Good news is easy to find in the College of Education – and that includes enrollment. The college’s summer headcount for 2019 rose by 7.39 percent, or 89 students, over the year before – and the fall enrollment forecast expects to continue
Read moreTeresa Fisher retires from College of Ed with vivid curiosity, love of learning intact
Growing up as the fifth of six girls, Teresa Fisher naturally “had to do a lot of listening and observing.” “That was an important piece,” says Fisher, recently retired after 18 years as a professor in the NIU Department of Counseling and
Read morePhoto Gallery: Idea Exchange
The NIU College of Education’s first Idea Exchange stirred curiosity and enthusiasm for innovative and effective practices in teaching among the March 29 participants. Modeled on speed-dating – or speed-networking for professionals – the fast-paced event put faculty, instructors and graduate teaching
Read moreGlobal problems, community praxis: April 19 conference set to explore world conflict, peace
Scholars from NIU and Macedonia will convene Thursday, April 19, in DeKalb to discuss local, national and international approaches to peace and transcultural communication. “Global Problems and Community Praxis” is the second annual conference – but the first in the United States
Read moreNew juvenile justice course explores ways to lower number of youth entering ‘the system’
Teens who find themselves on the wrong side of the law are nothing new – such stories have flickered on movie screens for a century – but the need to identify new strategies to support them never ends. A new course in
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