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The NIU parking garage will be closed for cleaning and maintenance from Monday, May 23, through Friday, May 27. The visitor pay lot will not be available as free parking for blue and student permit holders. However, 67 blue parking spaces will open in Lot D and 25 blue parking spaces will open in Lot 36. During...

As spring semester draws to a close, plans already are under way for Opening Day 2011. Faculty, staff and community members are invited to join Team NIU and help welcome new Huskies to campus. With more than 3,000 students moving into the residence halls on Opening Day, Team NIU plays a critical role in making...

The NIU College of Business added to its list of accolades this week with the release of more detailed information from the Bloomberg Businessweek rankings of business schools. Earlier this year, Bloomberg released the overall results, with NIU placing at number 84 out of more than 600 eligible AACSB-certified business schools. This week a more...

Lynn Neeley, a professor in the Department of Management in the NIU College of Business, has won funding from the Coleman Foundation. As part of the approved funding, Neeley was designated to serve as project coordinator for a new Coleman Foundation Faculty Fellowship program at NIU. As project coordinator, Neeley identified two Faculty Fellows to collaborate with on...

NIU will upgrade Monday, May 30, to Blackboard Next Generation (NG). This is the most significant upgrade of Blackboard since it was first introduced at NIU almost 10 years ago. In addition to delivering a redesigned, updated interface, Blackboard NG will simplify the process of creating and editing courses, will facilitate classroom collaboration and allow for better...

Beginning Friday, July 1, NIU students and employees will pay more to park in on-campus lots. Members of the university’s Campus Parking Committee, represented by all groups on campus, unanimously voted to increase permit fees and fines ranging from $3 to $69 to keep up with maintenance of the parking lots and rising costs associated...

Provost Ray Alden will complement his top staff with two longtime NIU leaders who bring considerable administrative and university-level governance experience to the table. Anne Birberick, former chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, is the new vice provost. Birberick succeeds Earl “Gip” Seaver, who will become deputy provost July 1. NIU alumna...

Northern Illinois University infielder Carly Norton was recognized for her hard work in the classroom as she was named to the 2011 Capital One Academic All-District® Softball Second Team for District 5 as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America. “She’s really stepped up for us as a junior,” said NIU head coach...

NIU President John G. Peters invites the campus community to attend Academic Convocation, a formal ceremony to officially welcome and celebrate incoming students.  Academic Convocation begins at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 19, at the NIU Convocation Center. Students will learn about the many academic opportunities and campus traditions of NIU. Two faculty and student research...

NIU’s Communicative Disorders Student Association is hosting a book drive through Friday, May 13, to raise money for the Stuttering Foundation and to support organizations that work with Better World Books. Books can be dropped off in boxes located in Barsema Hall, Douglas Hall, Founders Memorial Library, the Psychology-Computer Science Building, the Wirtz Hall atrium and near the book buy-back table...

A classroom of NIU students who share a passion for the environment had an opportunity Wednesday to open a dialogue about climate, clean energy and green jobs with one of Washington, D.C.’s movers and shakers: U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin. The students interacted via videoconference with the Democratic senator as he discussed a wide range of environmental...

In celebration of the sesquicentennial of Jose P. Rizal’s birth, Consul General Leo M. Herrera-Lim of the Consulate General of the Philippines Chicago will donate copies of the original manuscripts of two of Rizal’s famous novels to NIU. The novels “Noli Me Tangere” (Touch Me Not) and “El Filibusterismo” (The Reign of Greed), published by the National Historical...