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While enrollment at Northern Illinois University declined slightly this fall, the quality of students admitted improved as did retention rates for continuing students. The university’s official 10-day count showed an enrollment of 20,130 students. That is a decline of about 2.3 percent, the smallest dip in enrollment since 2010. “We are not where we want...
Book cover of “Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties” by Amanda H. Littauer
In her new book, NIU professor Amanda Littauer tells the history of young women who stood at the center of major cultural change and helped transform a society bound by conservative sexual morality into one more open to individualism, plurality and pleasure in modern sexual life. Littauer will deliver a talk on the book –...
Book cover of “The Toy and the Twister”
Northern Illinois University Press and the NIU Center for P-20 Engagement are creating a series of STEM-based storybooks, the Stuffed Bunny Science Adventure Series, which will include a total of eight books to be published over the course of the next two years. The books in the series focus on the adventures of a toy...
Abby Dean
Abby Dean might have just started as NIU’s director of University Marketing, but she begins with more than a decade of Huskie experience. “I am really excited to take this position and have the team that I have,” said Dean, who has worked for NIU since 2003 and took over the newly created director position...
Starting next fall, engineering students from the Rockford area can earn bachelor’s degrees and master’s degrees from NIU without leaving the campus of Rock Valley College. Presidents and other leaders of both institutions made the announcement and signed letters of intent this morning before a standing-room-only and energetic crowd gathered inside the Woodward Technology Center....
Huskie Hack
Hacking isn’t just for computer geeks or technical experts – it’s for everyone. NIU will host Huskie Hack from noon Saturday, Sept. 26, to noon Sunday, Sept. 27, in the Holmes Student Center. This free and interactive event is devoted to experiential learning, collaborative brainstorming and fun. Students from NIU, selected high schools and Chicagoland...
I am approaching the stretch run of my summer with Young People For (People For The American Way) in Washington D.C.
Logo of the U.S. Department of State
Northern Illinois University is proud to welcome a special group of 70 international Fulbright Foreign Students to campus this week for its first-ever Fulbright Gateway Orientation program. This activity is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State as part of the Fulbright Program, the U.S. government’s flagship international exchange program supported by the people of...
AlcoholEdu for College logo
All incoming new students – freshmen and transfers – must complete mandatory online education designed to improve their understanding of the critical issues regarding sexual assault, interpersonal violence, stalking and bystander intervention, as well as the prevention of alcohol misuse. With the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the 2014 Campus...
Screen capture of the www.niu.edu homepage
You never get a second chance to make a first impression. With websites playing a critical role in NIU’s initial communication with its many audiences, having a consistent university-wide message has never been more important. “The NIU website is a retention and recruitment tool for the university,” said Webmaster Jeannine East, of NIU’s Office of...
NIU’s Pettee Guerrero (right) and Pati Sievert made the TV news in during Wednesday’s Google Geek Street Fair in Chicago.
NIU made a big impact on participants and attendees during Wednesday’s Google Geek Street Fair in Chicago. The event – the first of its kind in Chicago – is part of Google’s effort to spur young people to ente the science and technology fields, or, as DNAinfo’s David Matthews wrote, “to stir scientific curiosity in...
Photo of an NIU tour
Next Friday, July 31, we will be hosting approximately 2,000 potential new Huskies and their families on campus. The Northern Illinois University Summer Open House takes place mainly in Holmes Student Center, but a campus scavenger hunt and departmental receptions are also planned. Open House experiences weigh very heavily on students’ final decision on where...
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