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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.

Event Calendar
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SnoFest - Talent Show & Kool-Aid Chugging
Feb 22, 2012
7-10 p.m. @ Lumberjack (Student) Lounge & Amphitheater

Students and Leaders Career Presentations
Feb 2, 2012, Feb 8, 2012, Feb 15, 2012, Feb 21, 2012, Feb 22, 2012
Wheeler 011

Students and Leaders Career Presentations

Feb 2, 2012, Feb 8, 2012, Feb 15, 2012, Feb 21, 2012, Feb 22, 2012

Location Information
Wheeler 011

Five career presentations are scheduled to take place over the ITV network in Wheeler 011 during February.
Please see the attachment for additional details about the sessions.

They include:

Thursday, February 2 - Conservation Warden: An Office with a View 1:30 or 2:15 p.m.
Wednesday, February 8 - From Cart Attendant to Retail Club Manager 9:00 or 9:45 a.m.
Wednesday, February 15 - Fisheries Expert: Battling Aquatic Invasive Species 1:30 or 2:15 p.m.
Tuesday, February 21 - Walk on the Wild Side: Animal Science/Zoology 1:30 or 2:15 p.m.
Wednesday, February 22 - Find the Food Science in You: Food Scientist 1:30 or 2:15 p.m.Students &

Leaders Network is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization committed to offering Wisconsin students a direct connection to real-world professionals from a spectrum of fields using your existing ITV System. We want to provide educators with another tool for their students.

2012 Spring Semester Career Speakers Extended Descriptions

Conservation Warden: An Office with a View FIRST SPEAKER NEXT WEEK!
Presented by: Nathan Kroeplin - Conservation Warden, Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources
Date: 2/2/2012
Sessions: Session C (01:30 PM), Session D (02:15 PM)
Description: If you are the outdoorsy type and have an interest in the law, a job as a Conservation Warden may be a career path to choose. More than 200 Wardens serve as the law enforcement arm of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Nathan Kroeplin has been a DNR warden for more than a decade and will review the hiring process, minimum requirements and what students can do to better their chances of becoming a warden. With the Wisconsin outdoors as his office, Nathan shares what a typical day is like as a warden, the pay, benefits and perks and why he thinks it's the best job in the world.

From Cart Attendant to Retail Club Manager Attention Business Classes!
Presented by: Adam Peck - Club Manager, Sam's Club - Madison
Date: 2/8/2012
Sessions: Session A (09:00 AM), Session B (09:45 AM)
Description: Many young people get their first jobs in retail stores as a way to earn spending money or save for college. But the industry also offers great opportunities for long-term careers. Adam Peck started working at a Sam's Club in high school, which turned into a job that got him through college and now has become his career. Now as Club Manager at the Madison store, Peck discusses the day-to-day challenges, benefits and rewards in retail as well as his potential to grow in his career with the nationwide retailer.

Fisheries Expert-Battling Aquatic Invasive Species NEW SPEAKER
Presented by: Phil Moy - Fisheries and Aquatic Invasive Species Specialist, UW Sea Grant Institute
Date: 2/15/2012
Sessions: Session C (01:30 PM), Session D (02:15 PM)
Description: Since the 1800s, more than 185 exotic aquatic organisms of all types - including plants, fish, algae, viruses and mollusks - have established themselves in the Great Lakes. The species displace those that are native, and take a toll on an ecosystem. There are ways to fight back. Well-known Wisconsin invaders, like the sea lamprey, are now better controlled. Even the high-jumping Asian carp, which is knocking at the door of Great Lakes, has run into shocking barriers thanks, in part, to the work of Phil Moy. In his role as a fisheries expert, Moy will talk about his battles with aquatic invasive species and review the kinds of career paths that can help in this fight to protect Wisconsin waters.

Walk on the Wild Side: Animal Science/Zoology NEW SPEAKER
Presented by: Erin Flynn - Conservation Education Curator, Henry Vilas Zoo
Date: 2/21/2012
Sessions: Session C (01:30 PM), Session D (02:15 PM)
Description: From her beginnings as a teenage zoo volunteer in Nebraska to the remote reaches of Australia, Erin Flynn has had a vast range of experiences with a wide variety of animal species. Early on she planned to be a veterinarian, but soon was drawn by allure of exotic animals. Now the Conservation Education Curator at Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison, WI, Erin talks about her role in zoology today and how her travels have taken her around the world to practice animal science on some of the world's most unique creatures.

Finding the Food Science in You: Food Scientist Attention Science Classes!
Presented by: Alexander McGowan - Associate Food Scientist, Kraft Foods-Oscar Mayer
Date: 2/22/2012
Sessions: Session C (01:30 PM), Session D (02:15 PM)
Description: Food science is a study concerned with all technical aspects of foods, beginning with harvesting or slaughtering, and ending with its cooking and consumption, an ideology commonly referred to as "from field to fork." It is one of the life sciences and is usually considered distinct from the field of nutrition. Alexander McGowan will share what led him to the world of food science and now as a food scientist with one of the nation's leading companies what he does on a day-to-day basis.

Elizabeth Gerrits

Hometown:

Port Washington, WI

Graduation Date:

2015

Area of Study:

Environmental Geosciences