NIU’s Division of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management has invited three candidates to campus to interview for the position of associate vice president for Enrollment Management.
Members of the NIU community are invited to attend open forum sessions, where each candidate will give a presentation on “Keys to a Successful Enrollment Management Operation.”
All forums will be held in Room 100 of the Campus Life Building.
For additional information, contact the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs & Enrollment Management at (815) 753-1573.
NIU employees who have not completed annual ethics training have about two weeks to do so before the deadline.
Under the terms of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, all full-time and part-time, regular and temporary faculty, staff, graduate assistants, extra help and student employees must complete on-line ethics training.
Ethics training concludes at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18. There are no extensions. Employees who do not comply with the annual training mandate can be subject to fines and disciplinary action.
The training covers such topics as prohibitions against accepting gifts and bribes, conflict of interest, inappropriate use of university resources for personal matters, whistleblower protection and avoidance of political activities during the work day. Everyone who receives a paycheck from the university must complete this training.
Training should be completed during normal work hours. Employees should check with their department on what arrangements are made for workstation access and scheduling of training times.
Contact Human Resource Services at (815) 753-6039 or (815) 753-6000 for information or assistance. Technical questions can be answered by Information Technology Services at (815) 753-8100.
For further information regarding ethics questions, contact NIU Ethics Officer Kenneth Davidson at (815) 753-8364 or Deputy Ethics Officer Greg Brady at (815) 753-2621.
NIU’s Art Museum has scheduled a lecture series in conjunction with the School of Art Faculty Exhibition, which opened last week and runs through Saturday, Dec. 5. All are held in Altgeld 315 unless otherwise noted.
The exhibitions and programs of the NIU Art Museum are sponsored in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency with additional support from the Friends of the NIU Art Museum and the Arts Fund 21.
For up-to-date information, and additions to the calendar, visit www.niu.edu/artmuseum.
On the menu at Ellington’s this week: Castello Nascoto is scheduled for Tuesday. Taste of Thai takes over Wednesday. Comfort Café concludes the week Thursday.
Continuing this semester is the option to enjoy wine with your meal. One red and one white wine choice will be available with meal service. Wine will be selected for the menu based on wine-and-food pairings made by the students. Wine selections will range from $4.50 to $6.50 per glass.
Castello Nascoto features tomato bruschetta or vegetable minestrone for starters, Italian turkey sausage with red peppers or pasta con brio for entrees and ricotta cheesecake with strawberry topping or dark chocolate gelato for dessert. Each table will be served parmesan bread twists with garlic herb oil.
Taste of Thai features Thai veggie rolls or crab salad on cucumber rounds for starters, spicy Thai chicken kabobs or Taste of Thai veggie tofu for entrees and Thai fried bananas or Thai fruit salad with papaya mint sauce for dessert. Each table also will be served grilled chile salsa with rice crackers.
Comfort Café features apple pear salad or hazelnut squash soup for starters, classic beef pot roast or broccoli mac and cheese gratin for entrees and baked apples or pumpkin bread pudding for dessert. Each table will be served cornbread with butter and honey.
Seating is from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with service until 1 p.m. The cost is $9 per person. Ellington’s is located on the main floor of the Holmes Student Center. Call (815) 753-1763 or visit www.ellingtons.niu.edu to make reservations.
The next Civic Leadership Academy workshop, scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 3, will cover “Strategic Planning: Yes, Now is the Time!”
This workshop is a “guided tour” of the practical techniques and fundamental principles of the strategic planning process. It focuses on developing skills and understanding the power of analyzing current organizational situations, laying out long- and short-range objectives, developing implementation plans and building an effective follow-up policy decision framework for an organizational strategic plan.
Topics will include environmental scanning, problem identification, SWOT analyses, strategy formulation, implementation planning and various sub-elements of the process, such as the construction of scenarios.
Workshops are held at the NIU Naperville campus from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Continental breakfast, buffet lunch and afternoon snack are included in the registration fee.
Registration and more information about CLA and its upcoming workshops are available online.
What are the influences of computer-mediated communication on the language used every day? Is the world dealing with a decline of language or merely language variation and language change?
Peter Schlobinski, professor of German Linguistics at Leibniz University, Hannover, will speak at NIU about “Language and Computer-Mediated Communication.” His presentation, examining the linguistic influence of computer messaging on German, will begin at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, after a brief reception beginning at 5:30 p.m. in Reavis Hall 211.
This event is sponsored by the CLAS Interdisciplinary Linguistics Initiative. Contact Doris Macdonald for more information at (815) 753-6601 or dmvm@niu.edu.
Rosa Maria Leal-Bautista, research associate with Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán in Cancun, Mexico, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in Room 121 of the Latino Resource Center, 515 Garden Road.
Her presentation, “The Mexican Caribe, Not Just for Tourists ... but for Geological and Environmental Research,” is co-sponsored by Environmental Studies and the Center for Latino and Latin American Studies. Leal-Bautista is a Ph.D. alum of NIU’s Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences.
The presentation is free and open to all. Light appetizers will be available after the presentation. For more information, visit http://www.niu.edu/envs/index.shtml or e-mail ENVS@niu.edu.
Narayan Hosmane, a professor in NIU’s Chemistry and Biochemistry Department, will speak at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, on his research into “Boron Neutron Capture Therapy: New Perspective in Cancer Treatment.”
Hosmane’s presentation is in Room 442 of Montgomery Hall. The Phi Sigma Biological Sciences Honor Society is hosting the seminar.
For more information, contact Kate Krise at katekrise@yahoo.com or (815) 821-5688.
NIU’s Intercollegiate Athletics has partnered with Secretary of State Jesse White to raise awareness about the organ and tissue donor program.
As part their efforts, the Thursday, Nov. 5, home football game against Eastern Michigan has been designated as the Life Goes on Game.
At Huskie Stadium, fans will be able to register for the state’s tissue and organ donation program at tables staffed by the NIU athletic staff and student-athletes.
Fans also will have the opportunity to learn more about the donor registration process from experts who understand the process well. DeKalb residents who have received organ transplants from the organ donation program also will be at the event to share their experiences.
The game starts at 6:30 p.m.
The internationally renowned NIU Jazz Ensemble, under the direction of professor Ron Carter, will perform its annual fall concert at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center.
Saxophonist Don Braden is the special guest artist. All are welcome to the free concert.
Braden, music director of the Litchfield Jazz Festival Summer Music School and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Jazz for Teens program, played several years as saxophonist with jazz greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes and many others.
He is the recipient of a Doris Duke Foundation Jazz Composition Grant and, for the past three years, has served as part of the New York faculty at the North Netherlands Conservatory.
For more information, call (815) 753-0643 or e-mail rcarter@niu.edu.
NIU NATIONS will host its 17th annual Scholarship Powwow from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the NIU Student Recreation Center. This is a traditional Native American powwow, and all are welcome
Admission is free; donations will be accepted. A raffle will be held to help raise funds for the NIU Native American Scholarship Fund.
The day includes Native American food, music and traditional dancing. Arts and crafts will be available for sale by various native vendors. Invited drums only.
To volunteer, or for more information, contact Michael Seven Eagle Feathers Augsburger at (815) 758-3604, (815) 753-1406 or niunations@yahoo.com.
Funds for this event were allocated by the NIU Student Association.
NIU’s Christian faculty-staff prayer group will meet from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in Blackhawk East. For more information, contact Tom Bough at (815) 753-7978 or via e-mail at tbough@niu.edu.
The fall issue of “Multiculturalist” is online. This issue includes stories on the Straight Talk Speakers Bureau, former College of Business department chair Tanuja Singh and more.
The faculty and staff who participated in the 2009 Multicultural Curriculum Transformation Institute are giving presentations on how they have transformed their courses for this fall. Faculty, staff, students, and administrators are welcome to attend the talks. A full schedule is online.
The Friends of NIU Libraries invites the public to a talk led by Owen Muelder of Knox College on the Underground Railroad in Illinois and the DeKalb area.
Muelder’s presentation, titled “Slavery, Anti-Slavery, and the Underground Railroad,” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in the Rare Books and Special Collections Department on the fourth floor of Founders Memorial Library.
Muelder is director of the Galesburg Colony Underground Railroad Freedom Center at Knox College. Discussion and light refreshments will follow the presentation. Free parking is available after 7 p.m. in the Visitor’s Parking Lot located on Carroll Avenue.
For more information, please call (815) 753-8091.
Nomination forms for this year’s “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges” are now available for download on the Student Involvement & Leadership Development Web site.
Established in 1934, “Who’s Who” is a program honoring outstanding college students for their scholastic, extracurricular and community achievements. NIU is one of more than 2, 300 institutions of higher education that annually nominate junior-, senior- and graduate-level students for these awards.
Nominators should consider students whose academic standing, participation and leadership in extracurricular activities and community service is decidedly above average. A campus selection committee will review all nominations and will recommend around 50 students, representing a variety of academic and extracurricular areas, to the national program for this honor. Students who have previously been named to Who’s Who cannot be nominated again.
Students selected will receive personalized certificates, local and national publicity and inclusion in the 2009-2010 edition of “Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.”
Who’s Who recipients will further be recognized during the Kevin D. Knight Leadership Awards Ceremony in late April.
Nominations with student signature must be received by Student Involvement & Leadership Development no later than Wednesday, Dec. 16. Late nominations cannot be considered.
Contact Rob Budach at rbudach@niu.edu or by phone at (815) 753-6511 for more information.
The NIU Division of International Programs is accepting applications for Lillian Cobb Faculty Travel Fellowships, supporting faculty members who seek international teaching and public service experiences.
All tenured or tenure-track faculty members at NIU are eligible to apply.
Proposals for the 2009-2010 academic year (the period from Jan.1 to Aug. 15, 2010) must be submitted to the Division of International Programs by Feb. 5, 2010. Applicants will be notified whether they have received an award by March 15.
Each year, the specific priorities of the Cobb Faculty Travel Fellowship program can be adjusted to support particular aspects of the strategic plan and mission.
Priority funding consideration this year will be given to proposals that support the creation of new faculty-led study abroad programs by providing travel funds for faculty to visit potential new venues. The division is particularly interested in proposals for programs that will serve students or academic departments that are underrepresented in study abroad at NIU.
Grantees will be expected to explore logistic needs and requirements and to firm up any arrangements with local providers, colleagues and/or institutions.
A total of $6,000 is available to be awarded in this cycle. International Programs expects to award three or more grants from the Cobb endowment, with the maximum award to be $2,000. Except for extraordinary circumstances, a match of 20 percent is expected from the faculty member’s department and/or college.
Last year’s recipients were Professor Andrea Molnar in Department of Anthropology (Bangkok); Professor Sinclair Bell in the School of Art (Germany); Professor Federico Sciammarella in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (Italy); and Professor Rodrigo Villanueva in Jazz Studies (Mexico).
The travel fellowship was established with an endowment from the estate of Lillian Cobb, the first chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
NIU Athletics will host a three-mile run/walk next month to raise money and awareness for cancer research in honor of the late NCAA President Myles Brand, who died Sept. 16 from pancreatic cancer.
Athletes, coaches, staff, students and community will come together with universities across the nation Saturday, Nov. 7, to participate in the “Miles for Myles” race for cancer.
All are invited to attend the 10 a.m. race at the NIU Soccer and Track & Field Complex. A $1 donation from each participant is sought. Registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the complex’s concession area.
Proceeds raised will be donated to three organizations fighting cancer: Coaches vs. Cancer (NABC), the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund and The Myles Brand Endowed Chair for Cancer Research at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
The event is open to anyone who wishes to participate. Free parking will be available at the Convocation Center. For more information, call Janaan Mickey at (815) 753-7370.
NIU’s Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language & Literacy will host a November seminar series on Response to Intervention (RtI). These informative and engaging talks will begin at either 4 or 4:30 p.m.
For more information, call (815) 753-5793.
NIU students are invited to participate in a juried art competition with a $1,000 prize for the first place piece, $500 for second place and $250 for third.
The competition is sponsored by NIU’s Center for Governmental Studies (CGS) in preparation of its 40th anniversary celebration. CGS is a public service, applied research and public policy development center with clients throughout the region and beyond.
CGS is hosting a conference of regional leaders Dec. 10 and Dec. 11 focused on how the region can adjust to the new economic realities of the 21st century and how area residents can prosper within these realities.
The art competition reflects the focus of this event and should interpret its theme of “Returning Prosperity to America’s Heartland: Building a Shared Vision for our Region’s Future.”
Art work must be submitted by Tuesday, Dec. 8. Submitted work will be displayed during the conference. The jury panel will include faculty members of NIU’s School of Art and a CGS representative.
Winning pieces will be incorporated into the conference proceedings and provide an important and unique visual component to the event. The winning artists will be invited to a gala dinner and celebration scheduled for Friday, March 5, 2010.
Details on the art competition, including rules, regulations and registration forms, are online.
The Division of International Programs will host its Fall 2009 Brown Bag Series from noon to 1 p.m. Thursdays in Faraday West, Room 300.
Attendees are invited to bring lunch and listen to speakers covering a variety of topics such as international perspectives, cultural diversity and study abroad experiences.
Upcoming lunches:
For other details, contact Heesun Majcher, director of the International Student and Faculty Office, at (815) 753-8275 or hmajcher@niu.edu.