Student Association Senator David White (center) speaks during Sunday’s SA Senate meeting in the Holmes Student Center. White had concerns about how student input will be used in program prioritization, though NIU officials announced they will add two...
The Student Association Senate criticized the exclusion of student input in program prioritization and the shared governance process in a resolution’s first reading Sunday.The resolution, authored by Ben Donovan, SA director of Governmental Affairs,...
By Northern Star Editorial Board
| February 16, 2015
NIU administrators must listen to the Student Association as it pushes for more student input in program prioritization.SA Senate is considering a resolution that expresses how disillusioned it has become with administrators’ support for shared governance...
The Northern Star’s Monday editorial suggested student voices will not be heard in NIU’s important Program Prioritization initiative.I am writing to correct that misperception. Student voices will be important to this initiative.This week we launched...
By Northern Star Editorial Board
| February 8, 2015
The Student Association’s motto for the spring semester, “Engaging Student Solutions,” is a concept NIU can adopt in its initiatives.Experience, safety and health and sustainability will be the three “core tenants” of the SA’s goal to bring...
NIU President Doug Baker hosted two town hall meetings Thursday to talk about recruitment, retention and program prioritization.Retention decreased by 1.2 percent to 87 percent between the fall and spring semesters, with enrollment dropping to 19,000,...
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Provost Lisa Freeman said there will be “no sacred cows” as NIU evaluates whether programs will be cut, merged, further funded or left unchanged in coming months.Every program, from football to forensics, will face evaluation based on university priorities,...
Kristen Myers (left) and graduate teaching assistant Rhiannon Catherwood from the Women’s Studies program discuss program prioritization. “The process should involve a collaborative effort between departments,” said Myers, director of Women’s Studies. “Programs like ours help to recruit and retain a greater diversity of students on campus.”
