CHARLESTON—The Illinois Board of Higher Education mandated three annual education status reports. The board approved its Committee on Scope, Structure and Productivity's suggestion to amend the state's educational mission statement while leaving the...

The road was sometimes rocky, but the Student Association can look back at the school year and breathe a sigh of relief. SA President Huda Scheidelman said this year's top three accomplishments were advances in academic grievance forms, publishing teacher...

The future home of NIU's art gallery will be ready next semester after getting a facelift this summer. The 95-year-old Altgeld Auditorium is undergoing a $355,000 renovation to improve lighting, add air-conditioning and restore the room's antique look....

BEARDSTOWN, Ill.—A DeKalb man remains in a downstate jail facing a $500,000 bond and five criminal charges after being locked up for a week. Richard Brim, 46, was arrested April 25 by Beardstown Police and Cass County Police. Brim is due in court May...

The academic fibers of universities are being ripped by a host of social problems, according to a recent national study of campuses. The study was a joint project of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education....

Solar system colonization and unused natural resources are among topics La Rouche movement member Mark Fairchild will discuss at NIU tonight. Fairchild, a one-time candidate for lieutenant governor, will speak at 7:30 p.m. in room 405 of the Holmes Student...

The Gay/Lesbian Union will be one of several campus groups across the United States holding a press conference Friday to protest discrimination. The groups will read a prepared speech written and mailed by Jordan Marsh, a University of Wisconsin at Madison...

A group of Hebrew students are fighting to keep their professor who might lose his job from a conflict between NIU scheduling policies and his personal needs. About six students in Zidkiavh Chady's Hebrew 102 and 202 classes plan to meet with Assistant...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education might vote to redefine its goals today at Eastern Illinois University at Charleston. The IBHE committee on Scope, Structure and Productivity recommended changes in the goal statements of higher education in March....

Women have been silenced for centuries, and now as feminists are under severe attack, and 10 years of Reagan/Bush has set the clock back on women's rights; we don't have time to sit back and "encourage change" (like good little girls)! This year, our...

On J. Carroll Moody's criticism of criticisms of higher education contained in a recently published report of the "Committee on Scope, Structure, and Productivity of Illinois Higher Education:" (Prof. Moody is executive secretary of the Unversity Council...

To do better on accounting tests, college students should get a jump in the game and start in high school, said an award-winning NIU professor. NIU Professor Sherry Hellmuth received the 1990 Delta Pi Epsilon National Doctoral Research Award April 11....