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NIU students in a residence hall lobby area
NIU departments and units that want to reach out to first- and second-year students next year are invited to collaborate with First- and Second-Year Experience to offer a program through the First- and Second-Year Success Series (FSYSS). The series will begin the third week of the fall semester, and will extend through the Spring 2015...
NIU students enjoy a fall day on campus.
Interested in helping first-year students learn how to succeed at NIU? Apply to become a UNIV 101/201 instructor for fall 2014. UNIV 101 is a one-credit, 12-week course focused on helping first-year students develop the essential academic and social skills needed to make an enjoyable and successful transition to NIU. UNIV 201 is a similar...
Book cover of “Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation” by Eboo Patel
“Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation” by Eboo Patel has been chosen for NIU’s 2013-2014 Common Reading Experience. Patel is the founder and executive director of the Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core, an organization he founded to “catalyze, resource and network this generation of interfaith leaders,...
Denise Rode
Denise L. Rode, NIU’s director of First- and Second-Year Experience, has been appointed to a four-year term on the advisory board of the National Resource Center on the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. The mission of the National Resource Center is to “support and advance efforts to improve student learning and transitions into and...