Ordinarily, the topic of accounting wouldn’t stimulate an exciting discussion for most.
However, the way that professor Tim West teaches his Accounting 679 class makes it a topic worthy of debate.
In an effort to “better help students develop an ability to think on their feet,” West created a learning experience that simulates the climate of...
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Every year, Judy Santacaterina and Matt Swan conduct “mock interviews” with the students enrolled in COMS 309 Performance in Speech Communication course.
“The objective here is to demonstrate to students how the public speaking and performance skills cross contexts,” Santacaterina said. “We were surprised at how many students had never experienced a formal interview.”
Before the...
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The NIU Forensics team extended its winning streak at the Pi Kappa Delta Nationals at Webster University in St. Louis, Mo., held from March 13 to 16.
Eight members of NIU’s Forensics Team competed against 89 other schools to win the “Team of Excellence” award.
Debate Team competitors were Chris Michels, Benjamin Donovan, Yanelly Villegas and...
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NIU will host more than 200 students Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, for the annual Illinois Intercollegiate Forensics Association State Tournament.
NIU has hosted the tournament every other year for the past 25 years and has come to be known as the “cradle of coaches” in the forensics community. So it’s no surprise...
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The NIU Forensics team is enjoying a successful season thus far, including a first-place finish overall during a recent competition at the College of DuPage.
Six team members took first place in individual categories. They included:
Senior Jimmy Zucker of DeKalb (persuasion and first place overall for individual events)
Senior Lauren Scott of Chicago (poetry)
Freshman Julia Boyle...
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As a Chicago native working for the Plant Innovation Center (PIC) at the University of Florida, NIU alumnus Kevin Folta has a hard time finding a pizza in Gainesville that is on par with those he grew up eating.
After failing to find a pizza he liked, Folta took it upon himself to create a...
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Bitten “by the Student Affairs bug,” Joyce Ester says that her time at NIU as a graduate assistant in housing “led me to where I am today.”
And where she is today is no small feat.
After a nationwide search, Ester was selected in November to be president of Kennedy-King College, one of the City Colleges...
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The 2012 Outstanding Women Student Awards have been presented to 43 women from across all disciplines at Northern Illinois University and representing undergraduates, graduate students and law students graduating in the 2012 calendar year.
The NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women distributed the awards during its April 22 reception at NIU’s main DeKalb...
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The University Honors Program and the University Honors Committee welcome nominations for the University Honors Great Professor Award, a campus-wide award recognizing excellence in honors education.
The deadline for completed nomination packages is March 19, 2012. The award will be presented Sunday, April 22, by President John Peters at Honors Day.
The Great Professor Award honors...
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Erika Weeden will launch an organization near Mother McAuley High School to help clean up her community on the South Side of Chicago.
Olivia Guerra will teach more of her teenage peers at Rock Falls High School about the Search Institute’s “40 developmental assets” that help to foster healthy, caring and responsible adults.
Emily Rohman will...
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