University of Minnesota-Crookston

of James J. Hill, donated 476 acres (193 ha), and the Northwest Experiment Station was established.
In 1905, the Minnesota legislature appropriated $15,000 to establish the "Northwest School of Agriculture" (NWSA), a regional residential agricultural high school. Affiliated with the University of Minnesota, the school provided training in "the technical and practical business of agriculture and in the art of homemaking." The school year began in October and ended in March to accommodate farm students. In 1906, the Northwest School of Agriculture officially opened.
In 1963, the University of Minnesota Bureau of Field Studies began examining the need for a two-year institution of higher education at the NWSA and, in the fall of 1966, the "University of Minnesota Technical Institute", a two-year (associate) degree granting institution, opened its doors to the first incoming class of 187 students.
For two years the NWSA and the Technical Institute shared the campus. In the spring of 1968 a torch was passed—figuratively …