NIU is the host of the Roger W. Smith Genocide and Human Rights Summer Institute for Teachers, an intensive two-week long institute that works annually with a cohort of up to twenty teachers in a series of workshops and seminars that focus on learning more about the various case studies, how to teach these subjects in the classroom and the role of activism and service learning. Five days of the Institute are spent in Washington, D.C. where participants meet with national and international leaders, officials from NGOs and visit genocide resource centers and museums. It is the only program of its kind in the state.
See Genocide and Human Rights Summer Institute for Teachers.