NIU English professor serves as general chair for conference attracting 6,800...
Michael Day Michael Day, professor of English and director of First-Year Composition at NIU, recently hosted the Centennial Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), which drew...
View ArticleMetropolitan Community project to help bridge gap between urban, suburban...
Cynthia Taines While social inequities and educational gaps in high schools across the United States have long been the subject of discussion, one voice that has not been previously heard is that of...
View ArticleNational Federation of the Blind program offers resources to pair of NIU...
Bryan Moles Use a chainsaw while wearing a blindfold. Would you do it? Two students from the NIU Special Education program were champing at the bit to be able to do so after being accepted into the...
View Article‘Souper’ educator stirs her passion through early childhood education
Jaclyn Vasquez told honors students on Wednesday to be ready for the “politics of life,” something often discovered on the job and not in the classroom. The students, who came to meet the NIU alum and...
View ArticleRemember Project offers Dec. 18 opportunity to give back in Chicago
The Remember Project, a nonprofit organization that engages college students in building a better Chicago through service, will host a “One Voice” project from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18. One...
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