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...
The Board of Trustees (BOT) voted to approve all the university’s recommendations, including increasing the room and board rate, increasing student fees and approving the proposed salary guidelines. The university requested the BOT approve an aggregate...
At a 9 a.m. Board of Trustees meeting today, the board will vote for or against increasing student fees, room and board rates and various salaries, among other items. According to the Board of Trustees agenda, the university is requesting the Board approve...
Beginning in Fall 2012, student health insurance fees will rise by $146.At a Feb. 15 Board of Trustees meeting, Board Vice Chair Robert Boey said a "major contributor" to the fee increase is the "dramatic" 17.9 percent rise in health insurance premiums...
NIU will have a new mission statement in the future. The Faculty Senate met Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center Sky Room to discuss the mission statement, among other topics. NIU's mission statement was last revised in 2003. The current series of revisions...
