With racial tensions growing in the United States, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has attempted to dissolve this issue by providing diversity workshops to faculty.Janice Hamlet, director of diversity, equity and inclusion for the College of...

Pass: Diversity class will foster acceptanceOn Sunday, the Student Association Senate approved a resolution which will require students starting their first semester at NIU in fall 2017 and after to take at least one credit in a human diversity course...

Many administrative programs dedicated to diversity and inclusion were categorized as in need of transformation in the program prioritization reports released Monday.Program prioritization, which began in 2014, uses task forces to create reports that...

Upcoming standardized exams generalize bilingual students’ language knowledge.On Saturday, the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures will administer bilingual exams in Watson Hall. During the two-hour tests, students are expected to prove...

PassThe College of Education is offering a diversity film series.It is nice to see the College of Education strive to create a diverse content selection, with movies ranging in topic from ethnicity to sexual orientation.They will be showing an array of...

The flags of more than 200 countries will be on display on campus when local fifth graders hold their Parade of Flags.The annual parade begins at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Huskie Stadium. Students will go east on Lucinda Avenue and end in the Martin Luther...

When I was first hired as a community adviser in Stevenson Hall, there was an activity called “Dialogue on Diversity” during the few weeks of training. This was an hour or so discussion of “diversity,” during which one of the hall directors read...

The Black Student Union (BSU) has pledged their support for the petition to increase ethnically diverse faculty at NIU, created through BSU member Sarah Theodore-Young. "The petition was an idea I developed after speaking with a group of friends about...

The Unity in Diversity Team is hosting "Celebrating our Differences Together," an event on campus to increase awareness of cultural and racial differences tonight at 7 p.m. at the Holmes Student Center. "The students who compete come from a variety of...

Throughout the years, NIU's population has grown and evolved by welcoming different ethnic groups and cultures to the campus. "NIU has a very diverse population," said Residence Program Coordinator Gregory Ross. "If you walk across the campus on any day,...