The Master of Arts in Public Administration program, which is accredited with training over one-fourth of the city managers in Illinois is celebrating its 25th anniversary at NIU. The program was started in 1962 by Daniel Wit, dean of international and...

NIU football player Brett Tucker is facing charges for an Oct. 1 fistfight at McCabe's bar. The plea hearing will be Oct. 21. Thomas Lee, Arizona, is pressing charges for "reimbursement of medical bills" resulting from the fight. Lee, who allegedly suffered...

NIU and the University of Costa Rica are working together on strategic planning and cooperative interaction among nations in an effort to develop higher education. Edgar Smith, field coordinator for the Costa Rican study program, said an objective of...

Members of the NIU Undergraduate Coordinating Council at their meeting Thursday approved a motion to allow transfer students to use MATH 120 as a core competency class. UCC Chairman Lou Jean Moyer said MATH 120 no longer satisfies a general education...

The Office of the President needs nominations for the second annual Community-University Awards. The awards were established in 1986 to recognize organizations, one from DeKalb and one from NIU, that have broadened understanding and cooperation between...

The Wesley Foundation, NIU's United Methodist student ministry, will begin their weekly coffee house program, presenting a different musical band each Friday, said Dave Schmidt, foundation director. "These coffee houses provide a good alternative source...

NIU students can do their part to help save lives by donating blood at one of the 17 blood drives this semester at NIU. Heartland, a blood bank, depends on NIU blood drives for five percent of its blood supply. Heartland supplies blood to 26 hospitals...

The two candidates running for DeKalb County state's attorney have faced each other only once in a court of law defending opposite sides—in a sexual abuse case last summer. Republican nominee Mike Coghlan, first assistant state's attorney, opposed Democratic...

People speaking in favor of constructing the proposed Superconducting Super Collider in Illinois faced strong, and sometimes hostile, verbal opposition on the second day of the Environmental Impact Statement hearing at Waubonsie Valley High School in...

NIU students who have received merit scholarships will be recognized at the Presidential Awards Convocation today in the Holmes Student Center's Regency Room at 4 p.m. Marion Miller, director of the University Honors Program, originated the convocation...

NIU's first annual fall Sexual Assault Awareness week, which runs today through Friday, will involve communicating information to students about sexual assaults, which have a "high risk" period in autumn. Jeff Cufaude, NIU activities adviser for University...

For the time being, the monkey was taken off the back of the Student Committee on Political Action at Sunday night's Student Association meeting. A proposal to accept the recommended bylaw changes and additions made by the SA's Internal Affairs Committee...