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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


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 committee's founding.

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

February 24, 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 19, 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...

J.B. Pritzker resigned from Northwestern’s Board of Trustees in December following his election to the Illinois governorship.

J.B. Pritzker will no longer serve on Northwestern’s Board of Trustees

January 17, 2019
The billionaire Democrat resigned from his position on Dec. 3 after winning the November gubernatorial election by a 15-point margin, Northwestern spokesman Bob Rowley said in an email to The Daily. Pritzker (School of Law ‘93) has served on the board since 2004, and has donated millions of dollars to the University, including a $100 million gift to the School of Law in 2015.
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