Northwestern Alumni Association

Our Northwestern

The dedicated online portal for Northwestern alumni

Our Northwestern

The dedicated online portal for Northwestern alumni

What’s Inside Our Northwestern

Our Northwestern is a login-protected information hub for Northwestern alumni. Once inside, you can view and update your personal University profile, search the directory, set your email preferences, manage your alumni club affiliations, and, for our volunteer fundraisers, access your exclusive administrative tools. Use the buttons below to navigate directly to the area of Our Northwestern that you’d like to explore. Need help? Email ONsupport@northwestern.edu or call 847-491-4357 (M–F, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. CT; press “7”).

Update Your Information

Moved recently? Got a new job? Let us know by updating your profile in Our Northwestern. In your profile, you can also manage your privacy settings so that other members of the Northwestern community only see the information that you’d like to share.

Read more on our Frequently Asked Questions webpage.

Update My Information

Search the Directory

Your classmates—from the early days of the University through the most recent crop of graduates—are all here. Search by name, class year, school, degree, industry of employment, company, or keyword.

Are you or someone you know missing from the directory? Let us know by emailing ONsupport@northwestern.edu.

Search Directory

Set Your Email Preferences

We invite you to customize your communications. Whether you want to receive all the information available to alumni or more limited messaging on specific topics, you’re in control. Simply set your email preferences through the link below.

Manage My Email Subscriptions

Manage Your Alumni Clubs

Alumni automatically become members of the Northwestern Alumni Association—free and at no obligation. We do our best to match you to your local alumni club based on home address, but you may update your affiliations or elect to receive email from any club that you’d like to hear from.

Manage My Club Affiliations

Volunteer Fundraiser Tool

The Volunteer Fundraiser Tool (VFT) is a secure online platform that provides information for peer-to-peer outreach activities. An enhancement to the Our Northwestern community directory, the VFT is available exclusively to Northwestern volunteers in assorted leadership roles who are engaged with Alumni Relations and Development staff members.

Access the VFT

Daily Northwestern Archives

Explore the University’s newspaper collection—including The Tripod, The Vidette, The Northwestern, and the Daily Northwestern—via an online archive going back to 1871.

Access Archives