For Adam Carter, the moment came some 15 years ago in the preschool classroom where he taught. Three-year-old Malcolm would not – or perhaps could not – sleep during the nap time; instead, Carter remembers, the young boy asked to climb onto
Read moreWorking the Intersections: Symposium brings practitioners in LGBTQ research to campus
Scholars who assembled at Michigan State University for the first National Symposium on LGBTQ Research in Higher Education focused on methodology and practice. Among them that day in 2014 was Z Nicolazzo, a soon-to-be NIU College of Education professor who studies trans*
Read moreNew juvenile justice course explores ways to lower number of youth entering ‘the system’
Teens who find themselves on the wrong side of the law are nothing new – such stories have flickered on movie screens for a century – but the need to identify new strategies to support them never ends. A new course in
Read moreCounseling students gain ‘life-changing’ perspectives during mission trips to Guatemala
Many service-minded NIU students will spend next week’s Spring Break on the road, volunteering their time and labor to improve the lives of people in faraway places. But that sort of humanitarianism is not constricted to one week of the year. Just
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Z Nicolazzo recently discussed his book, “Trans* in College: Transgender Students’ Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion,” with Inside Higher Ed. Nicolazzo is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education. “I started my
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Suzanne Degges-White, chair of the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education, was quoted Nov. 18 in a Huffington Post article headlined “There is An Acceptable Way To Break Up With A Friend. This Is It.” Degges-White recommends an “it’s not you,
Read moreZ Nicolazzo: Schools need more than just policies on bullying
For K-12 educators who attended NIU’s Oct. 26 professional development conference on “Bullying: How Schools Can Respond,” a quotation presented by keynote speakers Z Nicolazzo and Molly Holmes painted a difficult picture. “The dominant narrative (of LGBTQ bullying) depends on an inaccurate
Read moreCAHE launches graduate certificate in trauma counseling
Not everyone who enters the counseling profession has been prepared to deal with clients who have experienced trauma. Yet every counselor – including those who work in schools, helping students to facilitate positive change and advancement in their personal development and interactions
Read moreHow to save a life
NIU receives grant to prevent suicides through awareness A $300,000 grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration will work to decrease stigma around mental health and promote resilience in the NIU community. NIU’s three-year grant, awarded to collaborators from
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