Help Support the Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) Program!

Powering the Profession provides funding to Higher Education and Student Affairs students at NIU to engage in professional development, including organization memberships and conference attendance.

Professional development and networking opportunities are the cornerstone to establishing and advancing careers. With the expense of tuition, many students do not have the capacity to include professional development in their budgets. Additionally, HESA has very limited resources to support our students in engaging outside of the program in skill development, building networks, participating in scholarly conversations and presenting research and newly discovered knowledge.

Powering the Profession would establish a fund to provide financial support for a variety of career development and networking opportunities, including professional organization membership, regional and national conference participation, and opportunities to submit proposals and present at conferences (often co-presenting with our faculty).

We hope to expand this campaign to an annual giving event championed and led by HESA alumni.