By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| March 1, 2023
DeKALB – Lisa Freeman, who has been president of NIU since 2018, has recently been elected to the Chicago Zoological Society’s Board of Trustees.
Prior to Freeman’s time at NIU, she worked in multiple leadership and faculty roles, including associate...
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DeKALB – Plans are underway to renovate NIU campus buildings including Watson Hall and...
DeKALB – The union for tenured faculty has reached an agreement with NIU after over a year of negotiations, granting the union members pay increases and technology upgrades.
The agreement was reached Friday and follows months of bargaining with the...
DeKALB – NIU President Lisa Freeman and SGA President Raaif Majeed will speak in a new edition of “Conversations that Matter” at 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Holmes Student Center Capitol Room.
The event is an open-forum discussion for...
DeKALB —NIU’s Campus Activity Board (CAB) will be holding a pajama themed night-in. The event will take place from 8 p.m. to 10 p.mon Friday at Holmes Student Center.
Corn dogs, soft pretzels with cheese, nachos, chicken strips and fries will be...
DeKALB – The decommissioning of landlines across campus is continuing with the conversion to Microsoft Teams to be tentatively completed by June.
All 815-753 phone numbers are being ported from NIU’s current service provider, Frontier, to NIU’s...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| February 26, 2023
DeKALB – A bill was passed requiring Student Government Association senators to create one piece of legislation during their term in senate.
“The duties and responsibilities of the senators do not include anything that shows that they have demonstrated...
DeKALB – After returning from winter break, many students noticed a significant difference in the operation of the Huskie Line bus system compared to the fall semester.
In the previous semester, each of the 2L, 2R, 3 and 5 routes offered three to...
DeKALB – During the second Faculty Senate meeting of the year, attendees gave an update on the use of ChatGPT in classrooms along with a change in the graduation fee.
ChatGPT is an AI technology system originally designed to mimic human responses...
By Bridgette Fox, Written Managing Editor
| February 22, 2023
DeKALB – The NIU Student Government Association failed to approve a petition meant for the office of President Lisa Freeman which would outline the grievances Black students have on campus.
The petition included charges of over-policing Black events,...
DeKALB – The Northern Star won 14 awards from the 2023 Illinois College Press Association. ICPA awards were distributed to Illinois student-run newspapers in 36 categories of competition.
Of those winnings, the Northern Star placed first five times,...
DeKALB – NIU’s partnership with a nonprofit was intended to offer an online leadership course to benefit their students. However, their efforts could be causing them to lose money.
Braven, a nonprofit from Chicago, offers UNIV 301, an online course...
