A new effort by NIU staff to make student involvement on a campus student health insurance committee translate into real-world experience has already paid off for one aspiring actuary, who credits his involvement with helping him to secure an internship with Aetna
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The Northern Pact encompasses principles that outline the expectations we have for members of our community–being purposeful, just, caring, open, disciplined and celebrative. Each year, the Division of Student Affairs awards the Northern Pact scholarship to students who share this vision of service
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The NIU Student Branch of IEEE will host the largest electrical engineering student event in the Midwest in this month. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Region 4 Student Leadership Conference will be held March 16-18, at the Holmes Student
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Spending a week in Florida is an easy sell. Add in service projects such as building homes, helping seniors and receiving career advice, and it’s the perfect mix for a college spring break. For 25 years, NIU students have spent their break
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Angie Lobdell knows her way around schools. When her youngest child was born in 2001, she became a stay-at-home mom. And when that child began kindergarten, she maternally followed. “I decided to work at the school. I got a job as a
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Northern Illinois University Chief of Staff Dr. Matthew Streb and Associate Vice-President and Director of Athletics Sean T. Frazier have announced the “LEaD Huskies” class of 2017-18. Eight sophomore student-athletes have earned the prestigious honor of being selected to this program, after being
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Affirmative Action and Equity Compliance (AAEC), will be conducting several sessions on sexual harassment in an effort to reeducate the campus community about sexual harassment. Each session has been designed to be interactive and will explore the topic of sexual harassment – how
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Barbara Abromitis wanted to become a teacher. That goal brought her to the NIU College of Education, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in elementary education in 1983. Life had other plans, though. “When my kids were young, I started doing
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State Representative Bob Pritchard (R) returned to NIU for a meet-and-greet event with University Honors students. Pritchard, who visited NIU last March (2017) for a similar function, was invited back by the University Honors Program to host an Honors Engaged workshop session
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NIU College of Education professor James Cohen will spend the summer of 2019 in Uruguay as a Fulbright Scholar. The associate professor of ESL/Bilingual Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction will work alongside Aldo Rodriguez, a Ph.D. degree candidate in
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Engaged learning is music to ears. Associate Professor Jamie Mayer knows first-hand that students and the broader community benefit from partnerships and that’s why her colleagues from the Department of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders nominated her to be recognized as an engaged learning exemplar for
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NIU Senior Associate Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Vernese Edghill-Walden will facilitate a Jobs PLUS event on Friday, March 9, from 10 – 11:30 a.m. in Campus Life 100 using the Blind Spots educational resources from PwC offered through CEO Action for Diversity
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