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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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Northwestern Graduate Workers continue pushing for unionization, form group for disabled students

November 3, 2021

Last month, Columbia University’s graduate student union voted to authorize a strike. Mere weeks later, graduate students at Harvard University went on a three-day strike. There is a “real movement”...

NUGW: President-Elect Blank will continue Schapiro’s legacy of harm

NUGW: President-Elect Blank will continue Schapiro’s legacy of harm

October 28, 2021

On Oct. 11, Northwestern announced Rebecca Blank, currently chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as University President Morton Schapiro’s successor. President-elect Blank’s track record...

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The Daily Explains: How years of advocacy led to new contract between Northwestern’s service workers and Compass Group

October 25, 2021

After more than two years of advocacy, Northwestern’s subcontracted dining and service workers voted Oct. 18 to ratify a new contract with Compass Group, the University’s food service provider. The...

Within the new union, Northwestern’s library workers hope to negotiate with the University for better benefits.

Northwestern University Library Workers unionize, march to Provost’s office

October 13, 2021

Over 130 Northwestern library workers announced their unionization at a Tuesday assembly.  The workers organized at The Rock at noon, then marched to Provost Kathleen Hagerty’s office to deliver...

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Graduate student advocacy groups reflect on progress made, demands still unmet under Dean Mayo

May 9, 2021

When Ph.D. student Sarah Peko-Spicer came to Northwestern in 2015, she worried about finding community as one of two Black graduate students in the statistics department. But the transition was not as...

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