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NIU President Doug Baker sent this message today to members of the university community. Mike Mann, NIU’s director of State Relations, and I were in Springfield earlier this week working with legislative leaders and the governor’s office. It’s clear that both the legislative and executive branch members understand the extreme budget challenges facing higher education...
Homepage Screen Capture
Updates to the NIU.edu homepage rolled out today, featuring data-informed navigation changes and a new content strategy. “The navigation changes are a result of the website traffic analysis that we do on a quarterly basis,” said Jennice O’Brien, director of Creative Services. “We are also embarking on a new content strategy to drive traffic from...
Vincent F. Cornelius
NIU Law alumnus Vincent Cornelius (’89), the incoming president of the Illinois State Bar Association, will deliver the commencement address during the Northern Illinois University College of Law Commencement Exercises, beginning at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of the Holmes Student Center. During the ceremony, NIU Law will confer 88...
An ongoing two-year initiative has focused new attention on the need to better address rigor and reproducibility in research. This heightened awareness of problems identified in the quality (rigor) with which some published studies have been completed as well as the lack of transparency in reporting the details of completed studies led to extensive discussion...
Jennifer Ohlrich
The NIU College of Law has announced the February 2016 Wisconsin and Illinois bar exam passage results for graduates who were first-time test takers. Each year, several NIU graduates choose to take the Wisconsin bar in anticipation of practicing in the state. The Wisconsin Bar reports that all three NIU Law graduates who took the...
Orientation
Orientation & Family Connections, part of the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, will share an overview of campus-wide orientation programs for incoming students during a preview event at 2 p.m. Monday, June 6. All traditionally admitted freshmen and transfer students must attend orientation programs prior to registering for fall 2016 classes. New freshmen...
John L. Lewis
John L. Lewis, a champion of community engagement whose NIU career spanned nearly four decades, and whose work will live on through myriad economic development initiatives, died Friday, May 13, in Chicago. He was 71. Lewis retired from NIU in June of 2014 as senior research scholar for health and information technologies, a role in...
Barton (“Bart”) Sharp poses with Kristina and Michael (“Mike”) McGrath
Barton (“Bart”) Sharp, associate professor of management in the NIU College of Business, will serve as the first Mike and Kristina McGrath Professor in Entrepreneurship. Alumnus Michael (“Mike”) (B.S. Management 1970) and his wife, Kristina McGrath, created this professorship to increase and enhance entrepreneurship initiatives at the college. Sharp joined the NIU faculty in 2008...
Varsie Geisler (left) and Anne Kaplan
Varsie Geisler, office support specialist in the School of Nursing and Health Studies, has received the Patricia S. Siebrasse Administrative Professionals Award for Excellence for 2016. Given by the Administrative Professionals Advisory Council, the commemorative plaque was presented April 27 to Geisler at the Administrative Professionals’ Day breakfast. Her nominators had this to say about...
NIU’s Center for Biochemical and Biophysical Studies will host an upcoming public lecture delivered by renowned cancer researcher Channing Der. Der is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the RAS family of oncogenes and their role in driving cancer-cell growth. He serves as the Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at the...
Feedback is due Monday, May 23, and can be shared directly with program owners and/or online. Program Prioritization Task Force reports opened for review earlier this month to allow students, faculty, staff and other stakeholders to provide feedback on those recommendations. Information available includes narratives provided to the task forces and explanatory statements from the...
Five organizations with a stake in the DeKalb County’s economic development future – NIU included – recently completed a county-wide data and information collection effort. A summit titled, “DeKalb County Thriving!” will be held from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 24, at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, 1350 W. Prairie Drive in Sycamore, to...
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