By Kendall Hampton, OERD Graduate Research Assistant At NIU, community engagement isn’t just a buzzword; it’s a fundamental ethos baked into nearly every aspect of...
What does community engagement look like? For Professor of Dance Paula Frasz, it looks like designing dances that mirror her students, their experiences and the...
In 2023, NIU’s Edible Campus program broke ground on more than 100 raised beds throughout campus as well as the 5,000-square-foot Anderson Market Garden. One...
What does community engagement look like? For NIU Professor Melissa Lenczewski, a hydrogeologist in the Department of Earth, Atmosphere and the Environment, community engagement extends...
By Kendall J. Hampton, OERD Graduate Research Assistant At Northern Illinois University, the heartbeat of engagement pulses through initiatives like Project FLEX, embodying the university’s...
What does community engagement look like? For NIU STEAM, engagement includes partnering with Meta to improve STEM education for local high school students – and...
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...
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...