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Faculty Senate president Robert Hariman speaks during Faculty Senate in May. At Wednesday’s meeting, Senate passed a resolution encouraging The Graduate School to raise the amount of funding provided to STEM graduate students.

Faculty Senate passes resolution encouraging increased funding for STEM graduate students

June 9, 2018

Faculty Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution encouraging The Graduate School to raise the amount of funding provided to science, technology, engineering and mathematics graduate students. The proposal...

Letter to the Editor: A response to Joel Harrison and an Open Letter to Northwestern Graduate Students

May 23, 2018

Dear Joel and colleagues: Let me begin by thanking you for engaging with me in a conversation about funding models for graduate education. My goal is to ensure that you, and all graduate students,...

Rebecca Crown Center, home of The Graduate School. The school announced it will no longer grant interdisciplinary assistantships to sixth-year graduate students.

The Graduate School moves to limit sixth-year student funding

May 22, 2018

The Graduate School is barring some students from using interdisciplinary assistantships to fund their sixth year of study, prompting condemnation from students as some struggle to offset the newly imposed...

Letter to the Editor: An open letter to The Graduate School Dean Teresa Woodruff

May 22, 2018

Dear Dean Woodruff, In your recent email to The Graduate School community, you tried to clarify the school’s decisions to deny funding requests for students beyond their fifth years, emphasizing that...

Nsombi Ricketts. The assistant provost for diversity and inclusion will leave Northwestern to serve as the vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion at the Pratt Institute in New York.

Assistant provost for diversity and inclusion to leave NU for Pratt Institute

April 12, 2018

Assistant provost for diversity and inclusion Nsombi Ricketts will be leaving Northwestern to join the Pratt Institute in July as their vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion. Ricketts said...

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