DeKALB | A team of senior officials from different NIU departments meets weekly to discuss students. Though you may not know it exists, this team works to keep the NIU campus safe. Campus threat teams – which identify students whose behavior might be...
DeKALB | The Illinois secretary of state’s office will be at the lower level of the Holmes Student Center Monday.According to a press release, the office will be on campus from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. They will be providing certain driver and vehicle services...
DeKALB | The Founders Memorial Library had to evacuate Thursday afternoon due to the fire alarm being sounded.The alarm went off around 11:30 a.m. and the evacuation went smoothly, said Byron Anderson, associate dean for Public Services.“People were...
DeKALB | Helping Hands is holding a “Girls Fight Back” self-defense program next week. Latasha Bennett, president of Helping Hands and coordinator of the program, said it is usually only held in the Stevenson residence halls but is going to be held...
DeKALB | NIU is becoming mobile near you. At the beginning of the spring semester, NIU was the third Illinois university that Blackboard vended a mobile application to. Blackboard Mobile Learn has launched an application for students to access their Blackboard...
About 25 people learned about the life of Malcolm X Wednesday night. The Muslim Student Association hosted "Life of Malcolm X" by Abu Atallah, Loyola University PhD graduate and Muslim convert. "It's interesting to see how much has [not] changed," Atallah...
There was a man who was born in an apartment above a bar in Tampico, Ill. He would later become a Hollywood actor, and then the President of the United States. Monday night, the NIU Student Association and the NIU College Republicans celebrated Ronald...
NIU students gathered in the Illinois, Douglas, Heritage and Lincoln Rooms Wednesday night to earn their ticket to academic success. The Office of Student Academic Success took control of the second floor of the Holmes Student Center to host a Midsemester...
The ballot for this spring's Student Association executive election has been posted. PRESIDENT Elliot Echols Derek Koegel VICE PRESIDENT Jen Johnson TREASURER Jeremy Sanchez STUDENT TRUSTEE Jaemin Robertson Nora Lindvall Candidates were allowed to begin...
NIU students and alumni gathered in the Convocation Center on Tuesday in search of an elusive commodity: employment. Career Services sponsored its 24th annual job fair, where current NIU students and alumni had the opportunity to meet with 136 potential...
The U.S. needs to think differently about power in the 21st century, world-renowned political science professor Joseph Nye told a packed auditorium Wednesday. Nye spoke to a group of about 200 NIU students, faculty and community members about how Americans...
