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From the bustle of Wall Street to the vibrant classrooms of NIU, Terrence “Terry” Horan, ’86, has had a career that is as inspirational as it is impactful. As a past president and CEO of STIHL Incorporated and currently serving on the company’s board of directors, Horan’s vast repertoire of professional experiences uniquely positions him...
Nationally, nearly nine million college students take classes exclusively online. As the landscape of higher education continues to evolve, Northern Illinois University is positioning itself to be a leader in online education. NIU’s Office of Online Learning within the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning supports the experience of NIU’s fully online learner student body...
On Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, 35 esports teachers, coaches and players gathered in the NIU Esports Arena to learn how to build a healthier, more balanced approach to video gaming. The group included high school, community college and university staff members, student athletes, and even an esports coordinator for the U.S. military. The gathering was...
Rain didn’t dampen the enthusiasm surrounding the School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders inaugural Interprofessional Field Day held last month. A dozen graduate students from the audiology, physical therapy and speech-language pathology programs gathered at the NIU Physical Therapy Clinic for festivities which included three-legged races, bags competitions, balloon passes and balloon popping contests....
Jason Klein Enrollment in the NIU College of Education’s Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction program continued to grow significantly this fall. Behind the large jump in students specializing in Curriculum Leadership is a new contract cohort from Harper College that includes 20 of its staff along with eight K-12 teachers and administrators from Palatine-based Township...
The Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Plan 2.0, which, in response to the pandemic, ramped up emphasis on student retention and success, has already helped produce positive results in student reenrollment and will continue to unfold under a shared equity leadership (SEL) structure. SEL leverages input from faculty, staff, undergraduates and graduate students. It will be...
NIU will host a Sustainable Food Systems Innovation Challenge event for college students age 18 and older on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 11 and 12, with a focus on food justice. The 24-hour challenge pushes teams of students to use their multidisciplinary skills to create solutions to pressing worldwide problems related to sustainable food systems. Students of...
Dave Grewell has a list of things he wants to work on as the new dean of the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, but his personal job description is quite simple: Pay it forward. “I have been lucky everywhere I have been. I am where I am today because of luck and the...
Lindsay Harris Children who are blind or visually impaired can neither see words in print nor the objects that the words refer to, such as a tree or a car or a cloud. So how does this impact their word learning and vocabulary development, all of which begins as auditory only? Lindsay Harris wants to...
The Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences will welcome best-selling author and educator, Eddie Glaude Jr. to the Rebuilding Democracy Lecture Series at 7 p.m. CST Nov. 8 in Altgeld Auditorium. The program is free and open to the public. The event will feature a discussion between Glaude Jr. and Dean Robert...
Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Greg Grandin will present “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” during the Department of History’s annual Lincoln Lecture, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in Altgeld Auditorium. The presentation, rescheduled from its original September date, is free and open...
We are supposed to have everything figured out when we get to college, right? Not the case! Change is inevitable in life and, when it comes to changing your major, it can be a change for the good. Such is the case for Abby Byer, a junior majoring in Business Administration with an emphasis in...
