UW-Stevens Point at Wausau to move to Northcentral Technical College under new partnership

Starting fall in 2026, the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Wausau will move in with the Northcentral Technical College. 

The relocation announcement was made in fall 2025, allowing a full year for students, faculty, and the community to prepare for the upcoming change.  

Gretel Stock, dean of the University College, said, “We’re working to have a close partnership to work together on sharing coursework, student success, student activities, and locating great programs in one location.”  

NTC and the Wausau campus developed a close partnership, sharing a goal of increasing enrollment and expanding service to the community. 

The relocation is specifically targeted for those who can’t travel to multiple campus locations for classes. Those who take classes at both universities will benefit from this change. Students are given the chance to attend one university, rather than traveling to multiple campuses.  

NTC will host their annual open house, April 29, 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. There will also be an orientation for new and returning students Aug 17 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

When the Wausau campus relocates, the Marathon County will decide what the old campus is used for moving forward.  

Miranda Gentry-Siegel, Wausau campus executive director, hopes that there will be higher enrollment moving forward after the relocation of the Wausau Campus. The partnership between the two campuses will allow for more students to be served.  

“From conversations I’ve had with people in the public and certainly our business community, this partnership makes sense to them,” said Gentry-Siegel.  

Gentry-Siegel said that the NTC and UWSP are both trusted in the community. Each campus holds relationships that the other doesn’t, and by coming together they are opening to more connections with the community. 

 “I think that they [the community] can definitely see the value in having two colleges present on the same campus and working closely together to provide more opportunities for students,” said Gentry-Siegel.  

“One of the great things is that the NTC and UWSP are both trusted and known entities in the Wausau community,” said Stock.  

Faculty who work at the Wausau campus will be transitioning with the campus as well. Most faculty teach at the Wausau, Marshfield and Stevens Point campus, not strictly Wausau, and that will continue after the relocation.  

“They will absolutely have a home on the NTC campus,” said dean Stock. “NTC has been very welcoming to us.”  

League play will be discontinued, but club sports will continue. The Wausau campus has worked with NTC and the Medical College of Wisconsin to offer shared intramurals. The campus will continue to encourage student participation in intramurals after the relocation.

“Just being in a more populated on a more populated campus, I think they’ll [tudents] enjoy that a lot,” said Gentry-Siegel.  

Dean Stock said, “It’s not much as an end goal, as a beginning.” There are twenty-seven articulation agreements with thirteen UWSP programs with NTC, “That’s the most of any other technical college partner that we currently have.”  

Gentry-Siegel shares two goals during the transition, “I think it’s going to be a good experience for students to have more people they can connect with.”  

There will be activities and classes encouraging students to connect with one another.  

“We have a streamlining transfer process for NTC students who want to complete a bachelor’s degree with us.”  

Gentry-Siegel finds that there are many students who want to stay local for a bachelor’s degree. The partnership between the two campuses allows more bachelor’s degree options.  

“It’s also going to be a good opportunity for our students to stay in Wausau and complete their full degree,” said Gentry-Siegel. 

Brianna Ankerson

News Reporter

Bankerso@uwsp.edu