Share Tweet Share Email
Tag: Women's History Month
To commemorate Women’s History Month, NIU Today is publishing a series of articles highlighting faculty, staff, students, alumni and programs that make an impact at NIU and beyond. While the number of female engineers has increased over time, women engineers only represent 13% of the total (altogether.swe.org). The experience of being the only female in...
For women, barriers in the business world have long been referred to as “the glass ceiling” — a phrase coined in the 1980s to represent the invisible hard-stops to success often faced by women and other traditionally underrepresented individuals. How women overcome invisible barriers during the best of times and the worst of times is...
To commemorate Women’s History Month, NIU Today is publishing a series of articles highlighting faculty, staff, students, alumni and programs that make an impact at NIU and beyond. DeAnna Harris-McKoy is a teacher, researcher, supervisor and therapist, all rolled into one. The associate professor in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences and director of...
To celebrate International Women’s History Month, we asked some of the student leaders in the Women in Business Professions (WIBP) student organization to share their thoughts on women helping women, bringing others along and their WIBP experiences.  Allison Zaker  Major in accountancy. Minor in business analytics. Certificate in finance. Model United Nations treasurer (since 2021)....
To commemorate Women’s History Month, NIU Today is publishing a series of articles highlighting faculty, staff, students, alumni and programs that make an impact at NIU and beyond. It’s hard to summarize the work of the NIU Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. An official description just doesn’t seem to do it justice. Members...
To celebrate International Women’s History Month, we asked some of the student leaders in the Women in Business Professions (WIBP) student organization to share their thoughts on women helping women, bringing others along and their WIBP experiences.  Alyssa Pincuspy  Double major in marketing and communication studies. Certificate in professional selling. Honors Program member. College of...
To celebrate International Women’s History Month, we asked some of the student leaders in the Women in Business Professions (WIBP) student organization to share their thoughts on women helping women, bringing others along and their WIBP experiences.  Naomy Ortiz  Double major in accountancy and finance. WIBP general member during freshman year (2019). WIBP recruiter and...
A picture, NIU President Lisa C. Freeman says, truly is worth 1,000 words. Freeman and her fellow presidents and chancellors of Illinois public universities recently participated in a Zoom meeting with Illinois Speaker of the House Emanuel “Chris” Welch. “One of the first things Speaker Welch did was say, ‘It moves me. It makes me...
To commemorate Women’s History Month, NIU Today is publishing a series of articles highlighting faculty, staff, students, alumni and programs that make an impact at NIU and beyond. When Jeanne Isabel arrived on campus in 1969 from Kewanee, Illinois, she had a dream of working in healthcare. Three NIU degrees and five decades later, the...
To celebrate International Women’s History Month, we asked some of the student leaders in the Women in Business Professions (WIBP) student organization to share their thoughts on women helping women, bringing others along and their WIBP experiences.  Elizabeth Cruz  Major in accountancy, double minor in psychology and data analytics. Certificate in business analytics using SAS...
To commemorate Women’s History Month, NIU Today is publishing a series of articles highlighting faculty, staff, students, alumni and programs that make an impact at NIU and beyond. Take a quick look at new courses offered by the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (CSWGS): Gender and Environmental Justice, Gender and Migration,...
#ThankAnNIUWoman
The Gender & Sexuality Resource Center (GSRC) is honoring NIU women in celebration of Women’s History Month. Throughout the month of March, the GSRC is looking for stories of thanks – stories of how an NIU women influenced and empowered each personal, educational and professional development journey. To nominate someone who deserves recognition, along with...
1 2 3