DeKALB – Starting the fiscal year of 2024, July 2023, room and board fees for Neptune Hall, Gilbert Hall, Grant Towers, Stevenson Towers and Patterson Hall will increase by $200, and room and board fees for Northern View will increase by $100. Increased...
DeKALB – Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced in the annual State of the State Address that there will be an increase in higher education funding and the Monetary Award Program (MAP) in his proposed fiscal year 2024 budget.
During a live broadcast of the...
By Caleb Johnson, Lifestyle Writer
| February 16, 2023
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DeKALB – Students recently received emails from the National Society of Leadership and Success...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| February 15, 2023
DeKALB – The information provided comes from the NIU Police Department’s Daily Crime Log. The crime log is accessible on the NIU website.
Jan. 12
At 5:15 p.m., theft $500 and under occurred at the Recreation Center. This case was suspended.
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By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| February 15, 2023
DeKALB – The week of Feb. 20 is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Eating disorders affect everyone from every background and include 9% of the US population, that's 28.8 million Americans who will have an eating disorder in their lifetime.
NIU’s...
By Bridgette Fox, Written Managing Editor
| February 14, 2023
DeKALB – The NIU community stood together in remembrance of the students who were killed 15 years ago. Tuesday’s vigil also came less than 24 hours after a fatal mass shooting on the campus of Michigan State University.
On Feb. 14, 2008, five NIU...
By Bridgette Fox, Written Managing Editor
| February 13, 2023
DeKALB – The winners of the Northern Star’s 2023 Valentine’s best meet-cute story as voted by editors and readers, are Nicholas Duka and Cecilia Lucente, two second-year graduate students studying clinical mental health counseling.
HOW...
DeKALB – NIU will hold its annual moment of reflection for the students lost to the mass shooting on Feb. 14, 2008: Gayle Dubowski, Catalina Garcia, Julianna Gehant, Ryanne Mace and Daniel Parmenter.
Five bells will toll at 3:06 p.m. Tuesday to pay...
CORRECTION: This piece has been updated to clarify that the graduation application date of Feb. 14 is for graduate students. Feb. 1 was the deadline for undergraduates.
The Spring term might have just started, but graduation dates and deadlines are...
DeKALB – NIU Nutrition Coaching is hosting a Huskies in the Aisles grocery tour at Hy-Vee to teach students about effective and healthy grocery shopping.
Nutrition instructors will guide the free one-hour tour for planning out nutritious meals and...
DeKALB – What originally began as a group of faculty providing high-demand textbooks has expanded into a task force of librarians and staff working with professors to replace course materials with more affordable and accessible sources.
Dee Anna...
By Michael Mollsen, Former Written Managing Editor
| February 7, 2023
DeKALB – Through the NIU Library, the Northern Star’s older issues, dating back to 1899 (the first year the Northern Star began printing), are being digitized and will be available for the public to read online later this year.
Before the old print...
