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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

The undergraduate financial office, 1801 Hinman Ave. Education Reform Now is advocating for Northwestern to increase its financial aid commitment to low-income students.

Advocacy organization says Northwestern should retool early decision, eliminate legacy admissions

April 24, 2019

In recent years, Northwestern has made low-income admissions a priority, creating and achieving its “20 by 2020” Pell-eligible initiative to have a minimum of 20 percent of incoming classes be made...

Morton Schapiro, right, and Gary Morson, left, discuss their book “Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities” in 2017. Schapiro and Morson co-authored an op-ed in The Washington Post arguing that more people should think like economists.

‘It’s time for a recommitment to prudence,’ Schapiro writes in a Washington Post op-ed

April 11, 2019

Thinking like an economist could help solve the problems of modern democracy, Northwestern President Morton Schapiro and Slavic languages and literatures Prof. Gary Morson wrote in a Wednesday op-ed in...

Elynnor Sandefer speaks at an ASG Senate meeting. Sandefer said the legislation will provide much needed options for transgender and non-binary students.

ASG passes legislation demanding University immediately expand gender-open housing options

February 14, 2019

Associated Student Government passed legislation asking the University to commit to an “immediate expansion” of gender-open housing options for undergraduate students during Wednesday’s Senate meeting. Currently,...

Hogan Biological Sciences Building, where the Center for Hierarchical Materials Design is located. The center’s primary goal is to accelerate the process of developing new materials while lowering manufacturing costs.

NU-based materials design center receives $25 million grant

January 22, 2019

The Center for Hierarchical Materials Design received a $25 million grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to fund its next five years, according to a Tuesday news release. The...

Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez, who live in Atherton, California, were accused of paying for a proctor to help their two daughters cheat on college entrance exams. The Henriquezes are listed in Northwestern records as parents of an NU student.

Northwestern stays in background as its peers are scrutinized on admission practices

November 20, 2018

As treasured secrets of Harvard’s undergraduate admissions process were forcefully spilled in the lead up to the high-profile trial against the university, colleges began to quiver. It was the first...

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