The Northern Star Editorial Board doesn’t think Eddie Williams, executive vice president and chief of operations for Finance and Facilities, is doing his job.
Since the summer, the Finance and Facilities division at NIU has been through controversies...
NIU Police Chief Donald Grady received support from a group of students Friday. Randiss Hopkins, junior music education major, and Eric Evans, junior political science major, led students on a walk to support the NIU police. Hopkins said the walk was...
According to Austin Quick, students need to demand better of NIU. At the Sunday Student Association (SA) meeting, the SA Senate speaker expressed disappointment with various issues currently affecting the university. Among them were the allegations of...
NIU Police Chief Donald Grady was put on administrative leave effective immediately Saturday. That same day, Lt. Kartik Ramakrishnan was notified of the university’s intent to discharge him. Paul Palian, director of public and media relations, said...
Amid calls for the department to be investigated by the State Police, the NIU Police Department will now report directly to NIU's Bill Nicklas. Nicklas, associate vice president of Institutional Planning and Sustainability, has been named the temporary...
Students filed silently from the Sandburg Auditorium to the MLK Commons, church bells ringing in the distance, during the Wednesday memorial service held for David Bogenberger. They held candles to remember a Huskie lost. The body of Bogenberger, a freshman,...
An NIU student was found dead at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house on Friday, according to the NIU police. David R. Bogenberger, 19, was found to be unresponsive when police arrived at the scene 10:14 a.m., according to the DeKalb Police Department....
By Felix Sarver and Joe Palmer & Kelly Bauer
| October 12, 2012
NIU President John Peters has announced he will step down. Peters, who was appointed in 2000, has served NIU for over a decade and has seen the university through glory and hardships: he worked to obtain a $4.2 million federal grant for NIU’s Physics...
NIU President John Peters’ announcement that he will be stepping down was not the only topic addressed during his State of the University speech. During the Thursday address, NIU President John Peters said for-profit schools are competing against public...
NIU President John G. Peters give his annual State of the University Address in Altgeld Hall Thursday afternoon. In his speech he announced his resignation, effective in 2013, and discussed major improvements that NIU has made over the last several years.
Dear Members of the Northern Illinois University Community, During today’s State of the University address, I announced my intention to step down as president of Northern Illinois University on June 30, 2013. For 13 years I have had the extraordinary...
