In Brief

Women’s Resource Center publishes fall newsletter

The Women’s Resource Center has posted its current newsletter online. The newsletter includes information about and nomination deadlines for several awards, including the Outstanding Women Student Awards.

Fall programming, including brown-bag lunches, is posted on the center’s Web page.

International Programs seeks nominations for 2006 awards

The NIU Division of International Programs is seeking nominations for two awards that will be presented later this fall during the annual International Recognition Reception.

The Outstanding International Educator Award recognizes an NIU faculty or staff member who has contributed significantly toward international education at the university. The award also aims to heighten visibility and awareness of international education.

The 2006 award recipient will have made sustained contributions to the enhancement of international education at NIU through teaching, research, public service and student-service efforts. The deadline for submitting nominations is Friday, Oct. 20. Nomination forms are available online.

Professors Dwight King in political science and Madan Annavarjula in business management were the 2005 award recipients. King will speak at this year’s International Recognition Reception, which will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, in the Sky Room of Holmes Student Center. 

The second major honor, the award for Outstanding Contribution to International Education at NIU, recognizes the academic unit or support unit that has made the most significant contribution toward international education on campus during the last academic year. 

This will be the second year International Programs has presented the award. Last year it was won by the departments of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education and Foreign Languages and Literatures. International Programs also presented a special award to the Center for Southeast Asian Studies for outstanding contributions over many years.

The deadline for the nominations this fall is Wednesday, Nov. 1. Nomination forms are available online.

For more information about the awards, contact Sara Clayton at (815) 753-9526.

NIU employees can enroll in long-term disability plan

The Insurance and Employee Benefits Office of Human Resource Services has announced the month of October as an open enrollment period for employees wishing to enroll in the Prudential Long-Term Disability Plan.

Enrollment forms are available from the Insurance and Employee Benefits Office in person or by phone at (815) 753-6000. Applications should be returned directly to the office by Tuesday, Oct. 31, and coverage will begin Dec. 1. Deductions begin the first pay period in November.

Employees not currently enrolled will receive an enrollment kit through campus mail, pre-printed with the monthly benefit and monthly premium. Individuals who miss this open enrollment opportunity can enroll at a later time, but will have to go through medical underwriting and must wait until they are approved by Prudential.

All currently enrolled participants in Prudential should be aware that new premiums will begin Dec. 1, though these figures are not available yet.

A representative from Prudential will visit campus for two informational sessions at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5, in the Illinois Room on the second floor of the Holmes Student Center.

Call (815) 753-6000 for more information.

Faculty Development offers grants

NIU's Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center is offering grants of up to $2,500 each annually to continuing tenured and tenure track faculty.

The purpose of the grants is to encourage and support faculty development activities that directly benefit the applicants' departments, colleges and/or the university. Equal matching funds from the applicants' academic units or appropriate external sources are required.

Five copies of each proposal, including the proposal cover sheet, accompanying letters of support and other relevant documents must be submitted to the Grant Review Subcommittee, Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center, 319 Adams Hall, by Friday, Nov. 10, for activities scheduled between January and June 2007.

Complete proposal guidelines, cover sheet and a sample proposal are available online at http://www.niu.edu/facdev/development/grants.htm.

Tenured or tenure-track faculty who plan to submit proposals by the Nov. 10 deadline and need more information are encouraged to register and attend the Faculty Development Grant Writing Seminar from noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 6. Register online at http://www.niu.edu/facdev/forms/fsprogreg.htm or email facdev@niu.edu.

Huskie golfers announce Huskie Fall CoAm Oct. 6

The NIU men’s and women’s golf teams have announced the Huskie Fall CoAm, scheduled Friday, Oct. 6, at River Heights.

This interactive event allows boosters to enjoy meeting and playing with Huskie golfers while competing in an 18-hole scramble with cart. Lunch is included prior to play at 12:30 p.m., and a light meal will be provided during the open bar. A hospitality hour and awards presentation takes place after play.

All amenities, plus a Huskie Golf welcoming gift, are available for a $90 package price. Guests wishing to join the festivities for the 6 p.m. hospitality hour and awards presentation can do so for $20.

Contact Assistant Women’s Coach Jen Clark for entry forms and confirmation at (815) 753-6888 or via e-mail at jaclark@niu.edu. All proceeds benefit NIU men’s and women’s golf.

Kishwaukee Concert Band to play fall pops concert

The Greater Kishwaukee Area Concert Band will present a pops concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall.

Sponsored by Kishwaukee Community Hospital, the concert will feature a variety of songs, from “The Godfather” to “Sentimental Journey” to “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.” The concert is free, open to the public and accessible to all.

School of Theatre and Dance presents 'Exercises in Style'

The next production of the NIU School of Theatre and Dance, "Exercises in Style," is the story of an incident involving a man on a bus, re-told many times in a variety of ways.

Presented as the school’s first 2006-2007 Season Studio Series production, the play is directed by Dr. Robert Schneider. The show will be held Thursday, Oct. 12, through Sunday, Oct. 15, in the Stevens Building Corner Theatre. Thursday through Saturday performances are at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets are $5 and available only at the door.

Schneider describes the production as a series of skits with a continuation of the initial incident integrated throughout the play. It is a more modern work with minimal props, costumes and sets. “Within each skit of the incident,” he says, “there is no limitation on creative styles. The styles of the different skits are based on anything and everything, giving each its own unique style, or flavor.”

Based on Raymond Queneau’s script, Les Exercices de Style was originally only 12 skits about a single incident. After a year, Queneau wrote 12 more skits about this same incident. This continued until he had about 99 different ways to tell one story. Queneau broke down language in his work so that, while the incident is told in creatively different ways, the basic elements of the original story of the man on the bus were retained.

Contact the Stevens Building Box Office at (815) 753-1600 from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. weekdays from or visit the School of Theatre and Dance Web page at www.niu.edu/theatre/ for further information.

MCTI announces small group presentations

NIU’s Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute has announced dates and times for this fall’s small group presentations.

All presentations will be held in the Latino Resource Center, 515 Garden Road.

Thursday, Oct. 12

• noon to 12:30 p.m. Thomas Bough
• 12:30 to 1 p.m. Linda Melin
• 1 to 1:30 p.m. Jie Zhou
• 2 to 2:30 p.m. Sarah Blue

Monday, Oct. 16

• noon to 12:30 p.m. Barbara Fox
• 12:30 to 1 p.m. Betty Birner
• 1 to 1:30 p.m. Teresa Fisher
• 2 to 2:30 p.m. Pamela Nelson

Tuesday, Oct. 17

• 1 to 1:30 p.m. Stacey Short
• 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Mary Beth Henning and Eui-kyung Shin

Thursday, Oct. 26

• 1:30 to 2 p.m. Sabiha Daudi
• 2 to 2:30 p.m. Greg Long
• 3 to 3:30 p.m. Debra Zahay

For more information, contact MCTI graduate assistant Kimberly Reuille, at mcti@niu.edu or (815) 753-8557 for more information.

Paideia Projects to host fourth video premiere

The fourth premiere video presentation of NIU sociology professor George Kourvetaris’ Paideia Projects takes place at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, at the Fountain Blue, 2300 S. Mannheim Road in Des Plaines.

The donation is $60 for general admission, $45 for faculty and staff and $35 for students. The dinner includes filet mignon and breast of chicken, appetizers, cocktails before and after dinner, wine on the table, an assortment of musicians, the show and a book exhibit.

For tickets, contact (847) 296-6223 or e-mail ykourvet@niu.edu. Tickets are limited. All videos are produced by NIU Media Services.

Mobile drivers’ facility coming Oct. 16 to HSC

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White’s mobile drivers’ facility will return to the NIU campus for its third consecutive year. Officials will set up a “mini facility” once a month outside Diversions Show Lounge.

The facility allows students, faculty and staff of NIU, along with the public, to get driver’s licenses or state IDs. This would include new, renewals and replacements. In addition, staff will renew license plate stickers, register applicants to vote and sign interested parties up for the new Organ Donor Registry.

October’s date is Monday, Oct. 16. The hours of operation are 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Christian prayer group to meet for monthly lunch

The NIU Christian Faculty and Staff Prayer Group meets from noon to 12:50 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month in the East Room of Blackhawk Cafeteria. Bring your own lunch or purchase one there.

October’s date is Tuesday, Oct. 17.

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