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More than 500 NIU students, faculty, staff and alumni sprang into action April 13 during NIU Cares Day, the annual event that allows Huskies to lend a helping hand to community members who need one. “NIU Cares Day volunteers spent the day planting, painting, cleaning, sorting, assisting with events and various other tasks around the...
Join your colleagues in congratulating the newly named Board of Trustees Professor; Presidential Teaching Professor; Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professors; Presidential Engagement Professor; and the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching and Instruction Award recipients at an event held in their honor on Thursday, April 25, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Altgeld Auditorium. A...
Huskies. Never. Quit.  You just have to unleash them.  For 1,895 minutes on Tuesday, May 7- Wednesday, May 8, NIU will host its first-ever Day of Giving. Day of Giving events have grown in popularity over the past several years, and among colleges and universities in particular. Driven primarily through online channels, these events serve as “digital pep...
“When They Call You A Terrorist,” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and co-authored by Asha Bandele, has been chosen for NIU’s 2019-2021 Common Reading Experience (CRE). Last year, over 70 percent of freshmen students used the book in at least one of their courses, including UNIV 101/201, First-Year Composition courses and COMS 100. The Office of the...
Aiming to bring together a community of allies for undocumented students in college and beyond, NIU will host the Sharing the Dream Conference. Supported by the Illinois Association for College Admission Counseling, the annual event will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, at Barsema Hall.  Faculty, staff and community members at...
A 25-member committee has been hard at work creating the outline for a year-long observance of NIU’s 125th anniversary. Now the entire university community is invited to participate by submitting ideas, applying for grants, and branding both new and existing events as 125th celebrations. NIU’s 125th (also known as a quasquicentennial) officially kicks off in January 2020, a century-and-a-quarter...
All members of the Northern Illinois University community are invited to attend the investiture of Dr. Lisa C. Freeman as the 13th president of NIU, 2 p.m., Friday, April 5 in Boutell Memorial Concert Hall in the Music Building. “The investiture of a new president is an important event in the history of a university,...
Northern Illinois University President Lisa Freeman announced today that Dr. Beth Fisher Ingram will be the university’s next executive vice president and provost beginning Thursday, May 16, 2019. “We are very excited to welcome Dr. Ingram,” said Freeman. “She is an accomplished academic and administrator with a wealth of experience at top-flight public research universities....
The Strategic Enrollment Accountability Plan released this week is a crucial part of NIU’s efforts to achieve its goals for enrollment growth and stability over the next five years. It complements the Strategic Enrollment Management Plan released in January. That document set goals, described strategies and defined objectives. The Accountability Plan gets even more specific by:...
NIU strategic planning will now be guided by a new set of formal statements about the university’s mission, vision and core values. Following three months of work by a faculty and shared-governance committee and a campus-wide survey, the new statements were formally approved by NIU’s Board of Trustees earlier this month. “At this critical point...
Delicious soup served in hand-made ceramic bowls is the perfect recipe to raise funds for the Huskie Food Pantry and Hope Haven. Empty Bowls, a nationwide project using ceramic arts to fight hunger, comes to NIU 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in the Chandelier Ballroom, Adams Hall. The way it works is you...
As crews begin transforming the southern side of the Holmes Student Center next week, the bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be temporarily removed from the commons that bear the name of the American Civil Rights leader. When completed, the concrete wall between the existing south entrance and the hotel tower will be...
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