Celebrate Your Legacy as a Golden Huskie!
The Golden Huskie Alumni Network invites all Golden Huskies (graduates from 50+ years ago) to join them in making a difference at NIU.
Help Huskies Finish Strong
When you attended NIU, tuition was around $400 a year. Today, it’s nearly $15,000—and more than half of our students are the first in their families to attend college. Many of those students work long hours just to stay enrolled. Some face impossible choices like paying tuition or fixing the car they need to get to class.
This is where you come in.
The Golden Huskie Promise Expendable Fund, a proud extension of NIU’s Huskie Promise initiative and part of NIU's FORWARD campaign, empowers students to overcome financial barriers and thrive—inside and outside the classroom. Your gift supports scholarships, hands-on learning, career development, and emergency aid.
Boost Your Giving Power!
When $50,000 is raised for the Golden Huskie Promise Expendable Fund, Double Huskies Glenn ’73 and Sharon Hollister, ’92, inspired by their belief in the power of student support, will match that amount with a $50,000 gift to establish their own Golden Huskie Promise Endowment Fund. An expendable fund provides immediate, short-term support using donated funds that can be spent right away, while an endowment fund is invested to generate ongoing funding, offering long-term, sustainable support.
Participate in our friendly class competition* to see which class year can raise the most toward our $50,000 goal! You can choose your class year when you make your gift!
Class Year | Total Gifts | Total Fundraised |
| 1969 and prior | 2 | $1,100 |
| 1970 | 2 | $175 |
| 1971 | 2 | $550 |
| 1972 | 0 | $0 |
| 1973 | 8 | $8,675 |
| 1974 | 8 | $2,050 |
| 1975 | 5 | $5,775 |
| Other | 2 | $1,986 |
*Updated as of 3.5.26
Additional Ways to Make Your Impact:
Interested in starting your own named Golden Huskie expendable or endowment fund, or leaving NIU in your estate plan? Please contact Liz McKee at Lmckee1@niu.edu or (815) 753-7400.
You can also make a gift to any designation. To support any area at NIU, click “Give Now” at the top of this page, select “Fund Designation,” choose “Other,” and type in where you'd like your impact to be felt (see below).
Save the date for the opportunity to connect with fellow Golden Huskies during Homecoming (Oct. 8-10, 2026).
