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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


In Focus: Northwestern’s graduate student unionization effort diverges despite common cause

In Focus: Northwestern’s graduate student unionization effort diverges despite common cause

March 3, 2017

As a graduate student instructor, LaCharles Ward always considered himself a Northwestern employee. The fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication grew up on the West Side of Chicago,...

The Graduate School set to launch new child care grants

September 27, 2016

Northwestern will provide child care grants for eligible graduate student parents to use at any licensed daycare or in-home provider, effective Oct. 1. The grant will be available to graduate students...

The Graduate School expands parental leave policy following years-long push from students

September 14, 2016

More graduate students will have access to parental leave for a longer period of time, following policy changes from The Graduate School effective this fall. Before Sept. 1, only women who gave birth...

Graduate student Matilda Stubbs holds her son, Cosmos. Stubbs is part of the NU Student Parent Alliance, a group concerned about its lack of representation on a University-appointed task force formed to examine the problems that graduate student parents face.

Graduate student parents raise concerns about representation on task force

October 22, 2015

A coalition of graduate student parents say they are not represented by a task force formed this quarter to examine the experience of graduate student parents. Announced this month, the task force does...

Student parents push for more resources in meeting with provost

April 30, 2015

Between writing their dissertations, working as teaching assistants and class instructors, and holding other jobs on and off campus, graduate students have a lot of demands that take up their time. For...

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