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J. Landis Martin (Kellogg ’68, Pritzker ’73), the former chair of Northwestern’s Board of Trustees and one of NU’s largest benefactors, died Friday at 77. J. Landis Martin served on the Board of Trustees from 1999 until 2022, spending his last five years as the board’s chair until his term ended in August 2022. J....
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Northwestern plans to endow multiple new professorships in the Pritzker School of Law after receiving a $3 million donation from J. Landis Martin (Kellogg ’68, Pritzker ’73) and his wife Sharon Martin. To increase donations to the school, the Martins also established a matching challenge with the $3 million, resulting in the creation of the...
Four distinguished individuals, including commencement speaker Isabel Wilkerson, will receive honorary degrees from Northwestern University. An acclaimed author and gifted storyteller, Wilkerson will receive her honor and deliver her address June 13 during Northwestern’s 164th commencement ceremony at Ryan Field.
J. Landis Martin, chair of Northwestern’s Board of Trustees, answered questions from faculty members about retirement funds and diversifying the Board of Trustees at Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting. Martin began the meeting by discussing his biggest accomplishments from his term as chair of the board. “I’m so proud (of) Northwestern’s first-class teaching and interdisciplinary research...
Northwestern’s Faculty Senate discussed topics related to NU’s acceptance rate and faculty representation in administrative decisions Wednesday night after hearing from the Chair of the Board of Trustees J. Landis Martin. Faculty Senate President and Molecular Biosciences Prof. Robert Holmgren said NU has a “very low” admission rate and the University would like to continue...
The Northwestern University student government overwhelmingly passed a resolution for the recusal of the school’s chairman of the Board of Trustees from its presidential search committee because of his conservative views.
Northwestern Now Search committee established to find the next Northwestern president Committee of 36 members, representing the University’s many stakeholder groups, will seek broad input from across the Northwestern community The Presidential Search Committee has been appointed to advise the Board of Trustees in selecting the University’s next president, Board Chair J. Landis Martin announced today. Last month, President Morton Schapiro announced that he will conclude his tenure on Aug. 31, 2022. Since he took office in September 2009 as the 16th president in Northwestern’s 170-year history, the University has elevated its status as a leader in research and teaching. Under Schapiro’s leadership, undergraduate applications have nearly doubled — as has representation from underrepresented student groups — and the acceptance rate has dropped from 27% to 7%. Annual funding for sponsored research activity has risen 86%, from $476.9 million in 2009 to $887.3 million in 2020. And, bolstered by one of the most successful fundraising campaigns in higher education history, which has raised $5.3 billion to date, the University has more than doubled its endowment from $5.8 billion to $12.2 billion.