Happy New Year! We hope you all had a relaxing winter break and a good start to the new semester. We are thrilled to share all the exciting things going on in our program. Spring is always a busy time for us.
Read moreHESA Scholarly Activities
We would love to share what our faculty and graduate students have been up to over the past few months and celebrate their accomplishments. Faculty, student and alumni names are bolded. Faculty and Student Publications Hu, X. (2023). Using ordinary least squares
Read moreUpcoming Conference Presentations
ACPA Convention in Chicago Tuesday, March 19, at 8:30 a.m.: Scholarly Paper Presentation featuring How Can I Help: College Recovery Program Staff Experiences, presented by Quortne Hutchings, Nick Bloniarz, Yulissa Chavez Tena, Jessica Chatonda, Holly Hansen, Dakota Williams, Rabi Muslim Tuesday, March
Read moreHESA students scour campus archives for local histories of social movements
Yulissa Chavez and Madison Mathews were born long after the Vietnam War. But that time has come alive for them thanks to a research assignment in their HESA 500: Foundations of Higher Education course that sent them digging through the Founders Memorial
Read moreEducate Global takes flight again, delivers same life-changing results
Following two years of COVID cancellations, Educate Global returned this summer. Yet that long and unpreventable absence could not diminish the program’s greatest product: eye-opening, life-changing experiences. NIU students and faculty who traveled with Educate Global Indonesia and Educate Global East Africa,
Read moreHESA master’s student Kayce Fuentes extends NIU reign as NASPA Rising Star
Kayce Fuentes makes it four. A second-year M.S.Ed. student in the Department of Counseling and Higher Education, Fuentes is the 2022 recipient of the NASPA Region IV-E Graduate Student Rising Star (Illinois) Award and the fourth consecutive Huskie chosen for the annual
Read moreGudrun Nyunt celebrates Harrah Award for manuscript on Residence Life staff
Gudrun Nyunt has walked the walk. As a sophomore at State University of New York at New Paltz, she began working as a resident assistant – a job she would hold the next three years. Later, while in pursuit of her master’s
Read moreGraduate students in Higher Ed discover natural fits, futures in on-campus work
Kayce Fuentes, Ashlyn Straka and Ana Velazquez shared a common ambition as undergraduates – careers that would allow them to help others – but divergent paths. Fuentes holds a bachelor’s in Human Services. Straka completed hers in Human Development and Family Studies.
Read moreKelly Wesener Michael joins COE’s higher education, student affairs faculty as Practitioner-Scholar in Residence
Former NIU Dean of Students Kelly Wesener Michael joined the College of Education’s Department of Counseling and Higher Education (CAHE) July 1 as a Practitioner-Scholar in Residence. Wesener Michael, who holds an Ed.D. in Higher Education/Higher Education Administration from Indiana University Bloomington,
Read moreCAHE researchers ask students to rate their mental well-being during COVID
Living and learning on the NIU campus proved beneficial to the mental well-being of students during the Fall 2020 semester, a Department of Counseling and Higher Education study has found. Titled “Flourishing in the Time of COVID-19: How Institutional Responses to COVID-19
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 moreGreetings from our Program Coordinator
Hello HESA Community! Happy New Year! I cannot believe that we are already a few weeks into the spring semester. Fall 2020 definitely brought unique challenges as we transitioned our programs fully online and moved various community activities to virtual platforms. I
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