Eric Weldy, vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, requested approval at Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting for $814,000 in consulting fees to a group that would help NIU boost enrollment and retention.The Division of Student...
General education coordinator Michael Kole presents an NIU PLUS task force update at the University Council meeting Wednesday in the Holmes Student Center, Sky Room. NIU PLUS decreases the number of credit hours needed to fulfill general education requirements for undergraduate students.
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...
Community, university and student leaders gathered Monday to brainstorm ways to promote the It’s On Us sexual prevention campaign in time for the Week of Action, which starts Nov. 17.The Student Association announced its involvement with It’s On Us,...
Project Seth Ltd., a non-profit organization aiming to support, empower, teach and honor young adults, will raise money through a Halloween party with a costume contest Friday.The organization, named after Seth Bartosik, 20, of Cortland, a DeKalb High...
The merger of Military Student Services and Off-Campus and Non-Traditional Student Services will happen despite concerns voiced in the departments, said Katrina Caldwell, assistant vice president for Student Affairs.The decision to merge the two departments...
Nine Student Association senator-at-large candidates will have to go before the SA Senate again after a breach of SA Bylaws occurred when they were elected Sunday, said SA Senate Speaker Dillon Domke.At Sunday’s SA Senate meeting, the Senate interviewed...
Gail Smith, 58, shouldn’t have been in the university’s Campus Mail Services when Tina Erickson, 53, collapsed and stopped breathing.On Sept. 12, Erickson and Smith went to lunch and returned to work at about 2 p.m. Tina Erickson is a mailing equipment...
The university’s website redesign, featuring navigation changes based on how the site is used, was announced and previewed at University Council before its 9 p.m. Wednesday launch.Web Communications Director Jennice O’Brien said any bugs on the site,...
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...
I read with amusement Jackie Nevarez’s Sept. 10 Northern Star article citing President Doug Baker’s characterization of my Aug. 4 letter to the editor to the Daily Chronicle as “a lot of misinformation.”The raises and salaries of these administrators...
