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Northwestern summer course will apply 'queer and trans of color critique' to analyze sexuality studies

Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies is offering a virtual summer course that will analyze art …

By Brendan McDonald '25
Apr 17, 2025

Trump admin. hits Cornell, Northwestern with $1.79B funding freeze over anti-Semitism

Northwestern University has been at the center of several anti-Semitic controversies covered by Campus Reform.

By Elad Vaida
Apr 9, 2025

Northwestern student group offers free 'Plan B Hotline' to advance 'healthy sexuality'

Northwestern University’s Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators group has launched an initiative to provide free…

By Jeanine Yuen '25
Apr 2, 2025

Anti-Israel prof who compared Israel to Nazi Germany denied tenure, calls it 'political hit job'

An anti-Israel activist and Northwestern assistant professor says he was denied tenure and his employment will end …

By Campus Reform
Mar 24, 2025

Biden admin gave $1.3M grant to Northwestern institute that offered BIPOC-only program

Northwestern University’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing offered a program for gradu…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Mar 17, 2025

Northwestern University and University of Alaska remove DEI pages following Trump’s executive order

Both universities have joined the growing trend of schools cracking down on DEI following President Trump’s executi…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Mar 3, 2025

Department of Justice anti-Semitism task force plans visits to 10 college campuses, including Northwestern and Harvard

The Department of Justice anti-Semitism task force announced Friday it would visit 10 college campuses across the c…

By Adam Sabes
Feb 28, 2025

Northwestern accused of using questionable CAIR data in anti-discrimination programming

Northwestern University incorporates allegedly unverified data from the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR…

By Campus Reform
Feb 27, 2025

Northwestern University to offer course on ‘Unsettling Whiteness’

The school’s Department of Black Studies is offering the course.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Jan 12, 2025

‘Climate justice’ group calls on Northwestern University to become ‘fossil free campus’

The group accused the university of ‘greenwashing’ and called on it to adopt an even more radical environmentalist …

By Elad Vaida
Jan 2, 2025

2024: 5 Title VI investigations

Several universities found themselves accused of violating federal civil rights laws in 2024. Here are five example…

By Natalie Eaton
Dec 23, 2024

Northwestern offering ‘Beyond Porn: Sexuality, Health and Pleasure’ course next semester that includes discussion of ‘threesomes’ and ‘butt plugs’

Northwestern University's Gender & Sexuality Studies Program is offering the course.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Nov 20, 2024

Northwestern law students working on changing legal names for transgender-identifying people

The work is part of the recently formed LGBTQI+ Rights Clinic at the Pritzker School of Law.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Oct 26, 2024

Northwestern University quietly ends relationship with Al Jazeera: EXCLUSIVE

Al Jazeera has been called ‘the voice of Qatar’s regime.’

By Brendan McDonald '25
Oct 8, 2024

Northwestern University bans fat jokes

Making weight-related jokes counts as ‘harassing conduct that may create a hostile environment.’

By Patrick McDonald '26
Sep 13, 2024

Northwestern University reportedly suspends professor, places him under investigation after participation in anti-Israel encampment

Northwestern University has reportedly suspended a professor and placed him under further investigation after he pa…

By Adam Sabes
Sep 8, 2024

MARSCHALL: There is no more 'back to campus' after universities surrendered to pro-Hamas mobs

There is no 'back to campus.' Not anymore. The cultural barriers and physical demarcations that once separated soci…

By Zachary Marschall, PhD
Aug 27, 2024

Northwestern offering ‘universal trans rights’ course this fall

‘Of particular interest will be the notion of universal trans rights, as recently articulated in UN Documents argui…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Aug 23, 2024

Northwestern University to mandate training on 'antisemitism and other forms of hate' for students, staff, and faculty

Northwestern University will mandate training on anti-Semitism and "other forms of hate" for students, faculty, an…

By Adam Sabes
Aug 21, 2024

Prosecutors drop charges against 300+ anti-Israel encampment protesters nationwide; expert warns campus agitators might 'escalate with impunity'

Prosecutors across America have dropped criminal charges against over 300 anti-Israel encampment protesters in rece…

By Adam Sabes
Aug 2, 2024

Northwestern to host talk on ‘threat to gender justice’ from Project 2025

The event aims to examine the ‘centrality of gender politics for authoritarian movements through an in-depth examin…

By Emma Arns '26
Jul 25, 2024

Northwestern instructors walk free after obstructing law enforcement at anti-Israel camp

The instructors, who were charged and arrested Thursday, had the charges against them dropped just a few days later…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Jul 22, 2024

Lawsuit claims Northwestern Law has discriminated against qualified white men in hiring for years

A recent lawsuit alleges that Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law has discriminated against white men …

By Patrick McDonald '26
Jul 12, 2024

Northwestern 'Critical Fat Studies' course will study 'queer fat liberation movement'

The class will subject students to many topics surrounding 'fatness,' including 'cultural flashpoints that inform a…

By Mary Stevens '25
Jul 10, 2024

StandWithUs urges Northwestern trustees to nullify agreement with anti-Israel encampment protesters

Pro-Israel organization StandWithUs sent a letter to the Northwestern University Board of Trustees asking them to n…

By Adam Sabes
Jul 4, 2024

Jewish orgs call on Northwestern president to resign over failure to handle anti-Semitism

‘Schill has neither enforced Northwestern’s Code of Conduct, nor proposed any credible solution to address these is…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Jun 24, 2024

Northwestern student govt calls for segregated ‘Pride House’ for LGBT-identifying students

One survey alleges that one in four students at the Illinois school identify as LGBTQ.

By Brendan McDonald '25
Jun 19, 2024

Rep. Foxx threatens to subpoena Northwestern after 'obstruction' of campus anti-Semitism investigation

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) threatened to subpoena Northwestern University after they allegedly obstructed the House …

By Adam Sabes
Jun 11, 2024

MARSCHALL: 'We need mass firings, mass expulsions, and mass arrests' to combat campus anti-Semitism

Zachary Marschall, Editor-in-Chief of Campus Reform, joined Kelly Wright on "America's Hope" to discuss the rise of…

By Adam Sabes
Jun 11, 2024

Rutgers, Northwestern face challenge from conservatives for caving to anti-Israel students’ demands

Young America’s Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty issued complaints against the two school…

By Clarise Tujardon '26
Jun 7, 2024

House committees broaden anti-Semitism investigations into Northwestern, other colleges: 'will not rest'

Several House committee chairs sent stern letters to Northwestern University and several other colleges and cited a…

By Adam Sabes
Jun 4, 2024

Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers defends pro-Hamas campus occupations as 'peacefully demonstrating'

The American Federation of Teachers led by Randi Weingarten claimed that anti-Israel protesters on college campus…

By Adam Sabes
May 30, 2024

Northwestern students sue school for failure to protect Jews on campus amid pro-Hamas protests

On May 20, a group of Jewish students filed a class action lawsuit against Northwestern University for failing to p…

By Patrick McDonald '26
May 30, 2024

Rep. Burgess Owens calls on Northwestern University president to resign: 'We don't need cowardice.'

The Anti-Defamation League reiterated also called for Schill to resign, saying his testimony was 'rife with hypocri…

By Adam Sabes
May 24, 2024

Northwestern, Rutgers, and UCLA leaders all claim they don't know who started encampments

The leaders of Northwestern University, Rutgers University, and the University of California, Los Angeles all claim…

By Adam Sabes
May 23, 2024

EXPOSED: Northwestern journalism school's chair of 'social justice in reporting' has history of pro-Hamas rhetoric

'This is a genocide of the disabled people, too, who will suffocate on smoke ... You know who else suffocated the d…

By Patrick McDonald '26
May 23, 2024

Northwestern president says it would have been too 'impractical' to consult Jewish students amid negotiations with pro-Hamas agitators

The president of Northwestern University told Congress Thursday morning that consulting Jewish students on matters …

By Adam Sabes
May 23, 2024

LIVE BLOG: Congress questions leaders of Northwestern, Rutgers, UCLA on campus anti-Semitism

Leaders from Northwestern University, Rutgers University, and the University of California, Los Angeles, will appe…

By Adam Sabes
May 23, 2024

TASHJY: Higher education is at a crossroads and appeasing and negotiating with protesters is the wrong path to take

Are institutions going to retake their campuses and return to their core mission of teaching and learning or surren…

By Ken Tashjy
May 21, 2024

MARSCHALL: Shameful Northwestern president must own up to his cowardly ineptitude at Congressional hearing

Northwestern is one of the worst examples of administrative negligence . President Schill allowed the pro-Hamas occ…

By Zachary Marschall, PhD
May 17, 2024

Northwestern alumni demand university terminate 'collaboration' with Al Jazeera in Qatar: EXCLUSIVE

Campus Reform obtained a report that was sent to members of Congress ahead of Northwestern President Michael Schill…

By Adam Sabes and Zachary Marschall, PhD
May 13, 2024

Northwestern's handling of campus unrest leads to disbanding of anti-Semitism task force

The resignations come following a controversial deal between NU and anti-Israel protestors, with some claiming deal…

By Michael Duke '26
May 3, 2024

NORTHWESTERN SURRENDERS: University to pay off protesters to disband encampment

Administrators agreed to fund Palestinian faculty and grant full-rides to five Palestinian students.

By Adam Sabes
Apr 30, 2024

'Kink' instructor teaches Northwestern students that US is an ‘empire of white supremacist imperialist policing’

Ericka Hart gave a talk at Northwestern University in which she called the U.S. ‘an empire of white supremacist imp…

By Brendan McDonald '25
Apr 27, 2024

MORE SOGGY COMMIES: Pro-Hamas students self-identify as brave, battling raindrops in their new tents

Despite forecasted rain and severe weather for Friday and Saturday, organizers of the encampment are asking protest…

By Adam Sabes
Apr 26, 2024

Northwestern student group likens Japanese internment reparations to modern-day calls for slavery reparations

The group hosted a ‘dialogue to talk about the reparations movement as a result of the incarceration, especially co…

By Michael Duke '26
Mar 14, 2024

Northwestern students call for congressional investigation into school's failure to protect Jewish students

Jewish students at Northwestern University have filed a complaint to Congress concerning the school's alleged failu…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Mar 8, 2024

WATCH: Dr. Marschall says Northwestern University is 'ignoring' anti-Semitism issue

Marschall made the appearance on ABC7 after the Department of Education Office for Civil Rights opened an investiga…

By Campus Reform
Jan 26, 2024

Remarks by Northwestern 'DEI Evangelist' on college anti-Semitism draw rebuke from Holocaust expert

Northwestern Professor Alvin Tillery downplayed the rise of anti-Semitism on Ivy League campuses and accused Donald…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Jan 24, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: Dept of Education investigating Northwestern University over anti-Semitism complaint

The Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into Northwestern University over i…

By Adam Sabes
Jan 23, 2024

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