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On Friday, April 20, NIU students and staff members will join approximately 400 Latinx leaders from throughout the state for the 26th Professional and Student Development Conference of the Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education (ILACHE) at Illinois State University. The theme of the conference is “Latino Resistance in Higher Education: A Legacy of Struggle,” and it will feature...
On Friday, April 20, Northern Illinois University senior Laura Vivaldo Cholula will receive the 2018 Emerging Leader Award from the Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education (ILACHE). The Emerging Leader award recognizes a student in Illinois who has made significant contributions to the Latinx higher education community through service and leadership. The award will be presented at this year’s...
Change is in the air at the Holmes Student Center (HSC) as the building’s lower levels are being prepared for a major overhaul. When completed in the fall of 2019, the area will include a new glass entryway with a tiered plaza opening to the Martin Luther King Memorial Commons, inviting lounge spaces, new dining...
NIU’s Campus Child Care and the Child Development Lab are merging to become the Child Development and Family Center. The merger means more child care options for NIU students, faculty and staff beginning this summer. Expanded infant care options will be available all year long. Previously, infant care was only available at Campus Child Care...
During the first 21 years of their lives, individuals with autism are offered critical support services through their local public schools. By law, those services must include “transition” planning that begins when the students turn 14½, providing nearly seven years of preparation for the next stage of their lives. Yet when that assistance ends, many...
Four NIU Geomatics students traveled to Las Vegas recently to participate in a land surveying competition held in conjunction with the National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) annual conference. Advisor Dr. Kory Allred, together with Skyler Cullen (senior, Geography/Geomatics), Ryan Trone (post baccalaureate), Joe Scheller (senior, Geography/Geomatics) and Erik Leonard (senior, Geography/Geomatics) comprised one of...
Members of NIU’s United Greek Council (UGC) recently earned the Council Management Award from the Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values (AFLV). UGC leaders say the award recognizes the collaborative efforts of all fraternity and sorority members across campus to build and support a strong community. Clarisa Sandoval, of Westchester, IL, is a senior majoring...
The NIU Department of Communication is preparing to raise the curtain on its popular three-day Reality Bytes Independent Student Film Festival at the Jameson Auditorium, located inside the university’s Cole Hall. Free and open to the public, the 17th annual festival will feature student-film screenings from 9 to 11 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, and Wednesday,...
When it comes to news on religion or religious organizations, news outlets often cover soup suppers or scandals — and not a lot in between. There’s more to religion than those extremes, and the mining of quality stories about faith, spirituality and core beliefs can be invaluable — to news outlets, religious organizations and the...
The Northern Pact encompasses principles that outline the expectations we have for members of our community–being purposeful, just, caring, open, disciplined and celebrative. Each year, the Division of Student Affairs awards the Northern Pact scholarship to students who share this vision of service and personal responsibility. Meet Kassandra Worden, one of the recipients of this year’s...
Many of us remember summer camp as a time of freedom and fun. Camp is that, but it is also much more for the nearly 5,000 campers who enroll in NIU summer camps each year. NIU camps offer young people a chance to gain independence and confidence, as well as to explore career fields and...
Jeff Maveus had spent his professional years at DeKalb Genetics, feeling secure and content in his position with the Corporate Services Department. That changed when Monsanto purchased the company in 1998. “I knew it was just a matter of time before I wasn’t going to have a job,” says Maveus, who lives in Cortland. Pondering...
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