Abby Spankroy Educate Global 2.0 is history. China looms in the rearview mirror. A new semester of learning is underway in DeKalb. But the broadened perspectives Educate Globalprovided to NIU’s future teachers seem destined to persist in countless and unpredictable ways. Just ask Bethany Johnson, a
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Cliff Alexis, recently retired from the NIU School of Music, has been selected to receive the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago’s highest honor. The Hummingbird Medal Of The Order Of The Trinity is “awarded for loyal and devoted service beneficial to the
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How it began is worth a smile. “They arrived in Sri Lanka on 13th August,” writes Sri Lanka’s YMCA of Pamunugama, telling of its visitors from NIU and elsewhere in the United States, “and in the evening … went on a boat trip
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Thanks to NIU’s Center for Nonprofit and NGO Studies, hundreds of humanitarian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may be able to deliver help to the impoverished people of Haiti that is more in tune with what Haitian people say they need. It has been
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A new exciting pathway to earn an MBA degree with an international twist will launch at NIU – and span the globe – beginning with the Spring 2018 semester. The pathway touted as the International MBA involves a partnership between the university
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For the past two years, NIU alum Sam Watt (BS Physics, 2014) has been teaching science in Beijing, introducing the seventh- and eighth-graders at Beijing Academy (北京中学)—as well as their teachers, parents and administrators—to an exciting hands-on approach to STEM education. As
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On Sunday, April 2nd, Autism Awareness Month begins with World Autism Awareness Day. The Presidential Commission on Persons with Disabilities will host an informational table at the Holmes Student Center on Monday, April 3rd from 11-1. They are also asking individuals in our community
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NIU’s 2017 World Music Festival “Roots & Blossoms” is approaching. The NIU Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, directed by Omar al Musfi will kick off this year’s festival at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, in the NIU School of Music Recital Hall. Guest
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The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is actively seeking area families to host two high school students or an adult leader from Southeast Asia for one week, April 8-16, 2017. The 50 students and 10 leaders are participants in the U.S. State
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Last summer’s maiden voyage of the Fulbright Gateway Orientation at NIU sailed to success. Seventy foreign Fulbright student grantees spent three days in DeKalb acquiring skills necessary for successful academic and professional lives in the United States while they also learned more
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NIU College of Law Professor Morse Tan has been chosen to participate in the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ 2017 Emerging Leaders Program. Founded in 1922, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs “is an independent, nonpartisan organization that provides insight – and
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Jui-Ching Wang, an associate professor of world music and music education in the NIU School of Music, has been awarded a U.S. Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for 2016-17 to Indonesia. This award will enable her to carry out a research project in
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