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
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Congratulations to these members of the NIU College of Education family! Students from the Department of Special and Early Education swept the 2022 awards for Education Posters at the Conference on Undergraduate Research and Engagement (CURE), sponsored by the NIU Office of
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We are excited to celebrate accomplishments and life events of our HESA community. Alumni, current students, and faculty can submit information for the newsletter. Please submit any announcements and pictures for our next newsletter (Spring 2021) to HESA Program Coordinator Dr. Gudrun
Read moreAll-College Meeting goes virtual, shares optimism for a ‘modified’ fall semester
Laurie Elish-Piper opened Tuesday’s All-College Meeting by quickly acknowledging the elephant in the virtual room. COVID-19 continues to impact the world, and returning to a new semester of teaching and learning will bring “challenges and situations that are quite different than what
Read moreSocial Justice Summer Camp 4.0 turns to podcasts to continue vital momentum
Joe Flynn heard the news without any sense of surprise. “It came out in late April that there was a disproportionate representation of African Americans and Latinos who have been contracting and, most importantly, dying from the virus,” says Flynn, an associate
Read moreCarrie Kortegast prepares for Mexico trip as NIU Service-Learning Faculty Fellow
Carrie Kortegast traveled to Mexico last summer to explore the “classroom” for this July’s study abroad and service learning course for Adult and Higher Education graduate students. Four doctoral and eight master’s students will journey to Bucerais to work with Human Connections
Read moreCommunity Learning Series explores concepts, challenges of social justice
Jocelyn Santana remembers going to protests and picket lines with her mother, a public school teacher, even though she was too young to understand what was happening. She remembers sitting among “brown and black bodies” in a remedial math classroom at her
Read moreCommunity Learning Series will explore social justice during April 11 discussion
Joe Flynn grew up with a clear sense of his primary role and duty in society. “I was always raised to think about where other people are coming from, and what struggles folks have, and that oftentimes the things that people have
Read moreService-Learning Faculty Fellow Carrie Kortegast visits Mexico to explore site for Summer 2019
Carrie Kortegast traveled to Mexico this July to explore the “classroom” for next summer’s study abroad and service learning course for Adult and Higher Education graduate students. The assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education is nearing the
Read moreCAHE students, faculty attend Student Affairs 101 Conference
Ten graduate students in the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education (CAHE) traveled recently to attend the Student Affairs 101 Conference in Normal. The one-day conference at Illinois State University, complete with 16 workshop sessions, enabled faculty and graduate students to
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*
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