NIU provides all current students, faculty and staff with free access to the full Adobe Creative Cloud suite, an invaluable resource offering industry-standard tools for design, marketing and digital media. Launched in fall 2025, a new student-led initiative is helping NIU students fully leverage this asset while building creative confidence and career-ready skills. The NIU...
Meaningful engagement with its region is a defining characteristic of NIU, and the university has once again won national recognition of the excellence of this part of its mission. Northern Illinois University has been reclassified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a Community-Engaged Institution. This classification, bestowed on only 277 universities...
The NIU College of Business will host an AI conference – “Educating the AI-Ready Graduate: An Industry Perspective” – at Barsema Hall Friday, Feb. 13. This event is open to all NIU faculty, staff and students who would like to hear from industry leaders about preparing students to succeed in today’s workplace. The event will...
Many teachers talk of playing school in their childhood basements as kids. Dana Freedlund did that, too. A chalkboard. A magnetic board. Desks. Worksheets that she handed out to her friends. She had it all. That’s not what drove her to a career in the classroom, however, or how she knew from a young age...
Three NIU School of Nursing faculty members were named as 2026 Nurse Educator Fellows by the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). Patrice Alsaden, Rhoda Jefferson and Cristan Sabio join other Illinois nurse educators in the 2026 class after being selected based on their accomplishments, contributions to the nursing program and efforts to advance equity and...
A Collaboration Between the NIU Center for Governmental Studies and the DeKalb County Community Foundation Continues to Make a Positive Difference Ten Years Later Ten years ago, the DeKalb County Community Foundation (DCCF) had a radical idea to promote community development across the county’s rural, suburban and urban areas. They offered $20,000 for each municipal...
Last fall, our Black Business Student Association (BBSA) won its first grant, the One by One Grant from 4imprint. The One by One Grant is a program in which 4imprint awards $500 credits for promotional products to nonprofit organizations, accredited schools and other groups that are working to make a positive impact in their communities....
Experiential learning is central to NIU’s mission, and the annual Conference on Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE) Tuesday, April 28 will offer students a chance to share the impact of their academic and hands-on work with the campus and the broader community. New at CURE this year is the Engagement Showcase, designed to highlight the...
NIU’s Academic Advising Council is proud to introduce a new semiannual campus recognition, the Top Dog – NIU Academic Advising Excellence Award. The council is pleased to announce Marissa Wolfe from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences as the award’s inaugural recipient. Created by the Academic Advising Council, this award recognizes academic advisors and...
Bobby Broom, associate professor of jazz guitar and jazz studies in the NIU School of Music, whose most recent album, More Amor spent several weeks atop Jazz Week’s North American Jazz Radio chart, has been selected to perform in this spring’s 15th Annual International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert in Chicago, April 30. Iconic Grammy Award...
Four NIU graduates were commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the U.S. Army following successful completion of their degree requirements and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. On Dec. 18, faculty and staff from NIU Department of Military Science celebrated Cadets Ricardo Montoya, Dennis Mathew, Wyatt Smith and Kamran Stringer during the military graduation held...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly shaping teaching, learning, research and the workplace. NIU is committed to supporting ethical, transparent and responsible uses of AI and, to support this, has created a new resource – the AI at NIU website. This new website is a central place to bring together guidance, tools and campus expertise to...
