Press Room

Northwood Tech President John Will represented the College at a White House event highlighting commitments made under the Biden administration’s Talent Pipeline Challenge, a call to action for employers, education and training providers and others to support equitable workforce development in critical infrastructure sectors like broadband. In a new partnership, Northwood Technical College will provide NTCA member companies across the country online access to its Broadband Academy courses and library and a “Digital Badging” program in which students may enroll on an individual course-by-course basis or complete the full program. NTCA and Northwood Tech also plan to create a common template for apprenticeship-like training, modeled after the Northwood Tech apprenticeship program.

Northwood Technical College hosted a roundtable event Thursday, September 15 at the College’s New Richmond campus conference center with stakeholders to discuss grant details and planning to utilize the $9.8 million Housing Opportunity and Mobile Education Solutions (HOMES) Workforce Innovation Grant.

Northwood Technical College held a ribbon cutting and open house at the new Health Education Center (HEC) located in Shell Lake, WI on Wednesday, August 17.

Northwood Technical College received donations totaling $90,000 from Cenovus Superior Refinery and Enbridge Energy to assist in buying a generator for its new mobile welding lab.

Northwood Technical College is the recipient of a $9,823,075 Workforce Innovation Grant to fund its three-year Housing Opportunity and Mobile Education Solutions (HOMES) project.

Northwood Technical College Will Advance Educational Equity and Accelerate Community Growth in Partnership with Achieving the Dream

With spring comes the thaw and the time of year when animals begin to stir from their winter slumber. Northwood Technical College’s Board, staff, and students recently received the exciting news that ‘Blaze the Bear’ had come out of hibernation to begin its new adventure as the mascot for Northwood Tech (formerly known as WITC).

Students from across Northwest Wisconsin are the first in the College’s history to earn a Northwood Tech digital badge.