Share Tweet Share Email
Tag: retention
NIU students on campus
Leaders of the Illinois State Board of Education are celebrating NIU for awarding credit retroactively to AP students before the new law takes effect in 2016-17. As a result of House Bill 3428, signed into law by Gov. Bruce Rauner earlier this year, all public universities and public community colleges in Illinois must award college...
Go Huskies!
While enrollment at Northern Illinois University declined slightly this fall, the quality of students admitted improved as did retention rates for continuing students. The university’s official 10-day count showed an enrollment of 20,130 students. That is a decline of about 2.3 percent, the smallest dip in enrollment since 2010. “We are not where we want...
Dani Rollins
Recruitment and retention took center stage Friday morning when nearly 150 NIU leaders gathered for President Doug Baker’s strategic plan implementation retreat. Participants, who ranged from department chairs and directors to deans and vice presidents, received a bird’s-eye view of NIU’s work to reverse declining enrollment and deal with diminished state funding. The first 60...
Citing a trend of declining enrollment and diminishing state support, Northern Illinois University President Douglas Baker outlined key initiatives of the administration meant to give the university greater control over its own future at two university-wide town hall meetings Thursday afternoon. Baker pointed to collaboration between Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, Marketing & Communications and an...
Bold Futures banner: College of Engineering and Engineering Technology
The Northern Illinois University community is invited to join a lively discussion of new and innovative programs that have been, and are being, implemented to foster student retention and academic success. Be Bold Now: Putting Students First takes place at the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22....
Huskie Family Welcome 2014
Northern Illinois University announced a gain of nearly 30 percent among international students that—with an uptick in student retention—limited the university’s enrollment decline to its smallest in five years. According to the Department of Institutional Research, NIU’s 10-day total headcount enrollment of 20,611 includes a 28.7 percent increase in international students, from 847 last fall...
First Year Composition Program
When 80 faculty members gathered in the Sky Room early this semester for a summit on First Year Composition Program retention, the challenge was clear. What innovative ways could the group conceive to assure that First Year Composition students receive the coursework and connections with faculty and peers that will bring them success as freshman...
Photo of a red umbrella and its reflection in a puddle
Like the weather, things in enrollment management are global, can change quickly and can be unexpected, especially in the state of Illinois. When asked about snow totals for December 2013’s Winter Storm Electra, a meteorologist replied, “There remains some uncertainty as it relates to the exact track of this storm, including critical details on the...