WOMS 436H students will hold a bake sale to raise awareness of human trafficking 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday in Founders Memorial Library.“We believe that one of the biggest tools against slavery is awareness and the more we can recognize...
The Student Health Organization and the Migrant Students Foundation will hold the National Cesar E. Chavez Blood Drive Challenge noon to 4:45 p.m. March 26 in the Holmes Student Center, Capitol Room.The event was started in 2009 by the American Red Cross...
The Secular Student Alliance will hold the last three of five speakers in their spring 2015 speaker series during the coming weeks.• 6 p.m. March 25 at Faraday Hall, Room 143: Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, will present...
After a nearly 90-minute debate on the effectiveness of online voting, the Student Association Senate passed a bill, 20-12, that would allow students to vote online for the SA executive election.Polling stations in DuSable Hall, the Holmes Student Center,...
The Student Association has purchased 2,000 T-shirts to provide student organizations a cheap and convenient means to promote activity and recruit members, said James Forman, SA director of Advertising.The SA will have the 2,000 T-shirts, 500 of which...
The Affordable Care Act will again be responsible for a possible NIU student health insurance fee increase, which the Board of Trustees will vote on at its March 12 meeting.The Board of Trustees Finance, Facilities and Operations Committee approved a...
The Board of Trustees Finance, Facilities and Operations Committee approved a recommendation to increase student health insurance from $744 per semester to $1,052 at a Thursday meeting.The increase would be NIU’s second major health insurance fee increase...
The Illinois Board of Higher Education recommends NIU receive a .04 percent cut to its state allocation, which would drop that funding from $93,189.5 million to $93,155.1 million.The board's recommendation starkly contrasts a proposal from Gov. Bruce...
Military Student Services will hold Bridges to Employment, a networking opportunity, 3-6 p.m. March 18 in Altgeld Hall, second floor ballroom.A panel of veteran professionals will be present to provide guidance about transitioning from armed forces to...
NIU President Doug Baker said Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed $29.3 million cut to NIU’s state allocation is “just not OK.”Rauner’s state budget plan calls for the state’s Fiscal Year 2016 higher education budget to be cut by $387 million. NIU...
The following was taken directly from the NIU Police Department. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The NIU Police Department provides police reports online at niu.edu/publicsafety/.Friday• At 4:20 p.m., deceptive...
