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The Department of Political Science recently partnered with NIU’s Honors Program to provide students interested in earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in five years, guaranteed seats in the program. Students must complete all the requirements for the Political Science B.A. or B.S. degree programs (with an emphasis in politics and governance) as well as...
Associate Professor Andrea Radasanu, a specialist of political philosophy, knows student engagement leads to productive citizenship. That’s why her colleagues from the Department of Political Science nominated her to be recognized as an engaged learning exemplar for her outstanding commitment to engaged learning, teaching and scholarship. A recipient of the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Radasanu says, “Learning...
NIU’s Tocqueville Forum has launched an online journal of essays by undergraduate students on current American political issues related to political philosophy, history, literature and culture. “Compass: An Undergraduate Journal of American Political Ideas” will publish essays from undergraduates at colleges and universities anywhere in the world. Submissions will come from across academic disciplines, said...
              UPDATE:  While the NIU Travel with the Professor bus trip is sold out, individual tickets for the evening with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg have not yet gone on sale and will be available direct from Roosevelt University for those who are interested in attending on their own....
Join the NIU Art Museum for two events on Thursday, May 11. From noon to 1 p.m., Museum Assistant Director Peter Olson and Graduate Research Assistant Millicent Kennedy will give a curators’ talk about the design, installation and context surrounding the “Hand in Hand: The Visual Arts as a Means of Social and Political Propaganda,...
In just the program’s fifth year, NIU’s mock trial team has earned its second consecutive bid to the American Mock Trial Association’s (AMTA) upcoming National Championship Tournament. NIU went 6-2—with wins over Northwestern, Wheaton College and the University of Arizona included—during the Opening Round of Championship Series (ORCS) competition in Geneva last month, earning one...
Kristen Stoicescu and Alonte Holliday
If winning is a crime, NIU’s mock trial team is guilty. At the American Mock Trial Association’s opening round of the championship series (ORCS) held this month in Geneva, the Huskie team was named as one of six “Outstanding Trial Teams” and finished with the third best overall record. Their prowess in the courtroom earned...
Kurt Thurmaier
NIU’s Master of Public Administration (MPA) program once again received top marks in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate schools. The MPA program was ranked sixth in the nation in the specialty field of city management and urban policy and tied for 14th in the nation with Harvard in the field...
Matt Streb
At the next STEM Café, “Predicting the Primaries: How Math Shapes Presidential Elections,” Department of Political Science Chair Matt Streb will explore the nitty-gritty of election polls, discussing how they work, how they are analyzed and how they can affect outcomes. The free talk and discussion will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday,...
Thomas Rhoden
Drawing on his Texas roots, NIU student Thomas Rhoden recently released “Texaners,” a collection of eight short stories published by Etoile Solitaire Press. It is the sixth book for Rhoden, a doctoral student in political science. “I’ve spent about a decade in Southeast Asia, but for the last two years I’ve been in Thailand,” said...
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