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A group of NIU students enjoyed more than a victory when the Chicago Bulls took on the Washington Wizards last Wednesday, March 20, at the United Center.  About a hundred students and faculty from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education in the College of Education and the University Honors program traveled to the Windy...
NIU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is “Turning Fellows into Faculty,” with a third annual conference drawing at least 56 doctoral students of color to campus this weekend. The Preparing Future Faculty Conference will offer the recipients of the state’s Diversifying Higher Education Faculty in Illinois Fellowship (DFI) information about the professoriate as a...
The NIU College of Education remains in the country’s Top 10 among U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings of online graduate programs. NIU ties for ninth with Pennsylvania State University-World Campus, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Virginia (Curry). It lifts NIU’s string of high recognition to seven consecutive years. Meanwhile, the...
Steven Howell (associate professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education), Vijaykumar Krishnan Palghat (associate professor and chair of Marketing) and Alicia Schatteman (associate professor of Public and Global Affairs) have been selected as Program Fellows to participate in the second year of the Mid-American Conference’s (MAC) Academic Leadership Development Program. The goal of the MAC Academic...
Register now for “Treinta y tres,” an interdisciplinary conference on Friday, Nov. 2, that will feature of research of three NIU faculty members. According to Christina Abreu, director of the Center for Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, the conference name – Treinta y tres – calls attention to, the diversity of experiences and...
An interdisciplinary team from NIU was recently awarded two grants to study the impact of early childhood education programs in the state of Illinois. The research team for both grants includes faculty and staff from the NIU Division of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development, the College of Education, and the College of Health and Human...
The list, as always, is impressive. A visual artist who combines traditional and digital techniques. A chemist from Moscow with interest in the promise of functional organic materials to replace traditionally used materials with cheaper and better-performing new ones. A veteran teacher-educator who plans to make NIU into the best teacher-training program in the country....
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded NIU’s Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) nearly $2.5 million over the next four years to continue promoting the study and research of Southeast Asian languages and countries. This is the sixth time CSEAS has received such funding. “NIU has long been a recognized leader in the field...
Sally Blake’s plans for the NIU Department of Curriculum and Instruction are bold. “I want NIU to be the best teacher-training program in the country,” says Blake, who began work on Monday, July 16 as chair of the department in the College of Education. “Of course, it already has a strong reputation, and it will...
Caleb Pursell simply wanted a taste of teaching in a rural area. And that’s exactly what he got in the Mandaree School District, located within North Dakota’s Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. The senior Elementary Education major joined three other NIU College of Education students on the Educate U.S. trip in May. But Pursell returned home to Edwardsville, Illinois, with more...
Ashley Grazutis has been thinking about the edTPA since she arrived at NIU. “The first time I heard about the edTPA was [as a first-year student] at a Secondary Education Organization meeting,” says Grazutis, a senior from Palos Park, Illinois. “All the rubrics. All the steps. As a [first-year student], I was completely overwhelmed by it.”...
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