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...

Although the blackboard used to outline the agenda for Tuesday night's Student Committee on Political Action meeting read "SCOPA: An Endangered Species," the committee worked as though its future was secure. Details for the "Political Awareness Festival"...

DeKalb-Taylor Municipal Airport will have expanded, safer runway facilities soon with the help of about $5.5 million in federal and state monies. Plans include extending the runway in the summer of 1989 and building a second east-west runway south of...

Unless adequate state funding is available, NIU will not be able to provide technological education through a multi-university in the DuPage County research and development corridor. NIU Provost Kendall Baker said the concept of a "multi-university has...

After hearing statements from members of about seven Illinois universities regarding a state-wide tuition policy Tuesday, the Illinois Board of Higher Education decided it would form a guidelines policy at its December meeting prior to budgeting in January....

The death of an 18-year-old NIU student, which occurred on the first day of fall classes, was ruled accidental by a DeKalb County Coroner's jury last Thursday, who recommended that the traffic signal and speed limit be changed at the intersection of Annie...

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 opponents in the upcoming state's attorney election are preparing for their Oct. 6 debate, with the areas of qualifications and effectiveness as the candidates' focal points. The debate for the candidates will take place in room 186 of Swen Parson...

Only two weeks after taking the Student Association's oath of office, senators are already taking bold steps forward to bring "credibility" to the NIU students. Senator Gary Stittgen followed up on his Sept. 25 motion to disband the Student Committee...

As of Monday, NIU resident students and graduate assistants are receiving some relief from the university's cramped parking situation with about 209 new orange and green sticker coded parking spaces. Lynn Fraser, NIU campus parking division manager, said...

The Illinois Board of Higher Education will discuss information today concerning fiscal year 1988 salaries in Illinois colleges and universities, and the planning and budget issues for FY90. The board, which meets at 9 a.m. at Lewis and Clark Community...

State Comptroller Roland W. Burris recently announced his three local government advisory boards will hold a series of public meetings in October to discuss the issue of local government funding in Illinois. The County, Municipal and Local Government...