Week of Sept. 9, 2024

A small starter kit of decorating supplies will be available for the first 30 departments that complete the registration form by Sept. 27. These kits will be available for pick-up at Human Resource Services (1515 W. Lincoln Highway) on Thursday, Oct. 10.

Nominations for the 2025 Board of Trustees and Presidential Professorships are now being accepted. Please consider nominating a colleague for one of these prestigious awards. 

More information about each award and the criteria and procedure for nomination is available by visiting the links below.

All professorships share the same nomination deadline of Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, followed by a November 11, 2024 deadline for full application materials.

The Human Resource Services (HRS) office located in  Lowden Hall 102 will be closed to walk-in traffic from Wednesday, Sept. 11 through Friday, Sept. 13, reopening on Monday, Sept. 16. During this time our HRS Main location at 1515 W. Lincoln Highway will be open.

On Monday, Sept. 23, all Human Resource Services locations will be closed from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for an all-staff meeting. All locations will reopen at 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 23.

Join us in celebrating our amazing NIU employees Saturday, Oct. 5 at our Employee Appreciation Football Game where our Huskies take on UMass. #CAMPUSPRIDE is providing discounted tickets for the NIU vs. UMass football game to show appreciation to our employees. Purchase your discounted game tickets here and enter CAMPUSPRIDE in the promo code box.

Join fellow Huskies for the Presidential Debate Watch Party.

Plan to attend the conference on Friday, Oct. 25. Come make new connections while engaging in powerful conversations that promote understanding, increase empathy, and facilitate change in our community. Experience dynamic keynote speakers and interactive sessions led by NIU's students, faculty, and community members.

Take advantage of training sessions to increase your familiarity and provide effective tools for using Navigate, NIU’s comprehensive student success management technology platform that connects students with faculty, advisors, services and more. Navigate helps students succeed by connecting them with a network of coordinated care and providing an avenue to stay engaged throughout their time at NIU.

In addition to finding training session details and sign-up information on our Navigate website, you can now find these sessions listed on the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning website under Upcoming Programs.

The Office of the President seeks to identify a member of the Supportive Professional Staff or Operating Staff interested in serving a year-long professional development fellowship. The Office of the President Staff Fellow will be assigned special projects needed to carry out the functions of the Office of the President and will be afforded professional development opportunities. The fellow will be appointed for the 2025 calendar year and will report to the university’s chief strategy officer. Learn more about the President Staff Fellow Program, including how to apply. The deadline for applications is Monday, Sept. 30.

This casual lunchtime series is your chance to learn from NIU faculty about their experiences in community engaged research, teaching and collaboration.

At noon Sept. 19, don’t miss “Outreach, Engagement and Partnerships: Lessons Vital to Universities in a Post-pandemic World” — a presentation by Professor Barrie P. Bode, Ph.D., NIU professor of biological sciences and 2023 Distinguished Engagement and Partnerships Professor.

Barrie Bode spent his career doing research on cancer biology. In response to the pandemic, Professor Bode’s community engagement and partnerships linked cancer education with an innovative campus wastewater surveillance testing program developed and still underway at NIU. The testing program's subsequent expansion provides exemplars for university/community collaboration, sustainability and evolution in a rapidly changing world.

Please join us in the University Suite Dining Room on the second floor of the Holmes Student Center. Hear Professor Bode’s stories, ask your questions, make connections, and leave with tools and inspiration to pursue your community engagement goals. Learn more and register.

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.

Applications for NIU Impact, the NIU Foundation's crowdfunding platform, are due next week. NIU Impact is a place where 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 nearly $400,000 from over 2,600 total gifts.

Fall campaigns run Oct. 9 through Nov. 4. Please submit your application by midnight, Sept. 17. Submit your crowdfunding application or register for one of our informational webinars on our NIU Foundation crowdfunding page.

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

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

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

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