Tag: Adela de la Torre Honor Society
Educating families on the college is essential for the success of students. That is why FAST (First-generation Aspire to Succeed Together), in collaboration with the Adela de la Torre Honor Society, is bringing Parent University to help educate parents in the local community on the high school and college experience. FAST is the NIU student...
According to Emily Prieto, director of Northern Illinois University’s Latino Resource Center (LRC), there was no way that DeKalb resident Elizabeth Garcia was not coming to NIU. “Lizy’s been a Huskie for a long time,” Prieto explains about the 2013 DeKalb High School graduate who is coming to NIU to study Community Leadership and Civic...
Latino students at NIU will be honored Sunday, April 21, for their outstanding academic achievements. The Latino Resource Center’s Adela de la Torre Honor Society (ATHS) will hold its second annual induction ceremony from 1:15 to 3:15 p.m. in the Altgeld Auditorium. More than 200 inductees and family members are expected to attend. Students selected...
Student Affairs & Enrollment Management and Huskie Family Connections will host the third regional meeting of the year at home on NIU’s DeKalb campus. Families of NIU students are invited from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21, to Room 100 of the Campus Life Building. Participants can meet Student Affairs administrators and share dialogue...
Before Noemi Rodriguez began classes at NIU, she interned at Children’s Memorial Hospital. “I fell in love with the nurses at Children’s Memorial. I admired their work,” says Rodriguez, a sophomore nursing major from Chicago. “There are some respectable nurses, and there are bad nurses, and I will become a respectable nurse. I love the...
As the Latino Resource Center’s Adela de la Torre Honor Society (ATHS) enters its second year, the focus continues to be on the academic advancement as well as professional development of its members. ATHS, in collaboration with the Center for Black Studies’ John Henrik Clarke Honor Society, traveled Oct. 4 to the University of Chicago (UIC)...
Northern Illinois University’s first Latino Honor Society was successfully launched April 15. With family and friends at their side, 32 students were inducted into the Adela de la Torre Honor Society (ATHS). The inaugural members swore an oath to achieve success through scholarship, service and leadership. About 100 people attended the event organized by Vanessa...
