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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


Students march to a Board of Trustees meeting in 2014 to ask Northwestern to divest its endowment funds from the coal industry. After four years of debates, discussion and waiting, Fossil Free Northwestern wants to see concrete action on the University’s divestment from nonrenewable energy.

The battle for fossil fuel divestment: How students are rebuilding a movement in the face of defeat and bureaucracy

February 25, 2019

It was 2015, and everything was falling into place for Fossil Free Northwestern. For one, the group had won student support: In a referendum included on the Associated Student Government presidential...

Feinberg Prof. Philip Greenland, chair of the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. The ACIR has received its first investment proposal over two years after the committees founding.

Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility gains traction two years after its founding

February 25, 2019

Having received its first proposal earlier this year, the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility began to gain traction nearly two years after it was founded with a mission to guide ethical investments...

Members of the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. Fossil Free Northwestern urged the committee to move forward with a proposal calling on the University to divest itself of all holdings in fossil fuel companies and reinvest in green energy.

First proposal submitted to ACIR demands University divestment from fossil fuel companies

February 20, 2019

In the first proposal ever submitted to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, members of Fossil Free Northwestern called on the University to divest itself of all holdings in the top 100...

Rebecca Crown Center. Administrators Thursday announced the launch of a search committee to find a new vice president and general counsel

Search committee launched to find new vice president and general counsel

February 12, 2019

Northwestern administrators launched a committee Thursday to search for a new vice president and general counsel to take the place of Philip Harris, according to a University news release. Harris, who...

University President Morton Schapiro. Schapiro discussed the $94 million budget deficit, CAPS funding and non-tenure-oriented faculty at a Wednesday Q&A.

Despite deficit, President Schapiro says ‘no constraint’ on student services funding

January 24, 2019

University President Morton Schapiro discussed the budget deficit and controversial visiting evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa during a Wednesday question-and-answer session. Schapiro’s “Southwest...

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