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The Student Success Collaborative Campus (SSC Campus) platform was launched at the start of the fall 2016 semester. SSC Campus is a web-based tool that helps academic advisers and other academic support professionals to administer a true coordinated care approach to student success. Furthermore, it delivers enhanced campus-wide case management, targeted outreach and interventions and...

The Office of Student Academic Success’ Financial Cents program is holding its annual coat drive. All winter apparel will be accepted including coats, gloves, hats, scarves and more. If you are interested in donating, please drop off items in one of the boxes located in the Academic Advising Center Building, the Campus Life Building, Founders...

The Office of Student Academic Success and Financial Cents thank the NIU community for the terrific response to this past fall’s winter clothing drive. If you or someone you know needs some winter items (coat, hat, gloves, scarfs, etc.), stop by the Office of Student Academic Success/Financial Cents in the Academic Advising Center building to...

NIU students, faculty and staff need warm weather gear, and NIU’s Financial Cents program wants to help. Members of the NIU community are asked to come together to provide coats, hats, gloves and more for the winter season. Drop-off locations across campus are located in the Holmes Student Center, the Campus Life Building (by University...

NIU’s Office of Student Academic Success and Office of Student Engagement & Experiential Learning have announced that the 2015-2016 Northern Light Ambassador application process is now open. The Northern Lights Ambassador program was established in 2011 to bring some of NIU’s most talented students into positions that will allow them to represent their colleges at...

Students, it’s time for a check-up. The MAP-Works Fall Check-Up Survey will be available from Nov. 1 to Nov. 17, and all first-year students are encouraged to participate. The information collected from the surveys helps faculty and staff determine how to better assist students overcome academic or personal challenges. Following MAP-Works’ Fall Transition Survey, the...

Edible Education is a series of informational workshops geared toward creating events that are student-centered and encourage student success initiatives. Each workshop is based on a topic that is important to being a successful NIU student. NIU’s Office of Student Academic Success provides lunch to make this a comfortable environment for students to relax and...

As MAP-Works prepares for its sixth year, the Office of Student Academic Success (OSAS) will be hosting several training sessions to provide users with important resources to successfully utilize the program. This year, all faculty and staff who intend to participate in MAP-Works will be required to attend a training session before being granted access. “Our...

NIU’s MAP-Works, a first-year success program for new freshmen and transfer students, has been recognized by EBI MAP-Works with a 2014 Excellence Award. Last month’s honor marked the third consecutive year NIU earned praise for its innovation in student retention systems and program assessments for higher education. The accolades for NIU and seven other institutions came...

Northern Illinois University will host a series of financial literacy and money management workshops on campus and across DeKalb County in collaboration the DeKalb County CA$H Coalition for Money Smart Week 2014. The week is scheduled from Saturday, April 5, through Saturday, April 12. This year’s events include free tax preparation and filing, workshops for...

In an effort to better serve NIU students, the Office of Student Academic Success (OSAS) made some changes to help support student success initiatives. Last fall, the OSAS made the decision to centralize their student success specialists. Once spread out across campus in each of the academic colleges, the specialists are now located in the...

NIU’s Office of Student Academic Success will host Edible Education,  a series of informational workshops that include free lunch. The workshops are geared toward creating events that are student-centered and encourage student success initiatives. Lunch is provided to make this a comfortable environment for students to relax and engage with their speaker. Building Your Resume Wednesday,...