Presidential Commissions seeking award nominations.

Each year the Presidential Commissions recognize faculty, staff, students and community members who have helped make our campus a welcoming, diverse and inclusive place to live, learn and work. It's time to recognize someone who has done so much for others. Nominations for these awards are now open and are due by March 1, 2024.
 

Learn more about each of the commission’s awards and complete the nomination forms by visiting the Presidential Commissions' Awards webpage.

Open Classroom Weeks

Open Classroom Weeks is a new program that provides you with the opportunity to sit in on a colleague's course or a cocurricular learning event. Participating in Open Classroom Weeks is an opportunity to learn new approaches to teaching and make connections across disciplines. Unlike peer observation for tenure and promotion, the focus is on learning as opposed to critiquing. 

 

Some of NIU's best faculty are opening their classrooms to colleagues interested in exploring teaching strategies and techniques, including recipients of the Presidential Teaching Professor, Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction and Excellence in Online Teaching Awards, as well as ACUE Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

 

Learn more and register to observe a colleague.

Operating Staff Emergency Fund

The Operating Staff Emergency Fund campaign “Strive for $5” is hoping to open our applications to assist our fellow Operating Staff members in time of need who are waiting. We would be honored to have Faculty, SPS and OS staff lend a hand. The strength of NIU is the power of the family.

 

Ways to donate:

• Payroll Deductions: sign-up for payroll deductions $5 per paycheck (must be at least four (4) pay periods) or a one-time payroll deduction.
• Check or credit card.

You may donate online on the NIU Foundation website by selecting the Civil Service Emergency Fund in the “available designations” dropdown. You can also contribute by sending a check, with Civil Service Emergency Fund written on the memo line, to:

 

Northern Illinois University Foundation
Altgeld Hall 135
DeKalb, IL 60115-2882

Learn more about the Civil Service Emergency Fund  

Testing Services can process your exams.

Testing Services can make scoring your exams and quizzes faster, easier and more accurate. In addition to scoring your exams, we provide a variety of analytical reports to help you evaluate your assessments. To have your exams processed, bring your completed Scantron sheets and answer key(s) to our office in the Peters Campus Life Building, Room 120. You may submit a quiz or exam after hours by using our drop box located to the right of our office door. If you wish to use our drop box, please visit our website to obtain a copy of our transmittal form. For more information about Testing Services, please visit our website. We look forward to seeing you soon.

Register for NIU Rec Kids Escape Days

Our NIU Rec Kids Escape Days provide children between the ages of 6 and 12 opportunities to develop athletic, artistic, interpersonal and group interaction skills.

 

Camp activities are designed to help each camper become more independent, enhance self-confidence and develop both mind and body in a fun and safe learning environment.

 

A variety of activities such as art, crafts, sports and team building will broaden your child’s experiences and enhance lifelong wellness. Register online at go.niu.edu/kids-escape.

Policy Library update – new policy
A new policy is open to review and comment for a 30-day period. This provides our NIU community the opportunity to consider and respond to the new policy before they take effect. The new policy is:

• IRB Review of Research with Human Subjects by March 7

To submit a comment, go to our policy library website. Click on “Comment on New/Renew Policies.” You’ll be able to review the policies and provide your comments. If you have any questions, please contact the university policy librarian at policy-library@niu.edu.

Support our students by donating items to Founders Snack Pantry

The provost’s office invites you to donate snacks and supplies to Founders Snack Pantry. This resource was established in Founders Learning Commons during the spring 2023 semester and helps ensure convenient access for all students in need of food to sustain them between meals as they study, collaborate and create.

 

Drop-off boxes are set up outside the provost’s office (Altgeld Hall 215) and in the lobby of Founders Memorial Library.

 

Food items needed: Individually wrapped snacks such as peanut butter crackers, pretzels and trail mix.

Supply items needed: Whiteboard markers, highlighters, pens, pencils, folders and three-ring binders.

 

Students regularly use this resource – approximately 1,000 individual snacks are distributed every month. Thank you for donating and supporting our students!

Apply for the David W. Raymond Award for the Use of Technology in Teaching.

Calling all classroom innovators! Faculty in all content areas using technology in their classes may apply for the David W. Raymond Award for the Use of Technology in Teaching.

Sponsored by the Committee for the Improvement of the Undergraduate Academic Experience, this grant awards $1,000 annually and all tenured/tenure-track faculty are eligible.

 

Faculty may be nominated by students, colleagues or themselves. Apply today! The deadline is Monday, March 18, 2024

Schedule your hearing test today.

Are you exposed to loud sounds or music? Do you often ask others to repeat what they said? NIU students, faculty and staff are invited to take part in a free 30-minute hearing test at The Hearing Conservation Center, sponsored by the School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders.

Services include: hearing health screener, noise exposure assessment, outer/middle ear screening,and hearing protection consultation.

Email hcc@niu.edu or call 815-753-6246 to set up your screening. Hearing tests take place at Wirtz Hall, room 314 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays. Learn more at go.niu.edu/hcc.

Through Feb. 29: Black Heritage Month
Tuesday, Feb. 13:Electronic Requisitions Workshop
Tuesday, Feb. 13:Men's Basketball vs Buffalo
Wednesday, Feb. 14:**ONLINE** The Secret to Classroom Engagement: Everyone Has a Voice
Wednesday, Feb. 14: Women's Basketball vs Western Michigan
Wednesday, Feb. 14:Forward, Together Forward: Moment of Reflection
Thursday, Feb. 15:Board of Trustees (BOT) Meeting
Thursday, Feb. 15:**ONLINE** Blackboard Interactive Rubrics
Thursday, Feb. 15:The Staff & Faculty - Diesel Bowling League
Thursday, Feb. 15: Spring 2024 Accountancy Career Fair
Thursday, Feb. 15:An Evening With Marlon Wayans
Friday, Feb. 16 through Sunday, Feb. 18:Anxious People!
Saturday, Feb. 17:Polar Plunge at Huskie Stadium
Monday, Feb. 19:NIU Rec Kids Escape - President's Day
Friday, Feb. 23:"Rustin" Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Tuesday, Feb. 27: Virtual Vendor Showcase

Wednesday, April 3: "Resisting Death: Undocumented Immigrants and the Politics of Kidney Failure in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands" Professor Milena Melo Tijerina, Ph.D.

Celebrating Black Heritage Month.

The Center for Black Studies in collaboration with partners across Northern Illinois University, organizes events every February to celebrate Black Heritage Month. All NIU students, staff and faculty are encouraged to attend Black Heritage Month programs to recognize, learn and celebrate the central role of Black diasporic experiences in U.S. History and globally – past, present, and future.  

Monday, Feb. 12: 2024 Staff Award Nomination Deadline

Monday, March 18: Lincoln Academy Student Laureate Award Nomination Deadline

NIU Libraries presents Alebrijes exhibit through November

Founders Memorial Library opened a new exhibit displaying large Mexican sculpture pieces known as alebrijes. The exhibit, which will remain open until November 15, presents a collection of 23 pieces created by six artists from Mexico City. The DuPage Mexican Cultural Center in West Chicago selected the pieces and provided them to the library. Several of the pieces are quite large, over twelve feet in height. Others are smaller, about the size of a library table. Read more.

No tuition or fees? NIU expands AIM HIGH Huskie Pledge program

Further demonstrating its commitment to access and affordability, Northern Illinois University is now expanding the eligibility requirements for its popular AIM HIGH Huskie Pledge program.

 

NIU’s AIM HIGH Huskie Pledge is supported by the State of Illinois’ AIM HIGH Program. At NIU, qualifying Illinois high school seniors who graduate with an overall GPA of 3.0 or above could pay no tuition costs or general fees for their first year at NIU — and potentially beyond. Read more.

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