Category: Students
Erika Weeden will launch an organization near Mother McAuley High School to help clean up her community on the South Side of Chicago. Olivia Guerra will teach more of her teenage peers at Rock Falls High School about the Search Institute’s “40 developmental assets” that help to foster healthy, caring and responsible adults. Emily Rohman...
Fresh off an 11-3 season, including a perfect 8-0 mark in Mid-American Conference play and a 40-17 victory over Fresno State in the Humanitarian Bowl in 2010, the Northern Illinois University football team was picked to finish second in the MAC West in the MAC Preseason Media Poll, the league announced at its annual media...
The NIU Rockford Club invites College of Business alumni to the David & Diane Graf Scholarship Celebration, a fun evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction. All proceeds will benefit Rockford-area students in the NIU College of Business.
Military Student Services (MSS) is seeking staff and faculty who have served in the military to help new veteran students starting at NIU. Specifically, MSS is gathering basic contact information, branch of service and years of service to create a database of faculty and staff veterans that will act as a resource to both the...
Five students from NIU’s College of Engineering & Engineering Technology will benefit from scholarships in the amount of $2,000 thanks to a tremendous partnership between Caterpillar and the college. CEET hosted the first Tee Up Fore Scholarships golf outing June 13 to support scholarships for the college, thanks in large part to the guidance, support and friendship from Caterpillar and...
Faculty and staff, mark your calendars today: Academic Convocation 2011 is one month away. New freshmen and transfer students will enjoy their formal welcome to academic life at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 19, inside the Convocation Center. During the annual event, called the “book end” to commencement by academic and student affairs professionals across campus, students are exposed...
The preseason acclaim continues to pile up for Northern Illinois senior quarterback Chandler Harnish, who Monday was one of 40 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision players named to the Walter Camp Football Foundation 2011 Player of the Year Watch List. Harnish, who earned spots on the Maxwell Award and Davey O’Brien Quarterback Award watch lists earlier...
A record number of new NIU students has requested during summer orientation sessions to be paired with faculty or staff mentors. As a result, First-Year Connections (FYC) is seeking NIU faculty and Supportive Professional Staff who are interested in volunteering to mentor new students during their transition to NIU. The Student-Faculty Links mentoring program is a component...
The latest national college football award to name its 2011 Watch List is the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award and once again a Huskie player has garnered preseason recognition as Northern Illinois senior Chandler Harnish is one of 38 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision quarterbacks named to the list. Chandler Harnish is one of two MAC...
This is the sixth and final in a series of articles offering a brief overview of the Vision 2020 working group reports. The Vision 2020 Student Experience Working Group was asked to analyze campus life outside of the classroom for NIU students and suggest ways to improve those aspects of the NIU experience. The 12-member...
This is the fifth in a series of articles offering a brief overview of the Vision 2020 working group reports. The Vision 2020 Working Group on Faculty Work, Excellence and Rewards has outlined a set of recommendations aimed at improving faculty salaries and diversity and how to increase technology transfer and sponsored research activity. The 12-member...
This is the fourth in a series of articles offering a brief overview of the Vision 2020 working group reports. The Vision 2020 Working Group on Regional Impact, Outreach, Engagement and Graduate Education has issued a report offering detailed recommendations regarding ways that NIU can capitalize on its geographic location and increase enrollment in graduate...
