NIU is awaiting a decision from the Illinois Board of Higher Education to pass a proposal which would fund a program to recruit 100 more minority transfer students annually. Lynne Waldeland, NIU assistant provost, said the proposal stemmed from a Board...

Columnist's Note: This is the first in a series of occasional columns presenting the author's arbitrary thoughts, thought-provoking questions and wild suggestions. The Buck$ Stop Here Department: Budget cuts to higher education? Hah! That should be no...

Area residents who have had to travel to the Ecker Center for Mental Health in Elgin will now be able to seek their counseling in a new Sycamore office. The Ecker Center will open its doors at 1101 DeKalb Ave. to the people of Sycamore and the surrounding...

The DeKalb City Council has received a lot of attention lately after 7th Ward Alderman Mark Powell started making accusations that the council is a "rubber stamp" for proposals. But because of Powell's continual disruptions of meetings and attacks on...

NIU Anthropologist and Associate Professor William Fash will reveal the progress of his Copan Mosaics Project during a presentation at 8 p.m. today in the Holmes Student Center Heritage Room. Michael Gonzales, associate professor of history and acting...

Students angered by a hard-to-understand book, an allegedly ineffective teacher, and an excessively large class size walked out of their MATH 101 course the day before a test last week and started a petition outlining these problems, said Samantha Hellenga,...

The races for political offices have begun to heat up in DeKalb County, and in the campaign for county coroner, a question of qualifications has been raised. Incumbent coroner and Democrat Dennis Miller, in an interview Wednesday, questioned the qualifications...

Financial aids for NIU students might have been one reason for the dozens of recent on-campus student job vacancies, but new financial aid regulations could prove to be a cure. Several on-campus student employers, including those in Founders Memorial...

A proposal for a master of arts program in the foreign language and literature department, which has been accepted by NIU and the Board of Regents, still must be approved by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Lynne Waldeland, NIU assistant provost...

Compromise was the name of the game at Wednesday night's Student Association Internal Affairs Committee meeting concerning the status of the Student Committee on Political Action. The SA decided Sunday to refer to the IAC a senator's proposal which would...

NIU will host one of several entrepreneurship seminars that will be held nationwide to introduce the development and operation process of small businesses. James Thomson, U.S. Small Business Administration's regional administrator, said NIU will conduct...

Several NIU instructors questioned Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves for details about the funding of Professor Clyde Wingfield's Washington "administrative assignment" Wednesday. At a special meeting of the NIU Faculty Assembly, Sociology Professor...