DeKALB - At the first Faculty Senate meeting of the year, faculty expressed concern about the benefit of moving football conferences and voiced frustrations about athletic team hires during their own hiring freeze.
FACULTY HIRING CONCERNS
Therese...
DeKALB - A retired NIU professor was arrested last week and charged with throwing bags of cat feces at homes with pro-Donald Trump flags in their yards.
On Thursday, DeKalb resident James A. Walker was arrested and charged with 13 counts of littering...
DeKalb – Students in Stevenson B Tower Residence Hall were left stranded Tuesday morning as a sprinkler pipe burst which caused fire alarms to go off.
Students reported that fire alarms had been going off since 6:45 a.m. which forced them to evacuate...
DeKALB – NIU’s student body supreme court justices will be summoned by the SGA to explain what the court has been doing.
The SGA passed resolution 56019 which requires the justices to appear before the SGA on Friday.
Some members of SGA were...
DeKALB - The Northern Star entrance has moved as the office undergoes construction and the space is reconfigured to create room for the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center.
Renovations to the Northern Star office, Peters Campus Life Building, Room...
DeKALB – On Friday, a juvenile suspected of committing an armed robbery was arrested in DeKalb.
The crime was reported at 10:21 p.m. on Saturday in the 800 block of Ridge Drive. A man flagged down an officer and informed him that he had been robbed...
DeKALB – Almost half of grades NIU students received in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 were A’s.
This graph shows a percentage breakdown of the distribution of grades all undergraduate students received in Fall 2023 and Spring 2024.
In...
DeKALB - Hundreds of email accounts were compromised during the week of finals, leading to students receiving a flood of emails aiming to discover their protected online security information.
Bob Barton, director of information security at NIU, said...
DeKALB – NIU Police Chief Darren Mitchell will retire on Jan. 31 after 25 years with the NIU Department of Police and Public Safety.
Mitchell’s retirement was announced through a university statement.
Mitchell said the connections he made during...
This piece was updated as of 1/18 at 1:55pm to make a correction.
Correction: The Northern Star previously wrote that jury selection will last until Jan. 28 or Jan. 29. Jury selection is expected to finish by Jan. 22 and the trial is anticipated to...
DeKALB – MAP grant amounts will be reduced by 8%, up to $336 per student for the spring 2025 semester.
NIU’s Financial Aid and Scholarship Office notified students of the change in an email on Friday. According to the email, the reduction for each...
DeKALB – Almost one month after an apartment fire engulfed three apartment buildings in DeKalb the week of the Christmas holiday, residents of two buildings are unable to return until the buildings are deemed safe and one of the buildings is demolished.
A...
