Aug. 18, 2025

We're excited to welcome Huskies home for our 118th Homecoming celebration happening the week of Sept. 28 - Oct. 5, 2025..

You won’t want to miss the Huskie Homecoming Employee Bash in the Huskies Den at the Holmes Students Center. Join us for a friendly competition with your fellow faculty and staff during a happy hour style event. 

The City of DeKalb’s new single-lane roundabout at Lucinda Avenue and Normal Road is scheduled to open no later than Wednesday, August 20, after a three-month construction project converted the intersection and removed the traffic lights. The work included relocating and improving pedestrian crossings and adding flashing/audible signaling at key crossings.  Additional landscaping and minor site work will be completed by September.

Below are some quick tips to use the Lucinda and Normal Roundabout:

The Project Update Website from NIU Facilities Management and Campus Services includes links and other resources to help understand how to navigate a roundabout safely. Learn more by visiting go.niu.edu/campus-project-updates.

 As we gear up for another exciting academic year at Northern Illinois University, we’re thrilled to welcome our faculty back to campus. This fall, we’re kicking off the semester with a series of events designed to reconnect, recharge and refocus our community.

Whether you're looking to engage in professional development, attend important administrative meetings or catch up with colleagues at social gatherings, there’s something for everyone.

Check out some of the featured events here and visit this NIU Calendar channel to view all events scheduled for Faculty Welcome Back. Please share this with faculty in your area.

We look forward to a vibrant and successful semester together.

Volunteering at the Huskie Food Pantry is a heartwarming way to support our Huskie students. Your service helps us address food insecurity and foster a caring, supportive community. The pantry is entirely volunteer-run, and without dedicated individuals like you, this effort would not be possible. We are excited to announce our first Huskie Food Pantry Week! Please register using the link provided here. 

Shift details are listed below:

Everyone can experience the arts this semester at NIU — registration at the NIU Community School of the Arts is now open. 

Piano and guitar group classes for adults make learning to play music a more fun and affordable experience. Learn guitar or piano skills and make new friends with weekly classes beginning in September.

Toddlers ages 1-5 sing, dance, play and have fun in CSA Prelude and Development children’s music education classes. Sign up today and bring your kids for their first music classes.

Students of any age can learn to play a musical instrument or brush up skills with private music lessons — sign up today and start learning this semester.

Suzuki music instruction is another popular option for beginning strings students and their parents — the fall Suzuki violin session begins soon.

Our popular Piano Starter class for kids ages 5-7, Symphonette strings for ages 8-16, CSA Steelband and CSA Guitar Ensemble offer fall sessions starting soon.

Please visit the CSA website for schedules and details and to register. Call 815-753-1450 for more information.

Applications are now being accepted for NIU Impact, the NIU Foundation's crowdfunding platform with which students, faculty, staff members and researchers can raise money to turn their great ideas into reality. Since its inception in 2021, NIU Impact has helped raise over $450,000 from more than 3,300 total gifts.

Fall crowdfunding campaigns run Oct. 9 through Nov. 6. Please apply by midnight, Sept. 18. To submit your crowdfunding application, or to register for one of our informational webinars, visit the NIU Foundation crowdfunding page.

Questions? Contact Cody Carter, ccarter1@niu.edu .

Please join us via Zoom at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 19 as Karen E. Samonds, the 2025 David W. Raymond Award recipient, will present “Enhancing Student Learning with Virtual Anatomy Resources.”

Samonds is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at NIU. Her research integrates comparative anatomy, systematics and biogeography with field paleontology to address topics in vertebrate evolution.

Beginning September 2, the university will reactivate the convenience fee for all credit card payments used to pay for tuition and fees. The fee will be 2.85% or a minimum of $3 per transaction.

We encourage students with an outstanding balance to plan ahead if using a credit card, to avoid the convenience fee that will be assessed starting Sept. 2, 2025. 

As a reminder, ACH/eCheck payments remain free of charge and are a great alternative for avoiding fees.

The university’s enhanced payment platform offers a more convenient and user-friendly experience for students and families. Features include the ability to securely save payment methods, receive automatic receipts via email, get payment notifications, and more tools to simplify managing your student account payments.

Payment Options:

For questions, please contact the Bursar’s Office.

A few months ago, the Division of Information Technology announced changes to our password requirements for the university. We were going to increase the required length of passwords as well as remove the mandatory 180-day change requirement. After some new requirements, some work and a few changes in the environment, we decided to hold off making these requirement changes. We will explore this again in the future, but want to let you know the old requirements are still in place and will remain so for the next several months. When we are ready to make this change, we will again make an announcement. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

As the gatekeeper to the football program’s day-to-day operations & student athlete development needs, this position requires knowledge of the game of football, compliance with NCAA, conference, and institutional requirements, and experience working with Collegiate Student Athletes support.

This position is responsible for promoting the program in any way possible and overseeing administrative operations including; communication with internal and external constituents, student athlete and staff scheduling, summer football high school camps, coordinating all aspects of team travel, setting up team community service and team bonding events, logistically planning all team meals, coordinating communication with alumni & donors, and performing other related duties as assigned.

This position is open to current NIU employees. 

To apply, please do so online here:  https://employment.niu.edu/postings/84766. The priority review date for applicants is 8/22.

Applaud a Colleague is a show of appreciation for those coworkers who go above and beyond. These are just a few of the employees throughout the university that go the extra mile:

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