NIU begins move toward new student data system
A year after NIU launched an enrollment management strategy to coordinate the work of several relevant offices, the Board of Trustees is backing a plan to update the student data technology those departments use.
Trustees voted unanimously last week to purchase software from PeopleSoft that would provide an integrated WEB-based computer system for admissions, registration and records and student financial accounts as well as a method for instructors to submit grades and for campus organizations to post information.
More than 650 colleges and universities around the world, including a significant number of multi-campus systems and doctoral/research universities, use the PeopleSoft student system and other PeopleSoft administrative systems.
NIU’s Jozef Bujarski wins
Poland’s highest academic award
 The memory of this past Fourth of July will hold special significance for NIU professor Jozef Bujarski.
On that day, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski personally awarded Bujarski with the official state title of Professor of Biological Sciences, the country’s highest academic honor. Unlike the American system of higher education, only an elite few academics achieve the title of professor in Poland, which must be awarded by the republic’s president.
The July 4 ceremony took place at the presidential palace in Warsaw.
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Publisher, poet Haki Madhubuti
will deliver July 16 public lecture
 NIU will welcome African-American publisher and renowned poet Haki R. Madhubuti to campus this month for a public lecture.
Madhubuti is the keynote speaker of this year’s Fulbright Institute, an NIU program that brings 18 foreign scholars to campus for an intensive six-week study of contemporary American literature. Madhubuti will lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, in the Barsema Hall Auditorium (Room 200). The public is invited.
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New plan set to unsnarl Move-In Day traffic
 Campus police will offer a few simple words of advice this Move-In Day: Go west, young man … and young woman.
Actually, their words will be more in the form of an order, as Move-In Day planners (also known as the Gridlock Committee) have devised an entirely new traffic pattern they hope will avoid the major congestion that occurred along Annie Glidden Road last year.
That traffic disrupted life for much of the west side of DeKalb.
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Pernell elected LSAC trustee
 LeRoy Pernell, dean of the NIU College of Law, recently was elected a trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.
The LSAC is best known as the organization that develops standards for the Law School Admissions Test (or LSAT) that all law school applicants are required to take. The organization also is committed to finding innovative ways of encouraging interest in law schools and increasing the diversity of law school enrollments.
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NIU conference studies
career services technology
Employment of NIU graduates went high-tech in the fall of 2001 when the Career Planning and Placement Center purchased eRecruiting – a career services management program that was in use at hundreds of campuses across the country. --MORE
Early registration deadline near
for St. Louis “museum” trip
The deadline to register at a discount for an October “museum” trip to St. Louis is Friday, July 11.
Organized by the colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Visual and Performing Arts as well as the NIU Art Museum and the Institute for Learning in Retirement, the trip from Friday, Oct. 3, through Sunday, Oct. 5, includes a guided tour of Cathedral of Saint Louis, Davis Mansion (in Bloomington), Dana-Thomas House (in Springfield), Saint Louis Art Museum, Island Press, Pulitzer Foundation Gallery, Forum for Contemporary Arts, Laumeier Sculpture Park, Cahokia Mounds (in Collinsville, Ill.), the Missouri Botanical Gardens and the City Museum. -- MORE
Library department participates
in Barb City Manor Garden Walk
Barb City Manor’s 13th Annual Garden Walk and Plant Sale will be held rain or shine from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 12.
Nine spectacular gardens confirmed for this year are located in DeKalb, Sycamore and Kirkland.
Last year’s garden walk at Barb City Manor made possible the purchase of furnishings and artwork for the hallways, lounges and sunrooms on each of the three resident floors. Proceeds from the 13th Annual Barb City Manor Garden Walk will be used to replace two trees and to benefit the endowment fund.
Ticket donations are $8 in advance, $10 on Saturday at Barb City Manor and $4 for children younger than 12. Call Barb City Manor at 756-8444 for more information or to recommend a garden for a future Garden Walk. --MORE
Student Affairs schedules
July 22 blood drive
A blood drive sponsored by Student Affairs and Heartland Blood Centers is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, July 22, in the Holmes Student Center. Inventories of all blood types reach critical levels in the summer.
Please call 753-1573 or e-mail mwild@niu.edu to schedule an appointment or to sign up to help with registration and refreshments. Walk-ins are welcome. Blood donors must bring photo identification.
General Accounting Office issues
FY2003 schedule for accounts payable, reports
Please note the following deadlines and information with regard to the FY 2003 closing. Please make sure this information is distributed to everyone in your area who processes items for payment. --MORE
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