What does community engagement look like? Sometimes it looks like hundreds of people gathering in central campus to talk, catch up with one another and...

By Kendall J. Hampton, OERD Engagement Graduate Assistant Ah, the confusion that arises when “engagement” isn’t about a ring, but about rallying together in the...

By Kendall J. Hampton, Engagement Graduate Research Assistant As a current student navigating Northern Illinois University’s Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, I’ve witnessed firsthand...

What does engagement look like? For NIU Esports, engagement means working together with units across NIU to better serve students and community members with disabilities....

What does engagement look like? For NIU Anthropology Professor Mitchell Irwin, community engagement permanently shifted his perspective about the purpose of research and the role...

Kendall J. Hampton, OERD Engagement Graduate Assistant DeKalb is home to over 500 nonprofit organizations. For a population of just over 40,000 people, that’s a...

Kendall J. Hampton, OERD Engagement Graduate Assistant My DeKalb High School freshman class packed into a school bus on a cold winter morning to tour...

We’re excited that Northern Illinois University has been chosen as the new home of the Illinois High School Esports Association (IHSEA) – giving us the...

We’re thrilled that our colleagues in WNIJ 89.5 FM, northern Illinois’ local NPR affiliate and the broadcasting arm of Northern Illinois University, brought home six...

Announcing the Centering Engagement, Driving Impact Task Force Report In August of 2023, we released our Centering Engagement, Driving Impact Task Force report. The report...