On April 14, Presidential Engagement and Partnerships Professor Melani Duffrin (NIU College of Health and Human Sciences) led a Brown Bag Lecture for faculty focused...

Every semester, NIU student interns work at Northern Public Radio, the broadcast arm of NIU, in the Division of Outreach, Engagement and Regional Development. These...

Three NIU Faculty Publish Case Study of Community Engagement and Promotion and Tenure Policies   We’re thrilled to celebrate three of NIU’s community-engaged faculty who...

Part two: an interview with NIU graduate student Emelia Essumanba-Josiah. Community engagement is central to NIU’s mission as a regional public university. An NIU faculty...

Part one: an interview with Assistant Professor Alexios Rosario-Moore, Ph.D. Community engagement is central to NIU’s mission as a regional public university. An NIU faculty...

NIU’s Center for Early Learning Funding Equity (CELFE) recently shared new findings from the Shortchanged Project, their 50-state analysis of public investment in early care...

An international, community-engaged research partnership with the University of Tetova in North Macedonia is helping to improve trauma-informed practices and social emotional learning in the...

  Since 2018, NIU Sociology Professor Keri Burchfield has been publishing work on the nature and scope of crimes against animals, and correlations among crimes...

This blog is part two of our series focused on NIU’s impactful partnership with DeKalb County Court Services. Learn more about the partnership in Part...

This year, DeKalb County Court Services is partnering with an NIU Community-engaged Course, Gender and Crime (Criminology 487/Sociology 587) taught by Sociology Professor Carol Walther....