Student enrollment saw a decrease for the third year in a row. The ten-day count for student enrollment is down by 4.9 percent from last year, with 21,869 students enrolled for the fall 2012 semester. Student enrollment in fall 2011 was 22,990 and 23,850...

"I would like NIU students to know how important they are to recruiting future Huskies," Katherine McCarthy, associate vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, said in Monday's Northern Star. "Everyone on campus is a recruiter. By...

The NIU community has been through many grievous events in the past several years: the Feb. 14 shootings, a student shot outside the Stevenson residence halls, several separate incidents of firearm use in neighborhoods near campus and now a missing student-turned...