Tag: Illinois Campus Compact
As the number of veterans enrolling in higher education climbs, it is important to gain knowledge on this population. Faculty, staff, community members and student veterans will have the opportunity to engage with each other in an educational seminar and networking forum. From 1 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, Setting up Strategic Assets: Bridges...
NIU’s 2014 MLK Service Week will take place the week of Jan. 21. The week will promote civic reflection, community service, equality and diversity awareness throughout campus and in the community. Members of NIU’s MLK Week of Service planning committee were awarded the MLK Day of Service Collegiate Challenge grant for $1,200 from Illinois Campus...
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...
Do you like volunteering and helping the community? Are you looking for ways to help pay for your education? Why not put the two together? Participants in Students in Service can receive $1,175 toward their education upon completion of 300 hours of community service. Interested students MUST attend an orientation session and bring completed applications...
Orientation sessions for students interested in the Students in Service AmeriCorps Awards have been rescheduled to noon Wednesday, Feb. 9 and noon Thursday, Feb. 10. Both sessions will be held in the Academic Advising Center, Room 113. The originally scheduled sessions were canceled because of snowy weather. The Illinois Campus Compact has allocated 10 additional Students...
For the first time, NIU and 10 other universities in Illinois will be part of the national Students in Service program, which matches students with local not-for-profit groups in need of volunteers. NIU will send nine undergraduate and graduate students into the part-time volunteer workforce to do such things as work in food pantries, soup...
