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...

NIU’s Supportive Professional Staff Council will show its appreciation and support of students with words of encouragement and smiles to help them through their last few weeks of the spring semester. SPS members will hand out cookies and bags of chips from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, and Wednesday, April 20, in...

Four members of the Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) have been chosen to receive the university’s Presidential Awards for Excellence. Recipients are Gregory P. Barker, director of Testing Services and Academic Affairs Research Support; Melissa Burlingame, current research associate in the Center for Governmental Studies and former program coordinator for the Institute for the Study of...

NIU’s Supportive Professional Staff Council will host a Staff Leadership Workshop series this spring. All staff, regardless of designation, are invited to participate and bring their own lunches. Workshops will be held in the Holmes Student Center Regency Room from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24 “What Canadian Geese and Leaders Have in...

NIU’s Supportive Professional Staff Council represents the interests and concerns of the more than 800 SPS personnel on campus as part of the university’s shared governance system. The council, which meets from 10 a.m. to noon the second Thursday of each month, is composed of 24 representatives and 24 alternates who are elected by their...

NIU’s Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) Council will host its annual holiday social from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14. Like other events sponsored by the SPS Council, the holiday social is open to everyone. And, in the spirit of changing things up, the venue is the newly dedicated James B. and Roasalyn L. Pick...

The Supportive Professional Staff Council is requesting nominations for the Presidential Supportive Professional Staff Award for Excellence. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the university. All Supportive Professional Staff are eligible. Individuals who were nominated previously but did not win are eligible again. Four awards in the amount of $1,500 will...

NIU’s Supportive Professional Staff Council will host a Road Watch Party for the Wednesday, Nov. 11, football game. All NIU staff members are welcome to attend. The group will meet at Fatty’s Pub & Grille for socializing to support Coach Rod Carey and Co. as they take on the University of Buffalo on the road....

The Supportive Professional Staff Council is requesting nominations for the Presidential Supportive Professional Staff Award for Excellence. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the university. All Supportive Professional Staff are eligible. Individuals who were nominated previously but did not win are eligible again. Four awards in the amount of $1,500 will...

Four members of the Supportive Professional Staff (SPS) have been chosen to receive the university’s 2015 SPS Presidential Awards for Excellence. The recipients are Pat Anderson, director of Alumni Relations; Ben Bingle, specialist/outreach coordinator of the Center for Non-Governmental Organization Leadership and Development (NGOLD); Betsy Hull, assistant to the dean in the College of Education; and...

The awards committee of the Supportive Professional Staff Council is requesting nominations to recognize Supportive Professional Staff who go above and beyond. The Certificate of Recognition Program was initiated in 2003 to acknowledge the contributions of SPS who have achieved accomplishments in addition to their regular job duties. Certificates are presented at the annual SPS...

The Supportive Professional Staff Council is requesting nominations for the Presidential Supportive Professional Staff Award for Excellence. This award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the university. All Supportive Professional Staff are eligible. Individuals who were nominated previously but did not win are eligible again. Four awards in the amount of $1,500 will...