Tag: Game Changers
Two best practices modeled by Northern Illinois University were part of the “College Completion Playbook” unveiled by Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon during the two-day Scaling Up: Effective Practices in Higher Education conference in Bloomington, Ill. Building on her efforts to reduce costs and boost graduation rates at Illinois universities and community colleges, Simon’s guide collects the...
Before Noemi Rodriguez began classes at NIU, she interned at Children’s Memorial Hospital. “I fell in love with the nurses at Children’s Memorial. I admired their work,” says Rodriguez, a sophomore nursing major from Chicago. “There are some respectable nurses, and there are bad nurses, and I will become a respectable nurse. I love the...
