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“Our services are available year-round, and that includes crisis support. What we offer is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During office hours, we're here to provide students but we also have availability for on-call counseling support," said Tim Paquette, director of Counseling and Consultation Services at NIU.

Latif Adeboyejo is the second Northern Illinois student to be found dead on or near campus this year.

NIU was her final stop on a five-month tour of the state’s public colleges and universities. She says the trip was about hearing from students and trying to address the teacher shortage.

“We're ready to negotiate and we are just waiting for them to return to the table. They're obligated to do so by law, so we truly do not understand their refusal.”

High school physics & Earth science teacher Sam Watt gives us the lowdown on how to teach STEM labs remotely when you just have a few springs, tubes, and pencils!

WNIJ's Peter Medlin went to the exhibit to get educated on how these artifacts don’t just tell the story of the school, but also how education has evolved.

The university’s first president, John Cook, was known in his day as the “Crown Prince of Teacher Education.”

The crisis center is partnering with Northern Illinois University and the DeKalb Public Library.

University officials say more students are getting the shot every day, as the 1,000+ who had personal exemptions are now mandated to get vaccinated.

NIU freshman enrollment increased by over 10% this fall. 100 of those first-year students will have their tuition paid by the "Rockford Promise" scholarship.