The alert first came to students via an emergency notification email: “This is not a drill. A person with a gun has been reported on the Evanston campus. If you are on the Evanston campus, seek...
Jean Shedd, the associate provost for budget, facilities and analysis, will retire at the end of the academic year, according to a Thursday news release.
Shedd served for 42 years at NU and 19 as associate...
Northwestern professors and administrators contributed to “Tell Them We Are Rising,” a new PBS independent film about the role of historically black colleges and universities in American society.
The...
In the documentary “An Outrage,” Provost Jonathan Holloway said it’s important to remember the history of lynchings in the Jim Crow South because the pain and memory carry on for generations.
“Being...
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When filmmakers Lance Warren and Hannah Ayers learned about lynching as young adults, they said it was presented in their education as “a sidebar of American history.”
It was through working...
