Technology Innovation and Learning Services Archives

Steve Builta departs for new challenges training, coordinating disaster responders

April 9, 2019 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter, ETRA

Three months after his 1984 graduation from Hononegah High School, Steve Builta arrived at NIU with plans to become a school psychologist. Even though he had enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where he eventually would earn a bachelor’s

Getting the call: Builta deployed to Pacific Northwest to help train National Guard’s wildfire fighters

October 30, 2017 Mark McGowan Alumni, enewsletter

When the urgent call came in September for Steve Builta to travel to Oregon to train National Guard members in fighting wildfires, there was little time to decide. Yet for the director of Technology Innovation and Learning Services for the NIU College