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 first meeting of the NIU Undergraduate Coordinating Council, which replaces the Council on Instruction, will be mainly organizational. UCC Chairman Lou Jean Moyer said the meeting will be Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in the Lowden Hall conference room....

A recent re-organization within the NIU department of Educational Services and Programs has led to further coordinating and renaming of programs, to make them more beneficial to students. Tendaji Ganges, director of ESP, said that although four of the...

Illinois Bell Telephone has underwritten a series of seminars designed for small businesses, with sales of $5 million to $20 million, going through the "growth" period of the business cycle. Bell and the College of Business's management department will...

Controversy over who was consulted about former NIU president and political science professor Clyde Wingfield's assignment in Washington, D.C. continues despite Board of Regents Chancellor Roderick Groves' claims. At a special Faculty Assembly meeting...

Trained to handle certain problems at certain times, volunteers are needed to run crisis lines and refer people to professional counselors at two organizations in DeKalb. Rick Johnson, community education coordinator for the Ben Gordon Mental Health Center,...

The NIU Alumni Association is seeking the nominations of outstanding NIU graduates for the 1989 Alumni Association awards to be presented at the May 13 Graduate School Commencement and the April 10 honors banquet. NIU Alumni Programs Director Sue Lund,...

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...