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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

The Technological Institute, where many McCormick classes are taught.

McCormick dean: All final exams will be optional for undergraduates

March 15, 2020

The McCormick School of Engineering announced that all outstanding final exams should be made optional in an email sent to students Sunday morning. McCormick’s announcement follows a University email...

Dean Adrian Randolph. Randolph said Weinberg faces a constant struggle of providing enough support for faculty research and ensuring students are free to pursue a curriculum that interests them.

2020 Vision: Weinberg dean Adrian Randolph will continue to push interdisciplinary research, faculty diversity

November 12, 2019

This is the second article in a series called “2020 Vision” which walks through the reflections and hopes student groups, administrators and others throughout Northwestern have on the past few years...

Native American and Indigenous Studies minor is set to launch in the 2020-2021 academic year

November 7, 2019

Weinberg introduced a Native American and Indigenous Studies minor, passed during an October faculty meeting and starting in the 2020-2021 academic year, according to Weinberg associate dean for undergraduate...

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.
A UP officer works outside of Crowe Hall, home to the African-American Studies department. Prof. Barnor Hesse, who works in the African-American Studies department, teaches a course called “Unsettling Whiteness.”

UP investigating racist hate mail sent to Prof. Barnor Hesse

May 8, 2019

University Police is investigating an instance of racist hate mail sent to African American studies Prof. Barnor Hesse on May 2. On May 3, Hesse, who teaches a class called “Unsettling Whiteness,”...

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