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NIU faculty, staff and student volunteers are needed to help welcome our new students and their families to campus at Huskie Fall Kick-Off on Friday, August 25. At this dynamic event, new students learn what it means to be a NIU Huskie fan! We’ll celebrate the different NIU traditions with the president, faculty, staff and...

Among the highlights of Welcome Days 2016 is the annual President’s Welcome Back Picnic. This year’s event hosted by NIU President Doug Baker will be held  from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21. The location for the President’s Welcome Back Picnic is the west shore of the East Lagoon and the quad area west...

NIU faculty, staff and students volunteers are needed to help welcome our new students and their families to campus at a brand new event, the Huskie Fall Kick-Off, set for 5:10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 19. At this event, new students and families will celebrate the different NIU traditions with President Baker, faculty, staff and other new...

It’s hard to believe the start of a new school year is almost here: New students will be moving into their residence halls Friday, Aug. 19, during Opening Day. Team NIU is a unique group that welcomes and lends its helping hands to new and returning students. Many parents and families have said how amazing...

Before anyone knows it, the excitement will begin again for the next class of incoming NIU students and their families. Over the past months, the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, along with Intercollegiate Athletics, has been re-visioning the Huskie Family Welcome. The new event, Huskie Fall Kick-Off, will be held at Huskie Stadium...

As part of Welcome Days 2015 activities, NIU President Doug Baker will host the annual President’s Picnic from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23. The President’s Picnic, held along the west shore of the East Lagoon and the quad area west of Castle Drive, is one of many events scheduled over the weekend and...

While Sunday, June 21 marked the official start of summer, many Northern Illinois University faculty and staff are already busy making plans for the start of the upcoming fall semester. The 2015 Welcome Days committee is seeking volunteers from the university community to assist with various Welcome Days events for new and returning NIU students....

It feels like just a short time ago that we were ushering our newest Huskies into the 2014-15 academic year with the “Huskie Family Welcome” celebration. Before you know it, the excitement will begin again for the next class of incoming NIU students and their families. With this in mind, you are encouraged to save...

Three years, nine months. That, said Alex Gelman, is the sum total of time between tonight and the next time that Monday’s new freshmen and their parents will return together to the NIU Convocation Center. “You’re going to wear funny gowns and ill-fitting hats, and you’re going to be nervous – not like now, when you’re...

Approximately 3,100 new students (freshmen/transfers) are moving in to Northern Illinois University residence halls beginning Friday, joined by 900 returning students who will be moving into their residence halls over the course of the weekend. Additionally, almost 1,250 returning students and 105 university faculty, staff and administrators—including NIU President Doug Baker—are joining local leaders and alumni...

Three Welcome Days events previously scheduled to be held outdoors will be moved to indoor venues to accommodate the chance of inclement weather. RHA BLOCK PARTY Evans Field House 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, Aug. 22 GREEK LIFE BBQ Evans Field House Noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 23 GLOW IN THE DARK DANCE PARTY...

NIU President Doug Baker will host a town hall meeting at 11 a.m. today in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium in the Holmes Student Center. During his first all-hands meeting as president, Baker will discuss one of the most important events of the year: Welcome Days. “This is the time when our students and their parents...