Tag: Laurie Zittel
Health. Leadership. Maturity. Self-reflection. Adventure. Children everywhere need these and other building blocks to lead productive, successful lives – and faculty in NIU’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education are working to deliver those strong foundations. Research and engagement programs already making differences locally are poised to create a broader impact across the country and...
Randall Ward, acting director of the NIU Disability Resource Center, has been appointed to the Documentation Subcommittee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education Disabilities Advocacy Committee. The IBHE created the Disabilities Advocacy Committee in 2004 to advise the board and to help Illinois institutions of higher education better serve students with disabilities. Committee members,...
Picture a brisk, early autumn morning in Chicago. Forty-five thousand runners fill the start corrals. Twelve thousand volunteers stand throughout the course, armed with Gatorade, water, Vaseline, cold sponges and gel packets. And 1.7 million spectators stand in rows six-deep throughout Chicago’s historic neighborhoods – Near North, Old Town, Lincoln Park, Boystown, Pilsen, Chinatown –...