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February 23, 2024
Faculty, staff and graduate students discussed strategies for fostering meaningful classroom dialogue and supporting students grappling with trauma at an online workshop Thursday morning. The interactive session was sponsored by the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching as part of the One Book One Northwestern program. The workshop was facilitated by Searle Center postdoctoral...
November 1, 2023
The report explains how the media describe and present the strengths, skills, and competence of women and men in appointive positions.
November 1, 2023
Northwestern faculty and staff reflected on how their teaching practices could adapt to the ChatGPT era in an hourlong seminar led by the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching Tuesday. Lauri Dietz, director of pedagogy and curricular development at the Searle Center, guided the session on generative A.I. and the act of reading. “A...
October 31, 2023
The report addresses notable gaps in existing literature by focusing on women holding appointive and non-elective roles.
April 20, 2023
These apps can help you learn how to be more mindful and present.
April 26, 2021
December 9, 2020 "The deep-set nature of gender norms explains why change is slow, and why it demands more than a few individuals changing their own attitudes and behaviour - change is needed across society." Gender norms are the implicit informal rules about appropriate behaviour for people of different genders that most people accept and follow. This report from Overseas Development Initiative (ODI)s Advancing Learning and Innovation on Gender Norms (ALiGN) platfo...
December 29, 2020
29 December 2020 - The recently released partial data from the fifth National Family Health Survey (NFHS 5) has revealed two counts on which the country has regressed. Child nutrition has become worse in the last five years, wiping off our gains of the previous 20 years, and in five states, over 30 per cent of women aged 18-49 years have experienced spousal violence. The percentage of stunted, wasted and underweight children has grown in the majority of states. Rates of stunting have risen in...