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The NIU Community School of the Arts (CSA) offers a variety of programs for children and adults, including early music education classes for young children. Prelude Class (ages 1 – 3) is a group class with lots of fun for toddlers and parents. Class activities include music listening, creative movement, songs and lap games. Development...

The Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) Council is pleased to be able to announce a call for applicants for the newly created Supportive Professional Staff Personnel Advisor (SPSPA). In the past, this type of support for SPS was available through the faculty and SPS personnel advisor role, but with the faculty now shifting to a collective...

The Terracycle Program that has been used in the past at NIU to recycle pens and other office supplies has recently been discontinued. As a result, Campus Mail is no longer able to accept these items, as they have no way to properly recycle them. Although efforts have been made to find an alternative source...

 The NIU Communiversity Gardens seeks a student for a paid community research opportunity. The student selected for this project will be responsible for developing materials to recruit, train and integrate interns with the NIU Communiversity Gardens. The student will also develop assessment materials to review the program and its impact for interns. This project starts...

Enjoy the arts and discover something new this summer! The NIU Community School of the Arts (CSA) offers a variety of programs for children and adults, including private music lessons. Private lessons are available for violin, piano and guitar, as well as banjo, mandolin, trumpet, steelpan, flute, saxophone, voice and more. CSA teachers include NIU...

Three NIU art history graduate students from the School of Art and Design will travel overseas this summer to pursue research on Southeast Asia as it relates to their master’s program. Carmin Berchiolly was selected by Oxford University and SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) University of London to attend a three-day workshop in Oxford, England,...

An accomplished researcher who straddles the line between engineering and medicine has been appointed the new dean of the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology. The NIU Board of Trustees appointed Donald Peterson, former dean of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Texas A&M University-Texarkana, to the role May 18 after...

The Community School of the Arts at Northern Illinois University announces a new Summer Percussion Workshop for middle and high school age students. Participants work with NIU percussion instructor Ben Wahlund, NIU professor and Fulbright award recipient Greg Beyer, DeKalb High School Director of Bands Steve Lundin, and several other professional educators and percussionists during...

The Operating Staff Council’s Public Relations and Activities Committee, is sponsoring the last Giving Project Workshop, before its summer hiatus, on Tuesday, May 23, in the Glidden Room of the Holmes Student Center, from noon-1 p.m. Yarn is available for many projects, some crochet hooks, as well as “plarn” (plastic yarn) to make tote bags....

NIU’s Ally Lehman has had an eventful week. On Friday she met U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth after being commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry; on Saturday she was recognized by President Doug Baker during graduation; and today she was featured in a Chicago Sun-Times column written by NIU alumnus Mark Brown....

Orientation and Family Connections, part of the Division of Enrollment Management, Marketing and Communications, will share an overview of campus-wide orientation programs for incoming undergraduate students and their families during a preview event on Monday, June 5, at 2 p.m. All traditionally admitted freshmen and transfer students must attend orientation programs prior to registering for...

Recent NIU graduate Blanca Rosa Jimenez (Blanca Rosa), who received her B.F.A. degree with an emphasis in 2-D studio illustration in Dec. 2016, cum laude, was surprised to learn that her artwork was accepted into the annual Society of Illustrators Student Competition Exhibit. The exhibit features the works of over two hundred top college-level illustration students chosen from...