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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


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.
Crowe Hall, home to the Asian American Studies and Latina and Latino Studies Programs. Using money from a $2.75 million Andrew W. Mellon grant, the programs will begin hiring faculty without tenure homes in other departments.

New council to aid in hiring Asian American and Latinx studies faculty, though students still push for department status

February 26, 2019

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences has authorized the formation of an Intercultural American Studies Council, a group that will conduct faculty searches to appoint tenure-track professors for the Latina...

Former Mexican President defends Mexican contributions to North American trade during campus speech

Former Mexican President defends Mexican contributions to North American trade during campus speech

October 17, 2018

Just weeks after his country signed on to a revised North American free trade agreement, former president of Mexico Vicente Fox defended the country’s contributions to the pact in response to U.S. President...

Philosophy Prof. Jennifer Lackey speaks at an Evanston Literary Festival event in May 2017. Lackey collaborated with One Book One Northwestern to lead a discussion event with inmates at Stateville Correctional Center on Wednesday.

One Book leads discussion on equality, freedom in maximum security prison

April 11, 2018

CREST HILL, Ill. — When 39-year-old Labron Neal-Bey reads the Declaration of Independence, he said he doesn’t see a document that was written with black Americans like himself in mind. Neal-Bey...

Provost Jonathan Holloway speaks at Faculty Senate. Holloway encouraged students to embrace different perspectives in his convocation speech on Monday.

Administrators encourage students to challenge convictions at convocation speech

September 19, 2017

Provost Jonathan Holloway and vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin encouraged new students to listen to their peers and challenge personal worldviews during convocation Monday. Holloway,...

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