Hagelman, Jr. With enrollments rising rapidly 18, in , Hagelman undertook an ambitious and broad hiring program, offering positions to newly-minted Ph. Hagelman, a well-known scholar of the Romantic Period, began to shape the department as it currently exists, a graduate and an undergraduate division offering the BA, the MA with seven concentrations, and the Ph. Professor Hagelman's contributions to the department's evolution are memorialized in a scholarship in his name, granted to students participating in the department's summer program established in at Oxford University's Oriel College in the United Kingdom.
Founded by Robert Self, a popular sister program to the departmental course offerings in Oxford operates each summer in Dublin, Ireland. Today, NIU is a comprehensive teaching and research institution with a diverse student body of more than 25,, and the English Department is one of the University's largest, most active and most distinguished departments. We intend to cultivate cultured human resources with a rich sense of humanity through the culture of tea ceremony as a comprehensive art.
I would like them to become human resources that can contribute to the local community and are valued and loved by the local people.
A new school term has just started this spring when wild cherry blossoms are in full bloom here and there in fields, and someiyoshino blossoms fully blooming in our campus and riversides. It seems like cherry blossoms are congratulating our freshmen's new campus life. All of the faculty members and current students would like to give all of you who are enrolled and have just started your university life at Nagasaki International University NIU this April a warm welcome.
NIU commemorates its 18th anniversary this year. Starting with the Faculty of Human and Social Studies, our university established the Faculty of Health Management, the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and the Graduate schools in succession, and has grown to have about 2, students.
Aiming for globalization as well as glocalization, we have concluded international exchange agreements with 54 universities in 11 counties and regions. About international students enrolled are from these counties and regions. Sasebo city, where NIU is located, has long been known as a cosmopolitan city, and has actively interacted with the US, as there is a U. The city also attracts attention as a sightseeing spot, with the number of cruise ships from foreign countries to Sasebo expected to increase.
We hope that our students will grow as global-minded persons while experiencing different cultures. NIU's policy is to foster a spirit of respect for human beings with hospitality and develop talented human resources who can contribute to society, so that we always look for the best ways to provide enhanced education and training, contributing to society by keeping the idea of "student first" in mind.
We have just introduced active learning methods into all subjects this academic year for active and proactive learning, and installed three "Learning Commons," which are places and facilities on campus such as the university library to support students' learning, as part of improving the learning environment to enhance the motivation for leaning, establish close ties and improve communication with faculties.
Having said that, your efforts are more important than anything else for better learning. In keeping with the saying, "there is no genius that bests hard work," the sum of efforts will make your future life enriched. In addition to learning, please enjoy club activities such as sports and culture on our campus. Sports teams at the university are known as Huskies. Students and faculty in from the college of visual and performing arts host many art exhibitions, musical concerts and theatrical and dance productions throughout the year.
Skip to main content. United States. Get free study advice Courses. As the central campus continued to develop, protestors in calling themselves the Arboretum 12 chained themselves to trees to block the encroaching construction equipment. President Leslie Holmes later described the ongoing arboretum controversy as the most difficult problem of his presidency.
Expressing regret for earlier decisions made in the name of progress, President Rhoten Smith encouraged the development of a new environmental area on the west side of campus, a wooded preserve north of the Lorusso Lagoon, called Eco Park. Animal lovers, or unsuspecting freshman biology students, could visit rabbits Jerry June and Cotton-tale; raccoons Mr. Other animals that could be seen included fox snakes, frogs, toads, alligators, turtles, salamanders, lizards, fish, snails, guinea pigs, flying squirrels, fox squirrels, Belgian hares, and eagles.
The zoo not only served as a learning opportunity for students but also as an outreach program for elementary learning in the surrounding community — putting pedagogy and curricula taught in the classroom into practice. Biology Professor Fred L. Charles was instrumental in developing and caring for the menagerie. A big fox snake, four-footer, was captured on the campus and brought to the laboratory. Extensive effort was given to representing all groups, past or present, using the resources available to the th Anniversary Exhibit Committee.
We acknowledge that histories for groups or events may be missing from the timeline; however, this was not done with intention. Please consider adding your Huskie history to the University Archives to be preserved for future generations.
WPA workers completed the construction of the circle drive in Kiwanis skating bench built. Restaurant built on the east side of. Farwell Hall closed. When the doors opened September 12, , the next phase of the university was already beginning. Every student — from on — has helped us to grow into the institution we are today. The board of trustees, administration, faculty, staff and community built the foundation of the university.
But it is our students who have always breathed life and brought shape into our ever-changing home. The middle bar of the timeline shows various local and world events to help give the viewer context. Consider how these events effected our campus and how we in turn influenced the world around us.
Northern Illinois State Normal School opened with students women, 27 men. September 12, First student athletic coach, John L. First official seal.
The Marching Band started with 14 members. Now nearly strong. School Colors selected yellow and white. Northern Illinois, published its first issue 14 pages long. All but 3 of the enrolled students subscribed, raising the necessary funds to publish it. The monthly student newspaper was conceived by Prof.
Fred L. First library book purchased; Legends of the Virgin and Christ by H. Campus Wood was part of the plus acre tract of land that was given by Joseph Glidden. School color debate — While the school colors were yellow and white, the class of had its own color: Sky Blue. First commencement included 16 graduates; first alumni organization formed same day. June 21, First NIU alumni gathering precursor to homecoming.
Northern Illinois Athletic Association adopted cardinal and black as official colors. Rah, Rah! Northern Normal! Zoo removed from campus; animals transferred to Urbana where Professor Fred L. Charles took new job. First memorial fund in memory of Professor Fred L.
Charles established. First nurse employed by student health services Virginia Weinhold. April 6, Unenumerated, reduced yearbook produced to honor war efforts. The students decided to take the money that they would have spent on a yearbook and put it toward the purchase of an ambulance to be used in France during WWI. In recognition of athletics pioneer George G.
WPA artist Gregory Orloff painted murals of campus life. Full undergraduate accreditation granted by North Central Association. April 19, Elzie Cooper first African American studentathlete and first minority to earn a varsity letter. From , he played football, basketball and baseball.
Extension program inaugurated; first faculty taught extension classes offered at area high schools beginning in First year enrollment exceeded 1, 1, First football game broadcasted WMRO. November 11, First All-American male athlete William Terwilliger, decathlon. First commencement held at the lagoon.
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