Gov. Bruce Rauner recommended $77,465,000 in state appropriations for NIU in his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2018.The proposed budget, issued Feb. 15, comes following two years in which NIU did not receive full state appropriations because of an inability...

DeKALB | The election of the United Faculty Alliance union officers Oct. 26 and 27 on the floor level of the Holmes Student Center, will be open for voting to tenure-track and tenured union members.After voting, arrangements will then be made with administrators...

Founders Memorial Library has been closed the rest of today and until 7:30 a.m. Monday due to the suspicion of a malfunctioning fire alarm system sensor.At about 2:50 p.m., a fire alarm went off but firefighters were not able to locate evidence of a fire...

NIU experienced a series of blackouts Friday due to 70 mph winds.All the problems were due to high winds, said NIU Spokesperson Joe King. Repairs and maintenance had to be done by ComEd, King said.Northern View Community had no power for approximately...

Former affiliate employee Magaly Rodriguez owes $2,793.63 in travel expenses which NIU President Doug Baker said was reimbursed inappropriately by NIU, according to an NIU news release Wednesday.Rodriguez was hired in 2013 as a change specialist functioning...

NIU’s total spring enrollment is down 2.5 percent from fall 2015 when enrollment was 20,130, NIU President Doug Baker said at a University Council meeting Wednesday.NIU has seen a steady decline in enrollment since 2009 when total enrollment was 24,424....

Former NIU student Hasan Gill’s cause of death has been confirmed a suicide, said Joe King, director of Media and Public Relations.Hasan Gill was a 25-year-old former NIU student whose burned body was found on the morning of Dec. 29 near a path behind...

At 11:30 a.m. today in DuSable Hall officers responded to a situation involving a student shouting threats.The student's name will not be released due to health and privacy reasons, said NIU Spokesman Joe King.“Threats are taken very seriously here...