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MAP-Works: Making Achievement Possible
Attention NIU students: If you are participating in the MAP-Works student academic achievement program, you might qualify for a $1,500 scholarship for the 2012-2013 academic year. The MAP-Works Scholarship is a national essay contest for first- and second-year college students who already have participated in at least one MAP-Works survey during the current academic year....
MAP-Works: Making Achievement Possible
Every freshman and new transfer student is encouraged to participate in the final MAP-Works survey for the 2011-2012 academic year. According to the MAP-Works Fall Transition Survey, 81.9 percent of students predicted getting a fall grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Only 44 percent of those students reached or surpassed that goal. For students...
FAFSA-Student-Loans
February marks Financial Aid Awareness Month at Northern Illinois University, with free public events planned throughout the month designed to help students who plan to attend college receive financial aid for the 2012-2013 school year. The highlight of the month is the “FAFSA Fun Fest,” hosted by the NIU Office of Student Financial Aid in...
Northern Light Ambassadors
The Office of Student Academic Success and the Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning are now accepting applications for the Northern Light Ambassadors program for the 2012-2013 academic year. The Northern Light Ambassadors program provides each undergraduate college with an elite body of NIU’s students to assist with public relations, fund development, retention, engaged...
This “Opportunity Cost” poster by a local third grader was a regional contender in the Economics Poster Contest.
Whether the stock market goes up or down, NIU financial literacy programs have been teaching people how to make good economic decisions for more than 60 years. University and community organizations now are coming together to bring more attention and resources to those efforts. The Financial Literacy Collaborative combines the work of seven organizations that...
Do you have good study habits? Are you meeting new people? The answers to these questions could be precursors to your overall success in college, and NIU MAP-Works will help you stay on the right track. Every freshman and new transfer student is encouraged to participate in the first MAP-Works survey for the 2011-2012 academic...
Northern Light Ambassadors logo
The Office of Student Academic Success and the Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning are launching Northern Light Ambassadors this fall. The Northern Light Ambassadors program will provide each undergraduate college with an elite body of NIU’s students to assist with public relations, fund development, retention, engaged learning and special events for the university....
High school students from across Illinois attended NIU's HELP Camp.
Erika Weeden will launch an organization near Mother McAuley High School to help clean up her community on the South Side of Chicago. Olivia Guerra will teach more of her teenage peers at Rock Falls High School about the Search Institute’s “40 developmental assets” that help to foster healthy, caring and responsible adults. Emily Rohman...
It’s time to file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) for the 2011-2012 academic year. The NIU priority filing date for the 2011-2012 FAFSA is Tuesday, March 1. This is not a deadline, as Student Financial Aid will continue to accept applications and process financial aid for students after this date. The priority filing date...
It’s cold outside! Come warm up with a free cup of hot soup and warm bread sticks while learning more about how to be successful at NIU. NIU’s Office of Student Academic Success is launching Soup & Success, a series of workshops that are student-centered and encourage student success initiatives. Each is based on a topic critical being a...
If you had a time machine, you might go back and make smarter decisions to improve your financial future. We’re not talking about picking winning lottery numbers or inventing Facebook before Mark Zuckerberg, but about everyday decisions that would safeguard you against recession — spending responsibly, understanding the stock market, avoiding credit traps and foreclosures....
From left: Jason Goode, Missy Lugo, Amy Horn and Juliane Such
NIU’s Office of Student Academic Success has welcomed four new members to its team. These individuals will serve the university community as student success specialists in four of the colleges on campus: Jason Goode, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, completed his undergraduate and graduate degree at NIU. Jason worked on campus and taught COMS 100 as...
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