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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

Event Calendar
April 2013
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'Challenge of the Infinite Frontier' - SOEI 40th Anniversary Event
Apr 3, 2013
7:30-8:30 pm @ Sentry Room - SOEI

'Challenge of the Infinite Frontier' - SOEI 40th Anniversary Event

Apr 3, 2013

Location Information
7:30-8:30 pm @ Sentry Room - SOEI

7:15-7:30 p.m. - Break with refreshments

7:30-8:30 p.m. - SOEI Sentry Room "Challenge of the Infinite Frontier"- Northland Alum and author Rocky Barker will share his experience as a student at Northland when the Institute was created. He will also discuss new views on wildland conservation.

** Additional Events for SOEI 40th Anniversary 'Wildness Week' **

April 4, 7 - 9 p.m. | Ponzio Campus Center, Alvord Theater

7 p.m. - Welcome from Mark Peterson, Executive Director, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute

7:15-8:15 p.m. - "Facing Climate Catastrophe with Hope: Rediscovering the Olson Way" by David Backes, Professor of Mass Communications at UW-Milwaukee and author of A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson

8:15-8:30 p.m. - Break with refreshments

8:30-9 p.m. - Filmmaker Peter Olsen will share clips and stories from his newest documentary project, "The Singing Wilderness; The Life of Sigurd F. Olson

April 5, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Ponzio Campus Center, Alvord Theater

Wilderness Expeditions - Trip Reports 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
715-682-1264
jayers@northland.edu

'Singing Wilderness, Reading Wildernes, Writing Wilderness' - SOEI 40th Anniversary Event
Apr 3, 2013
6-8:30 pm @ Sentry Room - SOEI

'Singing Wilderness, Reading Wildernes, Writing Wilderness' - SOEI 40th Anniversary Event

Apr 3, 2013

Location Information
6-8:30 pm @ Sentry Room - SOEI

April 3, 6 - 8:30 p.m. | SOEI Sentry Room

6-7:15 p.m. - SOEI Sentry Room "Singing Wilderness, Reading Wilderness, Writing Wilderness." - Northland students Jake McGinnis and Peter Wolak have gathered a collection of Northland students to share their favorite Olson quotes and the inspiration provided therein.
7:15-7:30 p.m. - Break with refreshments
7:30-8:30 p.m. - SOEI Sentry Room "Challenge of the Infinite Frontier"- Northland Alum and author Rocky Barker will share his experience as a student at Northland when the Institute was created. He will also discuss new views on wildland conservation.

April 4, 7 - 9 p.m. | Ponzio Campus Center, Alvord Theater

*7 p.m. - Welcome from Mark Peterson, Executive Director, Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute
*7:15-8:15 p.m. - "Facing Climate Catastrophe with Hope: Rediscovering the Olson Way" by David Backes, Professor of Mass Communications at UW-Milwaukee and author of A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson
8:15-8:30 p.m. - Break with refreshments
*8:30-9 p.m. - Filmmaker Peter Olsen will share clips and stories from his newest documentary project, "The Singing Wilderness; The Life of Sigurd F. Olson

April 5, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Ponzio Campus Center, Alvord Theater

Wilderness Expeditions - Trip Reports 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
715-682-1264
jayers@northland.edu

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