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Blackboard Catalyst Award
NIU’s Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center was named a winner of the Blackboard Catalyst Award for Community Collaboration. Awards recognize community leaders within the Blackboard user community who encourage collaboration, and share advice, insight content and effective practices with fellow educators outside their own institutions. The Blackboard Catalyst Awards program annually recognizes and honors...
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Members of the Illinois House Executive Committee have approved SB 1313, which will move the legislation to the House floor for consideration. House Amendment 6 was filed on the bill last week, with House Speaker Michael Madigan picking up sponsorship. This amendment would do away with a state statute that has guaranteed government subsidies for...
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Five third-year students from the NIU College of Law have been selected as the first-ever recipients of the Kenneth and Ellen Chessick Bridge to the Bar Scholarship. The students are Nareman Abdallah of Rochelle, Jeffrey Brown of Morris, Alia Choudhury of Carol Stream, Sania Merchant of DeKalb and Corey Sealy of Oak Park. Each will...
Trevor Olson
Northern Illinois offensive tackle Trevor Olson and fullback Cameron Bell have signed free agent contracts with Tampa Bay and San Francisco, respectively, to bring the number of Huskie football players to sign NFL free agent contracts this year to five. Olson (Richfield, Minn./Richfield) and Bell (Round Rock, Texas/Stony Point) join wide receiver Nathan Palmer (Elkhart,...
STEM Night at Still Middle School
Advancing the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) industries has become a central focus for NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology. NIU chapters of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) recently hosted a STEM night at Still Middle School in Naperville. Suma Rajashankar, faculty adviser for...
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In Springfield … The majority of activity in both the Illinois Senate and Illinois House of Representatives last week and again this week will involve trying to move substantive bills through committees The deadline to get bills out of committee is Friday, May 4. House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 49 (HJRCA 49), sponsored by Speaker...
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NIU students and faculty members taking and teaching summer courses will work with an improved and upgraded Blackboard system. The 1,300 faculty members and thousands of students who depend on the university’s online course management system to receive assignments and communicate with classmates and instructors will see the upgrades when they are unveiled Monday, May...
Chandler Harnish
Chandler Harnish waited longer than anyone to hear his name called at the 2012 National Football League Draft. For the quarterback from Northern Illinois, who in 2011 became the fourth player ever in the Football Bowl Subdivision to pass for more than 3,000 and rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season, led NIU...
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The Office of  Student Engagement and Experiential Learning has announced the winners of Tuesday’s Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day. Projects were judged in two categories, with first through third place winners, honorable mentions and People’s Choice awards in each. (* indicates a tying score) Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts (SSHA) First Place Dylan Blaum A Rat...
Outstanding Women Award winners
The 2012 Outstanding Women Student Awards have been presented to 43 women from across all disciplines at Northern Illinois University and representing undergraduates, graduate students and law students graduating in the 2012 calendar year. The NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women distributed the awards during its April 22 reception at NIU’s main DeKalb...
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NIU’s Master of Public Administration (MPA) program once again received top marks in the latest U.S. News and World Report rankings of graduate schools. The MPA program was ranked fifth in the nation in the specialty field of city management and urban policy and 12th in the field of public finance and budgeting. Those rankings...
PreLaw Tuition Winners 2012
Northern Illinois University College of Law was named as one of the top law schools in the nation when it comes to minimizing tuition inflation according to preLaw magazine in its Spring 2012 issue. The College of Law was represented on a list of “Tuition Winners” based on the lowest tuition increases by dollar amount of all...
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