Business Careers House facilitates greater awareness of business topics and provides opportunities for interaction between residents and faculty. Activities involving College of Business faculty augment course work and enhance the floor living environment. The "Dine & Discuss" series allows students to enjoy dinner with faculty and gain professional insight into their futures as business persons. The Business Careers House sponsors field trips to newby firms and fosters greater awareness of business through social and professional development activites with alumni, faculty, and staff.
Requirements: Students must be business majors, be in the upper 50 percent of their graduating class, and participate in two professional events each semester.
You can find out more information by going to the Business Careers House Web page.
The first-year of college is an exciting time focused on meeting new friends, exploring academic and career interests, and confronting the challenges of living away from home for the first time. The NIU First-Year Residential Experience (FYRE) is an Academic Residential Program designed to support and challenge you as you make a successful transition from high school to college. FYRE will connect you with many academic resources on campus. Many first-year residents just like you will be involved with this special program. These students come from diverse cultural backgrounds and arrive with different physical, social, and academic abilities.
Through your active involvement in the First-Year Residential Experience, you will learn how to:
Community Advisors encourage your personal and academic growth through the first-year transition period. These are upperclassmen students who have experienced many of the things you will experience in this first year. It is part of their jobs to develop a community environment on your floor. Learning Assistants are student leaders who provide programming to help new students achieve academic success.
As members of the FYRE Program, there are several training components and offices available to assist you, including:
FYRE activities include:
In addition to other opportunities, the FYRE program offers varied opportunities to get to know award winning faculty within departments which may include one (1) credit hour mini classes or small group discussions within the residence hall.
Requirement: First-year student
For more information, contact Dan Turner, Faculty Coordinator at danturner@niu.edu or 815-753-1393.You can find out more information by going to the First Year Residential Experience Web page.
The Health Professions House brings together students interested in health and service related careers through professional development opportunities, programs, special events, service projects, and social activities. House residents have opportunities for extensive interaction and to foster relationships with other health and service related majors and with college faculty.
Requirement: Majors welcome in the Health Professions House include:
Floor members shape the focus of the community through programming designed to help students be effective members of a health services team and to appreciate the interrelated nature of the health professions.
Special activities include:
You can find out more information by going to the Health Professions House Web page.
Eligibility for the Honors House is based on a minimum ACT. However, honors students are also allowed to bring their preferred roommates into the house that may or may not meet this requirement. Residents of the Honors House participate in intellectual, cultural, and social activities, as well as community service projects. The University Honors Programs has created an extradorniary learning environment with special events that include:
You can find out more information by going to the Honors House Web page
The Science, Engineering, and Technology House is located in the D wing of Douglas Hall, comprised of floor programs for:
Living in SET House allows you to expand your career preperation through trips to regional laboratories and industrial facilities. The facility offers advisors, department chairs, and deans from its three main academic disciplines who work with hall staff to create programs that appeal to students across multiple science and technology fields. Activities include dinners with discussions led by faculty and career prepration and social events.
Requirements: To live in the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) House, freshmen must have a 21+ ACT and major in engineering, computer science fields, or other related science fields. Incoming transfer students must have a 2.5 GPA to be eligible.
Special activities include:
The Teacher Education and Certification House is home to students pursuing any area of teacher certification. The living environment is designed to facilitate interaction with teacher certification faculty, as well as peers with similar professional aspirations. Students who live in this House are required to attend three (3) professional development progran examples include:
Requirements: Freshmen must have declared an area of teacher preparation as their intended major. Incoming transfer students must also have declared some area of teacher preparation for their intended major and havea minimum 2.5 cumulative GPA. Residents must maintain a 2.5 cumulative GPA.
You can find out more information by going to the Teacher Education and Certification House Web page.
Due to student demand and strong involvement from the College of Visual and Performing Arts, Neptune North houses students from across all of the disciplines in Visual and Performing Arts such as:
Highlights include:
Students are becoming more aware of global issues, reaching new levels of cross-cultural understanding, and gaining a better understanding of the interdependent world in which we live. International House is a collaborative program offered by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Housing & Dining. It is comprised of two academic residential programs and three general interest floors.
In NIU's Global Village, students, international scholars and artists interact in a convivial atmosphere to share ideas about living on an increasingly vital world stage. Here you will meet students from over 32 countries speaking more than 15 different languages. Special activities include a visiting scholar in residence program; opportunities for foreign language students to focus on language skills in French, German, Russian and Spanish; and discussions and activities related to political science and public service.
Students who live in the International House may prepare for any of the over 15-faculty-directed study abroad programs in countries such as Brazil, Costa Rica, England, France, Ireland, Ghana, Italy, Russia, Spain South Africa and Uganda. Most NIU-administered programs are directed by an NIU faculty member, with cooperation from various NIU departments, and offer specialized credit and residential study abroad during the summer session and winter break period. More information on the Study Abroad Program is available through the Study Abroad Office at 815-753-0304.
Requirements:
You can find out more information by going to the International House Web page.