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Northern Today - April 28, 2008

President John Peters, Provost Ray Alden, David Changnon, Carolinda DouglassStrategic planning task forces
will present recommendations
to Peters, Alden this week

Members of NIU’s strategic planning task forces will spell out their recommendations Friday to President John Peters and Provost Ray Alden.

The 15 “broad and sweeping” proposals to enhance curricular innovation and student success are consistent with goals determined at the beginning of the process last fall.

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Michelle "Micki" EmmettEmmett to leave NIU for Red Cross

When Michelle “Micki” Emmett leaves NIU on May 1 to take over leadership of the DeKalb County Red Cross, the last line on her resume will read “assistant vice president for student affairs.”

Those who worked with her over the last 27 years, however, assign to her many other titles.

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Dan EdwardsNIU mourns loss of glassblower Dan Edwards

The NIU community is mourning the loss of Dan Edwards, a well-known glassblower in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry whose artistry and dedication to the university touched many lives on campus and beyond.

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Alex GelmanChicago’s Organic Theater provides
repertory experience for NIU alums

Stanislavsky, the father of actor training and theater-making in the western world, prescribed three levels of the actor’s development: school, studio and theater.

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Construction Time AgainChiller project continues

Construction of the new underground chilled water piping will take place this week along the east/west sidewalk on the northeast side of Faraday Hall.