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.
Leading media executives discussed objectivity, social media, the pandemic, diversity, equity and inclusion at a Thursday panel. The virtual event, “Does the News Represent Us? The State of Journalism from Those Who Shape It,” celebrated the Medill School of Journalism’s Centennial. But it also featured some of the “brightest minds in the country” addressing the.
In Waterloo, Iowa, a young Black woman faced a crossroads at her predominantly white high school: tell the stories of her and her Black classmates or stay silent. Nikole Hannah-Jones, Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of The 1619 Project and staff writer for the New York Times Magazine, decided to take on the challenge. Today, she’s made.
This year’s keynote speaker is Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and creator of the New York Times’ 1619 Project. The programs are free and open to the public.
Medill’s newest scholarship for graduate students dedicated to social justice reporting honors renowned journalist Darran Simon (Medill ’04), who died in April 2020. The Darran Simon Memorial Scholarship will have a fund of $100,000 and be awarded yearly to a Medill graduate student, in perpetuity. The scholarship was founded after classmates reached out to Medill.