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 moreScott Wickman eager for unknown paths coming in retirement from CAHE faculty
Adoptee. Musician. Journalist. Organizer. Minister. Teacher. Counselor. Professor. But of all the identities Scott Wickman has lain claim to – and there are many more – he clings to “advocate” most. Fellow graduates in the Waukegan High School Class of 1982 voted
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Congratulations to these CAHE faculty members! Xiaodan Hu traveled to Texas in April for an impressive honor: Her dissertation, “The Impact of Performance-based Funding on Community College Retention and Completion in Louisiana,” is the winner of the 2018 Council for the Study
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Congratulations to these members of the College of Education family! Annie Malecki, a Physical Education major, was recognized as a SHAPE America Major of the Year with about 80 other students from Physical Education Teacher Education programs across the country. She plans
Read moreFaculty, student podcast probes portrayal of mental illness in film
People who love movies love to talk about movies. Sometimes it’s the plot. Sometimes it’s the acting. Sometimes it’s the cinematography or the music or the special effects. But for NIU’s Scott Wickman and his cohort of film buffs – colleagues, students,
Read moreScott Wickman left ‘speechless’ by ‘Humanistic Educator’ award
Scott Wickman, associate professor in the Department of Counseling, Adult and Higher Education, has received the 2018 Humanistic Educator/Supervisor Award from the Association for Humanistic Counseling. He was honored in April at the 2018 ACA Annual Conference in Atlanta. The award recognizes
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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