Tuesday Sept. 4Keynote Address: A Celebration of Learning in the Global Community at 4:00 p.m. in the Auditorium Performance by Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater at 6:00 p.m. in the Auditorium Wednesday, Sept. 5 The Dedication of The Presidents Garden 12:00 p.m. at the northeast corner of the Ronald Williams […]

A second batch of severe storms soaked Chicago’s Northwest Side causing the power to go out at El Centro and moderate flooding at the Main Campus. El Centro was to open on Saturday, Aug 25, but due to the power-outage El Centro stayed closed Saturday. El Centro Director Daniel Lopez […]

Springfield, Ill – Millions of dollars in school aid, worker’s compensation and social services will be sent out across the state immediately according to a press release from the office of State Comptroller Daniel Hynes, now that a budget is in place. Student aid that helps to pay for school […]

The university announced the schedule of events surrounding the Inauguration of President Hahs as president of Northeastern Illinois University. The events are scheduled over a four-day period from Tuesday Sept. 4 through Friday Sept. 7. All events are free and open to students and the whole university community with the […]

Facebook, a widely used social networking website site started for high school and college students, is being sued by a rival website ConnectU for allegedly stealing the site’s idea and source codes for its set up. Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg went to Harvard with the three of the founders […]

Governor Blagojevich approved the $59 billion state budget last week, cutting $500 million in what he considers to be unnecessary spending and redirecting it to healthcare. The move, which has been met with criticism, ended a deadlock in what was a record-setting overtime session of the General Assembly. “In short, […]

In the past, NEIU has been nationally recognized as being the most ethnically diverse institution of high learning in the Midwest. Extracurricular participation from students at NEIU is often lost for several reasons. The first being that we are a commuter campus, second, our university has many students whom continue […]

To many people, the church is a place of sanctuary and refuge, a place where one can go to escape all of the problems of the world. Churches in Hispanic communities where undocumented immigrants tend to live often act as a point of reference, a center where many of the […]

We’ve seen this before: celebrities and rock stars banding together in a bold effort to save the world. It began with “Band Aid” in 1984 in response to the famine in Ethiopia. There was the “Free Tibet” concert, where it was painfully clear that political consciousness was lacking; both on […]

Over the summer the Independent followed several significant developing stories. The following is a re-cap of those events. Summer storm batters main campus shutters El CentroOn June 26 heavy storms flooded and closed the main campus for a day and caused damage at El Centro that closed it for the […]