Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual violence. Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership, the undergraduate wing of Northwestern Prison Education Program, hosted two panelists at University Hall on Tuesday to discuss women’s unequal treatment in correctional facilities through an intersectional lens. The event featured three topics: healthcare barriers, violence from correctional officers and the limitations.
The English department will change its major and minor requirements to make them more “appealing and accessible,” it announced Friday. The department will adopt “Historical Breadth” courses in favor of survey courses. Specific identity and culture categories will also replace three former required class categories — Identities, Communities and Social Practice; Transnationalism and Textual Circulation;.
Northwestern’s Office of Human Resources will roll out changes to systems and benefits over the next several months. These include changes to the timekeeping system, alterations to the Tuition Assistance benefit and updated guidance for hiring practices. As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, the office is also exploring long-term alternative work strategies and.