NIU Today

The parking lot at the West Lincoln Highway offices of Human Resource Services will close at 7 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, for reconstruction as part of ongoing campus improvements. Project completion is expected in late November. HRS will remain open during the work; however, visitors will have difficulty finding places to park. As always, on-campus...

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any federally funded education program or activity. Simply stated, “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be...

Ben Bingle, program coordinator of the Center for NGO Leadership and Development (NGOLD) at NIU, contributed to the recently published public sector human resources book, “Managing People as Assets.” The book, published by Millennium HRM Press, focuses on the challenges posed by public sector human resources management. It relies on case studies of specific human...

Researchers have tapped into what could become a new, and better, tool for human resource professionals trying to predict the success of job candidates. It’s called Facebook. Don Kluemper, a professor of management at Northern Illinois University’s College of Business, and a team of researchers, found that impressions gleaned from a five- to 10-minute perusal...

SURS is offering three Self-Managed Plan (SMP) education seminars for members enrolled in the Self-Managed Plan. These three one-day seminars are scheduled for Thursday, March 8; Thursday, April 12; and Thursday, May 24. All three seminars will be held at the SURS office in Champaign . There is no fee to attend. Lunch will not...

The NIU Professional HR Management Certification Programs have been recognized as one of the nation’s “Top 20” SHRM programs for the past five years. Recognition is based on enrollments and pass rates of course participants that successfully complete the rigorous professional examinations required for awarding the prestigious Professional Human Resources (PHR) and Senior Professional Human...

If your boss is giving you a hard time – lying, making fun of you in public and generally putting you down – he or she might benefit from some exercise, according to a new study by James Burton, who teaches in the Management Department in the NIU College of Business. Burton and his team of researchers found...

NIU Human Resource Services will host its annual blood drive Tuesday, Dec. 6. It will be held on the Heartland Blood Centers’ Mobile Coach, which will be located in the HR parking lot at 1515 W. Lincoln Hwy. in DeKalb. The blood drive will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. The donation process takes about...

Companies are increasingly turning to credit scores as a way of flagging potentially troublesome employees, but there is little data to support that the practice works, says Northern Illinois University researcher Shannon Taylor. “People are basing these hiring decisions on their gut instinct as to what these scores mean. There is no statistical data measuring...