Our faculty are here for you!
Making your future our focus
With over 1,100 instructional faculty and a student/faculty ratio of 16:1, we will be sure you get the attention you need to succeed.
NIU faculty are scholars, teachers, researchers, mentors and academic leaders who bring their broad range of diversity in expertise, experiences and backgrounds into the classroom and beyond.
Teresa Wasonga
Professor, Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations
Hamid Bateni
Associate professor, School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Jennifer Koop
Associate professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Ryan Shepherd
Associate professor, Department of English
“I like the classroom settings at NIU. I feel that they’re small enough for me to be engaged and I’ve had the chance to connect with my professors and have one-on-one time with them.”
Glennita Williams,
Political science major