The Northerner

Faculty pushes for evaluation updates

Zachary Rogers, Contributing writer

The Northern Kentucky University Teaching Effectiveness and Enhancement Committee (TEEC) has restructured the end-of-semester course evaluations in hopes that the new form will allow for more meaningful...

NKU’s gen ed program to receive checkup

Zachary Rogers, Staff writer

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges will be visiting Northern Kentucky University this April 22 and 23 to reevaluate the new Foundations of Knowledge general education...

Budget cuts dependent on Senate decision

Zachary Rogers, Staff writer

The proposed 6.4 percent budget cut that could affect all of Northern Kentucky University’s state funds recently passed in the Kentucky House of Representatives. Although unofficial until the Senate...

Housing, dining costs on the rise

Zachary Rogers, Staff writer

Students at Northern Kentucky University should expect an increase in price of on-campus services. NKU Campus Housing and Dining will be increasing the cost of housing and residential meal plans. Campus...

New housing plans making room for more connections

Zachary Rogers, Staff writer

To better accommodate incoming first year students, and in an attempt to promote participation in school events, Northern Kentucky University Housing will revamp the program known as “The Norse Experience.”...

Students fight for more funding at the capitol

Zachary Rogers, Staff writer

It was brisk and seasonable the morning of Feb. 7, and around 100 Northern Kentucky University students took this time to gather outside the Student Union building. Each waited patiently to sign up, grab...

Students called to fight for funds

Zachary Rogers, Staff writer

On February 7, 2012, students from Northern Kentucky University will travel to Frankfort to join others in sending a unified message: that the legislative body of Kentucky should be investing in higher...

Leaky roofs and rain don’t mix

Zachary Rogers

Thanks to the wonderful natural phenomenon known as “rain” and the fact that many structures on Northern Kentucky University’s campus have flat roofing, students should be on the lookout for falling...

Founders getting a facelift?

Zachary Rogers

Northern Kentucky University plans on renovating Founders Hall by adding an extension, the Health Innovations Center, that will double the size of the facility -- but only if they can find $92 million...

‘Gay’ marriage: more than a title

Zachary Rogers

Twenty-year-old Zach Wahls has been on YouTube, MSNBC and even the Ellen DeGeneres Show. He has become a spokesman for same-sex marriage ever since he defended his two lesbian mothers to Iowa legislators....

False positives: Forcing faculty evaluations skews results (Editorial)

Zachary Rogers

The Northern Kentucky University Office of the Registrar has sent out a notification that they will withhold student grades, transcript requests and degree audits by two weeks if a student does not complete...

Do you know Bob Durstock?

Zachary Rogers

You may have seen the apparel—shirts with a bearded, bespectacled silhouette of a man with the letters “IKBD” boldly written across them. You may have wondered what the reasoning behind the shirt...