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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


NU AAUP Dispatches: What happened at the April 21 faculty assembly and why it matters

NU AAUP Dispatches: What happened at the April 21 faculty assembly and why it matters

May 30, 2025

Shortly before 10 a.m. on Monday, April 21, my colleagues and I seated in Scott Hall’s Guild Lounge shared nervous smiles. The Spring Faculty Assembly was about to be called to order.  We were attempting...

Pritzker Profs. Sheila Bedi and Lynn Cohn sued the House Committee on Education and Workforce Wednesday after the committee requested records from Pritzker legal clinics for allegedly supporting antisemitism.

House Committee on Education drops Pritzker records request after profs file lawsuit

April 10, 2025

The House Committee on Education and Workforce dropped a records request for two Northwestern Pritzker School of Law legal clinics Thursday morning, The Hill first reported. The withdrawal comes less...

The lawsuit accused President Donald Trump and his congressional allies of targeting political opponents.

Pritzker professors sue House committee for investigating law clinics

April 10, 2025

Two Pritzker professors sued the House Committee on Education and Workforce on Wednesday, demanding it suspend its investigation into their respective law clinics. In a letter dated March 27, the House...

A woman in a green top stands at a podium next to a photo of a man and child.

Sherrilyn Ifill talks recent civil rights movements as keynote speaker for MLK Dream Week

January 24, 2023

Content warning: This story contains mentions of police violence.  Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill reflected on Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech as the keynote speaker for...

Northwestern Prison Education Program Director Jennifer Lackey meets with students at Logan Correctional Facility in a circle.

Northwestern Prison Education Program establishes bachelor’s program to advance education for the incarcerated

May 23, 2022

General Studies student Broderick Hollins first learned about Northwestern and Oakton Community College’s opportunities for incarcerated degree-seekers from a memo board in the Danville Correctional...

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