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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

All eight musicians will be taking center stage on Mar. 4 in Galvin Hall.

The annual LEON FORREST Lecture Series is back with a jazzy adjustment

February 29, 2024

On March 4, the annual LEON FORREST Lecture Series will return with an innovative twist.  Rather than featuring distinguished speakers, the event will feature a collaborative Jazz performance from...

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Q&A: Asian American Studies Program Director Nitasha Tamar Sharma discusses importance of ethnic and racial studies

November 10, 2022

Growing up with parents in academia, Asian American Studies Program Director and Weinberg Prof. Nitasha Tamar Sharma knew early on that she wanted to become a professor.  Sharma came to Northwestern...

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Alice Kaplan Institute hosts a conversation on how to cope in the academic world

October 25, 2022

The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities hosted its fall keynote, “Academic Energies: A Conversation Beyond Coping,” on Tuesday. The conversation, part of its 2022-23 yearlong dialogue “ENERGIES,”...

Illustration of silhouettes of student activists holding up a sign reading, Ethnic Studies.

‘They’re not supplementary’: Ethnic studies students, professors continue years-long advocacy for AASP and LLSP departmentalization

May 20, 2021

Since students led a 23-day hunger strike in 1995 to institute the Asian American Studies Program, the demands of activists have continued to be linked to ethnic studies at Northwestern. Starting in...

Hamstrung by a lack of departmental status, Northwestern’s ethnic studies programs have – until recently – been barred from hiring tenure-track faculty exclusive to their fields, leading to a turnover crisis.

Doing double: Ethnic studies programs — suffering funding and faculty dearth, high turnover rates, intense working conditions — demand structure reform

May 30, 2019
Hamstrung by a lack of departmental status, Northwestern’s ethnic studies programs have — until recently — been barred from hiring tenure-track faculty exclusive to their fields. The result has been massive turnover.
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