The process for students to move from one college or university to NIU is almost seamless with NIU’s direct approach in accepting course credit.Universities need to have a well-developed transfer process that will encourage more students to transfer...

First year and transfer students will receive an email to their Z-ID today reminding them to complete Part 1 of AlcoholEdu and Part 1 of Haven. NIU requires all incoming students participate in two online programs for the spring 2016 term: AlcoholEdu...

First-year transfer student Ashley Girod hopes to use her knowledge and experience to teach high school math.Girod, a junior math major, is a member of the Secondary Educators’ Organization, an organization designed to help future educators build the...

Despite transfer students from community colleges composing a significant portion of NIU’s population, they remain some of the most ignored people on campus.The school is hemorrhaging transfer students: 544 transfer students who attended NIU in the...

NIU is home to many types of students. One group in particular is the non-traditional students who decided to attend college a little later in life.When it comes to self-improvement, what better place to start than college? Life doesn’t always work...

According to the NIU's fast facts website, "NIU yields the highest number of transfer students out of all the Illinois state universities." However, under President Peter's Vision 2020 Initiative there are few, if any, plans to attract a higher caliber...