Category: Engagement
Anne Kaplan, vice president for Outreach, Engagement and Information Technologies, has called for nominations for the 2012 Presidential Engagement Professorships. “Three exemplary professors – Cliff Mirman, Susan Russell and Kenneth Thu – received the first annual Presidential Engagement Professorships from President Peters in 2011. We are expecting another strong pool of applicants for the 2012...
Northwestern Illinois’ technological and financial future received another boost Monday as educators and state and local officials broke ground for the Lee County leg of the iFiber project at Sauk Valley Community College. Under sunshine and promises of jobs for generations, leaders such as Illinois State Sen. Christine Johnson (R-Shabbona) heralded the project, partnered with...
When the new DeKalb High School first opens its doors to students Tuesday, Sept. 6, every member of the Barb family will see what District 428 Board of Education President Tom Matya already sees. “What a wonderful asset this (District 428-NIU) partnership is for the DeKalb community,” Matya said recently as he joined his school...
The Office of Student Academic Success and the Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning are launching Northern Light Ambassadors this fall. The Northern Light Ambassadors program will provide each undergraduate college with an elite body of NIU’s students to assist with public relations, fund development, retention, engaged learning and special events for the university....
What if the Internet connected directly to your brain? Your favorite songs would play inside your head. Your favorite restaurant would know exactly when you were hungry. You wouldn’t have to waste time in school because you could instantly look up anything you ever wanted to know. That’s the premise of M.T. Anderson’s “Feed,” a...
NIU’s Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning (OSEEL) is launching the Huskies Service Scholars Program. The program is part of a 10-state initiative led by the Midwest Campus Compact to integrate civic engagement into the college experience and support the higher education goals of young adults through community service. To do this, the Huskies...
When they return to the classroom this month, Rockford high school teachers will be better equipped to improve their students’ literacy skills thanks to a team of NIU faculty members and doctoral students. That team – 12 members in all – worked with 236 high school teachers in a two-week intensive seminar this summer. The...
Saturday, Aug. 6, is the last chance to attend NIU’s popular Summer Under the Stars program. In June and July, attendees had an out-of-this-world time with the history of the Space Shuttle program and Telescope Night. At 7 p.m. Saturday in Davis Hall Room 315, you and your family can learn about Earth’s cosmic kid...
Erika Weeden will launch an organization near Mother McAuley High School to help clean up her community on the South Side of Chicago. Olivia Guerra will teach more of her teenage peers at Rock Falls High School about the Search Institute’s “40 developmental assets” that help to foster healthy, caring and responsible adults. Emily Rohman...
Friday nights were like graduation at Stevenson Towers this summer. The cafeteria tables were draped in red and black cloths. Parents arrived after work in sundresses, suits or coveralls and steel-toed boots, on time so they wouldn’t miss dinner and the ceremony. As campers showed off their week’s worth of accomplishments and received their certificates...
Families can beat the heat with a “cool night” in the cosmos contemplating the icy reaches of space at 7 p.m. Friday, July 22. NIU’s STEM Outreach will present the second Summer Under the Stars event, Telescope Night, in LaTourette Hall Room 200. This event is free and open to the public. Suzanne Willis from NIU’s...
NIU’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education will offer a motor development program for young children ages 3 to 6 from Monday, Sept. 19, through Wednesday, Nov. 9. Held in Anderson Hall Gym 130, the eight-week program runs from 4 to 5 p.m Mondays and Wednesdays. This program provides young children with the opportunity to...
