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.
On the menu at Ellington’s this week: Washington’s: Cuisine Across America is scheduled for Tuesday. Casa Bonita takes over Wednesday. El Dorado 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.
Washington’s: Cuisine Across America features Boston clam chowder or southwestern chopped salad for starters, southern-rolled rosemary chicken with mushroom glaze or apricot barley bake for entrees and apple cobbler or key lime pie for dessert. Each table will be served cranberry-orange hazelnut dip.
Casa Bonita features sliced melon with Prosciutto or tomato-cucumber gazpacho for starters, chile-roasted cod with sweet corn flan or vegetarian paella for entrees and roasted apricots with sugared pecans or sweet plantain and chocolate emanaditas for dessert. Each table also will be served onion and olive tapenade.
El Dorado features tortilla soup or Mexican salad with pomegranate-lime dressing for starters, chipotle lime roast chicken with tomatillo sauce or smoked corn stuffed pepper for entrees and fresh fruit ice/watermelon with Mexican chocolate cookie or bread pudding for dessert. Each table will be served chipotle salsa and tri-colored tortilla chips.
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 NIU Chamber Choir will present “Reflections on Civil War” – in music, text and visual art – at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in the Boutell Memorial Concert Hall.
Conductor Eric A. Johnson will welcome guest artists Fareed Haque (School of Music), Stanton Davis (School of Theatre and Dance) and Debbie Smith-Shank (School of Art) for the program.
The concert is free and open to the public, and the auditorium is accessible to all. The concert also is scheduled for webcast.
The campus community is invited to the annual Creating Community Fall Dessert Reception sponsored by the Presidential Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Halloween costumes are welcome.
The festive gathering is from noon to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the Holmes Student Center Gallery Lounge on the main floor. A brief recognition ceremony will take place at 12:30 p.m. to recognize new volunteers in the NIU Ally Program.
The entire WNIU Fall Pledge Drive begins and ends Wednesday, Oct. 28.
After a successful debut last fall, 90.5-FM/Classical WNIU brings back its “1-Day Wednesday” approach to fundraising this week. WNIU’s goal is to reach $18,000 in contributions within just 11 hours to help keep the classics on the radio in northern Illinois.
Listeners who appreciate hearing more music and less on-air fundraising are encouraged to show their support for this idea during the live on-air campaign Wednesday.
Volunteers will be on hand to receive calls to the WNIU pledge line between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., or listeners may pledge securely online – anytime – at www.WNIU.org. Gifts submitted early at www.WNIU.org also will count toward Wednesday’s goal.
To read more about how WNIU plans to keep its on-air fundraising to a minimum throughout the year, visit www.WNIU.org.
The annual NIU Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert is scheduled for 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, inside the Duke Ellington Ballroom.
Saxophonist Don Braden is this fall’s special guest. The concert is free and open to the public.
To reserve group seating, contact Lynn Slater at (815) 753-1546 or lslater@niu.edu.
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.
A retirement party for Pat Foster has been scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, in the Clara Sperling Sky Room in the Holmes Student Center.
Foster began working in the University Bookstore in 1995 and has been responsible for the custom publishing service for faculty.
A retirement party for Marsha Hogeveen, office support specialist in Student Financial Aid, is planned for 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30.
The party will be held in Room 245 of Swen Parson Hall. Enter through the Scholarship Department. Light snacks and beverages will be served.
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.