Northern Illinois University
Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language and Literacy

If you are an NIU faculty, staff or student we invite you to become a CISLL affiliate and take advantage of the many resources the center has to offer. Affiliates receive current information about internal and external funding, CISLL events and seminars. Other benefits of CISLL affiliation include:

• Two types of Proposal or Pilot (PoP) Grants One offers up to $2,000 and the other up to $14,000
• The annual CISLL Outstanding Student Scholar Award (COSSA) of $2,000
• Seminar series each semester focusing on current topics in language and literacy
• Internal and external funding opportunities
• Campus-wide network of scholars
• Community outreach opportunities
• Lending library 
• Computers with data analysis software available for borrowing

Affiliate Application

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