| Week of Oct. 26, 2020
Contents: | | | University updates guidelines in response to New Region 1 requirements
Beginning yesterday, Sunday, Oct. 25, the Illinois Department of Public Health instituted additional restrictions for Region 1, which includes DeKalb County, to address the region’s continued positivity rate increases. All Huskies must do their parts to help protect our community. In consultation with the DeKalb County Health Department, the university has implemented the following revisions to our current guidelines: • All in-person events, including events hosted by recognized student organizations, can proceed with no more than 10 people as long as masks are worn and physical distancing is maintained. These are the only types of events/gatherings permissible anywhere on campus and university property.
• Learn more about the university’s current guidelines.
Update to the spring academic calendar
As previously communicated, continuing to reduce the risk of exposure and spread of COVID-19 requires that the university adjust the spring 2021 academic schedule. The updated spring academic calendar includes the following: • The spring semester will start Monday, Jan. 11, and will end one week earlier, on April 30. • An additional administrative closure day will take place on Thursday, Feb. 11 and classes will not meet and university offices will be closed. • There will be no spring break, however the university will provide all students, faculty and staff a three-day weekend beginning Friday, March 12 • Final exams will be held April 24, 26-30, and commencement dates will remain unchanged for now. |
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| Upcoming Events
Please check the calendar for more information and for online-only events as they become available!
• Through Monday, Nov. 2: Early Voting for the General Election in Illinois
• Monday, Oct. 26: Well-o-Ween: Glow Boo-tifully
• Tuesday, Oct. 27: Realizing Your Potential: The Employee’s Guide to Moving from Good to Great
• Tuesday, Oct. 27: Well-O-Ween: Yoga
• Tuesday, Oct. 27: Graduate and Professional School Virtual Fair
• Tuesday, Oct. 27: Will Your Résumé Beat An Applicant Tracking System (ATS)?
• Wednesday, Oct. 28: Well-O-Ween: Paint Night
• Wednesday, Oct. 28: Resource Panel: Preventing and Responding to Sexual Assault on Campus
• Thursday, Oct. 29: Social Justice Town Hall: Whiteness and the Construction of Race
• Thursday, Oct. 29: Well-O-Ween: Movie & Mindfulness
• Thursday, Oct. 29: How to Improve Your Résumé Using Metrics
• Friday, Oct. 30: Pop Up Shop: NIU Rec Custom T-Shirt Sale
• Friday, Oct. 30: Deadline for Annual Employee Ethics Training
• Saturday, Oct. 31: Deadline for Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Training
• Saturday, Oct. 31: STEM Fest Celebration 2020
• Sunday, Nov. 1: Outdoor Adventures: Standup Paddleboard Yoga Clinic at the YMCA |
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| Notices
 Spooky Huskie-themed downloads now available
Add some #HuskiePride to your jack o’ lantern this Halloween. Download your favorite NIU-themed stencil, print it out and attach it to your pumpkin. Carve along the dark areas and then share your finished creation by tagging us on social with #HuskiePride. And as always, check out our other digital downloads.
Help clean up campus
SPS Council hopes you might consider joining their SPS Campus Clean Up from 1 to 4 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 29.
Picking up litter is everyone's responsibility, and this will be a great way to help make campus look a little more beautiful during the fall season. Facilities Management will be providing trash bags and instructions on where we can dispose of our filled trash bags. We ask that you wear your mask and bring your own gloves if you'd like to use them while picking up litter and recyclables. We will host a quick check-in for volunteers in the lobby of Campus Life Building and provide you with your trash bag and a map of campus so you can select where you'd like to clean up.
RSVP by Tuesday, Oct. 27. If you have questions, please email dmiesbauer@niu.edu.
Funding for undergraduate research available
Applications for the spring 2021 Student Engagement Fund (SEF) are due this Sunday, Nov. 1. SEF supports projects that consist of undergraduate students working on faculty-mentored research and community-based projects. Student and faculty submissions are considered.
Recipients of the fund are provided financial support of up to $2,500 for research-related expenses including project supplies and conference registration (for the student). Additionally, students working on the project are eligible for up to $1,200 in compensation for their work as an undergraduate research assistant.
Open to all colleges. Visit the Student Engagement Fund webpage for more information and to apply. |
| Deadlines
Financial Month End Close
The month of October is closing for all financial reporting activity at noon on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. Journals not posted at that time will go into November business. Submit October journals before end of business on Friday, Nov. 6. Final October reports are scheduled to be available Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. In addition, November reports are scheduled to be available Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. These dates, and other important dates related to the Controller’s Office can be found on the FMS Reports Calendar.
Friday, Oct. 30: Deadline for Annual Employee Ethics Training
Friday, Oct. 30: Nominations for Honorary Doctoral Degrees Deadline
Saturday, Oct. 31: Deadline for Employee Cybersecurity Awareness Training
Monday, Nov. 30: Deadline for 2021-2022 Honors Faculty Felllowship proposals |
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| General Counsel Bryan Perry shapes future lawyers, local law enforcement, employment law
NIU General Counsel Bryan Perry recently accepted three new appointments that will allow him to contribute to the community and to the legal profession. “I have always felt that community involvement is important,” says Perry. Read more. |
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| English department adopts statement of support for BIPOC students, faculty, staff
As the Department of English offers writing courses to almost every first-year student at NIU, they want our university community to know that they have committed to take action to ensure that English is a welcoming place for Black, Indigenous and people of color students, faculty and staff. Read more. |
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| | Celebrating our amazing history
America’s most enduring institutions are those created to meet specific needs and allowed to evolve as those needs change. Such is the story of Northern Illinois University, which this year celebrates its 125th anniversary. |
Featured Key Moment
John E. LaTourette becomes tenth president (1986)
At the same Board of Regents meeting where Clyde Wingfield’s resignation was accepted, John La Tourette was named NIU’s tenth president.
He had been the runner-up in the last search, the board reasoned, and had performed admirably both in five years as provost and in seven months as acting president. After the turmoil surrounding Wingfield, the campus needed stability and not more time lost and money spent on a lengthy search. Learn more about John E. LaTourette > |
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