As of 2023, the university had an endowment of $14.1 billion, an annual budget of around $2.9 billion,[6][7] and research funding of over $1 billion.[8] The university fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams, the Northwestern Wildcats, which compete in the NCAADivision I in the Big Ten Conference.
The foundation of Northwestern University can be traced to a meeting on May 31, 1850, of nine prominent Chicago businessmen, Methodist leaders, and attorneys who had formed the idea of establishing a university to serve what had been known from 1787 to 1803 as the Northwest Territory. On January 28, 1851, the Illinois General Assembly granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University, making it the first chartered university in Illinois.[14][15] The school's nine founders, all of whom were Methodists (three of them ministers), knelt in prayer and worship before launching their first organizational meeting.[16] Although they affiliated the university with the Methodist Episcopal Church, they favored a non-sectarian admissions policy, believing that Northwestern should serve all people in the newly developing territory by bettering the economy in Evanston.[17]
John Evans, for whom Evanston is named, bought 379 acres (153 ha) of land along Lake Michigan in 1853, and Philo Judson developed plans for what would become the city of Evanston, Illinois. The first building, Old College, opened on November 5, 1855.[18] To raise funds for its construction, Northwestern sold $100 "perpetual scholarships" entitling the purchaser and his heirs to free tuition.[19][20] Another building, University Hall, was built in 1869 of the same Joliet limestone as the Chicago Water Tower, also built in 1869, one of the few buildings in the heart of Chicago to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.[21]
In 1873 the Evanston College for Ladies merged with Northwestern, and Frances Willard, who later gained fame as a suffragette and as one of the founders of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), became the school's first dean of women (Willard Residential College, built in 1938, honors her name). Northwestern admitted its first female students in 1869, and the first woman graduated in 1874.[22] Northwestern fielded its first intercollegiate football team in 1882, later becoming a founding member of the Big Ten Conference. In the 1870s and 1880s, Northwestern affiliated itself with already existing schools of law, medicine, and dentistry in Chicago. The Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the oldest law school in Chicago. As the university's enrollments grew, these professional schools were integrated with the undergraduate college in Evanston; the result was a modern research university combining professional, graduate, and undergraduate programs, which gave equal weight to teaching and research.[23][24]
Deering Library, which is named in memory of Charles Deering
After the golden years of the 1920s, the Great Depression in the United States (1929–1941) had a severe impact on the university's finances. Its annual income dropped 25 percent from $4.8 million in 1930–31 to $3.6 million in 1933–34. Investment income shrank, fewer people could pay full tuition, and annual giving from alumni and philanthropists fell from $870,000 in 1932 to a low of $331,000 in 1935. The university responded with two salary cuts of 10 percent each for all employees. It imposed hiring and building freezes and slashed appropriations for maintenance, books, and research. Having had a balanced budget in 1930–31, the university now faced deficits of roughly $100,000 for the next four years. Enrollments fell in most schools, with law and music suffering the biggest declines. However, the movement toward state certification of school teachers prompted Northwestern to start a new graduate program in education, thereby bringing in new students and much-needed income. In June 1933, Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago, proposed a merger of the two universities, estimating annual savings of $1.7 million. The two presidents were enthusiastic, and the faculty liked the idea; many Northwestern alumni, however, opposed it, fearing the loss of their alma mater and its many traditions that distinguished Northwestern from Chicago. The medical school, for example, was oriented toward training practitioners, and alumni feared it would lose its mission if it were merged into the more research-oriented University of Chicago Medical School.[26] The merger plan was ultimately dropped. In 1935, the Deering family rescued the university budget with an unrestricted gift of $6 million, bringing the budget up to $5.4 million in 1938–39. This allowed many of the previous spending cuts to be restored, including half of the salary reductions.[27]
University Hall (1869), the second building constructed on campus, and the oldest building still standing
Like other American research universities, Northwestern was transformed by World War II (1939–1945). Regular enrollment fell dramatically, but the school opened high-intensity, short-term programs that trained over 50,000 military personnel, including future president John F. Kennedy. Northwestern's existing NROTC program proved to be a boon to the university as it trained over 36,000 sailors over the course of the war, which led Northwestern to be called the "Annapolis of the Midwest."[28]Franklyn B. Snyder led the university from 1939 to 1949, and after the war, surging enrollments under the G.I. Bill drove the dramatic expansion of both campuses. In 1948, prominent anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits founded the Program of African Studies at Northwestern, the first center of its kind at an American academic institution.[29]J. Roscoe Miller's tenure as president from 1949 to 1970 saw an expansion of the Evanston campus, with the construction of the Lakefill on Lake Michigan, growth of the faculty and new academic programs, and polarizing Vietnam-era student protests. In 1978, the first and second Unabomber attacks occurred at Northwestern University.[30] Relations between Evanston and Northwestern became strained throughout much of the post-war era because of episodes of disruptive student activism,[31] disputes over municipal zoning, building codes, and law enforcement,[32] as well as restrictions on the sale of alcohol near campus until 1972.[33][34] Northwestern's exemption from state and municipal property-tax obligations under its original charter has historically been a source of town-and-gown tension.
Although government support for universities declined in the 1970s and 1980s, President Arnold R. Weber was able to stabilize university finances, which led to a revitalization of its campuses. In 1996, Princess Diana visited Northwestern's Evanston and Chicago campuses to raise money for the university hospital's Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at the invitation of then-President Bienen. Her visit raised a total of $1.5 million for cancer research.[35][36][37]
21st centuryedit
Recently renovated Alice Millar Chapel
As admissions to colleges and universities grew increasingly competitive in the 1990s and 2000s, President Henry S. Bienen's tenure saw an increase in the number and quality of undergraduate applicants, continued expansion of the facilities and faculty, and renewed athletic competitiveness. In 1999, Northwestern student journalists uncovered information exonerating Illinois death-row inmate Anthony Porter two days before his scheduled execution. The Innocence Project has since exonerated 10 more men.[38][39] On January 11, 2003, in a speech at Northwestern School of Law's Lincoln Hall, then Governor of IllinoisGeorge Ryan announced that he would commute the sentences of more than 150 death-row inmates.[40]
In the 2010s, a five-year capital campaign resulted in a new music center, a replacement building for the business school, and a $270 million athletic complex.[41][42] In 2014, President Barack Obama delivered a seminal economics speech at the Evanston campus.[43] In 2015, Queen Máxima and King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands visited Northwestern to announce research collaborations between Northwestern and several Dutch institutions focused on the study of aging.[44] In 2021, an additional $480 million, the largest donation in the university's history, was donated to Northwestern by the Ryan Family to be applied to research at the Kellogg School of Management and Feinberg School of Medicine, as well as for renovating Ryan Field.[45] In a partnership with Oakton College and the Illinois Department of Corrections in 2023, Northwestern awarded the first bachelors degrees in the United States to a graduating class of prisoners from a top-ranked university.[46]
Northwestern University's main campus is located in the suburb of Evanston, Illinois, just north of Chicago. The campus spans an area of 240 acres and is characterized by its blend of modern and historic gothic architecture.
Northwestern's Evanston campus, where the undergraduate schools, the Graduate School, and the Kellogg School of Management are located, runs north–south from Lincoln Avenue to Clark Street west of Lake Michigan along Sheridan Road. North Campus is home to the fraternityquads, athletics facilities including the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Norris Aquatics Center, the Technological Institute, Dearborn Observatory, the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Hall for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly, and the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center among others. South Campus is home to the university's humanities buildings, music buildings like the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, and the sorority quads. In the 1960s, the university created an additional 84 acres (34 ha) for the campus by filling in a portion of Lake Michigan. Buildings located on the resulting Lakefill include University Library, the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, the Regenstein Hall of Music, Norris University Center (the student union), the Kellogg School of Management Global Hub, and various athletics facilities.
The Chicago Transit Authority's elevated train running through Evanston is called the Purple Line, taking its name from Northwestern's school color. The Foster and Davis stations are within walking distance of the southern end of the campus, while the Noyes station is close to the northern end of the campus. The Central station is close to Ryan Field, Northwestern's football stadium. The Evanston Davis StreetMetra station serves the Northwestern campus in downtown Evanston and the Evanston Central Street Metra station is near Ryan Field. Pace Suburban Bus Service and the CTA have several bus routes that run through or near the Evanston campus.
Chicagoedit
The Montgomery Ward Memorial Building (1927) at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, America's first academic skyscraper[47]
Northwestern's Chicago campus is located in the city's Streeterville neighborhood near Lake Michigan. The Chicago campus is home to the nationally ranked Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the medical school, the law school, the part-time MBA program, and the School of Professional Studies. Medill's one-year graduate program rents a floor on Wacker Drive, across the river from Streeterville and separate from the rest of the campus. Northwestern's professional schools and a number of its affiliated hospitals are located approximately four blocks east of the Chicago station on the CTA Red Line. The Chicago campus is also served by CTA bus routes.
Founded or affiliated at varying points in the university's history, the professional schools originally were scattered throughout Chicago.[48] In connection with a 1917 master plan for a central Chicago campus and President Walter Dill Scott's capital campaign, 8.5 acres (3.44 ha) of land were purchased at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Lake Shore Drive for $1.5 million in 1920.[48][49] Architect James Gamble Rogers was commissioned to create a master plan for the principal buildings on the new campus, which he designed in collegiate gothic style. In 1923, Mrs. Montgomery Ward donated $8 million to the campaign to finance the construction of the Montgomery Ward Memorial Building, which would house the medical and dental schools, and create endowments for faculty chairs, research grants, scholarships, and building maintenance.[50] The building would become the first university skyscraper in the United States.[47] In addition to the Ward Building, Rogers designed Wieboldt Hall to house facilities for the School of Commerce[51] and Levy Mayer Hall to house the School of Law.[52] The new campus comprising these three new buildings was dedicated during a two-day ceremony in June 1927. The Chicago campus continued to expand with the addition of Thorne Hall in 1931 and Abbott Hall in 1939.[48][53] In October 2013, Northwestern began the demolition of the architecturally significant Prentice Women's Hospital. Eric G. Neilson, dean of the medical school, penned an op-ed that equated retaining the building with loss of life.[54]
In Fall 2008, Northwestern opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar.[55] Through the Medill School of Journalism and School of Communication, NU-Q offers bachelor's degrees in journalism and communications respectively.[56] However, some have questioned whether NU-Q can truly offer a comparable journalism program to that of its U.S. campus given Qatar's instances of censorship and strict limits on journalistic and academic freedoms.[55][57] The Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, a private charitable institution founded by former emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his wife and mother of the current emir Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, provided funding for construction and administrative costs, as well as support to hire 50 to 60 faculty and staff, some of whom rotate between the Evanston and Qatar campuses.[58][59] Northwestern receives roughly $45 million per year to operate the campus.[57] In February 2016, Northwestern reached an agreement with the Qatar Foundation to extend the operations of the NU-Q branch for an additional decade, through the 2027–2028 academic year.[60] Like other universities with campuses in Doha, Northwestern has received criticism for accepting money from a country with a poor human rights record.[57][61][62]
Organization and administrationedit
Governanceedit
Weber Arch
Northwestern is privately owned and governed by an appointed Board of Trustees, which is composed of 70 members and, as of 2022[update], is chaired by Peter Barris '74.[63] The board delegates its power to an elected president who serves as the chief executive officer of the university.[64] Northwestern has had seventeen presidents in its history (excluding interim presidents). The current president, legal scholar Michael H. Schill, succeeded Morton O. Schapiro in fall 2022.[65] The president maintains a staff of vice presidents, directors, and other assistants for administrative, financial, faculty, and student matters.[66]Kathleen Haggerty assumed the role of provost for the university on September 1, 2020.[67]
Students are formally involved in the university's administration through the Associated Student Government, elected representatives of the undergraduate students, and the Graduate Student Association, which represents the university's graduate students.[68][69]
The admission requirements, degree requirements, courses of study, and disciplinary and degree recommendations for each of Northwestern's 12 schools are determined by the voting members of that school's faculty (assistant professor and above).[70]
Northwestern University's admissions are characterized as "most selective" by U.S. News & World Report.[75] Northwestern received a record 52,225 applications for its class size of approximately 2,100 students in 2022–2023 academic year. For the Class of 2027, regular decision acceptance rate was approximately 4.6%, while overall acceptance rate remained around 7.0%.[76] For the Class of 2026, the interquartile range (middle 50%) on the post-2016 SAT was a combined (verbal and math) 1500–1560 out of 1600; the interquartile range on the evidence-based reading and writing (EBRW) section of the SAT was 730–770 out of 800 while the interquartile range on the Math section of the SAT was 760–800 out of 800.[77]ACT composite scores for the middle 50% ranged from 33 to 35 out of 36, and 96% ranked in the top ten percent of their respective high school classes.[76][78][77]
Approximately 35–40% percent of the incoming students of the Class of 2027 have been admitted through the Early Decision application round. Northwestern's early decision admission numbers for the Class of 2027 reveal an early acceptance rate of about 20%, with approximately 1,000 students being admitted out of 5,220 applications.[79]
In April 2016, Northwestern became one of 15 Illinois universities to sign on to the Chicago Star Partnership, a City Colleges initiative aimed at increasing opportunities for students in the city's public school district. Through this partnership, the university provides scholarships to students who "graduate from Chicago Public Schools, get their associate degree from one of the city's community colleges, and then get admitted to a bachelor's degree program."[80]
The university is need-blind for domestic applicants.[81]
The university provides instruction in over 200 formal academic concentrations, 124 undergraduate programs, and 145 graduate and professional programs,[92][93] including various dual degree programs.[94][95] Although there is no university-wide core curriculum, a foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, sometimes referred as distribution requirements, are required for all majors; individual degree requirements are set by the faculty of each school.[70] The university heavily emphasizes interdisciplinary learning, with 72% of undergrads combining two or more areas of study.[96] Northwestern's full-time undergraduate and graduate programs operate on an approximately 10-week academic quarter system with the academic year beginning in late September and ending in early June. Under the regular academic calendar, each quarter contains a four-day Reading Period in between the end of classes and the beginning of finals.[97] Undergraduates typically take four courses each quarter and twelve courses in an academic year and[98] are required to complete at least twelve quarters on campus to graduate. Northwestern offers honors, accelerated, and joint degree programs in medicine, science, mathematics, engineering, and journalism.[99] The comprehensive doctoral graduate program has high coexistence with undergraduate programs.[91]
Northwestern maintains a student-to-faculty ratio of 6:1. 77% of the classes have less than 20 students while 5.5% of the classes have more than 50 students.[94]
Frontage of the Deering Library which houses the art and music collections
Deering Library's West Tower
Northern block of the main library
Collections and sectionsedit
Among the library's collection and sections are:
Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies: established in 1954, and named after Melville J. Herskovits, the Herskovits Library is the largest separate Africana collection in existence. The collection includes more than 400,000 volumes (including 20,000 in African languages), 250 current newspapers and 6,000 non-circulating rare books.[109]
The Music Library: contains extensive holdings of printed music and archival materials documenting music composed since 1945. The collection includes more than 300,000 items, including the John Cage collection.
Transportation Library: one of the largest transportation information centers in the world with a collection of over 500,000 items covering air, rail, highways, pipeline, water, urban transport and logistics.
The Art Library: the Art Library holds over 160,000 books and journals about art, architecture, and design, with particular strength in 19th-century art and architecture.Seabury Hall houses some sections of the Styberg Library
Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections include an extensive collection on The Long 60s, Social History, Political History, Literature, Arts, Journalism, Twentieth Century Music, Theatre, Performance, and Women's History.[110] The Special Collections department at Charles Deering McCormick Library holds approximately 8,000 items related to the Siege and Commune of Paris during 1870–1871. This collection is one of the largest and most diverse of its kind in the world and contains a captivating range of original photographs, posters, caricatures, lithographs, manuscripts, books, newspapers, and other artifacts that were created in response to the significant events that occurred during that year. These events included France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the downfall of the Second Empire, the four-month siege of Paris, and the violent civil war that ended the Commune uprising. The core of the collection was acquired in 1971, the centenary year of the Commune's end, when the library's astute staff purchased most of the offerings of a well-known French book dealer. Since then, many other acquisitions have been added to the collection. The Franco-Prussian War was among the earliest conflicts to be photographed, and the collection includes many such images, along with depictions of the devastated Parisian landscape and some of the earliest examples of manipulated photographs created for propaganda purposes.[111] The collection also encompasses a significant amount of material that covers military activities during the Spanish Civil War and the early stages of World War II from both sides of the conflict. In addition, the collection showcases the impact of warfare on civilians who were displaced or killed in various parts of Spain, including any interactions with France and Germany during that period. The collection also features various other topics that offer insight into Spain's cultural and social dynamics throughout history. The photographs in the collection were sourced from international press outlets and private collections and are accompanied by captions that provide historical background and context for the subjects depicted.[112]
Seeley G. Mudd Library: Located on North Campus, Mudd Library was renovated in 2017 with collaboration and technology in mind.
Charles Deering Memorial Library: built in 1933, and named for Charles Deering, the library houses the art library, the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, the Music Library and University Archives.
Boas Mathematics Library: the library serves primarily the Mathematics Department and Statistics Department and has a research collection in pure mathematics and statistics of around 34,000 volumes.
Northwestern, along with 15 other universities, participates in digitizing its collections as part of the Google Book Search project.[116] Northwestern University Library is a partner with the Native American Education Services College (NAES), the American Indian Association of Illinois (AIAI), and Northwestern University's Center for Native American and Indigenous Research in the NAES College Digital Library Project, which preserves the NAES College library and archives.[117]
Research and innovationsedit
Front Plaza of the Northwestern Technological Institute
Side entrance to the Northwestern Technological Institute
Researchedit
Northwestern was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1917 and is classified as an R1 university, denoting "very high" research activity.[91][118] Northwestern's schools of management, engineering, and communication are among the most academically productive in the nation.[119] The university received $923.8 million in research funding and $421 million in NIH funding in 2022 and houses over 90 school-based and 40 university-wide research institutes and centers.[78][120][121] Northwestern also supports nearly 1,500 research laboratories across two campuses, predominantly in the medical and biological sciences.[121]Also, Northwestern houses more than 50 University Research Institutes & Centers (URICS), which consists of institutes and initiatives that combine multiple areas of study to pursue research across domains such as quantum information, policy research, bioelectronics, and more.[122][123]
Northwestern is home to the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems, Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, Materials Research Center, Center for Quantum Devices, Institute for Policy Research, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Center for Catalysis and Surface Science, Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies, the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern,[124] and the Argonne/Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center among other centers for interdisciplinary research.[125]
The E989 storage-ring magnet at Fermilab, which was originally designed for the E821 experiment. The geometry allows for a very uniform magnetic field to be established in the ring
In addition, Northwestern University cooperates with research institutions such as Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FermiLab). Proceeding in cooperation with these laboratories, the Center for Applied Physics and Superconducting Technologies (CAPST) and the Initiative at Northwestern for Quantum Information Research and Engineering (INQUIRE) have attracted attention in recent years.[127][128] Northwestern's investment and collaboration areas include particle physics, quantum physics, quantum information technologies, and superconducting technologies.
Innovations and entrepreneurshipedit
In 2013, Northwestern researchers disclosed 247 inventions, filed 270 patent applications, received 81 foreign and US patents, started 12 companies, and generated $79.8 million in licensing revenue. The Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO) has been involved in creating the Center for Developmental Therapeutics (CDT)[129] and the Center for Device Development (CD2).[130]
Northwestern files hundreds of patents each year, ranking among the top 20 universities in the world in terms of U.S. utility patents.[131] One of the university's most successful current patents is pregabalin, a synthesized organic molecule developed at the university by chemistry professor Richard Bruce Silverman (for whom Silverman Hall was named). It was ultimately marketed as Lyrica, a drug sold by Pfizer, to combat epilepsy, neuropathic pain, and fibromyalgia.
The university also runs The Garage, and interdisciplinary innovation and entrepreneurship space and community for student-run startups. The Garage provides students with resources and programming related to entrepreneurship and mentorship.[132] The Garage houses approximately 90 student-founded startups per academic quarter.[133] Its programs and resources are available to all Northwestern students.
Northwestern enrolled 8,186 full-time undergraduates, 9,904 full-time graduates, and 3,856 part-time students in the 2019–2020 academic year. [needs update] The freshman retention rate for that year was 99%.[135][136] Eighty-six percent of students graduated after four years and 96% graduated after six years.[136][137] These numbers can largely be attributed to the university's various specialized degree programs, such as those that allow students to earn master's degrees with a one- or two-year extension of their undergraduate program.[136]
The undergraduate population is drawn from all 50 states and over 75 foreign countries. Twenty percent of students in the Class of 2024 were Pell Grant recipients and 12.56% were first-generation college students.[138] Northwestern also enrolls the ninth-most National Merit Scholars of any university in the nation.
In Fall 2014,[needs update] 40.6% of undergraduate students were enrolled in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, 21.3% in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 14.3% in the School of Communication, 11.7% in the Medill School of Journalism, 5.7% in the Bienen School of Music, and 6.4% in the School of Education and Social Policy.[139] The five most commonly awarded undergraduate degrees are economics, journalism, communication studies, psychology, and political science.[140] The Kellogg School of Management's MBA, the School of Law's JD, and the Feinberg School of Medicine's MD are the three largest professional degree programs by enrollment.[139] With 2,446 students enrolled in science, engineering, and health fields,[141] the largest graduate programs by enrollment include chemistry, integrated biology, material sciences, electrical and computer engineering, neuroscience, and economics.[142]
An estimated 20% of undergraduates are affiliated with a fraternity or sorority.[143] Northwestern recognizes 21 fraternities and 18 sororities.[144]
All incoming undergraduates at Northwestern University are required to live in campus for their first two years.[145]
Traditionsedit
The Rock in front of the University Hall"Alma Mater" is the Northwestern Hymn. The original Latin version of the hymn was written in 1907 by Peter Christian Lutkin, the first dean of the School of Music from 1883 to 1931. In 1953, then Director-of-Bands John Paynter recruited an undergraduate music student, Thomas Tyra ('54), to write an English version of the song, which today is performed by the Marching Band during halftime at Wildcat football games and by the orchestra during ceremonies and other special occasions.[146]
Purple became Northwestern's official color in 1892,[147] replacing black and gold after a university committee concluded that too many other universities had used these colors. Today, Northwestern's official color is purple, although white is something of an official color as well, being mentioned in both the university's earliest song, Alma Mater (1907) ("Hail to purple, hail to white") and in many university guidelines.[148][149]
The Rock, a six-foot-high quartzite boulder donated by the Class of 1902, originally served as a water fountain. It was painted over by students in the 1940s as a prank and has since become a popular vehicle of self-expression on campus. By tradition, students must guard it for twenty-four hours before painting it. To fulfill this rule, the rock is streamed 24/7 on Youtube.[150]
Dillo Day, held at Northwestern University, is an all-day music festival that occurs towards the end of the spring quarter on the Lakefill. Established during the 1972/73 academic year, the event is orchestrated by Mayfest Productions, a student organization, and is the largest entirely student-managed music festival in the United States.[146][151]
March Through the Arch is a tradition at Northwestern University that symbolically marks a student's start to the university. This event takes place during Wildcat Welcome week. Students pass through the Weber Arch on campus, representing their entry into a new chapter of their academic and personal lives. When graduating students march back through the arch.[152]
Primal Scream is held every quarter at 9 p.m. on the Sunday before finals week. Students lean out of windows or gather in courtyards and scream to help relieve stress.[153]
Philanthropyedit
Cahn Auditorium and Scott Hall
One of Northwestern's student charity events is Dance Marathon. It has raised over $1 million for charity every year since 2011 and has donated a total of $13 million to children's charities since its conception.[154]
The Northwestern Community Development Corps (NCDC) is a student-run organization that connects hundreds of student volunteers to community development projects in Evanston and Chicago throughout the year. The group also holds a number of annual community events, including Project Pumpkin, a Halloween celebration that provides over 800 local children with carnival events and a safe venue to trick-or-treat each year.[155]
Many Northwestern students participate in the Freshman Urban Program, an initiative for students interested in community service to work on addressing social issues facing the city of Chicago,[156] and the university's Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) programs, including group service-learning expeditions in Asia, Africa, or Latin America in conjunction with the Foundation for Sustainable Development.[157]
Regenstein Hall of Music, which houses the A Cappella clubs
Northwestern is a prolific producer of successful entertainers and a nationally reputed hub for collegiate performing arts. The Student Theatre Coalition, or StuCo, organizes nine student theater companies, multiple performance groups, and over sixty independent productions each year.[160] Productions include The Waa-Mu Show, an original musical written and produced entirely by students,[161] and the Dolphin show. Children's theater is represented on campus by Griffin's Tale and Purple Crayon Players.[162]
The undergraduate students maintain twelve a cappella groups, including THUNK a cappella, the Northwestern Undertones, Freshman Fifteen A Cappella, ShireiNU A Cappella, and Purple Haze.[164]
Northwestern's performing arts scene also includes Boomshaka, which is the university's drum, dance, and rhythm ensemble.
Mediaedit
Printedit
Norris University Center, the main center for student unionEstablished in 1881, The Daily Northwestern is the university's main student newspaper and is published on weekdays during the academic year. It is directed entirely by undergraduate students and owned by the Students Publishing Company. Although it serves the Northwestern community, the Daily has no business ties to the university and is supported wholly by advertisers.
North by Northwestern is an online undergraduate magazine established in September 2006 by students at the Medill School of Journalism. Published on weekdays, it consists of updates on news stories and special events throughout the year. It also publishes a quarterly print magazine.
Syllabus is the university's undergraduate yearbook. It is distributed in late May and features a culmination of the year's events at Northwestern. First published in 1885, the yearbook is published by Students Publishing Company and edited by Northwestern students.
Northwestern Flipside is an undergraduate satirical magazine. Founded in 2009, it publishes a weekly issue both in print and online.
Helicon is the university's undergraduate literary magazine. Established in 1979, it is published twice a year: a web issue is released in the winter and a print issue with a web complement is released in the spring.
The Protest is Northwestern's quarterly social justice magazine.
The Northwestern division of Student Multicultural Affairs supports a number of publications for particular cultural groups including Ahora, a magazine about Hispanic and Latino/a culture and campus life; Al Bayan, published by the Northwestern Muslim-cultural Student Association; BlackBoard Magazine, a magazine centered around African-American student life; and NUAsian, a magazine and blog on Asian and Asian-American culture and issues.[165]
The Northwestern University Law Review is a scholarly legal publication and student organization at Northwestern University School of Law. Its primary purpose is to publish a journal of broad legal scholarship. The Law Review publishes six issues each year. Student editors make the editorial and organizational decisions and select articles submitted by professors, judges, and practitioners, as well as student pieces. The Law Review also publishes scholarly pieces weekly on the Colloquy.
The Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review is a scholarly legal publication published annually by an editorial board of Northwestern undergraduates. Its mission is to publish interdisciplinary legal research, drawing from fields such as history, literature, economics, philosophy, and art. Founded in 2008, the journal features articles by professors, law students, practitioners, and undergraduates. It is funded by the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Office of the Provost.
Web-basededit
TriQuarterly is a literary magazine published twice a year featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, literary essays, reviews, blog posts, and art.
Established in January 2011, Sherman Ave is a satirical website that often publishes content on Northwestern student life.[166]
Established in 2010 by undergraduates, Politics & Policy provides analysis of current events and public policy.
Founded in 2005, Northwestern Business Review is a campus source for business news.
The Queer Reader is Northwestern's first radical feminist and LGBTQ+ publication.
Radio, film, and televisionedit
WNUR (89.3 FM) is a 7,200-watt radio station that broadcasts to the north side of Chicago, as well as the northern suburbs of Evanston and Skokie. WNUR's programming consists of music (jazz, classical, and rock), literature, politics, current events, varsity sports (football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, and women's lacrosse), and breaking news on weekdays.[167]
Studio 22 is a student-run production company that produces roughly ten films each year. The organization financed the first film Zach Braff directed, and many of its films have featured students who would later go into professional acting, including Zach Gilford of Friday Night Lights.[168]
Applause for a Cause is currently the only student-run production company in the nation to create feature-length films for charity. It was founded in 2010 and has raised over $5,000 to date for various local and national organizations across the United States.
Northwestern News Network is a student television news and sports network, serving the Northwestern and Evanston communities. Its studios and newsroom are located on the fourth floor of the McCormick Tribune Center on Northwestern's Evanston campus. NNN is funded by the Medill School of Journalism.
Northwestern's Mock Trial team had two teams qualify for the 2018 National Championship Tournament hosted by the American Mock Trial Association, making Northwestern one of seven schools in the nation to be represented by multiple teams at the competition.[169] One of the two teams finished 9th in their division and is ranked 20th in the country out of roughly 750 teams for the 2018–2019 season.[170][171][172]
Ryan Field, Northwestern's 49,000-seat football stadium
Northwestern is a charter member of the Big Ten Conference. It is the conference's only private university and possesses the smallest undergraduate enrollment (the next-smallest member, the University of Iowa, is roughly three times as large, with almost 22,000 undergraduates).
Northwestern fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams (8 men's and 11 women's) in addition to numerous club sports.[173] Twelve of Northwestern's varsity programs have had NCAA or bowl postseason appearances. Northwestern is one of five private AAU members to compete in NCAA Power Five conferences (the other four are Duke, Stanford, USC, and Vanderbilt) and maintains a 98% NCAA Graduation Success Rate, the highest among Football Bowl Subdivision schools.
In 2018, the school opened the Walter Athletics Center, a $270 million state-of-the-art lakefront facility for its athletics teams.[174]
Before 1924, Northwestern teams were known as "The Purple" and unofficially as "The Fighting Methodists." The name Wildcats was bestowed upon the university in 1924 by Wallace Abbey, a writer for the Chicago Daily Tribune, who wrote that even in a loss to the University of Chicago, "Football players had not come down from Evanston; wildcats would be a name better suited to [Coach Glenn] Thistletwaite's boys."[175] The name was so popular that university board members made "Wildcats" the official nickname just months later. In 1972, the student body voted to change the official nickname to "Purple Haze," but the new name never stuck.[176]
The mascot of Northwestern Athletics is Willie the Wildcat. Prior to Willie, the team mascot had been a live, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo named Furpaw, who was brought to the playing field on game days to greet the fans. After a losing season, the team decided that Furpaw was to blame for its misfortune and decided to select a new mascot. Willie the Wildcat made his debut in 1933, first as a logo and then in three dimensions in 1947, when members of the Alpha Delta fraternity dressed as wildcats during a Homecoming Parade.
The Northwestern Wildcats football team is a Division I college football team and member of the Big Ten Conference. The team has a history dating back to 1882. They are known as the Wildcats, a nickname given by a Chicago Tribune reporter in 1924 after observing a game where the players displayed a strong and fierce presence, akin to a "wall of purple wildcats."[177]
The team has achieved success, winning three Big Ten championships or co-championships since 1995. Additionally, they have been eligible to participate in bowl games five times between 2015 and 2020. Northwestern takes pride in its academic achievements as well, consistently ranking among the top football teams in graduation rates. They have been honored with the AFCA Academic Achievement Award four times since 2002.[178]
The Wildcats play their home games at Ryan Field, formerly known as Dyche Stadium, a venue they have called home since 1926. Given their close proximity to Chicago and strong connections to the city, Northwestern Football is often recognized as "Chicago's Big Ten Team."[179]
Current uniform of Northwestern's football team sponsored by Under Armour
In 1882 as a group of Northwestern men played a "football heat" against a group of Lake Forest men. The Wildcats have since achieved an all-time-high rank of No. 1 during the 1936 and 1962 seasons, which has thus far not been duplicated. The team plays home games at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois. The Wildcats have participated in a total of 16 bowl games, including appearances in 10 seasons between 2008 and 2020. During the 2016–2018 seasons, they secured victory in three consecutive bowl games. In 2020, the Wildcats claimed the title of Big Ten West Champions and were champions in their bowl game.
Logo of the Northwestern Wildcats
Basketballedit
The Helms Athletic Foundation named the men's basketball team the 1931 National Champion.[188] In 2017, the men's basketball team earned an NCAA berth for the first time in the program's history. They won their first-round matchup against Vanderbilt University but lost to number-one seed Gonzaga in the second round.[189]
In 1998, two former Northwestern basketball players were charged and convicted for sports bribery, having been paid to shave points in games against three other Big Ten schools during the 1995 season.[190][191][192] The football team became embroiled in a different betting scandal later that year when federal prosecutors indicted four former players for perjury related to betting on their own games.[193] In August 2001, Rashidi Wheeler, a senior safety, collapsed and died during practice from an asthma attack.[194][195] An autopsy revealed that he had ephedrine, a stimulant banned by the NCAA, in his system, which prompted Northwestern to investigate the prevalence of stimulants and other banned substances across all of its athletic programs.[196][197] In 2006, the Northwestern women's soccer team was suspended and coach Jenny Haigh resigned following the release of images of alleged hazing.[198][199]
The Wildcats men's basketball team is under the direction of Sullivan-Ubben head men's basketball coach Chris Collins, a role that he has been in since 2013. Collins led the Wildcats to heights never before reached during the 2016–17 season when the program saw a school-record 24 wins and its first NCAA tournament berth and victory in program history. Collins was named as one of four finalists for the Naismith Men's Coach of the Year award in 2017.[200]
The Wildcats single national championship is from 1931, retro-picked by the Helms Athletic Foundation and, later, by the Premo-Porrett Power Poll. Since then, the Wildcats have played in the National Invitation Tournament seven times, most recently in 2012. The men's basketball program was the first to open the renovated Welsh-Ryan Arena[201] on November 2, 2018, in an exhibition game against McKendree. The state-of-the-art facility was built to be the most accessible arena in college athletics and seats 7,039. The team is cheered on by the Wildside student section.
In 2017, the Wildcats saw its highest draft pick in program history with Nia Coffey, selected fifth overall by the San Antonio Stars. The first player drafted in program history was Amy Jaeschke in 2011, selected 27th overall by the Chicago Sky.[202]
Fencingedit
The Northwestern Fencing program competes in the Central Collegiate Conference and has a tenured history of success. Zach Moss is the programs head coach, a role that he has been in since 2016. Following a historic 2017–18 season, Moss was named the Midwest Fencing Conference Coach of the Year as the Wildcats captured their fifth-ever conference championship and finished with three All-Americans at the NCAA Championships. Additionally, the team set the program record for most wins in a season with 47 and the program record for longest win streak at 25. The 2018–19 season saw more milestones for the Wildcats including a 39–5 record, an 11th-place finish at the NCAA Championships, and a second consecutive conference championship. The Wildcats achieved the highest ranking in program history during the season at second in the country and amassed 39 victories at the conference championships.[203]
The Northwestern Field Hockey team plays its home games at Lakeside Field, adjacent to Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium on the lakefront. The Wildcats are led by head coach Tracey Fuchs, a role that she has been in since 2009. Fuchs has led the Wildcats to two Big Ten titles and three NCAA tournament appearances. Under Fuchs' direction, the Wildcats have posted winning seasons in 10 of her 11 seasons.
The Northwestern Wildcats field hockey team has gathered 6 regular-season Big Ten titles and 1 tournament title in addition to 14 NCAA tournament appearances. In 2021, the team won the NCAA tournament, followed by a championship game appearance in 2022.
Northwestern lacrosse has won the national championship in women's lacrosse five straight times, from 2005 to 2009, and then again in 2011 and 2012, giving them 7 championships in 8 years. In 2007, the team joined Maryland as the only other school to three-peat. The run started in 2005, when the team enjoyed a perfect season and defeated many long-established east-coast schools after only five years as a varsity sport to capture the school's first national championship since 1941. In doing so, it became the westernmost institution to ever win the title. Soon after, the team made national news when members appeared in a White House photo with President Bush wearing thong sandals, or flip-flops, dubbed as the "White House flip-flop flap." The 2009 season also was an undefeated run. In their five consecutive championship seasons, the Wildcats have a 106–3 record. The Wildcats are led by head coach Kelly Amonte-Hiller, a role that she has been in since 2002. Most recently, the Wildcats won their first-ever Big Ten Championship in 2019 and won their first-ever Big Ten regular season championship in 2021.[204][205][206]
Wrestlingedit
The Northwestern Wildcats wrestling program hosts home matches in Welsh-Ryan Arena and practices in the Ken Kraft Wrestling Room, located in Anderson Hall. The Wildcats are led by Matt Storniolo, a role that he has been in since 2016. The Wildcats have had 40 Big Ten individual champions in addition to 10 NCAA individual champions and 75-plus All-Americans.[207][208]
Golfedit
The men's golf team has won eight Big Ten Conference championships: 1925, 1937, 1939, 1948, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006. They have twice placed second in the NCAA Championships: 1939, 1945. Luke Donald won the NCAA Individual Championship in 1999. He was Big Ten Conference Player of the year in 1999, and David Merkow was named the same in 2006. Donald was ranked number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking for 56 weeks in 2011 and 2012.
Northwestern alumni have included numerous prominent figures in journalism, government, literature, business, science, performing arts, education, and medicine. Among U.S. universities, Northwestern ranks eighth in the number of billionaires produced.[209]
Some of Northwestern's alumni include U.S. Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern, Nobel Prize-winning economist George J. Stigler, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and diarist Ned Rorem, decorated composer Howard Hanson, Deputy Prime Minister of TurkeyAli Babacan, historian and novelist Wilma Dykeman, sociologist and adviser of CEPAL Fernando Filgueira, and the founder of the presidential prayer breakfast Abraham Vereide.
^The percentage of students who received an income-based federal Pell grant intended for low-income students.
^The percentage of students who are a part of the American middle class at the bare minimum.
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This article is about the private research university in Illinois United States For other uses see Northwestern University disambiguation Northwestern University NU is a private research university in Evanston Illinois United States Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory it is the oldest chartered university in Illinois The university has its main campus along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago metropolitan area Northwestern UniversityLatin Universitas NorthwesternMottoQuaecumque sunt vera Latin On seal Ὁ Logos plhrhs xaritos kaὶ ἀlh8eias Greek Motto in English Whatsoever things are true Philippians 4 8 AV The Word full of grace and truth John 1 14 TypePrivate research universityEstablishedJanuary 28 1851 173 years ago January 28 1851 AccreditationHLCAcademic affiliationsAAUCOFHEIAMSCUNAICUURASpace grantEndowment 16 1 billion 2022 1 Budget 2 9 billion 2022 excluding the health system 1 PresidentMichael H SchillProvostKathleen HagertyAcademic staff4 018 Fall 2021 2 Students23 410 Fall 2021 3 Undergraduates8 816 Fall 2021 3 Postgraduates14 684 Fall 2021 3 LocationEvanston Illinois United States42 03 21 N 87 40 29 W 42 05583 N 87 67472 W 42 05583 87 67472CampusSmall city 4 240 acres 97 ha Other campusesChicagoCoral GablesSan FranciscoWashington D C DohaNewspaperThe Daily NorthwesternColorsPurple and white 5 NicknameWildcatsSporting affiliationsNCAA Division I FBS Big TenCCFCMascotWillie the WildcatWebsitenorthwestern eduLocation in the United StatesShow map of the United StatesNorthwestern University Illinois Show map of IllinoisNorthwestern University Chicago metropolitan area Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Chartered by the Illinois General Assembly in 1851 Northwestern was initially affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church but later became non sectarian By 1900 the university was the third largest university in the United States Northwestern became a founding member of the Big Ten Conference in 1896 and joined the Association of American Universities in 1917 Northwestern is composed of eleven undergraduate graduate and professional schools which includes Kellogg School of Management McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences among others In addition to the Evanston campus it has campuses in downtown Chicago Coral Gables San Francisco Doha and Washington D C As of 2023 the university had an endowment of 14 1 billion an annual budget of around 2 9 billion 6 7 and research funding of over 1 billion 8 The university fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams the Northwestern Wildcats which compete in the NCAA Division I in the Big Ten Conference As of September 2020 33 Nobel Prize laureates and 2 Fields Medalists 9 have been affiliated with Northwestern as alumni or faculty In addition Northwestern has been associated with 45 Pulitzer Prize winners 23 National Medal of Science winners 11 National Humanities Medal recipients 23 MacArthur Fellows 20 Rhodes Scholars 10 and 28 Marshall Scholars Northwestern alumni also include 10 living billionaires 11 2 U S Supreme Court Justices 12 13 and 24 Olympic medalists Aerial photograph of Northwestern University from Lake Michigan Contents 1 History 1 1 Founding and early years 1 2 20th century 1 3 21st century 2 Campuses 2 1 Evanston 2 2 Chicago 2 3 Education City 3 Organization and administration 3 1 Governance 3 2 Endowment 4 Academics 4 1 Admissions 4 2 Rankings and reputation 4 3 Education 4 4 Libraries and museums 4 4 1 Collections and sections 5 Research and innovations 5 1 Research 5 2 Innovations and entrepreneurship 6 Student life 6 1 Student body 6 2 Undergraduate housing 6 3 Traditions 6 4 Philanthropy 6 5 Performing arts 6 6 Media 6 6 1 Print 6 6 2 Web based 6 6 3 Radio film and television 6 7 Speech and debate 7 Athletics 7 1 Nickname and mascot 7 2 Football 7 3 Basketball 7 3 1 Men s Basketball 7 3 2 Women s Basketball 7 4 Fencing 7 5 Field Hockey 7 6 Lacrosse 7 7 Wrestling 7 8 Golf 8 People 8 1 Alumni 8 2 Faculty 9 Notes 9 1 Citations 10 Further reading 11 External linksHistory editMain article History of Northwestern University Founding and early years edit The foundation of Northwestern University can be traced to a meeting on May 31 1850 of nine prominent Chicago businessmen Methodist leaders and attorneys who had formed the idea of establishing a university to serve what had been known from 1787 to 1803 as the Northwest Territory On January 28 1851 the Illinois General Assembly granted a charter to the Trustees of the North Western University making it the first chartered university in Illinois 14 15 The school s nine founders all of whom were Methodists three of them ministers knelt in prayer and worship before launching their first organizational meeting 16 Although they affiliated the university with the Methodist Episcopal Church they favored a non sectarian admissions policy believing that Northwestern should serve all people in the newly developing territory by bettering the economy in Evanston 17 John Evans for whom Evanston is named bought 379 acres 153 ha of land along Lake Michigan in 1853 and Philo Judson developed plans for what would become the city of Evanston Illinois The first building Old College opened on November 5 1855 18 To raise funds for its construction Northwestern sold 100 perpetual scholarships entitling the purchaser and his heirs to free tuition 19 20 Another building University Hall was built in 1869 of the same Joliet limestone as the Chicago Water Tower also built in 1869 one of the few buildings in the heart of Chicago to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 21 In 1873 the Evanston College for Ladies merged with Northwestern and Frances Willard who later gained fame as a suffragette and as one of the founders of the Woman s Christian Temperance Union WCTU became the school s first dean of women Willard Residential College built in 1938 honors her name Northwestern admitted its first female students in 1869 and the first woman graduated in 1874 22 Northwestern fielded its first intercollegiate football team in 1882 later becoming a founding member of the Big Ten Conference In the 1870s and 1880s Northwestern affiliated itself with already existing schools of law medicine and dentistry in Chicago The Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the oldest law school in Chicago As the university s enrollments grew these professional schools were integrated with the undergraduate college in Evanston the result was a modern research university combining professional graduate and undergraduate programs which gave equal weight to teaching and research 23 24 20th century edit nbsp A postcard of Northwestern University from 1907By the turn of the century Northwestern had grown in stature to become the third largest university in the United States after Harvard University and the University of Michigan 25 Under Walter Dill Scott s presidency from 1920 to 1939 Northwestern began construction of an integrated campus in Chicago designed by James Gamble Rogers noted for his design of the Yale University campus to house the professional schools In addition James Gamble Rogers designed a library in accordance with the gothic architectural style on the Evanston campus in order to make use of the 1 million donated to the school after the death of Charles Deering This library is named in memory of him and its design was inspired by Cambridge University s King s College Chapel The university also established the Kellogg School of Management and built several prominent buildings on the Evanston campus including Dyche Stadium now named Ryan Field among others In the 1920s Northwestern became one of the first six universities in the United States to establish a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps NROTC In 1939 Northwestern hosted the first ever NCAA Division I men s basketball championship game in the original Patten Gymnasium which was later demolished and relocated farther north along with the Dearborn Observatory to make room for the Technological Institute nbsp Deering Library which is named in memory of Charles DeeringAfter the golden years of the 1920s the Great Depression in the United States 1929 1941 had a severe impact on the university s finances Its annual income dropped 25 percent from 4 8 million in 1930 31 to 3 6 million in 1933 34 Investment income shrank fewer people could pay full tuition and annual giving from alumni and philanthropists fell from 870 000 in 1932 to a low of 331 000 in 1935 The university responded with two salary cuts of 10 percent each for all employees It imposed hiring and building freezes and slashed appropriations for maintenance books and research Having had a balanced budget in 1930 31 the university now faced deficits of roughly 100 000 for the next four years Enrollments fell in most schools with law and music suffering the biggest declines However the movement toward state certification of school teachers prompted Northwestern to start a new graduate program in education thereby bringing in new students and much needed income In June 1933 Robert Maynard Hutchins president of the University of Chicago proposed a merger of the two universities estimating annual savings of 1 7 million The two presidents were enthusiastic and the faculty liked the idea many Northwestern alumni however opposed it fearing the loss of their alma mater and its many traditions that distinguished Northwestern from Chicago The medical school for example was oriented toward training practitioners and alumni feared it would lose its mission if it were merged into the more research oriented University of Chicago Medical School 26 The merger plan was ultimately dropped In 1935 the Deering family rescued the university budget with an unrestricted gift of 6 million bringing the budget up to 5 4 million in 1938 39 This allowed many of the previous spending cuts to be restored including half of the salary reductions 27 nbsp University Hall 1869 the second building constructed on campus and the oldest building still standing Like other American research universities Northwestern was transformed by World War II 1939 1945 Regular enrollment fell dramatically but the school opened high intensity short term programs that trained over 50 000 military personnel including future president John F Kennedy Northwestern s existing NROTC program proved to be a boon to the university as it trained over 36 000 sailors over the course of the war which led Northwestern to be called the Annapolis of the Midwest 28 Franklyn B Snyder led the university from 1939 to 1949 and after the war surging enrollments under the G I Bill drove the dramatic expansion of both campuses In 1948 prominent anthropologist Melville J Herskovits founded the Program of African Studies at Northwestern the first center of its kind at an American academic institution 29 J Roscoe Miller s tenure as president from 1949 to 1970 saw an expansion of the Evanston campus with the construction of the Lakefill on Lake Michigan growth of the faculty and new academic programs and polarizing Vietnam era student protests In 1978 the first and second Unabomber attacks occurred at Northwestern University 30 Relations between Evanston and Northwestern became strained throughout much of the post war era because of episodes of disruptive student activism 31 disputes over municipal zoning building codes and law enforcement 32 as well as restrictions on the sale of alcohol near campus until 1972 33 34 Northwestern s exemption from state and municipal property tax obligations under its original charter has historically been a source of town and gown tension Although government support for universities declined in the 1970s and 1980s President Arnold R Weber was able to stabilize university finances which led to a revitalization of its campuses In 1996 Princess Diana visited Northwestern s Evanston and Chicago campuses to raise money for the university hospital s Robert H Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at the invitation of then President Bienen Her visit raised a total of 1 5 million for cancer research 35 36 37 21st century edit nbsp Recently renovated Alice Millar Chapel As admissions to colleges and universities grew increasingly competitive in the 1990s and 2000s President Henry S Bienen s tenure saw an increase in the number and quality of undergraduate applicants continued expansion of the facilities and faculty and renewed athletic competitiveness In 1999 Northwestern student journalists uncovered information exonerating Illinois death row inmate Anthony Porter two days before his scheduled execution The Innocence Project has since exonerated 10 more men 38 39 On January 11 2003 in a speech at Northwestern School of Law s Lincoln Hall then Governor of Illinois George Ryan announced that he would commute the sentences of more than 150 death row inmates 40 In the 2010s a five year capital campaign resulted in a new music center a replacement building for the business school and a 270 million athletic complex 41 42 In 2014 President Barack Obama delivered a seminal economics speech at the Evanston campus 43 In 2015 Queen Maxima and King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands visited Northwestern to announce research collaborations between Northwestern and several Dutch institutions focused on the study of aging 44 In 2021 an additional 480 million the largest donation in the university s history was donated to Northwestern by the Ryan Family to be applied to research at the Kellogg School of Management and Feinberg School of Medicine as well as for renovating Ryan Field 45 In a partnership with Oakton College and the Illinois Department of Corrections in 2023 Northwestern awarded the first bachelors degrees in the United States to a graduating class of prisoners from a top ranked university 46 Campuses editSee also List of Northwestern University buildings and Campus of Northwestern University nbsp Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary which resides in Northwestern s Evanston campus Evanston edit Northwestern University s main campus is located in the suburb of Evanston Illinois just north of Chicago The campus spans an area of 240 acres and is characterized by its blend of modern and historic gothic architecture Northwestern s Evanston campus where the undergraduate schools the Graduate School and the Kellogg School of Management are located runs north south from Lincoln Avenue to Clark Street west of Lake Michigan along Sheridan Road North Campus is home to the fraternity quads athletics facilities including the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Norris Aquatics Center the Technological Institute Dearborn Observatory the Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Hall for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self Assembly and the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center among others South Campus is home to the university s humanities buildings music buildings like the Pick Staiger Concert Hall the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and the sorority quads In the 1960s the university created an additional 84 acres 34 ha for the campus by filling in a portion of Lake Michigan Buildings located on the resulting Lakefill include University Library the Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Center for the Musical Arts the Regenstein Hall of Music Norris University Center the student union the Kellogg School of Management Global Hub and various athletics facilities The Chicago Transit Authority s elevated train running through Evanston is called the Purple Line taking its name from Northwestern s school color The Foster and Davis stations are within walking distance of the southern end of the campus while the Noyes station is close to the northern end of the campus The Central station is close to Ryan Field Northwestern s football stadium The Evanston Davis Street Metra station serves the Northwestern campus in downtown Evanston and the Evanston Central Street Metra station is near Ryan Field Pace Suburban Bus Service and the CTA have several bus routes that run through or near the Evanston campus Chicago edit nbsp The Montgomery Ward Memorial Building 1927 at Northwestern s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago America s first academic skyscraper 47 Northwestern s Chicago campus is located in the city s Streeterville neighborhood near Lake Michigan The Chicago campus is home to the nationally ranked Northwestern Memorial Hospital the medical school the law school the part time MBA program and the School of Professional Studies Medill s one year graduate program rents a floor on Wacker Drive across the river from Streeterville and separate from the rest of the campus Northwestern s professional schools and a number of its affiliated hospitals are located approximately four blocks east of the Chicago station on the CTA Red Line The Chicago campus is also served by CTA bus routes Founded or affiliated at varying points in the university s history the professional schools originally were scattered throughout Chicago 48 In connection with a 1917 master plan for a central Chicago campus and President Walter Dill Scott s capital campaign 8 5 acres 3 44 ha of land were purchased at the corner of Chicago Avenue and Lake Shore Drive for 1 5 million in 1920 48 49 Architect James Gamble Rogers was commissioned to create a master plan for the principal buildings on the new campus which he designed in collegiate gothic style In 1923 Mrs Montgomery Ward donated 8 million to the campaign to finance the construction of the Montgomery Ward Memorial Building which would house the medical and dental schools and create endowments for faculty chairs research grants scholarships and building maintenance 50 The building would become the first university skyscraper in the United States 47 In addition to the Ward Building Rogers designed Wieboldt Hall to house facilities for the School of Commerce 51 and Levy Mayer Hall to house the School of Law 52 The new campus comprising these three new buildings was dedicated during a two day ceremony in June 1927 The Chicago campus continued to expand with the addition of Thorne Hall in 1931 and Abbott Hall in 1939 48 53 In October 2013 Northwestern began the demolition of the architecturally significant Prentice Women s Hospital Eric G Neilson dean of the medical school penned an op ed that equated retaining the building with loss of life 54 nbsp The entrance of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law s Levy Mayer Hall on the Chicago campus Education City edit Main article Northwestern University in Qatar In Fall 2008 Northwestern opened a campus in Education City Doha Qatar 55 Through the Medill School of Journalism and School of Communication NU Q offers bachelor s degrees in journalism and communications respectively 56 However some have questioned whether NU Q can truly offer a comparable journalism program to that of its U S campus given Qatar s instances of censorship and strict limits on journalistic and academic freedoms 55 57 The Qatar Foundation for Education Science and Community Development a private charitable institution founded by former emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and his wife and mother of the current emir Sheikha Moza bint Nasser provided funding for construction and administrative costs as well as support to hire 50 to 60 faculty and staff some of whom rotate between the Evanston and Qatar campuses 58 59 Northwestern receives roughly 45 million per year to operate the campus 57 In February 2016 Northwestern reached an agreement with the Qatar Foundation to extend the operations of the NU Q branch for an additional decade through the 2027 2028 academic year 60 Like other universities with campuses in Doha Northwestern has received criticism for accepting money from a country with a poor human rights record 57 61 62 Organization and administration editGovernance edit nbsp Weber ArchNorthwestern is privately owned and governed by an appointed Board of Trustees which is composed of 70 members and as of 2022 update is chaired by Peter Barris 74 63 The board delegates its power to an elected president who serves as the chief executive officer of the university 64 Northwestern has had seventeen presidents in its history excluding interim presidents The current president legal scholar Michael H Schill succeeded Morton O Schapiro in fall 2022 65 The president maintains a staff of vice presidents directors and other assistants for administrative financial faculty and student matters 66 Kathleen Haggerty assumed the role of provost for the university on September 1 2020 67 Students are formally involved in the university s administration through the Associated Student Government elected representatives of the undergraduate students and the Graduate Student Association which represents the university s graduate students 68 69 The admission requirements degree requirements courses of study and disciplinary and degree recommendations for each of Northwestern s 12 schools are determined by the voting members of that school s faculty assistant professor and above 70 Endowment edit Northwestern maintains an endowment of 16 1 billion the eighth largest university endowment among private universities in the United States 71 The endowment is sustained through donations and is maintained by investment advisers at the university s Investment Office 72 Academics editUndergraduate and graduate schools Graduate and professional Evanston Campus Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences 1851 School of Communication 1878 Bienen School of Music 1895 McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science 1909 Medill School of Journalism 1921 School of Education and Social Policy 1926 School of Professional Studies 1933 Evanston Campus Kellogg School of Management 1908 The Graduate School 1910 Chicago Campus Feinberg School of Medicine 1859 Kellogg School of Management 1908 Pritzker School of Law 1859 School of Professional Studies 1933 Admissions edit Undergraduate admissions statistics2022 enteringclass 73 Change vs 2017 74 Admit rate7 0 nbsp 2 23 Yield rate63 0 nbsp 7 8 Test scores middle 50 SAT Total1500 1560 nbsp 25 median SAT EBRW730 770 nbsp 15 median SAT Math760 800 nbsp 10 median ACT Composite33 35 nbsp 0 5 median High school GPA Top 10 96 0 nbsp 5 Top 25 100 0 nbsp no change Average4 1 nbsp 0 03 2022 data among students who chose to submit Percentages among students whose school ranked Northwestern University s admissions are characterized as most selective by U S News amp World Report 75 Northwestern received a record 52 225 applications for its class size of approximately 2 100 students in 2022 2023 academic year For the Class of 2027 regular decision acceptance rate was approximately 4 6 while overall acceptance rate remained around 7 0 76 For the Class of 2026 the interquartile range middle 50 on the post 2016 SAT was a combined verbal and math 1500 1560 out of 1600 the interquartile range on the evidence based reading and writing EBRW section of the SAT was 730 770 out of 800 while the interquartile range on the Math section of the SAT was 760 800 out of 800 77 ACT composite scores for the middle 50 ranged from 33 to 35 out of 36 and 96 ranked in the top ten percent of their respective high school classes 76 78 77 Approximately 35 40 percent of the incoming students of the Class of 2027 have been admitted through the Early Decision application round Northwestern s early decision admission numbers for the Class of 2027 reveal an early acceptance rate of about 20 with approximately 1 000 students being admitted out of 5 220 applications 79 In April 2016 Northwestern became one of 15 Illinois universities to sign on to the Chicago Star Partnership a City Colleges initiative aimed at increasing opportunities for students in the city s public school district Through this partnership the university provides scholarships to students who graduate from Chicago Public Schools get their associate degree from one of the city s community colleges and then get admitted to a bachelor s degree program 80 The university is need blind for domestic applicants 81 Rankings and reputation edit Academic rankingsNationalARWU 82 20Forbes 83 18U S News amp World Report 84 9 tie Washington Monthly 85 31WSJ College Pulse 86 25GlobalARWU 87 30QS 88 47 tie THE 89 28U S News amp World Report 90 24 Northwestern is a large residential research university 91 Education editThe university provides instruction in over 200 formal academic concentrations 124 undergraduate programs and 145 graduate and professional programs 92 93 including various dual degree programs 94 95 Although there is no university wide core curriculum a foundation in the liberal arts and sciences sometimes referred as distribution requirements are required for all majors individual degree requirements are set by the faculty of each school 70 The university heavily emphasizes interdisciplinary learning with 72 of undergrads combining two or more areas of study 96 Northwestern s full time undergraduate and graduate programs operate on an approximately 10 week academic quarter system with the academic year beginning in late September and ending in early June Under the regular academic calendar each quarter contains a four day Reading Period in between the end of classes and the beginning of finals 97 Undergraduates typically take four courses each quarter and twelve courses in an academic year and 98 are required to complete at least twelve quarters on campus to graduate Northwestern offers honors accelerated and joint degree programs in medicine science mathematics engineering and journalism 99 The comprehensive doctoral graduate program has high coexistence with undergraduate programs 91 nbsp Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center The most popular and prominent majors at Northwestern in 2021 include communication journalism engineering computer science mathematics statistics biological sciences physics and chemistry 94 100 It is also prominent in law and medicine Northwestern is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and the respective national professional organizations for chemistry psychology business education journalism music engineering law and medicine 101 Northwestern conferred 2 190 bachelor s degrees 3 272 master s degrees 565 doctoral degrees and 444 professional degrees in 2012 2013 needs update Since 1951 Northwestern has awarded 520 needs update honorary degrees 102 103 Northwestern also has chapters of academic honor societies such as Phi Beta Kappa Alpha of Illinois Eta Kappa Nu Tau Beta Pi Eta Sigma Phi Beta Chapter 104 Lambda Pi Eta 105 and Alpha Sigma Lambda Alpha Chapter 106 Northwestern maintains a student to faculty ratio of 6 1 77 of the classes have less than 20 students while 5 5 of the classes have more than 50 students 94 Libraries and museums edit The Northwestern library system consists of four libraries on the Evanston campus including the Main University Library the Boas Mathematics Library Mudd Library and the original library building Deering Library three libraries on the Chicago campus and the library affiliated with Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary 107 Northwestern Libraries host a total of 8 198 268 printed or electronic volumes 108 In addition its libraries contain 229 198 maps 211 127 audio files 103 377 printed journals 196 716 electronic journals 91 334 movies or videos 36 989 manuscripts 4 6 million microforms and almost 99 000 periodicals 108 The University Library is the 14th largest university library in North America based on total number of titles held nbsp Frontage of the Deering Library which houses the art and music collections nbsp Deering Library s West Tower nbsp Northern block of the main library Collections and sections edit Among the library s collection and sections are Melville J Herskovits Library of African Studies established in 1954 and named after Melville J Herskovits the Herskovits Library is the largest separate Africana collection in existence The collection includes more than 400 000 volumes including 20 000 in African languages 250 current newspapers and 6 000 non circulating rare books 109 The Music Library contains extensive holdings of printed music and archival materials documenting music composed since 1945 The collection includes more than 300 000 items including the John Cage collection Transportation Library one of the largest transportation information centers in the world with a collection of over 500 000 items covering air rail highways pipeline water urban transport and logistics The Art Library the Art Library holds over 160 000 books and journals about art architecture and design with particular strength in 19th century art and architecture nbsp Seabury Hall houses some sections of the Styberg Library Styberg Library the theological library serves the Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary and Bexley Seabury Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections include an extensive collection on The Long 60s Social History Political History Literature Arts Journalism Twentieth Century Music Theatre Performance and Women s History 110 The Special Collections department at Charles Deering McCormick Library holds approximately 8 000 items related to the Siege and Commune of Paris during 1870 1871 This collection is one of the largest and most diverse of its kind in the world and contains a captivating range of original photographs posters caricatures lithographs manuscripts books newspapers and other artifacts that were created in response to the significant events that occurred during that year These events included France s defeat in the Franco Prussian War the downfall of the Second Empire the four month siege of Paris and the violent civil war that ended the Commune uprising The core of the collection was acquired in 1971 the centenary year of the Commune s end when the library s astute staff purchased most of the offerings of a well known French book dealer Since then many other acquisitions have been added to the collection The Franco Prussian War was among the earliest conflicts to be photographed and the collection includes many such images along with depictions of the devastated Parisian landscape and some of the earliest examples of manipulated photographs created for propaganda purposes 111 The collection also encompasses a significant amount of material that covers military activities during the Spanish Civil War and the early stages of World War II from both sides of the conflict In addition the collection showcases the impact of warfare on civilians who were displaced or killed in various parts of Spain including any interactions with France and Germany during that period The collection also features various other topics that offer insight into Spain s cultural and social dynamics throughout history The photographs in the collection were sourced from international press outlets and private collections and are accompanied by captions that provide historical background and context for the subjects depicted 112 Northwestern University Archives Pritzker Legal Research Center the library is located on the Chicago campus and serves the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law nbsp Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art Seeley G Mudd Library Located on North Campus Mudd Library was renovated in 2017 with collaboration and technology in mind Charles Deering Memorial Library built in 1933 and named for Charles Deering the library houses the art library the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections the Music Library and University Archives Boas Mathematics Library the library serves primarily the Mathematics Department and Statistics Department and has a research collection in pure mathematics and statistics of around 34 000 volumes The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art a major art museum in Chicago contains more than 4 000 works in its permanent collection It dedicates a third of its space to temporary and traveling exhibitions 113 The Holocaust Educational Foundation which had previously endowed the Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professorship in Holocaust Studies became part of Northwestern in 2011 114 115 Northwestern along with 15 other universities participates in digitizing its collections as part of the Google Book Search project 116 Northwestern University Library is a partner with the Native American Education Services College NAES the American Indian Association of Illinois AIAI and Northwestern University s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research in the NAES College Digital Library Project which preserves the NAES College library and archives 117 Research and innovations edit nbsp Front Plaza of the Northwestern Technological Institute nbsp Side entrance to the Northwestern Technological Institute Research edit Northwestern was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1917 and is classified as an R1 university denoting very high research activity 91 118 Northwestern s schools of management engineering and communication are among the most academically productive in the nation 119 The university received 923 8 million in research funding and 421 million in NIH funding in 2022 and houses over 90 school based and 40 university wide research institutes and centers 78 120 121 Northwestern also supports nearly 1 500 research laboratories across two campuses predominantly in the medical and biological sciences 121 Also Northwestern houses more than 50 University Research Institutes amp Centers URICS which consists of institutes and initiatives that combine multiple areas of study to pursue research across domains such as quantum information policy research bioelectronics and more 122 123 Northwestern is home to the Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center Materials Research Center Center for Quantum Devices Institute for Policy Research International Institute for Nanotechnology Center for Catalysis and Surface Science Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies the Initiative for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern 124 and the Argonne Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center among other centers for interdisciplinary research 125 nbsp The E989 storage ring magnet at Fermilab which was originally designed for the E821 experiment The geometry allows for a very uniform magnetic field to be established in the ringThe university also shares collaborative research efforts with other universities such as the CZ Biohub Chicago with the University of Chicago and University of Illinois 126 In addition Northwestern University cooperates with research institutions such as Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory FermiLab Proceeding in cooperation with these laboratories the Center for Applied Physics and Superconducting Technologies CAPST and the Initiative at Northwestern for Quantum Information Research and Engineering INQUIRE have attracted attention in recent years 127 128 Northwestern s investment and collaboration areas include particle physics quantum physics quantum information technologies and superconducting technologies Innovations and entrepreneurship edit In 2013 Northwestern researchers disclosed 247 inventions filed 270 patent applications received 81 foreign and US patents started 12 companies and generated 79 8 million in licensing revenue The Innovation and New Ventures Office INVO has been involved in creating the Center for Developmental Therapeutics CDT 129 and the Center for Device Development CD2 130 nbsp Outside of the Garage at Northwestern University Northwestern files hundreds of patents each year ranking among the top 20 universities in the world in terms of U S utility patents 131 One of the university s most successful current patents is pregabalin a synthesized organic molecule developed at the university by chemistry professor Richard Bruce Silverman for whom Silverman Hall was named It was ultimately marketed as Lyrica a drug sold by Pfizer to combat epilepsy neuropathic pain and fibromyalgia Northwestern has an extensive history of producing prominent businessmen and entrepreneurs Companies founded by Northwestern alumni include Groupon The Blackstone Group Booz Allen Hamilton U S Steel Kirkland amp Ellis Guggenheim Partners Accenture Aon Corporation and AQR Capital The university also runs The Garage and interdisciplinary innovation and entrepreneurship space and community for student run startups The Garage provides students with resources and programming related to entrepreneurship and mentorship 132 The Garage houses approximately 90 student founded startups per academic quarter 133 Its programs and resources are available to all Northwestern students Student life editStudent body edit Student body composition as of May 2 2022 Race and ethnicity 134 Total White 42 42 Asian 19 19 Hispanic 13 13 Foreign national 10 10 Other a 9 9 Black 6 6 Economic diversity Low income b 20 20 Affluent c 80 80 Northwestern enrolled 8 186 full time undergraduates 9 904 full time graduates and 3 856 part time students in the 2019 2020 academic year needs update The freshman retention rate for that year was 99 135 136 Eighty six percent of students graduated after four years and 96 graduated after six years 136 137 These numbers can largely be attributed to the university s various specialized degree programs such as those that allow students to earn master s degrees with a one or two year extension of their undergraduate program 136 The undergraduate population is drawn from all 50 states and over 75 foreign countries Twenty percent of students in the Class of 2024 were Pell Grant recipients and 12 56 were first generation college students 138 Northwestern also enrolls the ninth most National Merit Scholars of any university in the nation In Fall 2014 needs update 40 6 of undergraduate students were enrolled in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences 21 3 in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science 14 3 in the School of Communication 11 7 in the Medill School of Journalism 5 7 in the Bienen School of Music and 6 4 in the School of Education and Social Policy 139 The five most commonly awarded undergraduate degrees are economics journalism communication studies psychology and political science 140 The Kellogg School of Management s MBA the School of Law s JD and the Feinberg School of Medicine s MD are the three largest professional degree programs by enrollment 139 With 2 446 students enrolled in science engineering and health fields 141 the largest graduate programs by enrollment include chemistry integrated biology material sciences electrical and computer engineering neuroscience and economics 142 Undergraduate housing edit See also List of Northwestern University residences nbsp Sorority Quad at Northwestern University Northwestern offers both traditional residence halls and residential colleges for students who share a particular intellectual interest The residential colleges include Ayers College of Commerce and Industry Chapin Hall Humanities East Fairchild Communications Hobart House women s Jones Residential College Fine and Performing Arts the Public Affairs Residential College the Residential College of Cultural and Community Studies Shepard Residential College multi thematic Slivka Residential College for Science and Engineering West Fairchild International Studies and Willard Residential College multi thematic Residence halls include Allison Hall Bobb McCulloch Elder Hall Foster Walker Complex commonly referred to as Plex Rogers House and Shapiro Hall formerly known as 560 Lincoln among others An estimated 20 of undergraduates are affiliated with a fraternity or sorority 143 Northwestern recognizes 21 fraternities and 18 sororities 144 All incoming undergraduates at Northwestern University are required to live in campus for their first two years 145 Traditions edit nbsp The Rock in front of the University Hall Alma Mater is the Northwestern Hymn The original Latin version of the hymn was written in 1907 by Peter Christian Lutkin the first dean of the School of Music from 1883 to 1931 In 1953 then Director of Bands John Paynter recruited an undergraduate music student Thomas Tyra 54 to write an English version of the song which today is performed by the Marching Band during halftime at Wildcat football games and by the orchestra during ceremonies and other special occasions 146 Purple became Northwestern s official color in 1892 147 replacing black and gold after a university committee concluded that too many other universities had used these colors Today Northwestern s official color is purple although white is something of an official color as well being mentioned in both the university s earliest song Alma Mater 1907 Hail to purple hail to white and in many university guidelines 148 149 The Rock a six foot high quartzite boulder donated by the Class of 1902 originally served as a water fountain It was painted over by students in the 1940s as a prank and has since become a popular vehicle of self expression on campus By tradition students must guard it for twenty four hours before painting it To fulfill this rule the rock is streamed 24 7 on Youtube 150 Dillo Day held at Northwestern University is an all day music festival that occurs towards the end of the spring quarter on the Lakefill Established during the 1972 73 academic year the event is orchestrated by Mayfest Productions a student organization and is the largest entirely student managed music festival in the United States 146 151 March Through the Arch is a tradition at Northwestern University that symbolically marks a student s start to the university This event takes place during Wildcat Welcome week Students pass through the Weber Arch on campus representing their entry into a new chapter of their academic and personal lives When graduating students march back through the arch 152 Primal Scream is held every quarter at 9 p m on the Sunday before finals week Students lean out of windows or gather in courtyards and scream to help relieve stress 153 Philanthropy edit nbsp Cahn Auditorium and Scott Hall One of Northwestern s student charity events is Dance Marathon It has raised over 1 million for charity every year since 2011 and has donated a total of 13 million to children s charities since its conception 154 The Northwestern Community Development Corps NCDC is a student run organization that connects hundreds of student volunteers to community development projects in Evanston and Chicago throughout the year The group also holds a number of annual community events including Project Pumpkin a Halloween celebration that provides over 800 local children with carnival events and a safe venue to trick or treat each year 155 Many Northwestern students participate in the Freshman Urban Program an initiative for students interested in community service to work on addressing social issues facing the city of Chicago 156 and the university s Global Engagement Studies Institute GESI programs including group service learning expeditions in Asia Africa or Latin America in conjunction with the Foundation for Sustainable Development 157 Several international nongovernmental organizations were established at Northwestern including the World Health Imaging Informatics and Telemedicine Alliance a spin off from an engineering student s honors thesis 158 159 Performing arts edit nbsp Regenstein Hall of Music which houses the A Cappella clubs Northwestern is a prolific producer of successful entertainers and a nationally reputed hub for collegiate performing arts The Student Theatre Coalition or StuCo organizes nine student theater companies multiple performance groups and over sixty independent productions each year 160 Productions include The Waa Mu Show an original musical written and produced entirely by students 161 and the Dolphin show Children s theater is represented on campus by Griffin s Tale and Purple Crayon Players 162 Chicago s Lookingglass Theatre Company which began life in Jones Residential College was founded in 1988 by several university alumni including David Schwimmer It received the Regional Tony Award in 2011 and has won over 45 Joseph Jefferson Awards in its 30 Seasons 163 The undergraduate students maintain twelve a cappella groups including THUNK a cappella the Northwestern Undertones Freshman Fifteen A Cappella ShireiNU A Cappella and Purple Haze 164 Northwestern s performing arts scene also includes Boomshaka which is the university s drum dance and rhythm ensemble Media edit Print edit nbsp Norris University Center the main center for student unionEstablished in 1881 The Daily Northwestern is the university s main student newspaper and is published on weekdays during the academic year It is directed entirely by undergraduate students and owned by the Students Publishing Company Although it serves the Northwestern community the Daily has no business ties to the university and is supported wholly by advertisers North by Northwestern is an online undergraduate magazine established in September 2006 by students at the Medill School of Journalism Published on weekdays it consists of updates on news stories and special events throughout the year It also publishes a quarterly print magazine Syllabus is the university s undergraduate yearbook It is distributed in late May and features a culmination of the year s events at Northwestern First published in 1885 the yearbook is published by Students Publishing Company and edited by Northwestern students Northwestern Flipside is an undergraduate satirical magazine Founded in 2009 it publishes a weekly issue both in print and online Helicon is the university s undergraduate literary magazine Established in 1979 it is published twice a year a web issue is released in the winter and a print issue with a web complement is released in the spring The Protest is Northwestern s quarterly social justice magazine The Northwestern division of Student Multicultural Affairs supports a number of publications for particular cultural groups including Ahora a magazine about Hispanic and Latino a culture and campus life Al Bayan published by the Northwestern Muslim cultural Student Association BlackBoard Magazine a magazine centered around African American student life and NUAsian a magazine and blog on Asian and Asian American culture and issues 165 The Northwestern University Law Review is a scholarly legal publication and student organization at Northwestern University School of Law Its primary purpose is to publish a journal of broad legal scholarship The Law Review publishes six issues each year Student editors make the editorial and organizational decisions and select articles submitted by professors judges and practitioners as well as student pieces The Law Review also publishes scholarly pieces weekly on the Colloquy The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property is a law review published by an independent student organization at Northwestern University School of Law The Northwestern Interdisciplinary Law Review is a scholarly legal publication published annually by an editorial board of Northwestern undergraduates Its mission is to publish interdisciplinary legal research drawing from fields such as history literature economics philosophy and art Founded in 2008 the journal features articles by professors law students practitioners and undergraduates It is funded by the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and the Office of the Provost Web based edit TriQuarterly is a literary magazine published twice a year featuring poetry fiction nonfiction drama literary essays reviews blog posts and art Established in January 2011 Sherman Ave is a satirical website that often publishes content on Northwestern student life 166 Established in 2010 by undergraduates Politics amp Policy provides analysis of current events and public policy Founded in 2005 Northwestern Business Review is a campus source for business news The Queer Reader is Northwestern s first radical feminist and LGBTQ publication Radio film and television edit WNUR 89 3 FM is a 7 200 watt radio station that broadcasts to the north side of Chicago as well as the northern suburbs of Evanston and Skokie WNUR s programming consists of music jazz classical and rock literature politics current events varsity sports football men s and women s basketball baseball softball and women s lacrosse and breaking news on weekdays 167 Studio 22 is a student run production company that produces roughly ten films each year The organization financed the first film Zach Braff directed and many of its films have featured students who would later go into professional acting including Zach Gilford of Friday Night Lights 168 Applause for a Cause is currently the only student run production company in the nation to create feature length films for charity It was founded in 2010 and has raised over 5 000 to date for various local and national organizations across the United States Northwestern News Network is a student television news and sports network serving the Northwestern and Evanston communities Its studios and newsroom are located on the fourth floor of the McCormick Tribune Center on Northwestern s Evanston campus NNN is funded by the Medill School of Journalism Speech and debate edit The Northwestern Debate Society has won fifteen National Debate Tournaments the highest number of any university Alumni of the society include Erwin Chemerinsky legal scholar and Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law and Elliot Mincberg of People For the American Way Northwestern s Mock Trial team had two teams qualify for the 2018 National Championship Tournament hosted by the American Mock Trial Association making Northwestern one of seven schools in the nation to be represented by multiple teams at the competition 169 One of the two teams finished 9th in their division and is ranked 20th in the country out of roughly 750 teams for the 2018 2019 season 170 171 172 Athletics editMain article Northwestern Wildcats nbsp Ryan Field Northwestern s 49 000 seat football stadiumNorthwestern is a charter member of the Big Ten Conference It is the conference s only private university and possesses the smallest undergraduate enrollment the next smallest member the University of Iowa is roughly three times as large with almost 22 000 undergraduates Northwestern fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams 8 men s and 11 women s in addition to numerous club sports 173 Twelve of Northwestern s varsity programs have had NCAA or bowl postseason appearances Northwestern is one of five private AAU members to compete in NCAA Power Five conferences the other four are Duke Stanford USC and Vanderbilt and maintains a 98 NCAA Graduation Success Rate the highest among Football Bowl Subdivision schools In 2018 the school opened the Walter Athletics Center a 270 million state of the art lakefront facility for its athletics teams 174 Nickname and mascot edit nbsp Northwestern University Mascot Willie the WildcatBefore 1924 Northwestern teams were known as The Purple and unofficially as The Fighting Methodists The name Wildcats was bestowed upon the university in 1924 by Wallace Abbey a writer for the Chicago Daily Tribune who wrote that even in a loss to the University of Chicago Football players had not come down from Evanston wildcats would be a name better suited to Coach Glenn Thistletwaite s boys 175 The name was so popular that university board members made Wildcats the official nickname just months later In 1972 the student body voted to change the official nickname to Purple Haze but the new name never stuck 176 The mascot of Northwestern Athletics is Willie the Wildcat Prior to Willie the team mascot had been a live caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo named Furpaw who was brought to the playing field on game days to greet the fans After a losing season the team decided that Furpaw was to blame for its misfortune and decided to select a new mascot Willie the Wildcat made his debut in 1933 first as a logo and then in three dimensions in 1947 when members of the Alpha Delta fraternity dressed as wildcats during a Homecoming Parade Football edit Main article Northwestern Wildcats football The Northwestern Wildcats football team is a Division I college football team and member of the Big Ten Conference The team has a history dating back to 1882 They are known as the Wildcats a nickname given by a Chicago Tribune reporter in 1924 after observing a game where the players displayed a strong and fierce presence akin to a wall of purple wildcats 177 The team has achieved success winning three Big Ten championships or co championships since 1995 Additionally they have been eligible to participate in bowl games five times between 2015 and 2020 Northwestern takes pride in its academic achievements as well consistently ranking among the top football teams in graduation rates They have been honored with the AFCA Academic Achievement Award four times since 2002 178 The Wildcats play their home games at Ryan Field formerly known as Dyche Stadium a venue they have called home since 1926 Given their close proximity to Chicago and strong connections to the city Northwestern Football is often recognized as Chicago s Big Ten Team 179 nbsp Current uniform of Northwestern s football team sponsored by Under Armour Northwestern s football team has made 73 appearances in the top 10 of the AP poll since 1936 including 5 at 1 and has won eight Big Ten conference championships since 1903 180 181 182 At one time Northwestern had the longest losing streak in Division I A losing 34 consecutive games between 1979 and 1982 183 184 They did not appear in a bowl game after 1949 until the 1996 Rose Bowl The team did not win a bowl since the 1949 Rose Bowl until the 2013 Gator Bowl Following the sudden death of football coach Randy Walker in 2006 185 31 year old former All American Northwestern linebacker Pat Fitzgerald assumed the position becoming the youngest Division I FBS coach at the time 186 187 In 1882 as a group of Northwestern men played a football heat against a group of Lake Forest men The Wildcats have since achieved an all time high rank of No 1 during the 1936 and 1962 seasons which has thus far not been duplicated The team plays home games at Ryan Field in Evanston Illinois The Wildcats have participated in a total of 16 bowl games including appearances in 10 seasons between 2008 and 2020 During the 2016 2018 seasons they secured victory in three consecutive bowl games In 2020 the Wildcats claimed the title of Big Ten West Champions and were champions in their bowl game nbsp Logo of the Northwestern Wildcats Basketball edit The Helms Athletic Foundation named the men s basketball team the 1931 National Champion 188 In 2017 the men s basketball team earned an NCAA berth for the first time in the program s history They won their first round matchup against Vanderbilt University but lost to number one seed Gonzaga in the second round 189 In 1998 two former Northwestern basketball players were charged and convicted for sports bribery having been paid to shave points in games against three other Big Ten schools during the 1995 season 190 191 192 The football team became embroiled in a different betting scandal later that year when federal prosecutors indicted four former players for perjury related to betting on their own games 193 In August 2001 Rashidi Wheeler a senior safety collapsed and died during practice from an asthma attack 194 195 An autopsy revealed that he had ephedrine a stimulant banned by the NCAA in his system which prompted Northwestern to investigate the prevalence of stimulants and other banned substances across all of its athletic programs 196 197 In 2006 the Northwestern women s soccer team was suspended and coach Jenny Haigh resigned following the release of images of alleged hazing 198 199 Men s Basketball edit Main article Northwestern Wildcats men s basketball nbsp Welsh Ryan Arena of the Northwestern University with 7 039 seatsThe Wildcats men s basketball team is under the direction of Sullivan Ubben head men s basketball coach Chris Collins a role that he has been in since 2013 Collins led the Wildcats to heights never before reached during the 2016 17 season when the program saw a school record 24 wins and its first NCAA tournament berth and victory in program history Collins was named as one of four finalists for the Naismith Men s Coach of the Year award in 2017 200 The Wildcats single national championship is from 1931 retro picked by the Helms Athletic Foundation and later by the Premo Porrett Power Poll Since then the Wildcats have played in the National Invitation Tournament seven times most recently in 2012 The men s basketball program was the first to open the renovated Welsh Ryan Arena 201 on November 2 2018 in an exhibition game against McKendree The state of the art facility was built to be the most accessible arena in college athletics and seats 7 039 The team is cheered on by the Wildside student section Women s Basketball edit Main article Northwestern Wildcats women s basketball In 2017 the Wildcats saw its highest draft pick in program history with Nia Coffey selected fifth overall by the San Antonio Stars The first player drafted in program history was Amy Jaeschke in 2011 selected 27th overall by the Chicago Sky 202 Fencing edit The Northwestern Fencing program competes in the Central Collegiate Conference and has a tenured history of success Zach Moss is the programs head coach a role that he has been in since 2016 Following a historic 2017 18 season Moss was named the Midwest Fencing Conference Coach of the Year as the Wildcats captured their fifth ever conference championship and finished with three All Americans at the NCAA Championships Additionally the team set the program record for most wins in a season with 47 and the program record for longest win streak at 25 The 2018 19 season saw more milestones for the Wildcats including a 39 5 record an 11th place finish at the NCAA Championships and a second consecutive conference championship The Wildcats achieved the highest ranking in program history during the season at second in the country and amassed 39 victories at the conference championships 203 Field Hockey edit Main article Northwestern Wildcats field hockey The Northwestern Field Hockey team plays its home games at Lakeside Field adjacent to Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium on the lakefront The Wildcats are led by head coach Tracey Fuchs a role that she has been in since 2009 Fuchs has led the Wildcats to two Big Ten titles and three NCAA tournament appearances Under Fuchs direction the Wildcats have posted winning seasons in 10 of her 11 seasons The Northwestern Wildcats field hockey team has gathered 6 regular season Big Ten titles and 1 tournament title in addition to 14 NCAA tournament appearances In 2021 the team won the NCAA tournament followed by a championship game appearance in 2022 Lacrosse edit Main article Northwestern Wildcats women s lacrosse Northwestern lacrosse has won the national championship in women s lacrosse five straight times from 2005 to 2009 and then again in 2011 and 2012 giving them 7 championships in 8 years In 2007 the team joined Maryland as the only other school to three peat The run started in 2005 when the team enjoyed a perfect season and defeated many long established east coast schools after only five years as a varsity sport to capture the school s first national championship since 1941 In doing so it became the westernmost institution to ever win the title Soon after the team made national news when members appeared in a White House photo with President Bush wearing thong sandals or flip flops dubbed as the White House flip flop flap The 2009 season also was an undefeated run In their five consecutive championship seasons the Wildcats have a 106 3 record The Wildcats are led by head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller a role that she has been in since 2002 Most recently the Wildcats won their first ever Big Ten Championship in 2019 and won their first ever Big Ten regular season championship in 2021 204 205 206 Wrestling edit The Northwestern Wildcats wrestling program hosts home matches in Welsh Ryan Arena and practices in the Ken Kraft Wrestling Room located in Anderson Hall The Wildcats are led by Matt Storniolo a role that he has been in since 2016 The Wildcats have had 40 Big Ten individual champions in addition to 10 NCAA individual champions and 75 plus All Americans 207 208 Golf edit The men s golf team has won eight Big Ten Conference championships 1925 1937 1939 1948 1999 2000 2001 2006 They have twice placed second in the NCAA Championships 1939 1945 Luke Donald won the NCAA Individual Championship in 1999 He was Big Ten Conference Player of the year in 1999 and David Merkow was named the same in 2006 Donald was ranked number 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking for 56 weeks in 2011 and 2012 People editThis section contains too many pictures for its overall length Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page Please improve this article by removing indiscriminate collections of images or adjusting images that are sandwiching text in accordance with the Manual of Style on use of images February 2024 Learn how and when to remove this template message Alumni edit For a more comprehensive list see List of Northwestern University alumni Notable Northwestern alumni include nbsp Robert Todd Lincoln U S Ambassador to the United Kingdom 35th U S Secretary of War LLB 1866 nbsp William Jennings Bryan 41st U S Secretary of State LLB 1883 nbsp Charles Horace Mayo founder of the Mayo Clinic MD 1888 nbsp Arthur Goldberg U S Supreme Court Justice BS 1929 JD 1930 nbsp Saul Bellow Nobel Prize winning novelist BA 1937 nbsp John Paul Stevens U S Supreme Court Justice JD 1947 nbsp George McGovern U S Senator from South Dakota and 1972 presidential nominee MA 1949 PhD 1953 nbsp Harold Washington 51st Mayor of Chicago JD 1952 nbsp Ingvar Carlsson 29th prime minister of Sweden C1961 nbsp Dick Gephardt Member of the U S House of Representatives from Missouri BS 1962 nbsp George R R Martin author of A Game of Thrones BS 1970 MS 1971 nbsp Rod Blagojevich 40th Governor of Illinois and convicted felon BA 1979 nbsp Ginni Rometty president and CEO of IBM BS 1979 nbsp Stephen Colbert Emmy Award winning comedian BS 1986 nbsp David Schwimmer Emmy Award nominated actor from Friends BS 1988 nbsp Ali Babacan Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey MBA 1992 nbsp Seth Meyers host of Late Night with Seth Meyers BS 1996 nbsp Meghan Duchess of Sussex member of the British royal family and former actress BA 2003 nbsp Alexander De Croo 71st prime minister of Belgium MBA 2004 nbsp Cheddi Jagan 4th president and 1st Premier and Chief Minister of Guyana DDS 1942 nbsp Daniel Noboa 48th president of Ecuador MBA 2019 Northwestern alumni have included numerous prominent figures in journalism government literature business science performing arts education and medicine Among U S universities Northwestern ranks eighth in the number of billionaires produced 209 Some of Northwestern s alumni include U S Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern Nobel Prize winning economist George J Stigler Nobel Prize winning novelist Saul Bellow Pulitzer Prize winning composer and diarist Ned Rorem decorated composer Howard Hanson Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey Ali Babacan historian and novelist Wilma Dykeman sociologist and adviser of CEPAL Fernando Filgueira and the founder of the presidential prayer breakfast Abraham Vereide U S Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens Supreme Court Justice and Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Joseph Goldberg Chicago Mayor Harold L Washington Governor of Illinois and Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson and former lawyer Cincinnati mayor news anchor and current tabloid talk host Jerry Springer are among the graduates of the Northwestern School of Law Northwestern alumni have founded companies and organizations such as the Mayo Clinic The Blackstone Group Kirkland amp Ellis U S Steel Guggenheim Partners Accenture Aon Corporation AQR Capital Booz Allen Hamilton and Melvin Capital The number of Northwestern alumni involved in theater film and television is also so large that the alumni have been dubbed the Northwestern mafia 210 211 Faculty edit For a more comprehensive list see List of Northwestern University faculty The university employs 3 781 faculty members across its eleven schools 2 including 18 members of the National Academy of Sciences 212 65 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 213 19 members of the National Academy of Engineering 214 and 6 members of the Institute of Medicine 215 Faculty include 2010 Nobel Prize winning economist Dale T Mortensen 216 nano scientists Chad Mirkin and Samuel I Stupp Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering winner Manijeh Razeghi Tony Award winning director Mary Zimmerman management expert Philip Kotler King Faisal International Prize in Science recipient and Nobel laureate Sir Fraser Stoddart Steppenwolf Theatre director Anna Shapiro sexual psychologist J Michael Bailey 217 Federalist Society co founder Steven Calabresi 218 former Weatherman Bernardine Rae Dohrn 219 ethnographer Gary Alan Fine 220 Pulitzer Prize winning historian Garry Wills 221 American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellow Monica Olvera de la Cruz and MacArthur Fellowship recipients Stuart Dybek Jennifer Richeson Amy Rosenzweig John A Rogers Mark Hersam William Dichtel and Dylan Penningroth The faculty also includes Holocaust denier Arthur Butz 222 and Richard Bruce 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