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Northern Today - February 4, 2008

President John Peters and Provost Ray AldenGreat Journeys
Members of campus move
strategic planning work ahead

NIU’s strategic planning process continues to gain focus and momentum.

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Carolinda DouglassGreat Journeys: Student Success
Task force explores ways to retain students

Carolinda Douglass, chair of the Task Force on Student Success, truly cannot imagine a better place to work than a university campus.

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David ChangnonGreat Journeys: Curricular Innovation
Task force members look
in mirror first, crystal ball second

Like all parents, David Changnon looks at his child and glimpses the future.

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Matthew StrebMatthew Streb's new book
touts less-is-more approach
to U.S. democracy

NIU Political Scientist Matthew Streb says the presidential primary season need not be as long and grueling as a Chicago winter.

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White CityUCLA architectural historian
will give virtual tour
of 1893 Columbian Exhibition

Nearly a century ago, some of the world’s top architects transformed a portion of Chicago’s South Side into a gleaming “White City” for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition.

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Northern Star Web logoNorthern Star alumni to sponsor
Feb. 23 symposium on new media

A symposium, “Exploring the New Media,” is slated for 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center.

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