Happy New Year! We hope you all had a relaxing winter break and a good start to the new semester. We are thrilled to share all the exciting things going on in our program. Spring is always a busy time for us.
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We would love to share what our faculty and graduate students have been up to over the past few months and celebrate their accomplishments. Faculty, student and alumni names are bolded. Faculty and Student Publications Hu, X. (2023). Using ordinary least squares
Read moreUpcoming Conference Presentations
ACPA Convention in Chicago Tuesday, March 19, at 8:30 a.m.: Scholarly Paper Presentation featuring How Can I Help: College Recovery Program Staff Experiences, presented by Quortne Hutchings, Nick Bloniarz, Yulissa Chavez Tena, Jessica Chatonda, Holly Hansen, Dakota Williams, Rabi Muslim Tuesday, March
Read moreHESA students scour campus archives for local histories of social movements
Yulissa Chavez and Madison Mathews were born long after the Vietnam War. But that time has come alive for them thanks to a research assignment in their HESA 500: Foundations of Higher Education course that sent them digging through the Founders Memorial
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Gudrun Nyunt, assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, was elected vice president of Membership for ACPA (American College Personnel Association)-College Student Educators International, the premier association for student affairs professionals. Her colleagues will celebrate her and other newly
Read moreGudrun Nyunt taps students to research, publish on motivations for Ed.D. pursuit
What inspires someone to pursue an Ed.D. in higher education? Why do they choose that degree over the Ph.D.? Gudrun Nyunt wanted to know. “As a faculty member, I’m always curious about what brings our students to our programs: What are they
Read moreCAHE graduate students explore Mexico to learn about, experience study abroad
Spring break trips to Mexico typically involve beaches, bathing suits and beverages. None of that was on the itinerary this month for Carrie Kortegast, associate professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs, and seven of her graduate students in HESA 590: Workshop
Read moreKaty Jaekel selected as acting director for center on women, gender, sexuality
Katy Jaekel has assumed the role as acting director of NIU’s Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (CSWGS) through June 30. Jaekel, an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, has served as a faculty affiliate
Read more‘Master teacher’ Katy Jaekel receives Distinguished Graduate Faculty Award
Katy Jaekel loves – and believes in – her work. “College provides a really important pathway for so many people,” says Jaekel, an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education. “It’s not about vocations. It’s not about careers. For
Read moreEducate Global takes flight again, delivers same life-changing results
Following two years of COVID cancellations, Educate Global returned this summer. Yet that long and unpreventable absence could not diminish the program’s greatest product: eye-opening, life-changing experiences. NIU students and faculty who traveled with Educate Global Indonesia and Educate Global East Africa,
Read moreHESA master’s student Kayce Fuentes extends NIU reign as NASPA Rising Star
Kayce Fuentes makes it four. A second-year M.S.Ed. student in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, Fuentes is the 2022 recipient of the NASPA Region IV-E Graduate Student Rising Star (Illinois) Award and the fourth consecutive Huskie chosen for the annual
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Congratulations to these members of the NIU College of Education family! Paul Wright, the EC Lane and MN Zimmerman Endowed Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, was inducted as a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK). Wright
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