As a parent who is helping to manage the remote learning of his three young children, Jim Ressler sees firsthand how teachers in the Kaneland School District are shifting their instruction for COVID-19. Ressler, an associate professor of Physical Education Teacher Education,
Read moreSport Management alum Jamaal Hines scores job leading after-school programs
Jamaal Hines grew up hooked on police procedurals on TV, imagining that he someday would solve crimes like the detectives on “CSI” and “NCIS” on behalf of innocent victims. Enrolling at Old Dominion University in his native Virginia, he earned a bachelor’s
Read moreInternational Affairs honors KNPE
NIU’s Division of International Affairs honored the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KNPE) with its 2019 Award for Outstanding Department Contribution to International Education. Recipients are chosen for meeting one or more of these criteria: Supporting NIU-sponsored Study Abroad Programs that
Read moreB.S. in Sport Management soars past new degree’s enrollment expectations
NIU’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KNPE) celebrated a successful launch of its new bachelor’s degree in Sport Management this fall. Fifty students were expected to begin the program in August, but the department exceeded that goal and welcomed 68 majors.
Read moreB.S. degree in Sport Management ready to enroll undergraduates for Fall 2019
NIU’s Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education (KNPE) will launch a bachelor’s degree in Sport Management next fall. The new program capitalizes on the department’s rich heritage of preparing graduate students for careers in the thriving sport industry, which includes all of
Read moreCommunity Learning Series to highlight rewarding careers in sport management
Dan Migala is always thinking. The co-founder and chief innovation officer of 4Front Sports and Innovation Consulting Firm is the guy behind the Chicago White Sox’s 7:11 starting time – brought to you by 7-Eleven, of course. He’s also the marketing whiz
Read moreEngage Global contingent relates empowering lessons from Sri Lanka
How it began is worth a smile. “They arrived in Sri Lanka on 13th August,” writes Sri Lanka’s YMCA of Pamunugama, telling of its visitors from NIU and elsewhere in the United States, “and in the evening … went on a boat
Read moreEdLEAD fellows begin projects
Steve Howell is thinking big. Working with mentor Chad McEvoy, Howell plans to bolster the international alliance between NIU and the University of Tetova in Macedonia by brokering a second dual-degree program between the two schools. ”Tetova recently partnered and collaborated with
Read moreEngage Global debuts in Sri Lanka
Days after the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education’s Sri Lankan visitors left the NIU campus in late April, their hosts already were planning to book flights to Asia for August. That trip began Aug. 12 – and included four students who
Read moreKNPE quartet visits University of Tetova for global conference on sport sciences
More than 80 years after NIU first opened as the Northern Illinois State Normal School in 1899, faculty in Physical Education began to embrace a new way of thinking. “Our Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, and our peers across the country,
Read moreSri Lankan visitors experience ways to instill social, personal responsibility through sport
Sport is spoken the world around. That certainly proved true last month in the NIU Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, where 25 young visitors from Sri Lanka and the Maldives learned about boxing from, and taught cricket to, students from DeKalb’s
Read moreStart your engines: Engage U.S. transports Sport Management grad students to Indianapolis
First-year graduate students in Sport Management magnified their credentials this month with a behind-the-scenes look at operations of the NCAA, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Purdue University’s athletic and recreational sport facilities. Part of the NIU College of Education’s Engage U.S. program,
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