The number of students enrolled in summer courses this year is very close to last year's count. Overall, NIU's current total summer enrollment is 3.6 percent less than last summer's. The amount of students who are enrolled in on-campus classes, however,...

NIU officials announced four students will face judicial, not legal, sanctions for their involvement in an April 21 incident in which two University Police officers were slightly injured. According to an April 25 Northern Star article, officers found...

NIU completed the final phase of its eight-month provost search by approving Raymond W. Alden III as Ivan Legg's replacement at the June 15 Board of Trustees meeting. Alden, executive vice president and provost at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas,...

The truth did not set NIU's administration free last week. Under mounting pressure from the rising costs of maintaining higher education, the university's Board of Trustees voted June 15 to raise tuition 10 percent for all new undergraduate students entering...

Doctorate student Caresse John hosts "Scene-it: Harry Potter Edition" in the formal lounge of Grant Hall Monday night. The NIU Muggle Academy is a camp taking place this week at NIU where junior high and high school students will learn about the literary...

Mu Omicron Mu hosted its Pre-Mother's Day event Saturday at the Newman Catholic Student Center. The sorority, whose members consist of mothers who attend school, have become a support network for one another, said Tiffanie Stuckey, Mu Omicron Mu president...

Administrators, faculty members, student senators and family members celebrated the inauguration of the 2006-07 Student Association executives Friday. Adam Novotney, SA president-elect; Michael Johns, SA vice president-elect and Jarvis Purnell, SA treasurer-elect...

After 32 years of service and a lifetime of connections to NIU, director of Document Services Shey Lowman celebrated her retirement Saturday among colleagues and well-wishers. Lowman credits her employment at NIU to an unlikely opportunity. She remembered...

Professor Jack King's SOCI 392 class organized a rally for the ONE organization in the King Memorial Commons Wednesday afternoon as part of their final. With the slogan of ONE being, "We're not asking for your money. We're asking for your voice," the...

Emily Gualdoni Students took an exotic journey to Puerto Rico through the dance and drumbeats of a Chicago band in the Holmes Student Center Wednesday. Since 2000, the group AfriCaribe has been part of a not-for-profit organization with the goal of discovering...

President John Peters had a few end-of-the-year loose threads to tie up at the University Council meeting Wednesday, starting with a wrap-up of the provost search. Peters said it has been a "rigorous past two and a half days" and the evaluations from...