The NIU College of Education celebrated NIU Homecoming 2021 with an initial meet-and-greet event for Dr. G. mentors and mentees who were on campus – including Dr. G herself! – as well as tours of our “A Worthy Calling: 125+ Years of
Read moreLaVerne Gyant ready for retirement, confident in future of higher education
This wasn’t the life LaVerne Gyant had sketched out for herself. She had grown up in Chester, Pa., designing her own clothes – and, under the loving tutelage of her grandmother, Lottie Ennett, sewing those garments by hand and by machine. Yes,
Read moreCAHE Happenings / Spring 2021
Dr. LaVerne Gyant Alumni Mentoring Program This is such an exciting development for all of us in the department and the college! The College of Education has just created the Dr. LaVerne Gyant Mentoring Program, which will provide Black students with Black
Read moreCAHE graduate students find validation of paths via Phyllis Cunningham honors
Valronica Scales felt the call to work toward social justice while working in Chicago with low-income students and families. Some were undocumented. Some spoke no English. Most were people of color. “Because I spoke fluent Spanish, and had lived abroad for a
Read moreCelebrations
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 (Summer 2021) to HESA Program Coordinator Dr. Gudrun
Read moreLaVerne Gyant shares U.S. perspective in global webinar on Black Lives Matter
LaVerne Gyant shared her view on Black Lives Matter with an international audience. A professor in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education and former director of the NIU Center for Black Studies, she was invited to serve as the keynote speaker
Read moreNew M.S.Ed. student ready to continue inspiring young daughter, fellow parents
Can I testify real quick? So begins Janet King’s Facebook hosanna in December upon her graduation from NIU, a journey longer than most, complete with a plot twist halfway through its tale of determination. Her story, a preface to her newly begun
Read moreDoctoral students from Indonesia provide valuable insight for COE research mentors
In what seems like an “of course it is” bit of trivia, the official language of Indonesia is – yes, Indonesian. Linguists, according to WorldAtlas.com, categorize Indonesian as “a standardized register of Riau Malay” and “among the languages of the Austronesian language
Read moreCAHE encourages undergrads to go to grad school at NIU
The Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education (CAHE) has just launched a new program – “There’s a Place for You at NIU” – designed to encourage students from underrepresented groups to return to graduate school at NIU after earning their undergraduate
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