Gov. James Thompson has declared February Financial Aid Awareness Month. "This is the month of the ‘big push' to inform students about financial aid opportunities and to encourage them to fill out applications," said Cheryl Shaffer, assistant director...

Real-life work experiences are available for students through NIU's Cooperative Education Program. Doug Davis, acting associate director of Cooperative Education, said, "The program is designed to give students practical work experience in their major...

Brent M. Hooghkirk pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of killing Lisa M. Garretson in 1988. Hooghkirk, 18, was accompanied by his lawyer William Brady as Judge Richard D. Larson ordered a discovery meeting for Feb. 20, where the prosecution and the...

Students wondering where their friends who graduated have gone can rest assured that they are probably still in the state of Illinois, in the Chicago area or near suburbs. The Career Planning and Placement Center annually conducts a mail survey of the...

A petition submitted by a newly elected senator questions the validity of the Student Association's five-district voting system. Newly elected Sen. Phill Buoscio, District 1, will appear before the SA Supreme Court to discuss unequal representation within...

The three female officers on the DeKalb and University Police forces go through the same police training processes as their male counterparts. The DeKalb City Police Department has just sent their first female officer, Lauren Lamz, to the Police Training...

Problems have plagued South Africa since its birth. Not only has the land been claimed and re-claimed several times, but the people in the country have had to repeatedly deal with racial disputes. The following is a time line of some key events in the...

The Late Night Ride Service did not run Feb.1 because of understaffing. The ride service provides free safe transportation to students Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. Last school year, the ride service transported more than...

Without a packed auditorium, body guards or $4 admission fee, a black pastor from Chicago talked about racism Monday night to a crowd of 70 in the Holmes Student Center. Raleigh Washington, president of Chicago's Circle Urban Ministry and pastor of Rock...

NIU's Career Planning and Placement Center helps students cope with the pressures and problems of finding a job after graduation. Campus Recruiting Coordinator Jean Callary said the most used service in her office is the on-campus recruiting program....

Careers trends in the 1990s will move toward well-rounded generalists rather than narrowly-focused specialists, said a coordinator in cooperative education. According to Doug Davis, special populations and humanities coordinator for the Cooperative Education...

Want a job? Be prepared to hunt. Ellen Anderson, a placement counselor for the Career Planning and Placement Center, said it takes about five to six months to find the "right job. So, we recommend that students begin looking in January." "People who sit...