Jesse “Woody” Johnson and Jessica Reyman have been selected as the recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award. Established in 2015, the award recognizes outstanding graduate faculty members for their scholarly achievements and exceptional contributions to graduate education at NIU. “Both
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Bernadette Heitschmidt Bernadette Heitschmidt didn’t start her college journey with an eye on staying there. Raised in Garfield Ridge, near Midway Airport, she attended Marquette University to study advertising with a minor in graphic design. “I had a rough first year. I
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When Spring Piatek was treated for Kawasaki disease at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago at age 4, she remembers a nurse staying with her in the middle of the night to tend to her fever. The nurse gave her a grape Popsicle
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11 of 15 teams rank at or above the national average Five Northern Illinois University athletic programs achieved perfect 100 percent Graduation Success Rates (GSR) in the recently released GSR report by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). NIU recorded an overall
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On Thursday, Oct. 18, more than 100 K-12, community college, and university faculty and administrators came together on the campus of Northern Illinois University as part of a collaboration designed to increase certification and degree attainment, as well as to promote seamless
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NIU’s Department of Special and Early Education (SEED) has earned another five years of approval from the Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies as a Gateways to Opportunity Entitled Institution. The designation allows NIU’s Early Childhood Education majors the option to attain Gateways to Opportunity ECE
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Todd Reeves and Todd Gilson NIU Honors students of all majors now have guaranteed admission to the Master of Science program in Educational Research and Evaluation. The unique opportunity also includes a reimbursement of the Graduate Application Fee and a waiver of the GRE
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Making the transition from high school to college and finding a home away from home was the theme of the winning essay of NIU’s “Make Your Home Among Strangers” contest. Freshman Shandiez Holmes, a fashion merchandising major from Chicago, earned top honors
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Joanne Chamberlain Krakora graduated high school in a class with 27 classmates she’d known since kindergarten in the small town of Toulon, Ill. Neither of her parents had attended college. When she arrived on NIU’s campus, she wasn’t quite sure which way
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Recognition dinner brings together 100 alumni, family of co-founder More than 15,000 students in the past 50 years can call themselves college graduates because of the McKinley “Deacon” Davis CHANCE Program at NIU. They’ve gone on to careers in every area—social sciences,
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The NIU Libraries’ Textbook Task Force came together last fall with a straightforward vision: to improve NIU students’ access to textbooks. The task force, made up of NIU faculty librarians (also known as subject specialists) and staff members, was responding to a
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Dan Migala Success, says Dan Migala, is about the baseballs you choose to pick up. Considered literally, it’s what launched the career of legendary Major League Baseball skipper Sparky Anderson. In the figurative sense, it’s a mantra that encourages finding and grabbing the
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