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NIU celebrates community engagement: COE ingenuity, initiatives take spotlight

April 28, 2026 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, ETRA, LEPF, LILT, Partnerships

NIU’s two-day Community Engagement Exemplar Symposium put several College of Education faculty front and center. Held April 15 and 16, and hosted by the Division of Outreach, Regional Engagement and Development, the event gathered “impactful NIU community-engaged scholars, practitioners and community partners

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Building bridges: RISE to revolutionize teaching, learning in Rockford schools by engaging community, valuing voices

January 24, 2025 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, Partnerships, Student Success

Taren Turner frames her obligation as an educator in terms of “ensuring responsiveness and innovation.” And the director of Alternative Education Programming for the Rockford Public Schools has discovered ways to do just that in the RISE (Rockford Inspiring School and Community

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Campus teamwork yields study guides to help Huskies ace state licensure tests

February 7, 2023 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter, KNPE, SEED

Illinois Licensure Testing System (ILTS) Study Guides are available at Founders Memorial Library. Passage of the state tests, administered by the Illinois State Board of Education, is required before newly minted graduates can begin their classroom careers. Those claiming multiple endorsements must

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Fulbright visitor Gunel Karimova to give presentation on homeland of Azerbaijan

April 5, 2022 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

Gunel Karimova has spent the last several months learning about NIU and the United States as she visits and observes classes in the College of Education. Now the Fulbright Faculty Development Program participant from Azerbaijan is ready to teach NIU about her

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