Greg Conderman has been named chair of the Department of Special and Early Education (SEED) in the College of Education effective July 1. Conderman has been serving as acting chair for SEED si...
Laura Ruth Johnson, associate professor in the NIU College of Education’s Department of Educational Technology, Research and Assessment, has published “Community-Based Qualitative Research: A...
Want a challenging and rewarding career with guaranteed employment and free tuition? Thanks to a five-year $1.25 million grant recently awarded to NIU by the U.S. Department of Education, the Vis...
https://niutoday.info/2016/05/05/niu-visual-disabilities-program-awarded-1-25-million-federal-grant/
Does the U.S. education system function to reproduce inequalities of social class and race while claiming to improve access for minorities and financially disadvantaged students? Yes, says Amy St...
https://niutoday.info/2016/05/04/access-opportunities-and-outcomes/
NIU’s Jerry L. Johns Literacy Clinic will install its seventh Little Free Library at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 10, at the Mason Court Apartments, 275 N. Cross St. in Sycamore. Little Free Librarie...
https://niutoday.info/2016/04/29/literacy-clinic-to-install-seventh-little-free-library/
Growing up in Highland, Ind., Laurie Elish-Piper loved books and school. As an undergraduate at tiny Saint Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, a city about an hour south of the home where her paren...
https://niutoday.info/2016/04/29/everything-ive-wanted-to-do/
SHAPE America (Society of Health and Physical Educators) presented its Outstanding Mentor of the Year Award to NIU’s Paul M. Wright, who holds the Lane/Zimmerman Endowed Professorship in Kinesi...
https://niutoday.info/2016/04/25/shape-america-honors-knpes-paul-wright/
The NIU College of Education’s Summer Literacy Conference will take place from Tuesday, June 14, through Friday, June 17, at NIU-Naperville. “Reading and Writing in the Digital Age” will co...
https://niutoday.info/2016/04/22/summer-literacy-conference-begins-june-14-at-niu-naperville/
NIU’s College of Education will host “Transforming Learning Space with Low Cost High Impact Instructional Technology” – the 2016 Learn-IT Conference – Saturday, May 7, in the Learning C...
https://niutoday.info/2016/04/22/in-service-teachers-invited-may-7-to-learn-it-conference/
According to the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace, sport can be used as powerful tool in the advancement of developmental and peace objectives around the world. Since 2003...
https://niutoday.info/2016/04/22/panel-discussion-explores-sports-as-an-agent-for-social-change/
It might take a village to raise a child, but for hundreds of young girls in rural Kenya, it also takes the commitment of two NIU professors who this year are honored as the 2016 Presidential Eng...
https://niutoday.info/2016/04/21/wasonga-otieno-named-presidential-engagement-professors/
Carolyn Pluim (formerly Vander Schee) has been named acting chair of the Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations (LEPF) in the College of Education, effective July 1. Plu...
https://niutoday.info/2016/04/07/pluim-named-acting-chair-of-college-of-educations-lepf/