NIU’s Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic will open its 10th Little Free Library next semester in front of the historic Joseph F. Glidden Homestead and Historical Center. Kristine Wilke, the clinic’s new director, is excited to secure the 921 W. Lincoln Hwy. location just steps from
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Kimberly Hart Some jobs are harder than others. Take counseling, for example. Counselors know that each and every word they say to their clients carries great weight, and it’s impossible for the practitioners not to become invested in the lives of those
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Contingent on approval from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the University of Tetovo(UT) anticipates welcoming NIU Business faculty in spring 2019 when they travel to the Balkan Peninsula to provide MBA instruction to students from Macedonia. This academic proposal – created through
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Northern Illinois University is extending the contract of Sean T. Frazier, NIU associate vice president and director of Athletics. The move, which keeps Frazier at the helm of NIU Athletics until 2023, comes amid a prosperous period of continued and unparalleled success
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On a cold Thursday afternoon, a group gathers around a table in room 338 of Founders Memorial Library. They’re in the NIU Digital Convergence Lab, but they’re not here today to explore new media technology. Instead, their hands filled with colorful yarn,
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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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Northern Illinois University has released the results of the Sexual Harassment, Assault and Relationship Experience (SHARE) Survey, a comprehensive survey gauging the experiences and perceptions concerning issues of sexual assault and misconduct at the university. The SHARE survey was provided to all
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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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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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Students will have a new provider of health care services when classes resume next semester. The NIU Board of Trustees approved an agreement Nov. 15 to have Northwestern Medicine assume management of Health Services, effective Jan. 7. Such a change was among
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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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Research funding awarded to faculty and staff saw a healthy spike in Fiscal Year 2018, according to the new annual report from NIU’s Sponsored Programs Administration. Funding for NIU research surged 26 percent over the previous year to $12.2 million. Federal agencies
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