WHERE STUDENT-ATHLETES COMPLETE REAL DEGREES.

Former NIU athletes now nurses on the front line of pandemic.  Because the story deals with the pandemic, it is currently not paywalled.  "'If things are to get bad, that’s when I feel like this is actually my calling, you know what I mean?' [onetime gymnast Courtney] Dowdell said. 'I'm more than happy to help whenever I can.'" She's on the front lines, at Chicago's Rush Presbyterian.  Stay safe.