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Expanding the mind is a lifelong journey.

Learn with Northwestern

Expanding the mind is a lifelong journey.

Where Education Continues

Access to brilliant Northwestern minds doesn’t end at graduation. The NAA offers many ways to hear from members of the University community who are making an impact on today’s issues and leading in fields from biomedical research to the arts. And with our library of recorded lectures and webinars, learning from Northwestern experts happens anytime, anywhere.

Events and Webinars

Upcoming Education Events

May
20
2024

Alumni Authors CATalogue Talk: Kathryn Haydon

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM, Virtual (Zoom)

Join the Northwestern Alumni Association for a presentation by alumni author Kathryn Haydon ’99 on her new book Unsalted Blue Sunrise: Poems of Lake Michigan.

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Jun
12
2024

Creating Your Path, How to Get to Where You Want to Go

12:00 PM to 1:00 PM

Join us for this small group mentor circle to have your questions about next steps answered. The program will be conversation-style and will not be recorded. Learn More

Jun
18
2024

Navigating Your Career Journey Towards Fulfilment and Success

9:30 AM to 10:30 AM, Zoom

Join us at 8 pm India Standard Time on June 18 for "Crafting Your Perfect Career Path: Navigating the Journey Towards Fulfillment and Success" with Pulkit Agarwalla. Learn More

Jun
27
2024

Five Frameworks to Get What You Want through Storytelling

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM, Zoom

Our speaker, alumna, Becky Tsadik, will, in this program, help you and encourage you to bring your story to life. Learn More

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Featured Webinar

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Webinar: The Northwestern You Never Knew

From its founding as a religiously-affiliated school serving the American Northwest to its present stature as a global center of teaching and research, we’ll go behind the scenes to uncover quirky NU history and campus traditions. Learn what makes the wildcat wild and formed Northwestern’s character.

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Featured Faculty Speaker

Carter Cast ’92 MBA

Carter Cast

Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management

Carter Cast is a successful professor, venture capitalist, and now author, but his career did not start out that easy. In this podcast, Cast talks to the NAA about his career path from working to market Tostitos to becoming the CEO of Walmart.com to becoming a professor at Kellogg. Now he is the author of The Right and Wrong Stuff: How Brilliant Careers are Made and Unmade. Cast talks about the five archetypes that most often derail careers and provides advice into different criteria to consider when thinking about making a career change. You will not want to miss all of the insights Cast has to share with modern professionals.

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Related

Enroll in Free Online Courses

Through the Coursera platform, Northwestern offers a robust slate of online courses—also known as Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)—free to alumni. Simply sign up for an alumni email account, which will authorize you to register for Northwestern MOOCs at no cost.

Learn how to enroll in Northwestern MOOCs

Highlights from A Day with Northwestern

For more than 40 years, this daylong event held in the spring has featured prominent faculty and alumni speakers on timely topics. Choose from 14 different lectures—on art, science, business, journalism, medicine, and more—to personalize your class schedule. The 2018 event featured keynote speakers Jonathan Holloway and Jonathan Eig ’86.

It’s a really amazing thing to be able to spend a day on campus and connect with like-minded people from all walks of life.”

Shradha Agarwal ’08
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Alumnae of Northwestern University

Faculty-led Classes in Evanston

Open to all, this continuing-education program offers four 10-week courses on a quarterly basis; classes are taught by Northwestern University faculty.

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