Nov. 4, 2024

The PeopleSoft Human Resources System will be unavailable from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 4 due to system maintenance.

The PeopleSoft Financial Management System will be unavailable from 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9 to
10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 11 due to system maintenance.

As we approach the end of the semester, we look forward to celebrating our graduates during commencement ceremonies on Saturday, Dec. 14 and Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024 at the Convocation Center.

Please consider volunteering your time at one or more events to help make these events successful for our graduates, families and guests. Volunteers are critical to creating a fun, organized and celebratory event for NIU graduates.

If you are able to help, and are not already participating through your academic college or the Graduate School, please visit the commencement volunteer website and fill out the volunteer form by no later than Monday, Dec. 2, 2024.

Please feel free to share this opportunity with students or student groups you are familiar with who would be interested in volunteering. Volunteers will be contacted to confirm roles following the deadline.

Looking for a cost-effective way to unite your team? Bring your employees, student staff, clubs, organizations, friends and family to NIU Adventures for custom team buildings. We can tailor the experience to fit the needs of your group. Come spend some time to get to know each other, improve communication, expand leadership skills or spend some quality, structured time together.

There is still time to book before the semester ends, or you can get a jump on booking for the spring.

Visit our Team Building webpage for more details, and to request a workshop. You can also email us directly at adventures@niu.edu. We look forward to team building with you.

Registration opens Friday, Nov. 8 for our free, virtual Illinois Online Higher Education Symposium. NIU is proud to partner with all Illinois public universities to offer this inaugural, one-day event bringing together thought leaders and practitioners with expertise in online teaching and learning to discuss the latest trends in online learning, pedagogy and technology. Find more details and register.

The Division of Information Technology is offering IT-related application workshops in November. All monthly workshops are in virtual format over Microsoft Teams.

November’s Tuesday Tech Tips topic is “Outlook Rules.” This session is 30 minutes with allotted time to practice and to ask questions.

Do you know that you can request custom training for your team, department or division? Yes, you can! All you need to do is complete our custom workshop request form and select from a list of topics we have available to meet your department’s needs.  Please allow two to four weeks for custom workshops requests.

View our full workshop calendar.

Please direct any questions to Cindy Kozumplik, business analyst in the Division of Information Technology.

Tip: Submit your event, lecture, training session or deadline to the NIU calendar to help inform Huskies about everything that is happening on campus. 

The month of October is closing for all financial reporting activity at noon Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. Journals not posted at that time will go into November business. Submit October journals before end of business Friday, Nov. 8. Final October reports are scheduled to be availableTuesday, Nov. 12, 2024. In addition, November reports are scheduled to be available Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024. These and other important dates can be found on the Controller's Office website.