Tag: Learning Today Leading Tomorrow
Housing and Dining is offering an exclusive and free opportunity to 30 residential second-year students who would like to gain leadership experience and become more successful at NIU and beyond. The Second Year Experience Leadership Retreat takes place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, in Stevenson Towers. All materials and food will...
One president. Thirteen years. Seventy-two thousand degrees conferred. This is the legacy of Northern Illinois University President John G. Peters. On Friday and Saturday, Peters presided over commencement activities for the last time, including a Friday evening Graduate School ceremony and three separate events on Saturday. “Commencements are so important. They are the culmination of...
Students and faculty returning to NIU’s DeKalb campus this summer following the end of the spring semester might have noticed something missing. The banners that had adorned light standards across campus are now down. No, they weren’t stolen. They didn’t blow away in an early summer windstorm. And they didn’t melt in the summer heat....
Almost one year has passed since the university unveiled its new logo and tagline, “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow,” to convey a unified and consistent visual identity for Northern Illinois University. The new logo debuted Aug. 15, 2011, on the NIU homepage, and has been almost completely implemented across all web pages using the NIU templates...
Today’s announcement of a new university logo to accompany the tagline selected in December 2010 – “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” – completes the research and design phase of NIU’s institutional brand identity. Working hand-in-hand with the “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” tagline, the trademarked logo is the visual component of NIU’s communications efforts to strategically convey...
Faculty and staff, mark your calendars today: Academic Convocation 2011 is one month away. New freshmen and transfer students will enjoy their formal welcome to academic life at 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 19, inside the Convocation Center. During the annual event, called the “book end” to commencement by academic and student affairs professionals across campus, students are exposed...
Two new NIU publications produced by the Division of University Relations were singled out for excellence in the 2011 Awards for Publication Excellence competition. The APEX Awards are sponsored by Communications Concepts, a producer of newsletters and other resources for professionals who write, edit and manage business communications. They recognize excellence in graphic design, editorial...
Members of NIU’s Marketing and Branding Committee need your help to choose a new logo for the university. The 2011-12 academic year will begin this fall with a new tagline – “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” – and a new logo that conveys a unified and consistent institutional visual identity. First, though, results from a brief...
NIU is ready to clearly define its promise to current and future students as well as alumni. After months of conversations, research and surveys of students, faculty, staff, alumni, high school guidance counselors, parents and prospective students, “Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow” was announced Wednesday as the tagline for NIU’s branding identity. Led by Kathy Buettner,...
