Mike Stang, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs, received the Association of College and University Housing Officers – International (ACUHO-I) prestigious Parthenon Award during the organization’s annual conference on July 7 in Denver. Stang was one of five recipients from around the
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More than 80 years after NIU first opened as the Northern Illinois State Normal School in 1899, faculty in Physical Education began to embrace a new way of thinking. “Our Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KNPE), and our peers across the
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Offices and hallways lined with filing cabinets are a distant memory for Crystal Garvey, NIU Senior Associate Director of Admissions Systems and Processing. “It really has revolutionized what we do; we were drowning in paper,” Garvey said. “We process over 100,000 documents
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“Being in the presence of Olympic coaches and athletes was incredible. I even got to the see one of my favorite male gymnasts who has been to the past two Olympic Games! That was definitely a highlight for me. Training in the
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“I’m a First-Gen College Student” will bring together first-generation students, faculty, staff and recent alumni with Welcome Events from 4 to 6 p.m. Sept. 4 and from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept. 5 at Founders Memorial Library. To help launch the
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When Kathryn Olson was a student at Northern Illinois University, she became part of Huskie Service Scholars to network with peers and get involved in campus and community service projects. Because the program contributed to her career path, she gives back as
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Northern Illinois University law students will have another opportunity to gain valuable real-world experience when they represent prisoners in federal court beginning this fall. On Friday, June 29, the NIU College of Law and the P. Michael Mahoney (Rockford, Illinois) Chapter of
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NIU’s Gerald Blazey, vice president for Research and Innovation Partnerships, will participate in an upcoming roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C., on the economic impact of fundamental scientific research. Sponsored by the Science Coalition and Association of American Universities, the event will be held
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Dear NIU Community, Last August and September, the Chair and Vice Chair of the Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees met with multiple stakeholder groups on campus to gather feedback intended to inform the search for a new president of NIU. We
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Caleb Pursell simply wanted a taste of teaching in a rural area. And that’s exactly what he got in the Mandaree School District, located within North Dakota’s Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The senior Elementary Education major joined three other NIU College of Education students on
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Ashley Grazutis has been thinking about the edTPA since she arrived at NIU. “The first time I heard about the edTPA was [as a first-year student] at a Secondary Education Organization meeting,” says Grazutis, a senior from Palos Park, Illinois. “All the rubrics.
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NIU has created a new, university-level office focused on ethics, compliance and policy development and management. The newly established Ethics and Compliance Office (ECO) reports directly to the President, and will include a variety of functions previously housed in other areas. Establishment
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