NIU Today

NIU’s Division of University Relations launched a new website today to monitor and report activity in Springfield related to performance-based budgeting. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2013, the Illinois Board of Higher Education budget recommendations to governor and the General Assembly will include allocations to public institutions of higher education based on performance metrics. The IBHE’s...

“How can I let families and teachers know about NIU campus activities they would enjoy?” That question from a local educator sparked development of a newsletter that lists educational and cultural enrichment activities on the DeKalb campus that are appropriate for professional educators and for families. The Center for P-20 Engagement is distributing this calendar...

For the second consecutive week, Northern Illinois volleyball’s sophomore outside hitter Lauren Wicinski was named Mid-American Conference West Division Offensive Player of the Week, the league announced Monday. Wicinski’s third such honor this season ups her NIU career record total to eight selections. “Lauren was flat-out awesome this past weekend, especially against Toledo, when she...

With the 2011-12 season nearly a month away, the NIU women’s basketball team will host its first practice Tuesday, Oct. 4, at the NIU Convocation Center’s Victor E. Court. Northern Illinois head coach Kathi Bennett, who joined the 300-win club last season, has already taken the team through two weeks of individual workouts and two...

In Springfield … An arbitrator today issued a ruling stating that Gov. Pat Quinn’s recent announcement that he intended to close seven state-run facilities and layoff more than 1,900 state workers by the end of the year violates a collective bargaining agreement between the governor and the AFSCME union. This is the same arbitrator who...

Picture a brisk, early autumn morning in Chicago. Forty-five thousand runners fill the start corrals. Twelve thousand volunteers stand throughout the course, armed with Gatorade, water, Vaseline, cold sponges and gel packets. And 1.7 million spectators stand in rows six-deep throughout Chicago’s historic neighborhoods – Near North, Old Town, Lincoln Park, Boystown, Pilsen, Chinatown –...

UPDATE 3:15 p.m. Monday, Oct. 3 Just before 2 p.m. today, power was restored to the Swen Parson Hall building lights and convenience outlets (office computers) by way of a generator sitting on the east side of the building. A second (larger) generator has just arrived and it will be set just east of the...

MT. PLEASANT, Mich. — Central Michigan took a 17-0 lead early, expanded it to 21 points at 45-24 early in the fourth period and then held on to claim a 48-41 victory over Northern Illinois in an offensive shootout at Kelly/Shorts Stadium Saturday. The Huskies’ loss in their Mid-American Conference opener dropped NIU’s record to...

Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish has been named a semifinalist for the 2011 William V. Campbell Trophy and is also a candidate for one of 15 NFF National Scholar-Athlete awards, the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame announced Thursday. Harnish, a senior from Bluffton, Ind., is one of only 47 Football Bowl Subdivision...

As state and federal governments call for increased accountability from education at all levels, the NIU College of Education is continuing to find ways to answer that call. The college’s Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations now offers expedited Chief School Business Official (CSBO) Licensure. The expedited program allows qualified individuals to enter into...

City of DeKalb police are investigating an apparent shooting that took place late Wednesday night in the vicinity of  Lucinda Avenue near the Village Commons Bookstore. According to DeKalb police several individuals were involved in an incident in a parking lot adjacent to the Village Commons Bookstore.  During the altercation a gun was fired resulting in one individual suffering a non-life...

NIU students who receive Monetary Award Program (MAP) grant funding are being warned that reductions are likely for the spring semester. The current situation is reminiscent of the 2010-11 academic year, when limited state funding and high application volume made it necessary to lower second- and third-term awards. More than 6,200 NIU students – more...