NIU’s University Council voted Wednesday that summer and fall school sessions of 2005 will start and end a week earlier than originally scheduled -- allowing more time for processing student paperwork. This decision makes the start date for the summer...

NIU political science professor Dwight King was one of 60 delegates who helped monitor the first Indonesian democratic election this summer. King was part of the international delegation that observed the presidential election July 5. Representatives...

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will visit NIU today to talk about her campaign to educate students about violence. The press conference for the campaign will take place at 1:30 p.m. at the NIU Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual...

Three NIU sophomores decided their drab Douglas Hall room needed some serious sprucing up. When business communication major Megan Koehler, athletic training major Jenna Steffen and dance major Kelley Gloor moved into their room, they were greeted with...

NIU will announce a plan today to establish a connection with a 175-mile fiber-optic network that will be used for research and increased Internet availability in northern Illinois. Cable will be laid by or leased to NIU for the purpose of accessing research...

NIU’s master’s in public administration program, with a nearly 100 percent job-placement rate, is one of the top programs in the nation. The program ranked fourth in the area of city management and eighth in public finance by the U.S. News & World...

Gary Gresholdt was an NIU administrator who spent his days making sure students’ issues were always well taken care of. That is the way Michelle Emmett, associate vice provost for Student Affairs, described Gresholdt, who has retired after spending...

Funeral services were held Wednesday for NIU marketing professor Askari Kizilbash, who died last week after battling cancer. Kizilbash, known as a tough teacher among his colleagues and as a wonderful husband and father by his family, is survived by his...

If you’re a user of an NIU email account, keep in mind that your messages might not be as private as you think. If necessary, NIU e-mail administrators have access to any account in the campus e-mail system, said Elizabeth Leake, associate director...

Higher Education Reporter Some NIU employees are among the millions that could lose their rights to earn overtime pay based on revised Fair Labor Standards Act exempt status regulations. Students will not be affected by the Fair Labor Standards Act, said...

The U.S. Department of Education considers NIU’s Southeast Asian Studies programs one of the best in the country. NIU’s program is one of eight that has been granted “National Resource Center” status by the department. The eight programs compete...

The Board of Trustees Finance, Facilities and Operations Committee unanimously approved a proposal Wednesday, outlining an up to 4-percent raise for NIU faculty and staff. The estimated cost of the raises to NIU is between $4 and $5 million. The increase...