Jamaal Hines grew up hooked on police procedurals on TV, imagining that he someday would solve crimes like the detectives on “CSI” and “NCIS” on behalf of innocent victims. Enrolling at Old Dominion University in his native Virginia, he earned a bachelor’s
Read moreZoom! 2020 Kalisiak lecture goes online to beat COVID-19, draws huge viewership
When the arrival of COVID-19 abruptly shuttered life as we knew it, Nicholas E. Grahovec already had most of the pieces in place for the 15th annual Roger and Cathy Kalisiak Lecture Series. The date. The venue. The keynote speakers. The invitations.
Read moreAllan Vest comes ‘full circle’ in closing 50-year NIU career back where he began
During his 1970-71 senior year at Thornridge High School in suburban Dolton, Ill., Allan Vest played on a now-legendary basketball team crowned as state champions in the first of its back-to-back titles. Membership in a club like that offers bragging rights that
Read moreCOE Student Spotlight: Tim Mack
Hometown: Oak Park, Ill. Program: M.S. Sport Management Status: Spring 2020 graduate What inspired you to pursue this degree/career? I have always had a passion for sports, and this same feeling continued when I enrolled into NIU back in 2013. Going the
Read moreGraduate School honors COE students
Several students from the Department of Counseling and Higher Education and the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education were chosen to receive 2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Awards from the NIU Graduate School. The award is given to one student from each program
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Just because the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education was unable to hold its annual scholarship and awards luncheon this spring doesn’t mean the students aren’t receiving the recognition they deserve. Each award is $250. Congratulations to these KNPE students: Francisco Arellano-Aguilera
Read moreCOE recognizes administrative professionals
Wednesday is Administrative Professionals Day. Our amazing administrative professionals in the College of Education are the can’t-live-without glue that hold our offices and departments together. And while we’re all away, unable to thank or five-high them in person, they continue to serve
Read moreFuture teachers, high schoolers learn together during P.E. Leadership Summit
In times like these, it often becomes more obvious what we all have in common. Empathy and sympathy for friends, family and strangers who are suffering. Admiration for people courageously and selflessly serving on the front lines at their own risk. Material
Read moreAdvisors shift to virtual practice
Our advisors are doing a wonderful job of staying connected with NIU College of Education students during this difficult time. David Snow, director of Student Services, reports that Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education academic advisor Joe Curran “created his own Teams
Read moreAlternative Spring BAE travelers bring lessons of Belize home to changed U.S.
Looking for silver linings has quickly become a daily, and necessary, healing priority for a struggling world. Viral videos of exhausted doctors performing John Lennon’s “Imagine” in a hospital lobby. Of relatives waving through windows at their loved ones in nursing homes.
Read moreSwole Patrol: KNPE’s Project FLEX adds earned privilege of 1:1 personal training
Swole – think “swollen” – is a hip way to compliment jocks on their muscles. Urban Dictionary defines swole as “a paragon of hypermasculinity, manifesting in the physical and attitudinal embodiment of strength, occupying space with intimidating quantity and developing rippling musculature
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Paul Wright and Jenn Jacobs, faculty in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, were featured in the Journal of American History for their work “Race, Economics, and the Politics of Educational Change: The Dynamics of School District Consolidation in Shelby County,
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