Tag: internships
Some are community advisers and dining hall managers in the residence halls. Some are tutors at ACCESS. Some are employed at Career Services. Two students are working this semester as web application developers for Housing & Dining – and, like several of their fellow Huskies, earning internship credit or transcript notations along the way. And...
Five students of NIU’s Community Leadership and Civic Engagement (CLCE) program spent the fall semester interning with nonprofit agencies in DeKalb and Sycamore. This is the first semester of an innovative communiversity partnership designed to provide students with experiences that will lead to career success while benefiting the local nonprofit sector. Students earn course credit...
NIU’s fall career fairs begin Tuesday, Sept. 30. The annual “NIU Helps Huskies Get Hired” events offer students and job-seekers the chance to network and to impress potential employers. New this year is a Junior Practice Interview Week., exclusively for junior-level students to improve their interviewing skills. Fall 2014 also features NIU’s annual Graduate &...
The Peggy Browning Fund has awarded a 10-week summer fellowship to John Festa, a second-year student at the NIU College of Law. Festa will spend the fellowship working at the Chicago Newspaper Guild in Chicago. Peggy Browning Fellows are distinguished students who have not only excelled in law school but who have also demonstrated their...
Undergraduates in NIU’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education who are interested in sampling careers in athletics administration will find the balls now in their courts. Departmental and College of Education leaders, working in coordination with NIU Intercollegiate Athletics, have developed the unique opportunity. Huskie Athletics will provide internships each academic year to selected undergraduates...
NIU alumnus Kendle Fraley and his former adviser, geology professor Mark Frank, published research together this month in the journal, Economic Geology. It’s just one accomplishment of many for Fraley, who earned his bachelor’s (2009) and master’s degrees (2012) in geology and environmental geosciences. He’s a prime example of what President Doug Baker terms “student...
NIU President Doug Baker makes his thoughts on internships abundantly clear. “Research tells us that the No. 1 predictor of Student Career Success isn’t a student’s major or grades. Rather, it comes down to this: Did the student complete an internship, preferably a paid internship, during college?” Baker said during his November inaugural address. “We...
NIU’s College of Engineering and Engineering Technology (CEET) will host engineering and technology companies from across the region from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.Thursday, Feb. 20, for a jobs and internships fair. Companies looking for full-time and internship positions should consider attending at the NIU Engineering Building on Garden Road. Each semester more than 300...
OK, who’s ready to work? NIU’s spring 2014 career events offer students and job-seekers the chance to network and to impress potential employers. This spring features NIU’s annual Internship Fair, Full-time Job Fair, NIU Educators’ Job Fair and the Retail Leadership Expo. A pair of workshops are planned to help students prepare: “ABCs of Getting...
NIU’s College of Law has received a matching gift challenge from an anonymous donor to match up to $25,000 in new and increased gifts made by Tuesday, Dec. 31, Dean Jennifer Rosato has announced. Donations raised in this campaign will be used for key efforts to increase student success. “Student success continues to be a...
It’s Sociology Week at NIU, and what an interesting week it has been.
Ashley, a junior majoring in public health at NIU, is looking for a particular type of experience. “I have the people skills, but I need more experience in the health field,” she says. “I want to be a physician’s assistant, so I’m looking for something that will provide patient contact hours.” Ashley can find exactly...
