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For the second year in a row, Northwestern College has exceeded its goals for new student recruitment by more than 10%. Fall 2025 figures list a total of 354 new students, including 37 transfers, the highest number of transfers in nine years.

Northwestern College will hold Raider Nation Celebration, the college’s annual Homecoming and Family Weekend, Oct. 3–4. The weekend’s events include class reunions, banquets, athletic events, a music showcase, and traditions such as the Morning on the Green carnival.

The Rev. Rich Villodas, pastor and award-winning author, will present at Northwestern College Sept. 23–24.

The Northwestern College board of trustees has appointed Dr. Cambria Kaltwasser to the Marvin and Jerene DeWitt Endowed Biblical and Theological Studies Professorship.The endowed position provides annual funds to support the recipient’s scholarly work, which can be used for research, the purchase of equipment or materials, travel to pursue research, or assistance to student researchers.

Northwestern College’s Center for Innovation & Leadership welcomes the 2025–26 cohort selected for the Accelerate Siouxland leadership development program. Starting Sept. 11, the participants will develop relationships in the region and be equipped to become stronger community leaders.

Northwestern College invites high school and transfer students to visit campus during the 2025–26 school year. Both individual visits and Raider Days (group visit days) serve as an introduction to the college for prospective students.

Northwestern College is opening its 2025–26 art exhibit season with “Camera Obscura—An NWCore Create Collaborative Exhibition.” The show will be on display in Te Paske Gallery through Oct. 17, with a public reception scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m.

Northwestern College’s 2025 nursing graduates have recorded a 100% first-time pass rate on the NCLEX-RN board exam. In addition, this is the sixth consecutive year that Northwestern’s nursing graduates have compiled a 100% pass rate.

Dr. Young-Ji Byon, the founding director of Northwestern College’s engineering program, has been approved as an ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) program evaluator. He will be an official ABET evaluator during an accreditation visit of a large Midwestern university’s civil engineering program this fall.

Dane Schoenborn, a senior biology–health professions major at Northwestern College from Mahnomen, Minnesota, has spent much of his summer conducting research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He participated in the highly competitive 10-week Summer Program in Cancer Research, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute.