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International Expertise of NIU Faculty

Quality teaching, research, and professional activities are highly valued at NIU. As a first-class comprehensive public university, NIU has a faculty that includes outstanding experts active in varied scholarly and practical pursuits. Many serve as consultants to business, industry, education, and government. NIU's accomplished faculty includes more than 60 Fulbright recipients.

Technical consulting has been provided by faculty to many different countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe with the core of consulting occurring in Kuwait, Mexico, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Germany, Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. The foreign language skills of NIU's faculty are well developed, and a significant number of faculty members are fluent in Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Thai.

Faculty specializations at NIU include the following:

  • Advocacy and Networking
  • Agricultural Genetics
  • Biotechnology
  • Civil Society and Citizen Participation
  • Community Development
  • Community Health
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Democracy and Governance
  • Distance Learning/Education
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Economic Development
  • Education Management
  • Educational Technology
  • Environmental Management/Conservation
  • Environmental Economics
  • Financial Management
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Human/Institutional Capacity Building
  • Human Resource Management
  • Hydrogeology
  • Information Management Systems
  • Labor-management Relations

 
  • Local Government
  • Management Information Systems
  • Media Management and Law
  • Natural Resource Management
  • Non-formal/Adult Education
  • Child and Maternal Nutrition
  • Organizational Management
  • Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Poverty
  • Project Development/Management
  • Reproductive Health and Family Planning
  • School Business Administration
  • Social Impact Assessment
  • Strategic Planning
  • Sustainable Development
  • Teacher Education
  • Training of Trainers
  • Water/Waste Management
  • Women in Development

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Notices:

ACCESS - Philippines Program - "Bridging the Gap"