Bob is the author of Every Trail has a Story: Heritage Travel in Canada
and the long time editor of Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor
Education. He has taught outdoor education at McMaster University and
now Brock University for over 30 years.
3-3:25 p.m. - "The Voyageur's Highway: A Journey in
Five Parts" by Ted Gostomski. Ted is a biologist, writer and hivernant
whose internal compass points North.
3:30-3:55 p.m. - "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:
America's Last Wilderness" by Laurel Ipsen. Laurel is a freshman at
Northland College studying Outdoor Education. She hails from Duluth, MN.
4-4:25 p.m. - "Life is Better There" by Will "John
Wayne" Krift. Will grew up hiking trails north of The Smoky Mountains
National Park and is a student at Northland College. He spent 4 months
last summer hiking the Appalachian Trail.
All events have been coordinated and supported by the Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute and the A.D. & Mary Elizabeth Andersen Hulings Distinguished Chair in the Humanities.
Contact Information
Jean Ayers
SOEI
715-682-1264
jayers@northland.edu









