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Future of student quality for NIU means building mode, fierce competition

Future of student quality for NIU means building mode, fierce competition

By Kyla Gardner | March 7, 2012

In his Vision 2020 plan, NIU President John Peters identified student quality as an area for improvement for the university over the next eight years. This is the third installment in a three-part series that has looked at past trends in student quality...

Sophomore Genesis DeLaTorre (left) walks to class with her
friend sophomore Karla Valle (right) Wednesday night in the MLK
Commons.

Raising the bar: NIU plans to improve scholarships, facilities, programs to attract students

By Felix Sarver | September 14, 2011

For the next 10 years, NIU aims to improve scholarships, campus facilities and create new academic programs to attract more and higher quality students as part of NIU President John Peters' Vision 2020 Initiative. NIU has some trouble attracting high...