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News Release

Contact: Mark McGowan, NIU Office of Public Affairs
(815) 753-9472

September 20, 2005

'Journal of College Orientation and Transition'
finds new home at NIU

DeKalb — A higher education journal has a new home at Northern Illinois University, with Denise L. Rode, NIU's director of Orientation, as its editor.

“The Journal of College Orientation and Transition” focuses on the trends, practices, research, and development of programs, policies, and activities related to the matriculation, orientation, transition, and retention of college students.

The Journal, published twice a year by the National Orientation Directors Association, has a circulation of 1,500. NODA members receive the Journal as a benefit of membership.

Rode is assisted by a team of associate editors located on campuses such as the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, the University of Missouri-Columbia, George Mason University and Clemson University .

Sheena C. Williams, graduate assistant with the NIU Orientation Office, serves as managing editor for The Journal. Williams is a 2004 graduate of Western Illinois University with a degree in English. She currently is pursuing a master of arts degree in English at NIU.

Rode has directed orientation programs at Northern since 1987 and earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at the university. She has served on the NODA Board of Directors, has co-hosted a national NODA conference, and has previously been senior associate editor of The Journal of College Orientation and Transition.

In 2002, she was named NODA's outstanding orientation professional. In July, she completed a two-year term as president of Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society, which has more than 200 chapters at colleges and universities across the country.

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