When John M. Dunn first came to NIU from his small hometown in southern Illinois, new and towering horizons opened to him. No longer surrounded by people who looked just like him – everyone in downstate Pinckneyville then was white, and Dr.
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When Mary Bell came to NIU in 1957, she was told to spend 75 percent of her time teaching Physical Education and the rest leading intramurals and intercollegiate sports for women. “Pretty soon, they took intramurals off,” Bell says. “I was excited
Read moreMcEvoy, Frazier set to co-teach KNPE course in college athletics
One is the chair of his academic department, a respected professional in his field and an active consultant to the industry. The other is the tremendously successful director of Intercollegiate Athletics at a Division I, Football Bowl Subdivision university that has scored
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