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Kimberley Buster-Williams has joined the Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management as director of Admissions. Buster-Williams arrived July 16 at NIU following a seven-year tenure as director of admissions at the University of Michigan-Flint. At Flint, she devised successive strategic enrollment plans that raised student numbers from 6,000 in 2006 to more than 8,000...
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In an effort to make sure every new student is connected with NIU, Orientation & First-Year Experience and the Office of Student Academic Success are collaborating to contact freshmen in the first weeks of the semester through a program called REACH (Retention Effort for All inComing Huskies). Initial peer-to-peer phone calls begin this week, with...
Homesickness does not have a chance with incoming NIU students. With the concerted efforts of staff, counselors and community advisors, the seasonal malady is diagnosed and treated early.  That process began days after new students arrived on the DeKalb campus with Huskie House Calls and it will continue through the semester with other counseling opportunities. ...
Alternative Spring Break
NIU’s Alternative Spring Break program is scheduled for the week of March 14 in 2011. Three to four groups of students travel to different locations in the country and focus on community work pertaining to a specific social issue, including disaster relief, poverty, homelessness and more. Informational sessions are scheduled at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept,...
Potential “customers” for the Huskies Helping Huskies booths were easy to find Monday, Aug. 23, on the first day of classes at NIU. Their facial expressions ranged from puzzled to panic, and many were trying to make heads or tails out of a map. That is when the volunteers staffing the booths around campus would...
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