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To the layman, accounting might appear to consist of little more than moving numbers from one column to another. Jim Young, chair of the Department of Accountancy in the Northern Illinois University College of Business, knows better. After a lifetime spent working in and teaching about accountancy, he sees it as a vital, exciting field...

Debra Hopkins, director of the NIU CPA Review, will retire at the end of this month after 27 years of service. Hopkins, a key faculty member of the CPA Review since 1988, has led the highly acclaimed program since July 1991. A CPA and certified internal auditor, she chaired the Illinois CPA Society Audit and...

Businessweek magazine again has named the NIU College of Business to its list of top undergraduate business schools in the nation and, for the third consecutive year, placed the school among the elite for integrating ethics across the curriculum. NIU’s business college ranks second in the ethics category, climbing one spot from 2011 and returning...

Northern Illinois University’s Team Light Up Africa has been named a finalist for the Tomberg Prize in Environmental Sustainability in the Dell Social Innovation Challenge. DSIC connects university students to the people, tools and opportunities they need to change the world. The challenge is part competition and part community. Students compete for cash prizes to...

Four members of NIU’s Operating Staff have been chosen to receive the Outstanding Service Award for 2012. The recipients are Kenlyn Bialas, office manager for ACCESS; Lincoln Fox, chief instructional media systems engineer in the Department of Media Services; Brenda Jones, office manager for the Department of Literacy Education in the College of Education; and...

Senior Jenner Sio and junior Jenelle McCalla were both named to the Mid-American Conference’s Academic All-Conference team, the league office announced Tuesday. In addition, Erica Miller and Courtney Oldenburg earned honorable mention recognition by the MAC. “Our staff and team are extremely proud of Jenelle and Jenner’s Academic All-MAC honor,” said NIU Driector of Track &...

Receiving NIU’s Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award is an honor, said Department of Management professor Terrence Bishop. Reading what his students said to nominate him is twice the honor. “The award is the icing on the cake, but their comments are the cake itself,” Bishop said. “They remind me of why I am here teaching,...

NIU’s American Marketing Association chapter attended the 34th AMA Annual International Collegiate Conference Recap in New Orleans from March 22 through March 24. The chapter was awarded the Outstanding Fundraiser and Outstanding Communication Award based on its chapter plans and annual reports. Each year in New Orleans, the national AMA holds a case competition where...

NIU marketing alumnus Dean DeBiase and billionaire Donald Trump reminisced a bit over old times Sunday, April 8, when DeBiase appeared on Trump’s show, “The Celebrity Apprentice.” DeBiase was there on behalf of Entertainment.com, where he serves as chairman and CEO. The 1980 College of Business alum challenged the show’s contestants to create a 60-second...

Issues ranging from the use of social media to sharing confidential information with friends will be in question when the NIU College of Business puts students in the hot seat during its second annual NIU Ethics Case Competition from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 13. Hosted by the BELIEF Initiative (Building Ethical Leaders...

Every professor, every teacher, practices their profession according to a well-honed, learned-on-the-job personal code. This year’s Presidential Teaching Professors – Anne Britt from the Department of Psychology, James Johnson from the Department of Finance and Joseph Scudder from the Department of Communication – are no exception, of course. “I am dedicated to teaching … in a...

Northern Illinois University College of Business alumnus Dean DeBiase will appear Sunday, April 8, on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The last time DeBiase was connected with “The Apprentice,” he was the one at the head of the table telling contestants, “You’re fired.” That was in 2004, when he and two other alums filled the role...