Company Profile
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
Company Overview
Vision
NWTC is a cutting edge life-long learning college that transforms, strengthens, and inspires.
Mission
We are a two-year college serving Northeast Wisconsin by providing education, training, and life-long learning opportunities for individuals and businesses leading to the development of a skilled workforce. Our customers stimulate the economic vitality of our district as a result of the application of skills and knowledge acquired through the completion of certificates, degrees, diplomas, and courses.
Value Statements
Our values are the attitudes and behaviors that exist within and define our College culture. Specific behaviors that model each value statement can be found on the intranet home page.
1. Customer Focus: We are committed to exceeding the service and learning expectations of our customers and our community.
2. Everyone has Worth: We are committed to embracing the worth of every individual, creating a place for all people, and promoting the respectful environment necessary for intellectual and personal discovery.
3. Passion & Inspiration: We have a personal passion for achieving the College’s vision, inspiring and motivating others to action.
4. Creativity & Innovation: We are committed to energizing and fostering transformative change through challenging experiences, proactive thinking, and taking initiative.
5. Collaboration: We are committed to open communication, teamwork, and productive conflict that strengthen relationships and create better solutions.
6. Emotional Intelligence: We are committed to growth in our individual awareness, through personal reflection, seeking input from others and aligning our actions.
7. Results & Accountability: We are individually and collectively accountable for the sustainable and optimal use of resources and the achievement of meaningful, measurable results.
Valuing Talent & Well Being: We are committed to fostering a mentally and physically healthy work environment that promotes learning and growth and attracts and retains talented people.
9. Ethics: We are committed to ethical and honest behavior and personal responsibility for living and modeling the values of NWTC.
Why Choose NWTC?
Let's stick with the facts—starting with 42,000.
That's the approximate number of students NWTC serves every year. There's good reason for that.
Students want access to advanced technology and state-of-the art facilities. That's where NWTC rivals many others
in the state—in some cases—the country.
The same with our instructors. They're recognized throughout the higher education system. They're respected in their fields.
And just as important, our students give them high marks too.
What are our students saying?
It all adds up
There are more than 200 other reasons students choose NWTC:
100+ degrees, diplomas and apprenticeships.
80+ certificates.
28 colleges and universities with which we have transfer agreements.
Company History
History of the College
Who We Are
Every individual has something to contribute. Everyone who is willing to work for a better life should have the opportunity to achieve it. Education that fosters understanding and encourages potential in each person can make that happen.
Those are the ideas that drove the creation of NWTC, and those are the ideas that drive us today.
A New Kind of Education
In the early 1900’s, Wisconsin educators and lawmakers recognized the need for high-quality education for working young adults. Starting in 1912, City Vocational Schools in Green Bay and
Marinette offered courses in machine shop, woodworking, printing, bookkeeping, shorthand, typing, mechanical drawing, sewing, and commercial work along with standard reading, writing, and math for younger students. They provided instruction for apprentices and, in time, offered courses to adults of all ages, whether they were working or not.
Meeting the Area’s Needs
During the 1930s and 1940s, the Vocational Schools responded to their communities by offering job training for the unemployed during the Depression, and operating 24 hours a day/7 days a week to provide training for the war effort during World War II. The Sturgeon Bay Vocation School started in 1941 to help meet those needs. As more young students turned to the high schools for their standard education, the Vocational Schools expanded their territories and started to offer two-year technical programs and vocational diplomas.
Uniting and Growing
To serve all citizens, the State organized the Vocational Schools into Districts covering all counties. In 1967, Brown, Door, Kewaunee, and Oconto counties formed the Wisconsin Vocational, Technical and Adult Education District 13. The City and County of Marinette joined the District in 1968, while Florence county and part of Shawano county joined in 1970. The united Schools received a new name – the Northeast Wisconsin Technical Institute (NWTI). The Sturgeon Bay and Marinette campuses built new facilities in 1971, and the large, Green Bay campus complex was ready for classes in 1972. The Institute applied for and received national accreditation.
Embracing Change
In 1987, the increasing complexity of workforce skills and increasing rigor of programs prompted a new name: Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Other changes included an increased focus on serving the educational needs of businesses and industries in our communities. Starting in the early 1990’s, the College pioneered the use of online technology to offer flexible options for education.
A New Vision
By the end of the 1990s, facilities were cramped, yet many residents still could not pursue their education because of distance, the need to work during traditional class times, or changing schedule needs. The new millennium brought a referendum for growth and a new vision to make education available where, when and how learners need it. Facilities were expanded by 40%, Regional Learning Centers were strengthened with more credit offerings, more courses were made available online and capacity was added in advanced manufacturing and health care, where workers were needed most.
‘Dream Catchers’ redefines success
The Dream Catchers initiative was founded in 2009, patterned off of the national organization known as "Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count," which seeks to augment knowledge about strategies and policies that increase student success. The goal of Dream Catchers is to create a culture of success at NWTC, one in which all faculty and staff own their unique and critical roles in the success of our students, and all students persist to credential completion. Our purpose is to develop and implement an evidence-based model that provides insight and best practices to all college teams regarding the success or lack thereof of our students and leads to increased student success as defined in our NWTC student success statement.
All learners achieve comparable outcomes leading to a credential.
• This will occur regardless of the level of preparedness or initial aspiration • In a time-efficient manner • Resulting in an overall percentage increase in credentials granted
This will be accomplished by employees living NWTC's values.
The Future
There was a time when higher education was the exception, available to students whose financial resources or academic achievement put them among the elite. There was a time when employees who used their hands weren’t expected or allowed to do much more. In today’s economy, that is neither practical nor just. We need every individual to achieve his or her potential to keep our companies and our country competitive. We need every individual to learn and keep learning, so that their best ideas can drive better decision-making and support innovation. In other words, we need every individual. With a century of experience and today’s technology available, we can come closer to that goal than ever before.
This is our history. This is our future. Welcome to Northeast Wisconsin Technical College.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Other recognitions
NWTC is recognized as an institution of higher education by the United States Department of Education.
NWTC is recognized as a comprehensive technical college by the Wisconsin Technical College System Board.
Many of NWTC's degree and diploma programs are accredited or certified by appropriate industry and professional standards organizations.
Benefits
Northeast Wisconsin Technical College takes pride in being an employer of choice, offering a benefits program that is balanced, cost effective and competitive. Your benefits are an important part of your total compensation program and are designed for your financial protection.