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NU studies student parents
A task force will study needs of grad students with children By DREW GERBER
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Northwestern announced a new task force Thursday to study the needs of graduate students with children and whether current resources are sufficient in addressing them. Formed by Lori Anne Henderson, director of work and life resources, and Sarah McGill, senior associate dean of The Graduate School, the task force comprises faculty, staff and graduate students — some of whom are parents themselves. McGill told The Daily that Provost Daniel Linzer and Executive Vice President Nim Chinniah asked her and Henderson to convene the task force to better understand problems students with children face while at NU. She noted the University offers several resources for graduate students with children, such as child assistance and facilities for small children, but she said the task force will listen to the graduate student community to find out where needs are not being met. “We will be trying to find out what’s good, what we need more of and where we aren’t helping students enough,” McGill said. Matilda Stubbs, an anthropology
graduate student, spoke with The Daily in March about the specific struggles student parents face. Issues with childcare, health insurance and spaces for breast pumping — all resources required by pregnant or parenting students — are not areas in which where many student parents feel the University does enough, she said. Stubbs also felt that policies toward graduate students should be in line with those of University employees, and she said NU should follow the lead of public universities that consider graduate students employees. “I pay employment taxes to Northwestern,” Stubbs told The Daily in March. “I pay the IRS. I get sent a W-2 from Northwestern. They contend that we are this hybrid category and that we’re not employees … If I have to pay taxes then I’m not exempt from the political and economic responsibilities of being a staff member.” In 2012, NU’s Graduate Leadership Council, now called the Graduate Leadership and Advocacy Council, released its annual report surveying graduate students on issues including parenting and childcare needs. According to the report, almost 14 percent of respondents were parents or were planning to be parents during their time at the University. The NU Student Parent Alliance was founded in 2014 after frustration with a » See STUDENT PARENTS, page 12
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PUPPY LOVE A volunteer at the Evanston Animal Shelter walks a dog around the shelter’s grounds. The Evanston Animal Shelter, under the management of the Evanston Animal Shelter Association since May, will begin to establish financial independence from the city this month.
Shelter becomes independent By MARISSA PAGE
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Evanston Animal Shelter will begin to establish financial independence from Evanston this month after relying on city funding for nearly a year and a half. The city assumed control over the
shelter in May 2014, after the City Council decided to sever ties with the shelter’s previous ownership, Community Animal Rescue Effort. After a yearlong process of instituting new shelter management, the nonprofit organization Evanston Animal Shelter Association, formerly known as Saving Animals for Evanston, took over operations at the shelter this past May. Just over four months since EASA
officially started managing the shelter, the group has adopted out 48 dogs and 149 cats. In that same time period, the shelter has taken in a total of 213 animals — 91 dogs and 122 cats — in addition to the 26 cats and 13 dogs housed at the shelter when they first took over. “We’ve been moving a lot of animals » See ANIMAL SHELTER, page 12
NU joins new admissions app SESP eliminates
secondary ed major
By PETER KOTECKI
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By FATHMA RAHMAN Northwestern has joined a coalition of universities dedicated to making college affordable and accessible by offering a new online application system. The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success announced on Monday it will open the college application system to increase engagement with high school students, particularly those from minority and low-income families. More than 80 institutions have already committed to use the system when it comes out. Applications will go online in summer 2016, providing an alternative to the Common Application, which is used by more than 600 institutions, the coalition said in a news release. Michael Mills, associate provost for
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ACCESSIBLE APP The new Segal Visitors Center overlooks the lake. Northwestern has joined a new coalition of schools dedicated to making the college application more accessible to students of all income levels.
university enrollment, said the new application system will hopefully allow NU to reach students that the Common App couldn’t reach. Although the Common App includes some uncertainty
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about meeting students’ demonstrated financial need, the coalition’s system will ensure students receive enough » See APPLICATION, page 12
The School of Education and Social Policy will no longer offer its secondary teaching major for incoming and future students beginning with the 2016-17 academic year. The decision was made during the last academic year, largely due to low enrollment as well as low projected enrollment for the major, said Brad Wadle, master of science in education program coordinator. “It won’t have any impact on students who are already in the major — it would be a phasing out of new people coming in,” Wadle said. However, he said undergraduate
students will still be able to become certified as secondary teachers by taking the classes necessary to receive a teaching certificate with the master of science education program. Wadle said many of the students currently working toward a secondary teaching certificate are not in SESP. “A number of people who are undergraduate students getting secondary teaching certificates from Northwestern are actually Weinberg majors who take classes within SESP,” Wadle said. SESP senior Qunsia Daniel said she believes this decision is less about the administration taking something away from students and more about the lack of students willing to commit to the major. “(Teaching) is highly undervalued » See SESP, page 12
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