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All content by Madison Kacer

Hate group posts flyers on campus

By Madison Kacer
October 19, 2017

Freeman addresses NIU’s future

By Madison Kacer
September 21, 2017

Enrollment drops; freshman class grows

By Madison Kacer
September 14, 2017

OPINION | Pass: Complaint filers fight for their rights; Fail: NIU to see effects of state tax increase

By Madison Kacer
July 25, 2017

Dannenmaier a bad fit for NIU

By Madison Kacer
July 17, 2017
Pass/Fail: Legislators pass state budget and fund NIU; Costly review results in three-page report

Pass/Fail: Legislators pass state budget and fund NIU; Costly review results in three-page report

By Madison Kacer
July 10, 2017

Annual review of former president released

By Madison Kacer
July 10, 2017

President Doug Baker’s severance package to be roughly $600K

By Madison Kacer
June 15, 2017

Provost Lisa Freeman to take over as president following Doug Baker’s resignation

By Madison Kacer
June 15, 2017

President Doug Baker announces resignation

By Madison Kacer
June 15, 2017
President Doug Baker gives a presentation during a March 29 Faculty Senate meeting in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Room. Baker announced a campus-wide involvement in his presidential review in a Monday report.

Presidential review expands — faculty, staff and students to add input

By Madison Kacer
April 20, 2017
Faculty discusses Baker’s contract

Faculty discusses Baker’s contract

By Madison Kacer
March 30, 2017
Slain student remembered as honest and selfless

Slain student remembered as honest and selfless

By Madison Kacer
January 21, 2017
The program will be led by Harlan Teller, interim vice president of the Division of Marketing and Communications. Teller is a 1973 alumnus who oversees Teller Consulting and serves on the Lipman Hearne board of advisors.

Enrollment divisions merge

By Madison Kacer
December 1, 2016

NIU civil suit moved to January

By Madison Kacer
November 17, 2016
The eight students made their way to Springfield Tuesday to lobby for higher education and Monetary Award Program grants pose with a state legislator.

SA lobbies for higher education

By Madison Kacer
November 17, 2016

Administrators chalk for peace

By Madison Kacer
November 17, 2016

SA promotes election-based story-sharing

By Madison Kacer
November 14, 2016
Daniel Eiland, sophomore electrical engineering major, talks about the police report he filed regarding the racial slurs he was called off-campus Thursday. He said he remained calm when four men in a silver pickup truck called out racial slurs at him, saying Eiland doesn’t belong in their town.

Racial slurs prompt report

By Madison Kacer
November 14, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, in Eau Claire, Wis. 

Campus respond’s to Trump’s victory

By Julia Martinez, Sam Malone, and Madison Kacer
November 10, 2016

Injunction passed

By Madison Kacer
September 29, 2016
President Doug Baker (right) and Faculty Senate President Greg Long (left) participate in the University Council meeting Feb. 3 in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Room.

NIU enrolls 5 percent less

By Madison Kacer
September 8, 2016
Contract signing

NIU discrimination lawsuit put on docket

By Madison Kacer
August 29, 2016

Sales tax revenue below projection

By Madison Kacer
August 25, 2016

Limitations discussed for video gambling

By Madison Kacer
August 25, 2016

Sycamore victim’s neighbor speaks out

By Madison Kacer
August 22, 2016

SA holds special meeting to appoint Board of Elections

By Madison Kacer
August 22, 2016
Lisa Freeman, executive vice-president and provost, is drafting a roughly 400-page unified action plan to address themes in action plans like more interdisciplinary opportunities for students.

Freeman begins program prioritization action plan

By Madison Kacer
July 25, 2016

Fall MAP to be credited by NIU

By Madison Kacer
July 25, 2016

No timeline set for Stevens Buildings project

By Madison Kacer
July 18, 2016

Approval needed for Holmes renovation

By Madison Kacer
July 18, 2016

NIU allocated with new budget plan

By Madison Kacer
July 11, 2016

Program leaders putting action plans together

By Madison Kacer
July 11, 2016

Coltonville Road closed for four more weeks

By Madison Kacer
June 13, 2016

DeKalb Health Department helping residents in wake of virus

By Madison Kacer
June 13, 2016
The categorization of academic programs from each college. No programs from the College of Visual and Performing Arts were recognized as a candidate for review.

Feedback on reports available via website

By Madison Kacer
May 5, 2016

Diverse administrative programs recommended to restructure

By Madison Kacer
May 3, 2016

Minor and certificate programs could be elimated

By Madison Kacer
May 2, 2016

Reports explain resource allocation

By Madison Kacer
May 2, 2016

NIU faculty file intent to unionize

By Madison Kacer
May 2, 2016

NIU faculty files for unionization

By Madison Kacer
April 29, 2016

New NIU employees paid more

By Madison Kacer
April 25, 2016
Kathryn Olson, senior environmental studies major, shows two-year-old Eleanor Burlingame how to make paper-bag trees on Saturday at the Green Family fun day in Haish Gym.

Earth Week

By Madison Kacer
April 18, 2016

Students lobby for higher ed funding

By Madison Kacer
April 14, 2016

Rehabilitation counsel club approved by SA

By Madison Kacer
April 11, 2016
Teachers rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago to support a one-day strike held by the Chicago Teachers Union in Chicago on Friday. Teachers said the strike was aimed at getting lawmakers to adequately fund schools in the nation’s third-largest district.

SA travels to Springfield to deliver budget initiative letters

By Madison Kacer
April 7, 2016

Baker Report highlights staff initiative

By Madison Kacer
April 4, 2016

SA Senate approves constitution as living document, sustainability group

By Madison Kacer
April 4, 2016
Dillon Domke, Student Association Senate speaker

26 students placed on program prioritization task forces

By Madison Kacer
April 4, 2016

SA Senate elects first female speaker

By Madison Kacer
April 4, 2016
Matthew Holmes, Student Association student trustee-elect, (far right) hands out flyers for the One NIU ticket and urges students to vote Wednesday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Commons. The One NIU ticket, with only the presidential position being contested, won the SA Executive Election on Wednesday.

One NIU wins low turnout SA executive elections

By Madison Kacer
March 31, 2016

Student Association to vote for speaker

By Madison Kacer
March 31, 2016

NIU certifies 9 ‘green offices’

By Madison Kacer
March 24, 2016

Higher education institutions join SA budget initiative

By Madison Kacer
March 24, 2016

Professor appears on TV to present telepressure research

By Madison Kacer
March 11, 2016
Rep. Tom Demmer (R-Dixon) answers students’ questions regarding the budget impasse, MAP funding and technology at “Pizza with Pritchard” on Tuesday in the New Hall Community Center Swing Space. Read more at bit.ly/1YD6bae.

Local reps discuss budget impasse with students

By Madison Kacer
March 10, 2016
James Zanayed, Student Association Supreme Court justice, speaks prior to being elected as the SA student trustee. Zanayed received 28 of 30 possible votes for the trustee position Sunday. Read more at bit.ly/1QKA6LQ.

Student trustee to focus on budget, safety

By Madison Kacer
March 7, 2016
Dillon Domke, Student Association Senate Speaker, addresses the senate about current Illinois legislative events at Sunday's SA Senate meeting.

SA talks funding, task force

By Madison Kacer
March 7, 2016
Human Relations Commissioners Lisa King (left) and Larry Apperson discuss the ordinances regarding unlawful assemblies during a Feb. 18 Human Relations Commission meeting.

Human Relations Commission looks to end unlawful assemblies ordinance

By Madison Kacer
March 3, 2016
Potential new locks are on display in the Recreation Center. Student Association President Nathan Lupstein and Michael Agro, SA director of Athletics and Recreation, will be meeting this week to establish a budget for the new locks that are to be installed in the Recreation Center lockers. 

SA looks into new Rec Center locks

By Madison Kacer
February 29, 2016
Student Association President Nathan Lupstein

Deadline approaching for student trustee nomination

By Madison Kacer
February 29, 2016

SA looks to gather letters for governor

By Madison Kacer
February 25, 2016
Elizabeth Heckenast, second year law student, expresses concern about the lack of communication with NIU about the unlawful assembly ordinances at a DeKalb Human Relations Commission meeting Thursday. Read more at bit.ly/1LK6mJq.

City alters protest ordinance drafts

By Madison Kacer
February 22, 2016

Officials unbothered by increase in NIU water bill

By Madison Kacer
February 15, 2016

Unlawful assembly ordinances draft discussed by community

By Madison Kacer
February 4, 2016
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