When the going got tough, some NIU students got going...out the door. The MATH 101 students who walked out of Noca Ervin's class lecture and later scrawled chalk protests on sidewalks outside the lecture hall chose the wrong answer to their problems....

The first meeting of the NIU Undergraduate Coordinating Council, which replaces the Council on Instruction, will be mainly organizational. UCC Chairman Lou Jean Moyer said the meeting will be Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in the Lowden Hall conference room....

A recent re-organization within the NIU department of Educational Services and Programs has led to further coordinating and renaming of programs, to make them more beneficial to students. Tendaji Ganges, director of ESP, said that although four of the...

Illinois Bell Telephone has underwritten a series of seminars designed for small businesses, with sales of $5 million to $20 million, going through the "growth" period of the business cycle. Bell and the College of Business's management department will...

Controversy over who was consulted about former NIU president and political science professor Clyde Wingfield's assignment in Washington, D.C. continues despite Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves' claims. At a special Faculty Assembly meeting...

Trained to handle certain problems at certain times, volunteers are needed to run crisis lines and refer people to professional counselors at two organizations in DeKalb. Rick Johnson, community education coordinator for the Ben Gordon Mental Health Center,...

The NIU Alumni Association is seeking the nominations of outstanding NIU graduates for the 1989 Alumni Association awards to be presented at the May 13 Graduate School Commencement and the April 10 honors banquet. NIU Alumni Programs Director Sue Lund,...

NIU president John LaTourette called on student leaders earlier this week to continue work toward a tax increase for higher education. LaTourette said at Sunday's Student Association meeting that redistributing state allocations cannot produce more funds...

The NIU Admissions Office is expecting about 400 high school students this Monday for an open house, said Undergraduate Admissions Assistant Director Craig Kolins. The visiting students will take a bus tour of the NIU campus, visit a residence hall, meet...

NIU faculty and staff will gather next month to participate in a teleconference aimed at evaluating the outcome of students' learning experiences at the university, determining whether the experiences prepare students for the real world, and making any...

Two DeKalb aldermen representing student wards told members of the Student Association Sunday they will propose an ordinance extending bar hours if they can get the DeKalb City Council's support. First Ward Alderman Christine Hoagland and 6th Ward Alderman...

One in five junior and senior high school students attending NIU academic summer camps later enroll at NIU as college students, with one in two majoring in the same area they studied at camp, a recent College of Continuing Education report states. NIU...