OERD’s Director of Community-engaged Partnerships Jennifer Groce is collaborating with the Division of Academic Affairs to help NIU faculty build mutually beneficial relationships with community...
January 28 is Global Community Engagement Day – a day when people across the globe celebrate community efforts to work together to make the world...
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...
By Kendall J. Hampton, OERD Graduate Research Assistant In the ever-evolving landscape of business education, Northern Illinois University’s College of Business distinguishes itself with the...
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...
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...