For two years, the United Faculty Alliance has been working on a contract with the hopes of improving teaching conditions for tenured and tenure-track faculty at NIU. The Board of Trustees will vote Thursday on whether or not the contract will go into...

Professionals in careers that demand over 55 working hours in a week deserve mandatory benefits such as more paid vacation days and monthly mental health checkups.Last fall semester there were a total of 3388 students enrolled in the College of Health...

DeKALB — An NIU law student is being featured on Investigation Discovery for his involvement in helping police catch and convict a man of murder-for-hire deaths and fraud.Jed McClure, a College of Law student, found himself in the middle of an investigation...

­DeKALB — Eric Dannenmaier, College of Law dean, is no stranger to experiential learning.While teaching in the Robert H. McKinney School of Law at Indiana University, he created a two-credit summer course that replaced the classroom with a canoe ride...

A widely published Indiana University law professor has accepted an offer to become dean of the NIU College of Law.The NIU Board of Trustees will consider the appointment of Dr. Eric Dannenmaier at their next meeting. The recommendation follows a national...

The College of Law will hold its first featured speaker presentation as part of its Embracing Diversity series at noon Thursday in Swen Parson Hall, room 188.Professor Christine Rienstra-Kiracofe, the featured speaker, will discuss de jure and de facto...

Pass:NIU is offering a Mentor Summit, according to an NIU announcement, that will help show students the power of mentoring and the benefits that come with it.This event, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 2 at Barsema Hall, is a chance for students to learn how...

College of Law will hold a symposium entitled Cross-Border Migration of Unaccompanied Minors: Prospects for Legislative and Policy Reform from 8:15 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday on Altgeld Hall's second floor.The symposium will examine legal issues surrounding...