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Task force drops global report Report suggests NU open up to 3 more global sites By PETER KOTECKI
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A University task force recommended Northwestern open up to three new campuses around the world over the next five years. The Global Strategy Task Force, formed by Provost Dan Linzer in May 2015, released a report Friday outlining several recommendations. The task force, cochaired by Kellogg School of Management Dean Sally Blount and Executive Vice President Nim Chinniah, spent 18 months examining ways to help the University increase its global activity over the next 10 years. This recommendation, if followed, would lead NU to open its second international site, as the University currently operates a campus in Doha, Qatar. Northwestern University in Qatar and five other U.S. schools have branches in Education City, a multi-university campus on the outskirts of Doha. Blount told The Daily she hopes all NU schools will be able to benefit from the new global campuses. She added that she would like the university’s U.S. campuses outside Cook County to be used more as well. “Kellogg has a site in Miami that could be utilized for more of the University to really think about Latin America,” Blount said. “There is a site in San Francisco that Medill and McCormick have partnered on — that really (is) a university site that all schools could use.” She said administrators are discussing several countries the university could
open campuses in, but a decision has not yet been made. “I personally would be a big fan for something in Southeast Asia,” she said. “I would love to see a site in Africa, (and) I think it would be exciting to have a site in South America, in Brazil or Mexico.” In addition to suggesting the opening of new international campuses, the task force report includes eight other recommendations. In part, it recommends the University increase support for language study, integrate its global activity and create a plan for monitoring progress on its goals. To promote the integration of global work, Blount said the University will create new offices, one for students and one for faculty and staff. The offices would serve as a hub for information about all opportunities outside Cook County, including research, travel and internships, she said. According to the report, the increase in NU’s global engagement is made possible by several partnerships, teaching investments and academic initiatives, as well as Roberta Buffett Elliott’s (Weinberg ‘54) more than $100 million gift to the University. “There are a couple of really exciting things about the report,” Blount said. “One is the decision by the University to use the wonderful platform that the Buffett gift has given us to really think very officiously about how to broaden Northwestern’s global reach.” The report also recommends that the provost appoint six faculty groups in 2017 to explore six international themes, including Cities and Migration, Finite Earth, and Human Conflict » See GLOBAL, page 12
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Annie May Swift Hall is home to the Radio, Television and Film department. On Friday, the School of Communication announced it is reducing the number of credits required to earn a degree from 45 to 42.
School eases credit requirement Communication students will now need 42 credits to graduate By PETER KOTECKI
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The School of Communication announced Friday that it is lowering the number of credits required to earn a degree from 45 to 42. The change, effective immediately, comes nearly 10 months after a University task force recommended that NU reduce the credit requirement within its undergraduate schools. It applies to all students in the school, including upperclassmen. Kerry Trotter, director of communications at the School
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University President Morton Schapiro speaks at a ceremony for Nobel Prize winner Sir Fraser Stoddart, a Northwestern chemistry professor. When he came to NU, Schapiro said, he hoped the University did not have a global campus, but he now supports NU’s site in Qatar.
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18 distribution courses to receive a degree, a news release said. Communication Dean Barbara O’Keefe said three required courses were eliminated because they were seen as “out-of-step” with the school’s focus on encouraging students to engage in interdisciplinary study. “But instead of simply eliminating those required courses, we went on to reduce the number of credits required for the degree as well,” O’Keefe said in the news release. “It was a painless way to achieve the goal set for us by the Undergraduate Task Force while we updated our major requirements.” Wood said she hopes the
other undergraduate schools will consider reducing class requirements as well. Such a change can allow students to drop classes more freely, take time off for personal reasons, focus on intensive classes or devote more time to extracurriculars they are passionate about, she said. “There are so many ways that flexibility benefits students,” Wood said. “I think most Northwestern students will still want to take as many as they can, but when it’s beneficial to them, they will be able to have that option.” peterkotecki2018@u.northwestern.edu
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of Communication, told The Daily in an email that the school is among the first at NU to implement the new requirement. Weinberg senior Ashley Wood, Associated Student Government vice president for academics, said the credit reduction is an important step forward. She said she is glad the recommendation from the 2015 Faculty Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Experience was fulfilled by the School of Communication. “It will set the precedent that it’s possible,” Wood said. Communication students will now need to complete 12 major requirements, 12 electives and
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) defended himself again Friday night for comments he made at a debate the week before. “I am absolutely not a racist,” he said at Friday’s debate with his opponent U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), after being asked about the comments about her family heritage he made at their first televised debate.
At the candidates’ first televised debate, Duckworth referenced her family’s military history. The army veteran said she has ancestors on her father’s side who fought in the Revolutionary War. “I forgot your parents came all the way from Thailand to serve George Washington,” Kirk said during that debate. The junior senator received criticism for the remark from Duckworth and Democratic nominee Hillar y Clinton, among others. He also lost two key endorsements, including the Human Rights Campaign » See DEBATE, page 12
Substance found in rooms, hallway is not toxic
By PETER KOTECKI
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Tests for mold on several students’ mattresses in Ayers College of Commerce and Industry came back positive on Friday, an administrator said. Paul Riel, assistant vice president for residential and dining services, told CCI residents in an email that the tests found an elevated level of a common mold in some rooms and a hallway. Riel said the mold is not
toxic, but students may have severe reactions if they are allergic to mold. He said high concentrations of mold can also lead to allergy-like symptoms, including nasal stuffiness, wheezing and eye irritation. The kind of mold found in CCI is present all year long, both indoors and outdoors, he said. On Oct. 30, several CCI residents reported seeing mold on their mattresses. About 50 mattresses in the building were replaced the next day, and Environmental Health and Safety staff collected samples on Tuesday to test the air and the substances on the mattresses. » See MOLD, page 12
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