The Department of Nursing just announced new cohorts popping up in locations near you.  In a cohort, you’ll attend class with the same people throughout all the courses, and you will know your entire schedule from the beginning.  The nice part about this is that you’ll get to know your classmates and come to rely on them in many ways.  Another benefit – we have found that students in cohorts are more likely to complete their degrees.

New Cohorts:

• Elgin Community College: Spring 2010 and Spring 2012
• Harper College:  Fall 2008 and Fall 2010
• Waubonsee Community College: Fall 2009 and Fall 2011

Visit www.niu.edu/offcampusacademics/nursing/ to see program requirements and discover how much a bachelor’s degree in nursing can advance your career as an RN.

In the past, many of our nursing cohorts were located in hospitals.  Moving forward, you’ll notice that most cohorts will reside inside community colleges all across Northern Illinois.  NIU believes that learning is best conducted in educational environments—and lucky for you—NIU doesn’t make you come to DeKalb.

Check back often to see if new cohorts are available in your area!

Amanda

If you haven’t already noticed, you’ll soon catch on to another change here at the NIU View.  My partner in crime, Elena, has moved on to a new position in New York City.  Elena is now working for Games for Change.  G4C offers support to organizations interested in using games to evoke social change.  I bet Elena already gained a new perspective into the world of education and digital gaming—especially how the two complement each other.  I am working on getting her to check in with us every now and then—just to keep us posted on what is happening in her world.
You’ll notice she picked up where she left off on the blogging front—you can check her new blog out at http://www.gamesforchange.org/g4cblog. 

We wish her the best!!

Amanda

You may have noticed a VERY long absence here at NIU View.  I am happy to announce the good news—WE’RE BACK!!  I am thrilled to be blogging, posting, and podcasting—focusing my attention on the information relevant to NIU’s off-campus and online students.  During the upcoming months, we’ll spend our time adding new content, changing our landing page slightly, adding an html site to the View, and driving traffic to this fabulous site so that we may start some great conversations regarding NIU and adult and online students.

Welcome back!! Amanda

I just dropped by Scott’s (our fabulous designer) office and he is almost done with a new room inside of the house.  He is developing a study and embedding links to all kinds of interesting places.  You’ll be able to access each of our off-campus program pages as well as get to the university libraries through “the study.”

 As always, he has a few more surprises in store for you as well.  Elena or I will let you know when it is up and running and you can check it out.

 Reminder–let us know what you would like to see in the house or read about in one of our blogs.  We need to hear from you!!

Talk to you later,

Amanda

I am so excited to announce that NIU is hosting chat sessions for our adults and prospective students who don’t have time to get attend an open house at one of our Outreach Centers. 

Chat sessions will work just like the open houses–only during chats, you’ll have the opportunity to speak with current students as well. 

Registration begins in early September, but I wanted to let you all know that we have chosen the dates:

Open house at NIU Rockford: October 4, 5:30-8:00

Nursing for RNs: October 10, 12:00 noon

Computer Science: October 17, 12:00 noon

Industrial Technology and Management: October 23, 12:00 noon

Elementary Education: October 24, 12:00 noon

Transfer Center Coordinator (general information about transferring to NIU): October 25, 12:00 noonI hope to see (or hear) you all at one of these events, AC