The Board of Trustees will hold a special open meeting at 1 p.m. today to appoint the university’s president. The meeting will be held in Altgeld Hall, Room 315. Faculty, staff, students and members of the community are invited. There will be a welcome...
New fees, new minors and a new position were announced at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting.The board met for executive sessions and for the presentation of the annual president’s report, which was John Peters’ final one.With Peters finishing...
NIU has changed up its presidential hiring process. The final four candidates to succeed NIU President John Peters will meet with the Board of Trustees for off-campus interviews on Friday, according to a university news release. The candidates were selected...
Funding for Huskie Stadium upgrades and the campus alert system were among the topics discussed at the committee meetings prior to the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday. The Finance, Facilities and Operations Committee reviewed almost 30 university...
A new school was approved by the Board of Trustees (BOT) during its meeting Thursday. The School of Public and Global Affairs will house the Political Science Department and Nongovernmental Organizations Leadership and Development Center. The school was...
The search for the next university president will continue this week. The Presidential Search Advisory Committee (PSAC) will meet at noon on Thursday in Altgeld Hall, Room 315. The committee will discuss the job description for the position of university...
Plus/minus grading will soon go into effect at NIU. The option to veto the plus/minus grading policy was brought up again at a University Council (UC) meeting Wednesday. The UC decided during an Oct. 10 meeting to send the policy to the Undergraduate...
A meeting for the NIU presidential search advisory committee will take place this week, according to a NIU media and public relations news release. The meeting will be held at 3 p.m. on Thursday at Altgeld Hall, Room 315. According to NIU media and public...
A member of the original NIU Board of Trustees died at the age of 75 on Oct. 13, according to NIU Today. James W. Myles was nominated for secretary by former NIU Trustee Manny Sanchez on Jan. 3, 1996. Myles had also served as the final chair of the Illinois...
An update on NIU’s Vision 2020 initiative was presented at the Board of Trustees meeting Thursday. The initiative, which was announced in 2010, set benchmarks for the university to meet by 2020. The overall achievement of the plan is to make NIU the...
DeKALB | The Board of Trustees (BOT) approved of tuition rate increases for incoming students at a meeting Thursday. The university recommended a 4.75 percent increase in tuition for students attending NIU this fall. NIU President John Peters said there...
At the last University Council meeting of the semester, NIU President John Peters addressed all the projects and renovations taking place over the summer. Peters said the university will also focus on transitioning to a completely wireless campus. Peters...
