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Student leaders, staff discuss new Gender Sexuality Resource Center

Many students, like Communication senior Jo Scaletty, came to Northwestern looking for people who can understand challenges that can come with having queer identities.  “I feel like I have a perception that queer people just kind of find each other,” Scaletty, who is also external president of Rainbow Alliance, said. “I think it’s sometimes bizarre...
United States Nikolai Ortiz Jo Scaletty Matthew Abtahi Lexi Goldstein Claire Schwartz

Are Northwestern's issue-based task forces accomplishing change?

When reviewing Northwestern’s biennial senior survey with the Division of Student Affairs, Assistant Vice President for Inclusion Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson noticed Black Students were less satisfied with their undergraduate education than their peers. However, the data did not specify why. “If we were going to try to improve something, then how would we know what to...
United States Davis Giangiulio Megan Blackwelder Jon Yates Charles Whitaker Lesley Ann Brown Henderson

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Faculty Senate approves resolution to expand all-gender restrooms on campus

Northwestern’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to increase access to all-gender bathrooms on campus. The action passed the Senate with a 96% majority vote and follows years of student activism. It was initially recommended in 2019 by the University’s Gender Queer, Non-Binary and Trans Task Force. The Social Responsibility Committee, with input from Communication...
United States Annie May Swift Hall Technological Institute Pat Fitzgerald Annenberg Hall Riley Boksenbaum

Faculty Senate approves resolution to expand all-gender restrooms on campus

Northwestern’s Faculty Senate passed a resolution Wednesday to increase access to all-gender bathrooms on campus. The action passed the Senate with a 96% majority vote and follows years of student activism. It initially recommended in 2019 by the University’s Gender Queer, Non-Binary and Trans Task Force. The Social Responsibility Committee, with input from Communication Prof....
United States Annie May Swift Hall Technological Institute Pat Fitzgerald Annenberg Hall Riley Boksenbaum

Northwestern must implement all-gender bathrooms now, some faculty say

City policies and a lack of University action have put the push for universal all-gender bathroom access on hold — and some Faculty Senate members emphasized at a Wednesday meeting that Northwestern must act now.  A Gender Queer, Non-Binary and Trans Task Force report published in winter 2020 recommended ensuring access to all-gender bathrooms to...
Luis Amaraland David Schoenbrun Owen Stidman Kyle Henry Robert Holmgren Isabel Funk Steven Adams

LGBTQ+ affinity groups serve faculty, staff and law students

After years of scattered affinity groups and a pandemic that forced community members apart, LGBTQ+ faculty and staff at Northwestern established Out Network Evanston in 2020. Out Network Evanston has since amassed over 100 members. The organization recently submitted paperwork to the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion seeking recognition as an official affinity group at the University. Like OUTLaw, an affinity group exclusively for Pritzker School of Law students, Out Network Evan...
United States Brent Turner Matthew Abtahi Gloria Cang Wendy Klunk Network Evanston

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