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The eighth annual NIU Cares Day is right around the corner! From 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 12, more than 1,000 students will be out in the DeKalb community assisting with various projects for not-for-profit organizations, community agencies and DeKalb county residents. Volunteer registration will occur in waves this year, starting with team leader...
NIU Cares Day 2011
All throughout the fall semester, Student Involvement & Leadership Development (SILD) has been helping students find opportunities to give back to the community. Destiny McDonald, director of Community Service for SILD, said the push for students to get involved starts as soon as students arrive to campus. “As a part of Welcome Days in the fall,...
Eboo Patel
Want to learn how the NIU community can come together on the common ground of service to make a difference? Eboo Patel, author of “Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation,” will speak at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 29, in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium of...
An aerial photograph of Chicago buildings
The Save Chicago Campaign, a student-led movement at NIU with a goal of increasing the unity, love and peace in Chicago, is seeking students interested in making the city a better place. Chicago native and NIU student Randiss Hopkins, one of the campaign’s organizers, invites all Huskies interested in joining the effort to an informational...
Thinking Outside the Tee Box logo
The 10th annual Thinking Outside The Tee Box girls mentoring event was held Saturday, Sept. 14, at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove. A Chicagoland female business professional was paired with a female junior golfer between the ages of  11 and 17 in a scramble and mentoring activity. Before beginning the nine-hole scramble, groups visited...
Washington Monthly cover
NIU has placed 57th on a newly created Washington Monthly list: “America’s Best-Bang-for-the-Buck Colleges.” The honor is “pretty exclusive,” the magazine editors write. “Out of the 1,572 colleges and universities in our broader rankings, only 349 made the cut as best-bang-for-the-buck schools.” Colleges ranked must meet four criteria: At least 20 percent of their students...
Birthday Box sample
With the desire of reaching out to the DeKalb community, the University Honors Program initiated a service learning project called “Birthday Boxes,” during the 2011-2012 academic year. This service project has since grown and become a staple of the University Honors Program tradition. Partnering with Safe Passage and Hope Haven, Birthday Boxes provides University Honors...
Saturday of Service
There was no shortage of activities for NIU students to participate in during the opening weekend’s Welcome Days on campus. While many were leisure activities, some students took advantage of the opportunity to give back to the DeKalb community by participating in the second annual Saturday of Service hosted by NIU’s Student Involvement and Leadership...
Sorority Recruitment
Are you a woman interested in making lifelong friends, community service, academic excellence and gaining leadership experience? Joining a Greek-letter organization is a great way to pursue these opportunities: The NIU Panhellenic Council is home to eight sororities. Formal recruitment is an excellent opportunity to meet women from all chapters and to meet students who...
Alpha Phi Alpha crest
Promoting academic excellence and providing service and advocacy for the community are paramount pillars of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Young men between the ages of 12 and 18 will converge Friday, July 26, on the NIU campus for the 2013 Leadership Development Institute. This event is hosted by the Midwest Region of the...
Kathryn Olson plants tomatoes.
How does your garden grow? For a team of Huskies Service Scholars from the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability, and Energy, it grows for others. NIU’s Huskie Service Scholars program develops a peer network where teams of incoming first-generation or low-income students are paired with an upperclassmen mentor. Kathryn Olson, a 2012-2013 HSS...
The President's Higher Education Community Service badge
NIU has been awarded the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll award for the sixth time. This honor is awarded to universities and colleges around the country that set the example in civic engagement by creating meaningful and innovative community service opportunities for their students. Eligibility for this award is based on an institution’s...
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