UWSP Wausau is leaving its nearly empty campus

The school is moving to the NTC campus - and leaving plenty of questions in its wake

UWSP-Wausau will be leaving its downtown campus and will co-locate on the NTC campus. They’ll remain separate entities

At the end of the year 2026, the UWSP Wausau campus will be empty of students, faculty and equipment.

UW-Stevens Point and NorthCentral Technical College officials recently announced that the UWSP-Wausau operation will be moving to the NTC Campus, fully abandoning the current Stewart Avenue campus.

That comes after news The Wausonian broke last year that UWSP-Wausau was only using a staggering 21% of the campus. UW and county leaders were working on plans to bring in new tenants to co-locate - Marathon County recently moved the city/county parks department from River Drive to the UWSP campus.

That move now seems strange, considering UWSP-Wausau is now just flat out leaving. Either this came together very quickly, or the UW was in the middle of making plans for this move while they were moving other entities into the building.

Either way, it sends the county’s building consolidation plans into chaos, since the county owns the buildings and leases them to the campus. It now finds itself with yet even more empty buildings to get rid of.

The move should be good for students - they’ll get access to all the same resources NTC students get, officials from both campuses say, while also remaining two separate entities. But UWSP-Wausau leaving leaves a lot of questions in its wake.

Understanding the campus relocation

Here are all the things we know about the campus move (which is not a merger of the schools themselves):