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Photo of young girl on gymnastics parallel bar
NIU’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education will offer a motor development program for young children ages 3 to 6 from Monday, Feb. 11, through Wednesday, April 10. Held in Anderson Hall Gym 130, the eight-week program runs from 4 to 5 p.m Mondays and Wednesdays. This program provides young children with the opportunity to...
Community School of the Arts Steelband
NIU’s Community School of the Arts is offering spring classes in guitar, steelpan and ukulele. The CSA Steelband meets Monday evenings from 7 to 7:55 p.m., beginning Jan. 28. Students ages 14 to adult learn to play the steelpan in a fun ensemble setting. With a sound like no other, this instrument lends itself to...
CSA Sinfonia members play during a recent concert.
Young musicians are invited to attend a free, open rehearsal of CSA Sinfonia (Wednesday, Jan. 30), CSA Symphonette (Tuesday, Feb. 12) and CSA Children’s Choir (Wednesday, Feb. 13). These “Bring A Friend Days” give interested players or singers a chance to try out the groups to see if they are right for them. All rehearsals...
STEM Saturday!
Responding to requests from suburban parents, STEM Outreach is offering the popular STEM Saturday classes at both NIU’s DeKalb and Naperville campuses. Parents have joined the STEM Outreach staff in looking for ways to get K-12 students excited about science, technology, engineering, and math. “Our DeKalb-based classes tend to sell out overnight, and we are...
Community School of the Arts: Art Express
The NIU Community School of the Arts will begin a packed spring semester next week with classes, ensembles and private lessons for all ages. Need scholarships are available to people with children younger than 18. Scholarship application forms are due Monday, Jan. 14, and are available online. Announcements of awards are made within one week...
Prelude Class gives children ages 1 to 3 an introduction to musical concepts with a wide variety of songs, dances, rhythm and music games and nature sounds.
Start your child’s musical adventure with one of three early childhood music classes offered by the NIU Community School of the Arts. The classes meet Tuesdays or Saturdays. Prelude Class is for children ages 1 to 3 and gives very young children an introduction to musical concepts with a wide variety of songs, dances, rhythm...
Following Saturday afternoon’s practice at Barry University, a group of approximately 15 Northern Illinois University football players, along with head coach Rod Carey, visited Baptist Children’s Hospital in Miami. Huskie players included quarterbacks Jordan Lynch, Drew Hare and Matt Williams, offensive lineman Logan Pegram, defensive lineman Nabal Jefferson and George Rainey, cornerback Rashaan Melvin and...
Katie Seelinger and her family at Take Back the Night 2010.
When Katie Seelinger and her husband made the decision to study at NIU, she wanted to become a doctor. As she began working toward this goal, her courses followed the expected path, touching on important aspects of biology, chemistry and anatomy. That trail was diverted the day Seelinger discovered the Women’s Studies Program. While browsing...
Photo of a snow-covered evergreen outside Altgeld Hall
How green are you? Discover what conservation is and what simple things you can do to help the environment during the annual Altgeld Holiday Family Celebration, scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7. This fun, interactive event inside NIU’s castle will allow members of the community to celebrate the holiday season and gain...
English as a second language (ESL) programs are becoming increasingly popular in teaching programs across the country. And no wonder. ESL credentials are increasingly necessary for teachers to land jobs. The reason: an exploding number of English language learners in public schools. In this state alone, according to a 2011 Illinois State Board of Education...
Community School of the Arts: CSA Children's Choir
The CSA Children’s Choir performs twice this holiday season. At 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, the choir performs during the NIU Holiday Concert in the Concert Hall. The children’s choir shares the stage with the NIU choirs, the NIU Philharmonic and the DeKalb Festival Chorus. There is a fee for this concert. On Wednesday, Dec. 12,...
THANKS IN ADVANCE! in a comic strip word bubble
Flanked by children yelling “Thanks in Advance” through red megaphones, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn unveiled a campaign Sunday, Nov. 18, to call attention to the state’s pension funding problems. Quinn said in a press release, “Children have a critical stake in pension reform and that’s why we are here today calling Illinois citizens to action....
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