Tag: VOLUNTEERISM
Rather than soaking up rays on a beach in Florida, eight NIU students spent their spring break helping Living Lands and Waters clean up one of the world’s most famous waterways, the Mississippi River. Living Lands sponsored the clean-up in Memphis, hosting students from NIU and 15 other universities across the country. The students spent...
NIU’s Office of Student Engagement and Experiential Learning and the S.E.R.V.I.C.E Committee are hosting the first Community Engagement Showcase. Students who have participated in community-based outreach initiatives in the current academic year should consider taking part Tuesday, April 22. The event coincides with Undergraduate Research and Artistry Day. NIU is working hard to make sure every student...
Team member registration for NIU Cares Day 2014 will be available from Saturday, March 1, through Friday, March 28, at niucaresday.niu.edu. NIU Cares Day will take place from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 12. Students, faculty, and staff members will be stationed around DeKalb and Sycamore to complete service projects that will benefit not-for-profit...
Nancy Lublin enjoys building things out of ideas and people. That’s why she’s coming Saturday, April 12, to Northern Illinois University on NIU Cares Day, to kick off the university’s annual Celebrating Excellence event with two separate presentations: “Do Something to Change the World” and “Finding Your Inner Entrepreneur.” Lublin is the CEO of DoSomething.org,...
Are you a staff member, faculty member or graduate assistant looking to work alongside students who are doing great things for the community? Consider volunteering for NIU Cares Day, scheduled Saturday, April 12. Project Site Leaders Serving as a project site leader can be a great opportunity to connect with students outside the classroom as...
NIU’s student-led Save Chicago campaign, launched Aug. 24, 2013, is nearing its Friday, March 7, event in its namesake city. Students and community members who share the goal of increasing the unity, love and peace in Chicago now can register online to help. The deadline to register is Wednesday, March 5. More than 150 NIU student...
NIU’s second-year students can participate in any of nine service events on campus and in the DeKalb and Sycamore communities during the month of February as part of Sophomore Days of Service, sponsored by the Office of First- and Second-Year Experience. “One of the most important tasks of the sophomore year is developing purpose,” says...
The eighth annual NIU Cares Day is right around the corner! From 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 12, more than 1,000 students will be out in the DeKalb community assisting with various projects for not-for-profit organizations, community agencies and DeKalb county residents. Volunteer registration will occur in waves this year, starting with team leader...
The results of the NIU College of Business Food Drive challenge will be kept under lock and key until January, but the clear winners were the needy of northern Illinois. Spurred on by the chance to win the coveted Golden Can plaque that is awarded to the winning department, faculty and staff across the college...
The Save Chicago Campaign, a student-led movement at NIU with a goal of increasing the unity, love and peace in Chicago, is seeking students interested in making the city a better place. Chicago native and NIU student Randiss Hopkins, one of the campaign’s organizers, invites all Huskies interested in joining the effort to an informational...
Engineers Without Borders is dedicated to bringing the classroom to other countries to design and build new projects that can help fix problems and build portfolios. Based in the NIU College of Engineering and Engineering Technology, this group of boundary-crossing individuals travel to remote places and help others to design projects which alleviate issues. Some...
The 10th annual Thinking Outside The Tee Box girls mentoring event was held Saturday, Sept. 14, at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove. A Chicagoland female business professional was paired with a female junior golfer between the ages of 11 and 17 in a scramble and mentoring activity. Before beginning the nine-hole scramble, groups visited...
