Successful Students and Alumni

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Welcome, Huskies! We're proud of our current students and our alumni. Read on to hear what your amazing things our students and alumni have been doing! We'd love to know what you've been doing, whether that be last year or way back. So send us your news, and we'll let your fellow Huskies know what you've been up to.


Featured Students and Alumni

Stephanie Polito (M.A.) is currently studying for her Master in Nonprofit Administration at Notre Dame University intending to continue her work as an activist fighting human trafficking. Crediting Prof. Eric Mogren and the late Prof. David Kyvig for helping her succeed at NIU, Polito writes “Graduating from NIU gave me a confidence boost that I never had before. I am so proud of my Huskie pedigree!”


Alumnus of the Year

cargileClint Cargile (M.A., 2014) is an author, editor, historian, and radio producer. Mr. Cargile earned his MFA in fiction from Southern Illinois University and his MA in history from Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Five Mile Spur Line: A Railroad History of Sycamore, Illinois (2014) and In Search of a Fair Wind: The Sea Letters of Georgia Townsend Yates, 1891-1892 (2017). He is also the creator and host of Drinkin' with Lincoln on WNIJ, Northern Public Radio, where he fulfills two of his lifelong passions: drinking beer and talking to Abraham Lincoln.

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