NIU Today

Do you know where your personal data is going – or even how much is out there? Each time you browse the web, post on social media, use your smartphone’s GPS or make a credit-card purchase, you generate records and build your data trail, which grows longer every day. At the next STEM Café, NIU...

Dusty Page of the NIU men’s soccer team was named the male recipient of the Mid-American Conference’s 2015 Bob James Memorial Award, announced by the league office Thursday. In its 27th year, the Bob James Memorial Award recognizes one female and one male student-athlete who have achieved a minimum grade point average of 3.50 and...

Northern Illinois University and five northwest suburban community colleges have teamed up to offer a new path for students seeking degrees in business administration. The agreement was unveiled Friday at NIU-Hoffman Estates with representatives from NIU, Elgin Community College, William Rainey Harper College, College of Lake County, McHenry County College and Oakton Community College on...

Students who graduated from NIU with master’s degrees in accountancy this spring have a tough act to follow. Recently released data from the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy show that their predecessors in the class of 2014 posted the highest CPA exam pass rate for any graduate-level program in the state. Nearly three-quarters...

Northern Illinois University is pleased to announce a major gift from longtime supporter James Thompson to establish the James E. Thompson Professorship in Marketing. Thompson, a 1967 marketing alumnus, served as executive vice president and managing director of the Leo Burnett Company. “The NIU College of Business was a pivotal experience for me back in the...

Entrepreneurs know just how hard it is to earn a buck – so when they make a major gift, you know it’s a cause that they believe in strongly. Such was the case this month when Mike McGrath, a 1970 alumnus of the NIU Department of Management and auto-dealer extraordinaire, and his wife, Kristina, made...

Pitch With a CAUSE is a competition for anyone who has an idea for a business that makes a positive social or environmental impact. The competition is open to anyone interested in making a submission, including high school students, undergraduates, graduates students, non-students, retirees and even kindergarteners. In other words, all are welcome. The team selected...

Millions and millions of Americans will gather around the television Sunday night to watch the Super Bowl. When time expires, we all will know which team won. We all will know which songs Katy Perry performed and with which special guests. And we all will have found a favorite commercial. But will we honestly remember...

Updates: Days 1 and 2 on the #NIUSalesBus Days 3 and 4 on the #NIUSalesBus   On a blustery December morning, when most of their classmates were experiencing the joys of sleeping late on the first day of Winter Break, 24 students from the NIU College of Business were boarding a bus for a whirlwind...

The NIU College of Business SAP University Alliance Program will offer a SAP certification workshop to undergraduate, graduate students and NIU alumni in summer 2015. The SAP Certification is titled “TERP10, Business Process Integration with SAP ERP (SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 6).” The workshop will provide intensive training to prepare participants to become a SAP...

Senior Dusty Page (Germantown, Wis./Kettle Moraine Lutheran) of the NIU men’s soccer team was named Tuesday to the Capital One Academic All-America Division I soccer team selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Page is one of just 34 student-athletes to receive All-America honors. Page, a finance major with a 4.0 GPA,...

NIU Department of Finance junior Franz Varga took his love for problem-solving and, in September 2014, tested his knowledge in a highly competitive, worldwide business challenge. The result: Varga now ranks among the top five for the Americas Region Section of the Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT). “I enjoy working with numbers, particularly when I can...