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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
