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North Hennepin Community College
North Hennepin Community College has a thriving campus of 4,000 students on Bottineau Boulevard. As one of 11 metro area MnSCU colleges sharing a common enrollment, NHCC places improvements to transportation infrastructure high on its agenda for future development.
 Ann Wynia
President
"A good transportation system is vital to the 10,000-plus students and employees who travel to and from North Hennepin Community College. The congestion at the "Devil's Triangle" of Bottineau Boulevard, Highway 169, and 85th Avenue currently obstructs traffic to the college and is a barrier to serving rapidly growing communities west of the intersection. An improved transit system will increase access to the college for students and staff living in both the urban core and all along the County Road 81 Corridor."
Ann Wynia became President of North Hennepin Community College in December of 1997. North Hennepin provides both credit and non credit instruction to over 10,000 students a year at its primary location in Brooklyn Park as well as other sites in the fast growing northwest metro area.
Ann began her teaching career at the college in 1970, but her thirty-year association with the college has been combined with several other challenging career opportunities. In 1976 she began the first of seven terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives culminating with two terms as House Majority Leader. In 1989 then Governor Perpich appointed her to serve as Commissioner of the Department of Human Services, Minnesota's largest state agency, and in 1991 she was elected a Regent of the University of Minnesota. In 1994 she was a candidate for the U. S. Senate.
As a community volunteer, Ann currently serves as President of the H.B. Fuller Foundation and as Chair of the Board of the Bush Foundation. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and the Weber-Penny Policy Forum and serves on the national board of Common Cause.
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