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Mentoring: It works. Find out why.
Mentoring, a critical ingredient in student career success, will soon be receiving additional support and awareness from NIU students, faculty and staff. The Huskie Mentoring Summit, hosted by University Honors, will offer students the opportunity to explore the lifelong benefits of serving as a mentor or mentee. NIU undergraduate students with experience as mentors or...
Eric Armstrong
NIU’s Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Managment has welcomed Eric Armstrong as the new director of Military & Post-Traditional Student Services (formerly Military Student Services and Off-Campus & Non-Traditional Student Services). A native of Chicago, Armstrong earned a bachelor’s degree in technical management with a concentration in human resources from DeVry University and an...
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In appreciation for the effort and involvement of non-traditional, off-campus, and military student populations, Off-Campus and Non-Traditional Student Services and Military Student Services will host several events during the week of April 20. Town Hall Meeting Monday, April 20, 10 to 11 a.m. Holmes Student Center, Sky Room The town hall setting provides an opportunity...
Eric A. Weldy
These are difficult times for race relations in our country, and I want you to know that I am as concerned about the outcomes of the events in both Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y., as you are. I want you to know that I have heard your concerns about issues on our campus and...
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What is Student Affairs? How does Student Affairs support student readiness and success? How is Student Affairs changing? Those questions and more will spark conversation from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16, during a presentation and panel discussion titled “The Role of Student Affairs in Supporting College Student Readiness and Success.” NIU’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study...
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During the spring 2014 semester, Planning & Assessment, on behalf of the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, engaged in a new initiative to assess the weekend behaviors of NIU’s students. This topic was chosen by a group of individuals from within the division to better inform program and service delivery, and to examine...
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Huskie Family Connections has scheduled its second annual series of regional meetings. The meetings, hosted by HFC and the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, provide evenings of conversation between NIU families and division administrators. Staff are interested in hearing both the compliments and concerns of NIU families regarding their students’ NIU experiences. Those...
LGBT and Women's Resource Center
NIU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center has a new address. Staff spent Thursday moving to the center’s new digs at 105 Normal Road – the building known at the Women’s Resource Center – and will officially open the doors Monday. Throughout the spring semester, the department will operate under the working name of “LGBT...
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Applications are now available for the 2014-15 Forward, Together Forward Scholarship. Up to five students will be selected to receive the prestigious honor of being named a Forward, Together Forward Scholar, along with a $4,000 scholarship for the 2014-2015 academic year. The Forward, Together Forward Scholarship endowment was created through the generosity of more than...
Jarvis Purnell
Jarvis Purnell, director of Off-Campus & Non-Traditional Student Services since the spring of 2012, has been named director of Military Student Services. Purnell will oversee both departments, as he has done since last fall, when he became the acting director of Military Student Services. Over the course of the current academic year, Purnell will have an...
Melanie Thompson
Melanie Tucker Thompson has been named assistant vice president for Student Services in the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management. Tucker Thompson had been serving in the acting role since July 2012. Prior to that appointment, she was director of the Disability Resource Center (formerly known as the Center for Access-Ability Resources). She holds...
Weldy chats with Orientation Leader Eric Glasby.
When Eric Weldy accepted the job as Northern Illinois University’s vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, he knew that: a) NIU had a good football team, as his former employer, Florida State University, faced the Huskies in the Orange Bowl, and b) he would be managing a transition that would push the university...
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