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Laurie Elish-Piper
Laurie Elish-Piper, who has served as acting dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Education since 2015, will take over officially July 1. Members of the NIU Board of Trustees endorsed her appointment last week following a national search. “Dr. Elish-Piper’s vision for the future of the college is informed not only by her...
Balaji Rajagopalan
Balaji Rajagopalan, head of the Black School of Business at Penn State Behrend, will become dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Business July 1. Members of the NIU Board of Trustees endorsed his appointment last week following a national search. NIU is “fortunate to have attracted a proven leader, with significant experience in...
James D. Norris
James D. Norris, who served Northern Illinois University for more than two decades as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and emeritus professor, died Wednesday, Jan. 16. He was 82. Norris came to NIU in 1979. Leading the largest college at the university, he was instrumental in creating several new academic units,...
Derryl Block
Derryl Block is the new dean of the NIU College of Health and Human Sciences, approved this morning by a vote of the university’s Board of Trustees. Since 2009, Block has been chair of the Professional Program in Nursing and director of BSN-LINC, an online RN-to-BSN program at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She joined...
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Four finalists for the deanship of NIU’s College of Health and Human Sciences will begin to visit campus for interviews and open forums this week. The candidates are Diana Biordi, Thomas Birk, Derryl Block and Linda Samson. Home to three schools – Allied Health and Communicative Disorders; Family, Consumer and Nutrition Sciences; and Nursing and...
Abhijit Gupta
Abhijit Gupta, candidates for dean of the NIU Graduate School and associate vice president for graduate studies, will hold a series of open forums Thursday, Feb. 24, and Friday, Feb. 25. His original interviews were postponed last week by the university-closing blizzard.  Gupta is professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the NIU College...
NOTE: Abhijit Gupta’s interviews scheduled for this week have been canceled. New dates will be forthcoming. Bradley G. Bond and Abhijit Gupta each will hold a series of open forums and interviews the week of Jan. 31 as candidates for dean of the NIU Graduate School and associate vice president for graduate studies. Interviews for...