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The NIU Outstanding Service Award is presented each year to recognize individual civil service employees who demonstrate outstanding service and who make significant contributions to the university and to their community. Up to four awards are presented at the annual Operating Staff Service Awards luncheon in the spring, along with a $1,500 award (considered taxable...

Do you want to make gifts for people in need? The Operating Staff Council (OSC) is hosting workshops as a way for NIU Huskies to give to others. Join some Huskies who are excited about creating practical and useful items for those in need while collaborating on ideas for projects. Upcoming workshops are scheduled for 12 to...

Do you want to make gifts for people in need? The Operating Staff Council (OSC) is hosting workshops as a way for NIU Huskies to give to others. Join some Huskies who are excited about creating practical and useful items for those in need while collaborating on ideas for projects. Upcoming workshops are scheduled for 12 to...

Do you want to make gifts for people in need? The Operating Staff Council (OSC) is hosting workshops as a way for NIU Huskies to give to others. Join some Huskies who are excited about creating practical and useful items for those in need while collaborating on ideas for projects. Upcoming workshops are scheduled for 12 to...

Do you want to make gifts for people in need? The Operating Staff Council (OSC) is hosting workshops as a way for NIU Huskies to give to others. Join some Huskies who are excited about creating practical and useful items for those in need while collaborating on ideas for projects. Upcoming workshops are scheduled for 12 to...

NIU faculty and Supportive Professional Staff employees have benefitted from the service of a personnel advisor for decades. Operating Staff employees now can seek similar assistance from their own advisor. John Hulseberg, a painter and assistant paint shop foreman based at the Physical Plant, began temporary duties in August as a confidential resource and consultant...

The presidents of NIU’s Supportive Professional Staff Council and Operating Staff Council are looking forward to a productive year of shared governance. For Holly Nicholson, second-year president of the Operating Staff Council and a web content manager in the Division of Marketing and Communications, her nomination came as a surprise but offered an intriguing opportunity...

The NIU administration invites all Operating Staff to the 17th annual StaffFest, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 4, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. Invitations to the 2016 StaffFest were previously announced via email or through campus mail. RSVP your reservation by Friday, July 15, to Karen...

NIU’s Operating Staff Council will host crochet and knit workshops open to all faculty, staff and students this month. Those who attend the crochet workshops will have the opportunity to produce sleeping mats for people who are homeless and without shelter. Beginners are welcome; no previous experience is necessary. All workshops take place from 12:05...

A new opportunity to assist the operating staff on campus has been created through the cooperation of the Operating Staff Council, the University Council and Executive Vice President and Provost Lisa Freeman. For more than 40 years, NIU has had a Faculty & SPS Personnel Adviser available to assist that population on campus. The Operating...

Four members of NIU’s Operating Staff have been chosen to receive the Outstanding Service Award for 2016. The recipients are Brenda Hart, office administrator, Department of Marketing; Ruperto Herrera, application programming analyst, Division of Information Technology; Lynne Meyer, office support specialist, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures; and Lise Schlosser, office manager, College of Liberal...

NIU’s Operating Staff Council will conduct its new member election at the end of April. Employees in status positions who have the permission of their supervisors and the willingness to serve approximately five hours each month for meetings and subcommittee participation are encouraged to run. The required form is available online. Return the completed form...