DeKALB – NIU has seen a drop in spring enrollment compared to previous years. In Spring 2025 there was a total enrollment of 14,158 students. This represents a 0.4% decline from Spring 2024 and a 10% decline compared to Spring 2019. The...

DeKALB- Vicki Gerentes, NIU’s director of Fraternity and Sorority Life, spoke to the Northern Star about herself and her position.    WHAT KIND OF THINGS DO YOU DO IN YOUR FREETIME? “I am a family person, I’m the oldest of three,...

This piece was updated as of 2/17 to make a correction.  Correction: The Northern Star previously wrote there was discussion to remove Chairperson Gonzalez. The discussion was to remove Chairperson Rosales. DeKALB – At Friday’s Student Government...

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DeKALB - Two weeks after a burst pipe required students to relocate from their dorms, NIU has completed work to ensure conditions are safe for students to return. On Jan. 21, a pipe burst in Stevenson B Residence Hall caused unsafe conditions for the...

DeKALB – NIU kicked off its Black Heritage Month events with a lecture from Sundiata Djata, an NIU history professor. Djata presented this year’s Dr. LaVerne Gyant Lecture Series on Tuesday evening.  Djata has a doctorate from the University of...

DeKALB – The NIU department of Industrial and Systems Engineering was awarded a grant to work on technology that would allow brain-to brain-communication. A $600,000 grant from the National Sciences Foundation was approved October 1 to start research...

DeKALB – The sound of Huskie buses driving down DeKalb’s streets are familiar to students and residents alike. But, the way the bus system operates has changed in the last six years.  NIU students and DeKalb residents made over one million...

DeKALB - Next fall, the Rockford Promise program at NIU will open to include Rock Valley College transfers. Previously, students were only able to use the scholarship at NIU if they had a 3.0 GPA, were new graduates of Rockford public high schools...

DeKALB - Students were asked to relocate from Stevenson Towers Residence Hall to the Holmes Student Center Hotel for the weekend to speed up the drying process in the affected areas of the building because of flooding that happened last week. On the...

DeKALB – The first University Council meeting of the year discussed NIU’s budget deficit along with various capital projects on Wednesday. BUDGET DEFICIT NIU Executive Vice President and Provost Laurie Elish-Piper began with an updated timeline...

DeKALB – For campuses like NIU, right leaning student groups can be hard to find. A new group on NIU’s campus hopes to change that. Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) is a libertarian group with the mission of “building the youth army for liberty”...