Staff and students filled seats and lined aisles to hear Dennis Barsema speak Tuesday night in Barsema Hall. Barsema, a 1977 graduate of NIU who majored in business management, spoke about being an executive in the business world and of the challenges...

NIU Forensics will host a viewing of the third and final presidential debate at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium. The event is open to all and is meant to help bring about knowledge of the candidates and how they stand on issues. After...

NIU is home to an internationally recognized music program that Stephanie Schiller and Robert Petitto are proud to be a part of. For Schiller, a sophomore music performance major, singing is in her genes - her father is a professional singer who used...

This year’s Homecoming king and queen began their reign this week and are celebrating the victory. Jarquetta Egeston, the matriarch and senior business administration major, and Kiarri Andrews, a self-described “sophomore-and-a-half” journalism...

More than 250 students are taking advantage of the new facilities at the Chick Evans Field House nightly, while the Rec Center - during peak hours - averages between 800 and 900 students. “As soon as it starts to get colder, we expect numbers to increase,”...

NIU is planning to bring the Holmes Student Center up-to-date and improve its capabilities over the next 15 years. NIU is in talks with BLDD Architects, a firm out of Chicago that renovated the Chick Evans Field House last year, said Jeff Daurer, space...

A student stares blankly at the chalkboard, mind wandering and focus adrift. Her head bobs up and down as she fights the urge to sleep through another class. Professors like Gabriel Holbrook have seen many students’ attention flitter away during class....

NIU alumnus Dennis Barsema has been invited back to campus to give a presentation in the building that he donated $20 million for NIU to build. Barsema, who was a management major at NIU, donated a large majority of the funds needed to construct Barsema...

Republican Illinois House minority leader Tom Cross and State Rep. Bob Pritchard, R-Hinckley, spoke to the College Republicans about voting and budget cuts in higher education Monday afternoon in Altgeld Hall. About 30 people attended the meet-and-greet...

Martin Marty, a theologian specializing in American religion, spoke to a full auditorium about the differences between Eastern and Western Christianity Monday in Altgeld Hall. Born in West Point, Neb., Marty was ordained into the ministry in 1952 and...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich selected NIU President John Peters to serve on a task force to bring a $1 billion accelerator project to the Argonne National Laboratory. “Somebody made a decision to put me on the blue ribbon task force,” Peters said. “That’s...

The Convocation Center will make Homecoming last a little longer this Saturday. Beginning at 11 p.m., the center will host an official after-party for the Homecoming Jam concert, which will feature hip-hop artists Lloyd Banks and Shawnna. The party will...