Tag: women
For the sixth consecutive summer, NIU Football is inviting women from throughout the region and across Huskie Nation to the NIU Football Women’s Clinic. This year’s edition will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 30, beginning at the Jeffrey and Kimberly Yordon Center before moving onto Brigham Field at Huskie Stadium. The...
Over the past academic year, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center and the Women’s Resource Center underwent a merger process, culminating with a new name and mission to reflect a unified center, inclusive of the diverse NIU campus. The center will now be known as the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center. The merger transition...
Former Northern Illinois University first lady Barbara Cole Peters recently published the second volume of a four-part book series titled “Women at Northern, The First Fifty Years, Our Witnesses to History.” It is now available at the University Bookstore inside the Holmes Student Center. The series is the product of Peters’ research of student newspapers,...
PwC US will host its first-ever global forum focused on women and leadership to students around the world Thursday, April 24. The live webcast with LeanIn.Org is scheduled to take place at 11:30 a.m. Central Time and is part of the Aspire to Lead: The PwC Women’s Leadership Series, which includes a number of programs...
A panel of distinguished female legal professionals spotlighted “Myra Bradwell: The Practice of Law in the Wake of Her Legacy,” a special event in honor of Women’s History Month held March 21 at NIU. The program was presented by the Illinois State Bar Association’s standing committees on Women and the Law and Racial and Ethnic...
The NIU College of Business will host an event at 6 p.m. Monday, April 21, on “The Value of the MBA for Women in Business.” Panelists include: Lyle Heidemann, retired CEO of True Value; Elizabeth Isham-Cory, spokesperson, Federal Regulatory Agency; Denise Schoenbachler, dean, NIU College of Business; and Lisa Vicicondi, district sales manager-retail, McKesson The...
De Mujer a Mujer: Latina Assistance Program, part of the Latino Resource Center, will host the “Empowering the World One Woman at a Time” conference from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, March 29. The conference, which takes place in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center, is aimed at providing young women of color...
A panel of six female Illinois justices, including the three who serve on the Illinois Supreme Court, and the woman president of the state’s largest bar association, are coming to NIU to headline “Myra Bradwell: The Practice of Law in the Wake of Her Legacy.” The panel discussion is planned from 1 to 5 p.m....
Three well-known international peace activists will share their experience with international civil rights crises, including the U.S. government’s use of drones, at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 20, in the Regency Room of the Holmes Student Center. The panel discussion, “Three Women Who Stand for Peace: International Civil Rights in the Age of Drones,” is one...
The NIU College of Education will host its annual Community Learning Series event Wednesday, March 26. All are welcome to attend “Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Women in Leadership and Education,” which will feature a panel of female NIU alumni who have achieved inspiring careers in leadership and education. A reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres begins...
Women earn an average of 77 percent of the money men make, so they must be smart and find ways to stretch their hard-earned dollars. In “How Women Can Get Ahead Financially: Managing Money for Venus in a Mars World,” retired NIU professor Pamela J. Farris shares insights on how to budget your money and make...
What is the appropriate role of women in political life? Are women fundamentally different than men? How does “femininity” qualify or disqualify women from political participation? These questions have been debated for millennia, going back to Plato and the ancient Greeks. But award-winning NIU Department of Political Science professor Andrea Radasanu says the topic has...