First-Year Connections seeks
staff mentors for new students
International Programs to host
2009-10 brown bag lecture series
Alumni plans Brookfield Zoo trip
Annuitants to visit Gold Coast Art Fair
Capital bill to provide nearly $40 millionBills signed by Gov. Pat Quinn last week will provide nearly $40 million for badly needed construction and maintenance projects on campus.
Included was money to rehabilitate the Stevens Building ($22 million), funding to tackle deferred maintenance projects ($5.2 million) and planning money for a new “technology building” ($2.8 million). An additional $8 million to remodel and renovate Cole Hall was included as part of a supplement to the capital bill.
McCord, Collins traveling to IndonesiaNIU’s Christopher McCord and Jim Collins are members of a U.S. delegation of higher education leaders who are traveling to Indonesia next week to explore opportunities for expanding educational programs.
Sights, sounds, people of TanzaniaCamped in Serengeti National Park, the eight NIU students settled into their sleeping bags, only to hear the not-so-distant laughter of hyenas, grunts of warthogs and roars of lions.
During daytime safaris, the cover of darkness gone, they spotted animals they had seen before only in zoos, now in their natural habitat: galloping impalas, grazing giraffes and elephants, a leopard perched in a tree, a pack of cheetahs strategically stalking a herd of zebras.
Bond, Watson attend Engagement Academy Bradley Bond, acting dean of the Graduate School, and Lemuel Watson, dean of the College of Education, represented NIU last month at the Engagement Academy for University Leaders.
NIU helping Chicago-area students sharpenWhile many high school graduates are enjoying their summer days of freedom before heading off to college, Jessica Brown is instead spending six hours a day sharpening her geometry, algebra and trigonometry skills in preparation for her freshman year at NIU.
NIU history professor, wife meet with Cambodia’s former king While visiting Beijing earlier this summer for a conference, NIU Presidential Research Professor Kenton Clymer and his wife, Marlee, received a rare audience with Norodom Sihanouk, the King Father of Cambodia, and his wife Monique, the Queen Mother.