College students have a history of leading social movements through on-campus traditions, and Northwestern is no different. Students at NU have long been highly active and involved in these movements, protesting on campus and around Evanston to improve the NU community for all. From the Bursar’s Office Takeover of 1968, when Black students held a.
African American Studies faculty voted unanimously on April 6 to change the department’s name to Black Studies, department chair Mary Pattillo told The Daily Monday. In accordance with Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences rules for renaming a department, the change could take about a year to be finalized, Pattillo said in an email to.
McCormick Prof. Josiah Hester and Charla Wilson, who is the archivist for the Black experience at Northwestern libraries, received the 2022 Daniel I. Linzer Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity Tuesday. The award, given by the Office of the Provost, honors individuals or groups for their work to make campus more diverse, equitable.
Northwestern’s Martin Luther King Jr. Dream Week kicked off today with the annual MLK Candlelight Vigil featuring speaker Dr. Jeffrey Sterling (Weinberg ’85). The hourlong virtual event, hosted by the Alpha Mu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, honored Martin Luther King Jr., who was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha at Boston University..
An alumni association of Northwestern’s historically Black fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi, recognized three Black students for their commitment to excellence in academics and community service Friday. The Dr. Clinton Bristow Jr. Award, distributed by the Theta Alumni Association, grants each recipient $1,917, a number chosen to reflect the year NU’s chapter of KAPsi was founded. .