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Campus Visits
If you haven't visited Northland College, now is your chance. Come see why Northland is the college of choice for many students who are interested in active learning experiences, dedicated and remarkable faculty, and career-oriented academic programs. We are a distinctive learning/living environment. Northland College is a liberal arts and sciences college uniquely focused on the environment and sustainability. Our class sizes give you personalized learning with our remarkable faculty who have a passion for teaching excellence. Located in Ashland, Wisconsin, we are less than a mile from Lake Superior; the largest freshwater lake in the world. However, words aren't enough to describe such an experience. Come visit Northland College and experience the difference.
Individual Visits
We want you to see Northland College and we'd like to help you with the cost. If you visit the campus by June 1 of the year you wish to enroll at Northland College, you will receive a $2,000 Visit Grant that is spread over your four years at Northland College. What do you have to lose?Visits are arranged Monday-Friday between the hours of 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. CST and Saturday at 10 a.m. by appointment only. (Please schedule about a week in advance so we can arrange the most complete visit experience).
Every visit will include a tour of campus with a student guide and an interview with an Admissions Counselor. In addition, you can also choose from the following options if available:
- Talk with a professor
- Attend a class
- Meet with a Financial Aid Counselor
- Enjoy a meal in the Baldwin Commons
- Stay overnight with a student host in the residence hall (students only)
- Meet with a coach
Email: visit@northland.edu
Phone: (715) 682-1224
Toll Free: (800) 753-1840
*Please Note: Your visit is not confirmed until you have received an
email and/or letter from the Northland College Campus Visit Coordinator.
Visit Days
Visit Days give you the perfect opportunity to learn about Northland first hand. Throughout the day you have the opportunity to tour campus, sit in on a class, meet current students, and attend sessions on Admission, Financial Aid, and Student Life & Academics.We can tell you about our campus and our exceptional students, but there's nothing like seeing Northland for yourself. Find out more about Visit Days and upcoming dates by clicking here, or sign-up for a visit day by clicking below:
Northland Exposure
Come meet with Admissions Representatives in your own backyard. Northland College hosts regional Exposure Events to give the opportunity for students, family, friends and teachers to learn more about the College. Each event offers a presentation on our unique environmental programs, and initiatives that we are involving our students in each an everyday to prepare them as future leaders in all facets of the environment, business, education and the arts. For students that have already begun putting your application together, you can bring your complete application, and supporting documents (see applying for admission for a complete list) and receive an on-the-spot admission decision.
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







