Your Employee AccountID and Password

AccountID

You are assigned an AccountID when you are hired. It is permanent.

Look up your AccountID in the Directory - your email address starts with your AccountID.  

Password

You are given an initial password based on birthdate in YYYYMmmDD format. It allows only 3 logins.

• Mmm is the first 3 characters of the Month.
• Example: January 1, 1993 = 1993Jan01

If you need help determining your initial password

Change your initial password before it expires at password.niu.edu. If you get a Page Not Found error, clear your browser's cache.

• How to Clear Your Browser's Cache

You can change your password at any time.
Note: Your password expires every 130 days. 

Need help?  ITS Helpdesk.

Student Employees

NIU requires that student employees use their employee account for all work-related duties and their student account for all student-related activities.

NIU Passwords

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