Associate English professor Tim Ryan speaks during the discussion about criteria for program prioritization at a Faculty Senate meeting Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center. Ryan questioned the effectiveness of program prioritization, which is a review...
University Council will hear a request from the faculty to increase their presence on the program prioritization task forces.The Board of Trustees Ad Hoc Committee on Enrollment heard a presentation on program prioritization by Provost Lisa Freeman. In...
Faculty nominated four Faculty Senate members to run for the Senate’s presidency in the 2015-2016 academic year.ElectionsTherese Arado, a member of the Elections and Legislative Oversight Committee, asked the Faculty Senate to nominate faculty members...
Some Faculty Senate members questioned how NIU will implement a policy presented Wednesday to make the campus smoke-free.The Smoke-Free Campus Act, which goes in to effect July 1, prohibits smoking in indoor and outdoor areas of college campuses in Illinois....
Matt Parks, senior director of Network and Communications Services, presented a cellular stipend policy proposal Wednesday to Faculty Senate, some members of which were skeptical of the proposal.The policy applies to NIU departments and employees that...
Matt Parks, senior director of network and communications services, will present a cellular stipend policy proposal today at Faculty Senate.The cellular stipend policy provides “a general guideline for the use of cellular stipends for university business...
University Council will hear a presentation on NIU PLUS, a general education reform program hesitantly endorsed at an Oct. 29 Faculty Senate meeting.NIU PLUS recommendations include a reduction of up to 11 credit hours of undergraduate requirements if...
NIU is taking an important step in cutting the costs of administrative positions by disassembling the job of retiring vice president Bill Nicklas.As vice president of Operations and Community Relations, Nicklas oversaw the NIU Police Department, human...
Faculty Senate endorsed a program that will reform gen. eds, but its members also expressed concern about the program’s pace and implementation plan at a meeting Wednesday.Progressive Learning in Undergraduate Studies aims to reform general education...
Faculty Senate will continue its discussion of the operation and requirements of the Progressive Learning in Undergraduate Studies report today.Faculty Senate President Bill Pitney motioned to endorse the report Oct. 1, but the motion was postponed to...
Professors at Faculty Senate voiced their concerns over the implementation and requirements documented in the NIU Progressive Learning in Undergraduate Studies report, a general education reform program, Wednesday.Faculty Senate President Bill Pitney...
Faculty and administrators will present their research on career satisfaction and gender in science, technology, engineering and mathematics faculty at today’s Faculty Senate meeting.Chris McCord, principal investigator and College of Liberal Arts and...
