Jay Marinan (left), third-year Ph.D. English student, assists Sara Green, junior communicative disorders major, with editing and formatting. In an effort to service non-traditional students like transfer students, the writing center has created a satellite...
NIU is looking at ways to improve retention of its transfer students.Of the 1,881 transfer students started at NIU in the fall semester, 311 who did not graduate did not return for the spring semester.Eric Weldy, vice president of Student Affairs and...
Post-it notes scribbled with positive comments near students’ selfies were part of a movement to improve peoples’ body image at a Wednesday event.Neptune and Douglas residence halls organized the Self-ie-Perspective event from 7 to 9 p.m. in Neptune...
Students are gearing up to promote unity, peace and love this Friday in Chicago.Students were invited to volunteer for Save Chicago Day, which was created by Randiss Hopkins, senior music education and jazz performance major. Hopkins got the idea when...
Students and faculty discussed Beyonce Knowles-Carter’s image as a self-proclaimed modern-day feminist Wednesday in the Student Holmes Center Sky Room.Carrie Williams, assistant director of the LGBT and Women’s Resource Center, coordinated and hosted...
Students can attend the Save Chicago Day campaign by registering online today.Save Chicago Day was created by student Randiss Hopkins. Hopkins’ goal for the campaign is to promote peace, love and unity in the community. He and more than 150 volunteers...
The Department of English has been ranked ninth nationwide for its graduate programs for career support by graduateprograms.com.Using a 10-star system, rankings were compiled from student comments and rankings posted on the website.The career support...
NIU President Doug Baker announced the return of the Bold Futures workshops in his biweekly Baker Report Tuesday.The Bold Futures workshops were first implemented in the fall. The four-hour workshops were held through 10 days in October, and hundreds...
Students could grab stickers and buttons with the phrase “This is What a Feminist Looks Like” on Tuesday to help break stereotypes that limit people’s views of what a feminist looks like.The event, sponsored by the Women’s Studies program, offered...
Students and faculty learned the importance of women of color in history rather than the typical approach to the feminist movement Tuesday.Katrina Caldwell, Student Affairs assistant vice president, presented a PowerPoint on black women from the past...
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.Friday• At...
(Left to right) John Smith, junior jazz studies major on sax; Bobby Cooper, senior music education jazz studies major on trumpet; and Kenneth Leftridge, senior jazz studies major on sax, play jazz with their band, the Kenneth Leftridge Group, Monday night...
