Three members of Grounds Maintenance became trapped inside the elevator by Student Health Services in the basement of Building E on the Main Campus. The Independent’s Ryland Roberts interviewed...

fter more than a decade, teaching only as an adjunct professor and returning for workshops hosted by other faculty, Dr. Claudia Mercado has been welcomed back to NEIU’s administration with open arms...

  Updated 5/23/24: This article has been updated with a statement from Chris Childers, NEIUs Executive Director of Marketing and Communications. Janitors at NEIU, also known as Building Service...

Recently the NEIU Student Government Association (SGA) Elections were held from Saturday, April 6 until Friday, April 12. After the week of voting, ballots were tallied and the results were ratified on...

NEIU will receive a federal grant of $145,000 to create a Veterans Resource Center due to the efforts of Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL). This announcement was made by Interim President, Dr. Katrina...

After multiple schoolwide announcements stated that NEIU’s network would undergo disruption over the span of four-and-a-half days, it turns out services were working after all.  NEIU’s University...

In a memorandum sent to NEIU’s Building Service Workers (BSWs), Facilities Management Superintendent Wilfred Rivera announced that all BSWs would begin work at 5 a.m. starting April 1, 2024. According...

A fire alarm in the cafeteria prompted an evacuation of NEIU’s Student Union building on Thursday, March 7th. Eyewitnesses said that, while in line to order food, there was “a little” smoke coming...

Rebecca George, the co-owner of Volumes Bookcafe, posted a video on social media in response to an email received by one of her customers from Barnes and Noble (B&N) CEO James Daunt. The email was...