NIU’s Lifelong Learning Institute’s Notables Brown Bag Lecture Series will begin Tuesday with a lecture on African American people, baseball and the U.S. military.The lecture series will be held weekly 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesdays in the Holmes Student...
The deadline for nominations and recommendations for the 2014-2015 Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award is noon today.Every year a senior from each of the four-year degree-granting institutions of higher learning in Illinois is awarded the Lincoln Student...
Campaigning has begun for the Student Association Senate elections Sept. 23 and 24.SA Senate acts on behalf of students and is responsible for managing and allocating funds for student organizations. Senators are also in charge of reviewing the actions...
The following was taken directly from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety.Wednesday1....
NIU President Doug Baker will push for a rise in retention between the fall and spring semesters as the university copes with a 527-student decline in enrollment from fall 2013 to this semester.Enrollment has fallen to 20,611 from last fall’s 21,138,...
Bat sightings in NIU buildings can be resolved with a call to NIU Police and removal by DeKalb Animal Control.The DeKalb County Health Department reported the first rabid bat of the year had been found in a DeKalb home on Aug. 19, becoming one of 18 rabid...
Historian Deborah Cohen will be a guest speaker for the 11th annual W. Bruce Lincoln Endowed Lecture Series 7 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Altgeld Hall Auditorium.
Cohen, the Peter B. Ritzma professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University and author of “Family Secrets: The Things We Tried to Hide,” will discuss the history of the relationship of secrecy and privacy and how the two ideas have split.
The lectures engage issues and are in the spirit of Lincoln’s research, writing and teaching.
The lecture series is free and open to the public. Call a representative at 815-753-0131 or email [email protected] for more information.
NIU President Doug Baker says there was “a lot of misinformation” on the salaries of two members of his senior administration members this summer.At a University Council meeting Wednesday, Baker said he was frustrated about stories with inaccurate...
The following was taken directly from the University Police. Anyone mentioned is presumed innocent until proved guilty in a court of law. The University Police Department provides police reports on the Web at finfacil.niu.edu/PublicSafety.Monday1. At...
NIU President Baker said enrollment is down by 527 students -- or 2.5 percent -- from fall 2013, which would make enrollment 20,611 students.The university had budgeted a drop of up to 700 students worth about $8 million in revenue. NIU has seen enrollment...
Seven NIU employees are on paid leave, adding to the about $1.15 million the university has paid to suspended employees since July 2012.Employees are not able to work while on leave, though they continue to receive their salary in accordance with state...
