Our faculty are here for you!
Making your future our focus
With over 1,100 instructional faculty and a student/faculty ratio of 16:1, we will be sure you get the attention you need to succeed.
NIU faculty are scholars, teachers, researchers, mentors and academic leaders who bring their broad range of diversity in expertise, experiences and backgrounds into the classroom and beyond.
Jamie Mayer
Associate professor, School of Allied Health and Communicative Disorders
Holly Jones
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and the Institute for the Study of the Environment, Sustainability and Energy
Jennifer Jacobs
Assistant professor in Kinesiology and Physical Education
Gudrun Nyunt
Assistant professor, Counseling and Higher Education
“I like the classroom settings at NIU. I feel that they’re small enough for me to be engaged and I’ve had the chance to connect with my professors and have one-on-one time with them.”
Glennita Williams,
Political science major