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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


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Faculty, students rally in support of higher education on Day of Action

April 18, 2025

Faculty and students held a Day of Action for Higher Education across campus Thursday, calling on Northwestern to resist federal pressure amid the Trump administration’s funding freeze, revocations of...

Five faculty members and a graduate student gathered at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum, expressing their concerns about the latest executive orders.

Faculty members express concerns at panel discussing political threats to universities

March 7, 2025

Hundreds of Northwestern students, faculty and staff members flooded the McCormick Foundation Center Forum seats for a panel titled “The University Under Threat” on Thursday night. Some had to sit...

English Prof. Natasha Trethewey (Left) discusses “The House of Being” with history Prof. Leslie Harris (Right)

Former Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey reflects, explores recent book at Chicago Humanities Festival

October 28, 2024

Award-winning poet and English Prof. Natasha Trethewey discussed her latest memoir, “The House of Being,” with moderator and history Prof. Leslie Harris in Galvin Recital Hall on Saturday as part of...

Sketches of people protesting in front of a Black building with chalk-style outlines over a collage of black and white photos of students protesting at the Bursar’s Office in 1968.

55 years after Black student activists occupied the Bursar’s Office, students see unresolved problems and progress

May 22, 2023

Content warning: This article contains discussions of racial violence. When Leslie Harris (Weinberg ’70) thinks back to his college years at Northwestern, he recalls an unwelcoming campus community...

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History Prof. and Organization of Women Faculty co-chairs win Provost Awards for Exemplary Faculty Service

February 7, 2023

History Prof. Laura Hein and Organization of Women Faculty co-Chairs Karen Alter and Leslie Harris won the Provost Awards for Exemplary Faculty Service, the University announced. The award, presented...

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