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'''Northwestern University''' is a highly competitive, [[private university|private]], [[coeducational]], [[non-sectarian]] [[research university]], located in [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston]] and [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. Northwestern's main campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) parcel in Evanston, along the shore of [[Lake Michigan]]. Several of Northwestern's professional schools are located in Chicago, on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus near the [[Magnificent Mile]]. As of 2006, Northwestern's endowment and other trust funds total approximately $5.9 billion.
'''Northwestern University''' is a highly competitive, [[private university|private]], [[coeducational]], [[non-sectarian]] [[research university]], located in [[Evanston, Illinois|Evanston]] and [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. Northwestern's main campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) parcel in Evanston, along the shore of [[Lake Michigan]]. Several of Northwestern's professional schools are located in Chicago, on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus near the [[Magnificent Mile]]. As of 2006, Northwestern's endowment and other trust funds total approximately $5.9 billion.{{fact|date=May 2007}}


Northwestern University enrolls approximately 15,000 full-time students (including approximately 8,000 undergraduates) and employs nearly 7,100 faculty and staff members.
Northwestern University enrolls approximately 15,000 full-time students{{fact|date=May 2007}} (including approximately 8,000 undergraduates{{fact|date=May 2007}}) and employs nearly 7,100 faculty and staff members{{fact|date=May 2007}}.


The school is commonly referred to as simply '''Northwestern''', and although some refer to the university as "NW" or "NWU", '''NU''' is the abbreviation that the school uses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staffweb.library.northwestern.edu/personnel/abbrev.html |title=Northwestern Abbreviations |accessdate=2007-03-29}}</ref>
The school is commonly referred to as simply '''Northwestern''', and although some refer to the university as "NW" or "NWU", '''NU''' is the abbreviation that the school uses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staffweb.library.northwestern.edu/personnel/abbrev.html |title=Northwestern Abbreviations |accessdate=2007-03-29}}</ref>
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Founded in [[1851]] by [[Methodists]] from Chicago (including [[John Evans (governor)|John Evans]], after whom Evanston is named), Northwestern opened in [[1855]] with two faculty members and ten students. The University's name, ''Northwestern'', came from its founders' desire to serve citizens of the states that occupied the area of the former [[Northwest Territory]]: [[Ohio]], [[Indiana]], [[Illinois]], [[Michigan]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[Minnesota]]. Northwestern created its Chicago campus during the [[1920s]].
Founded in [[1851]] by [[Methodists]] from Chicago (including [[John Evans (governor)|John Evans]], after whom Evanston is named), Northwestern opened in [[1855]] with two faculty members and ten students. The University's name, ''Northwestern'', came from its founders' desire to serve citizens of the states that occupied the area of the former [[Northwest Territory]]: [[Ohio]], [[Indiana]], [[Illinois]], [[Michigan]], [[Wisconsin]], and [[Minnesota]]. Northwestern created its Chicago campus during the [[1920s]].


The phrase on Northwestern's seal is ''Quaecumque sunt vera'' -- in [[Latin]], "Whatsoever things are true" from Philippians 4:8. Also on Northwestern's seal, a [[ancient greek|Greek]] phrase inscribed on the pages of an open book: ''ho logos pleres charitos kai aletheias,'' which translates as "The Word... full of grace and truth." This phrase comes from the Gospel of John (1:14): "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we behold His glory, and the glory was of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." Both the Latin and Greek phrases express the values of the University's founders, and recall Northwestern's Methodist heritage.
The phrase on Northwestern's seal is ''Quaecumque sunt vera'' -- in [[Latin]], "Whatsoever things are true" from Philippians 4:8. Also on Northwestern's seal, a [[ancient Greek|Greek]] phrase inscribed on the pages of an open book: ''ho logos pleres charitos kai aletheias,'' which translates as "The Word... full of grace and truth." This phrase comes from the Gospel of John (1:14): "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we behold His glory, and the glory was of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." Both the Latin and Greek phrases express the values of the University's founders, and recall Northwestern's Methodist heritage.


Northwestern's founding charter granted the school a permanent exemption from paying property taxes. For this reason, Northwestern has often endured a difficult relationship with Evanston's government. Tensions have arisen regarding building codes, law enforcement, and politics. Recently, factions of Evanston's government have attempted to divide Northwestern's campus into several different wards, so as to reduce students' voting potency.
Northwestern's founding charter granted the school a permanent exemption from paying property taxes. For this reason, Northwestern has often endured a difficult relationship with Evanston's government. Tensions have arisen regarding building codes, law enforcement, and politics. Recently, factions of Evanston's government have attempted to divide Northwestern's campus into several different wards, so as to reduce students' voting potency.

Revision as of 00:43, 3 May 2007

For other schools named Northwestern please see Northwestern College.
Northwestern University
File:NU seal.png
MottoQuaecumque sunt vera (Latin: Whatsoever things are true)
TypePrivate
Established1851
Endowment$5.9 billion [2]
PresidentHenry S. Bienen
Undergraduates7,826
Postgraduates6,282
Location
United States Evanston
,
IL
,
USA
CampusSuburban, 240 acres
ColorsPurple
MascotWillie the Wildcat
Websitewww.northwestern.edu

Northwestern University is a highly competitive, private, coeducational, non-sectarian research university, located in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois. Northwestern's main campus is a 240-acre (97 ha) parcel in Evanston, along the shore of Lake Michigan. Several of Northwestern's professional schools are located in Chicago, on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus near the Magnificent Mile. As of 2006, Northwestern's endowment and other trust funds total approximately $5.9 billion.[citation needed]

Northwestern University enrolls approximately 15,000 full-time students[citation needed] (including approximately 8,000 undergraduates[citation needed]) and employs nearly 7,100 faculty and staff members[citation needed].

The school is commonly referred to as simply Northwestern, and although some refer to the university as "NW" or "NWU", NU is the abbreviation that the school uses.[1]

History

Main article: History of Northwestern University
The Arch at Northwestern's Evanston campus

Founded in 1851 by Methodists from Chicago (including John Evans, after whom Evanston is named), Northwestern opened in 1855 with two faculty members and ten students. The University's name, Northwestern, came from its founders' desire to serve citizens of the states that occupied the area of the former Northwest Territory: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Northwestern created its Chicago campus during the 1920s.

The phrase on Northwestern's seal is Quaecumque sunt vera -- in Latin, "Whatsoever things are true" from Philippians 4:8. Also on Northwestern's seal, a Greek phrase inscribed on the pages of an open book: ho logos pleres charitos kai aletheias, which translates as "The Word... full of grace and truth." This phrase comes from the Gospel of John (1:14): "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we behold His glory, and the glory was of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." Both the Latin and Greek phrases express the values of the University's founders, and recall Northwestern's Methodist heritage.

Northwestern's founding charter granted the school a permanent exemption from paying property taxes. For this reason, Northwestern has often endured a difficult relationship with Evanston's government. Tensions have arisen regarding building codes, law enforcement, and politics. Recently, factions of Evanston's government have attempted to divide Northwestern's campus into several different wards, so as to reduce students' voting potency.

In 1873, the Evanston College for Ladies merged with Northwestern, and legendary suffragist Frances Willard became the school's first dean of women.

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University Hall, one of the oldest buildings on campus

Purple became Northwestern's official school color in 1892, replacing black and gold. A university committee thought that too many other universities used those colors. Contrary to popular belief, white is only an unofficial color. The University's Alma Mater mentions white in conjunction with purple ("Hail to purple, hail to white"), but nonetheless, purple is the only official school color.[2]

During the 1930s, Northwestern nearly merged with its academic rival, the University of Chicago.[3] In 1933, Northwestern president Scott and Chicago president Hutchins concluded that in order to secure the future of both universities, it was in the best interest of both to merge as the Universities of Chicago, with Northwestern's Evanston campus serving undergraduates, Northwestern's Chicago campus serving professionals, and Chicago's Hyde Park campus serving postgraduates. What Scott and Hutchins initially envisioned as the preeminent university in the world was eventually extinguished by Northwestern's boards of trustees, a result that Hutchins called "one of the lost opportunities of American education." [3]

Northwestern hosted the first ever NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game in 1939. It took place in Patten Gymnasium, which the school eventually demolished and relocated farther north in order to make room for the Technological Institute.

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.

In May 1978, the first Unabomber attack occurred at Northwestern University. The following year, the second Unabomber attack also occurred at Northwestern.

On January 11, 2003, in a speech at Northwestern School of Law's Lincoln Hall, Governor of Illinois George Ryan announced that he would commute the sentences of more than 150 death row inmates. Ryan said, "it is fitting that we are gathered here today at Northwestern University with the students, teachers, lawyers and investigators who first shed light on the sorrowful conditions of Illinois’ death penalty system."[4] In the late 1990s, Northwestern student journalists uncovered information that exonerated Illinois death row inmate Anthony Porter two days before his scheduled execution.

Campus

Dearborn Observatory
Ford Design Center
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Lunt Hall
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The neo-Brutalist architecture of the University Library

Northwestern's Evanston campus runs north-south along a stretch of Sheridan Road. The north side of campus is home to the campus' fraternity quads, the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and other athletic facilities, and the Technological Institute and all of its adjoining science-related buildings. The south side of campus is home to the University's music buildings, art buildings, and sorority quads. This division in building location, along with the fact that the south end of campus is closer to the downtown center of Evanston, creates a cultural difference between the students typically found on either end of the campus.

In the 1960s, the Evanston campus expanded its boundaries by constructing a lakefill in Lake Michigan. The 74 acres are now home to the Northwestern University Library, Norris University Center, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, among other facilities.

Northwestern's Chicago campus is located in the city's Streeterville neighborhood, with close proximity to landmarks such as the John Hancock Center and Michigan Avenue. Its Ward Building was the first academic skyscraper in the country.

The Chicago Transit Authority's elevated train running through Evanston is called the Purple Line, taking its name from Northwestern's school color. Although the majority of the campus sits two to four city blocks from the Purple Line, the Foster station is 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. Northwestern's professional schools and hospital in downtown Chicago are about four blocks east of the Chicago stop on the CTA Red Line.

The Chicago Transit Authority also has several bus routes that run through the campus. A Metra station serves the Northwestern campus in downtown Evanston as well.

Organization

Undergraduate programs

Graduate and professional programs

Faculty and administration

Main article: List of Northwestern University faculty

Northwestern has had fifteen presidents during its history, not including interim presidents. The current president is Henry Bienen.

Former notable faculty include artist Ed Paschke and Nobel Prize-winning chemist John Pople.

Current notable faculty include sexual psychologist J. Michael Bailey, military sociologist and "don't ask, don't tell" author Charles Moskos, MacArthur Fellowship recipient Jennifer Richeson, Templeton Prize-winner Charles Taylor, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gary Wills.

Rankings

Northwestern University is ranked 14th among national universities by U.S.News & World Report (USNWR),[5] 33rd among world universities and 26th among universities in the Americas by Shanghai Jiao Tong University,[6] 42nd among world universities and 20th in North America by The Times Higher Education Supplement,[7] 42nd among national universities by Washington Monthly,[8] 35th among world universities and 23rd among American universities by Newsweek,[9] and in the 6th tier among national universities by The Center for Measuring University Performance.[10]

USNWR ranks Northwestern's School of Law 12th,[11] Kellogg School of Management 5th,[12] Feinberg School of Medicine 21st in research and 44th in primary care,[13] the McCormick School of Engineering 21st,[14] and the School of Education and Social Policy 7th.[15] The Medill School of Journalism ranks among America's top three journalism, media, and advertising schools [16][17]

The Princeton Review ranks NU with the 12th best college newspaper, 3rd best college theater, and 5th worst town and gown relationship.[18] Men's Fitness magazine named Northwestern the fifth-fittest college in America in 2005.[19]

Student body

The Montgomery Ward Building at the Feinberg School of Medicine--America's first academic skyscraper. [1]

As of the 2005-06 academic year, there are 7,947 undergraduates and 5,460 graduate students enrolled full-time. 909 students were enrolled part-time in the School of Continuing Studies.[citation needed]

For the undergraduate class of 2010, there were 18,419 total applicants, up 18% from the year before. 5,200 students were admitted (about 28%).[citation needed]

In the class of 2009, 6.4% are black, 17.4% are Asian, 6.5% are Hispanic, 1.8% are multiracial and 67.9% are White. The class is 52.1% female and 47.9% male. The mean high school rank was the 94th percentile and the combined SAT score 1402 (out of 1600), marking the highest SAT average of any class in Northwestern history. This made Northwestern the most selective Big Ten university, as well as one of the most selective universities in the American Midwest. Of those enrolled in the class of 2009, 126 graduated as valedictorian of their high school class.[citation needed]

Campus Life

Traditions

Northwestern University student traditions include:

  • Painting The Rock to advertise student groups and on-campus events
  • "Go U Northwestern", the Northwestern fight song, is played after scoring and at the end of games.
  • Northwestern has several traditions for football games. During kickoffs, students jingle their car keys. The Wildcat Growl is done when the other team has control of the ball in sports to show support and distract the other teams. This works especially well in thwarting audibles on the field as the majority of home fans participate. Students used to throw marshmallows during football games, but this unusual tradition was discontinued at the behest of former football coach Gary Barnett.
  • The Clock Tower glows purple after a winning game, altering sports with the season, announcing the results to a large part of the Evanston community. The Clock Tower remains purple until a loss or the end of the sports season.
  • Dance Marathon, a 30-hour philanthropic event, raises several hundred thousand dollars every winter. The 2007 "DM" raised in excess of $708,000.
  • Primal Scream is held at 9:00 p.m. on the Sunday before finals week every quarter. For the event, students lean out windows or gather in court yards and scream at the top of their lungs. [3]
  • Armadillo Day, or more commonly Dillo Day, is held on Northwestern's Lakefill every Spring on the weekend before Memorial Day.

Media

The Daily Northwestern is the main student newspaper at Northwestern. It is published on weekdays during the academic year. Established in 1881, it is run entirely by undergraduates, many of whom are students at the Medill School of Journalism. The Daily is widely considered one of the best college newspapers in the country, a frequent winner of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the coveted Associated Collegiate Press Pacemaker award. Although it serves the Northwestern community, the Daily is unaffiliated with the university and is supported entirely by advertisers. It is owned by the Students Publishing Company. Current circulation is in excess of 7,500 as The Daily Northwestern is the only daily publication for both Northwestern University and the city of Evanston.

WNUR (89.3 FM) is a 7200 watt radio station that broadcasts to Chicago and its northern suburbs. It is the largest student-run radio station in the country. In September 2003, WNUR was named the #1 college radio station in the country by Spin magazine. WNUR has also been recognized as a top US station by The Wire and is often cited as one of the major centers for the nascent indie music movement during the early 1990's.

The Northwestern News Network, commonly known as NNN, is the student television news and sports operation at Northwestern. It broadcasts news and sports programming three days of the week during the academic year on NU Channel 1, online at nnntv.org and weeknights at 10 p.m. on Evanston cable access channel 6.

North by Northwestern is a student-run online publication dedicated to campus life. It recently won first place in its region for Best All-Around Independent Online Student Publication from the Society of Professional Journalists.

The Northwestern Chronicle is the school's alternative newspaper, and provides the campus with a conservative voice. It began in 1992 and has a circulation of 2,000.

Other prominent student publications include the Northwestern Business Review, a business magazine; Helicon, a literary magazine; Blackboard, published by black student alliance For Memebers Only; Mustardseed, a Christian publication; and The Protest, which is part of the Peace Project umbrella organization.

Performing arts

Student theater enjoys a highly visible presence on campus. Two annual productions are especially notable: the Waa-Mu show, and the Dolphin show. Waa-Mu is an original musical, written and produced almost entirely by students. The Dolphin Show is the nation's largest student produced musical. Children's theater is represented on campus by Griffin’s Tale and the recently formed Purple Crayon Players. In addition, Northwestern boasts the largest student-theatre community in the nation. Students produce over sixty independent productions each year. Many Northwestern alumni have used these productions as stepping stones to successful television and film careers. Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre was founded by alum David Schwimmer and began in the Great Room in Jones Residential College.

Northwestern also has a variety of improv groups. The improv and sketch comedy group Mee-Ow lists Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dermot Mulroney, Ana Gasteyer, John Cameron Mitchell and Seth Meyers among its alumni. The Titanic Players are the oldest long-form improv group in the country. Mee-Ow, Titanic, and Out da Box, a multicultural comedy show, along with Northwestern's theatre department, have brought nation-wide attention to Northwestern's improv comedy training and performance.[citation needed]

There are also ten a capella groups and a variety of dance companies on campus.

Service

Northwestern students are also heavily involved in community service. Annual events include Dance Marathon, a 30-hour event that raised over $708,000 for charity in 2007,[citation needed] Project Pumpkin, a Halloween celebration where over 800 local children are invited to campus for an afternoon of games and candy, and Suitcase Party.[citation needed] Many students also assist with Special Olympics and take alternative spring break trips.[citation needed]

Housing

Northwestern has diverse student housing options, including both regular Residence Halls and specially-themed "Residential Colleges." Some Residential Colleges include Jones Residential College, dedicated to the arts, multi-themed Willard Residential College, and the Communications Residential College (CRC) for students interested in communications.

Greek Life

According to numbers posted by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, 36% of students were affiliated with a fraternity or a sorority in Spring 2005. This is the highest percentage of students involved in Greek life among Big Ten universities.[citation needed]

The fraternities on the Northwestern campus currently are: Alpha Epsilon Pi, Alpha Phi Alpha, Beta Theta Pi, Chi Phi, Chi Psi, Delta Chi, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Kappa Alpha Psi, Lambda Chi Alpha, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Omega Delta Phi, Phi Beta Sigma, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Alpha Epsilon (whose headquarters is located in Evanston), Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Theta Chi, and Zeta Beta Tau.

The sororities currently on campus are: Alpha Chi Omega, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, Delta Delta Delta, Delta Gamma, Delta Sigma Theta, Delta Zeta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Delta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Kappa Phi Lambda, Lambda Theta Alpha, Pi Beta Phi, Sigma Gamma Rho, and as of 2007, Zeta Tau Alpha.

Athletics

Main article: Northwestern Wildcats
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Northwestern University Wildcats

A charter member of the Big Ten Conference and the only private institution in the conference, Northwestern has 19 intercollegiate athletic teams (8 men's and 11 women's) and numerous club sports.[citation needed] The football team plays at Ryan Field (formerly known as Dyche Stadium); the basketball and volleyball teams play at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

Northwestern's athletic teams are nicknamed the Wildcats. Before 1924, they were known as "The Purple" and unofficially as "The Fighting Methodists." The name Wildcats was bestowed upon the university in 1924 by a writer for the Chicago Tribune who wrote that even in a loss to the University of Chicago Maroons, the Northwestern football players looked like "Wildcats [that] had come down from Evanston."[citation needed] The name was so popular that university board members made "wildcats" the official nickname just months later.

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2005 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship game between the Virginia Cavaliers and Northwestern Wildcats

The Northwestern Athletics' mascot is Willie the Wildcat. However, the team's first mascot was not Willie, but a live, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo named Furpaw. In fall 1923, Furpaw was driven to the playing field to greet the fans before each game. After a losing season, the team decided that Furpaw was the harbinger of bad luck and banished him from campus. Willie made his debut ten years later in 1933 as a logo, but did not actually come to life until 1947, when members of the Alpha Delta fraternity dressed up as him during the Homecoming parade.

The Northwestern University Marching Band (NUMB) leads the students in cheers and spirit, providing strong links to the past and preserving Northwestern's oldest traditions.

Northwestern's football team has a history of futility, as it holds the all-time records for Division I-A losses, points allowed, and negative point differential (amount opponents have outscored them by), and is on the losing end of the greatest comeback in Division I-A history. However, the team has seen success in recent years, including trips to the 1996 Rose Bowl, 1997 Citrus Bowl, 2000 Alamo Bowl, and 2005 Sun Bowl. The current coach is former All-American Northwestern linebacker Pat Fitzgerald. Randy Walker was a noted former football coach.

Current successful athletic programs include men's soccer, wrestling, men's swimming, women's tennis, softball, and women's lacrosse. The women's lacrosse team is the defending two-time NCAA national champion, and went undefeated in 2005. Ricky Byrdsong was a noted former Basketball Coach

Notable alumni

Main article: List of Northwestern alumni

Many Northwestern alumni play or have played important roles in Chicago and Illinois, such as current Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and theater director Mary Zimmerman.

Northwestern's film and theater programs have also produced a steady stream of talented actors, actresses, and filmmakers. Alumni who have made their mark on film and television include Academy Award-winner Charlton Heston, Ann-Margret, Warren Beatty, David Schwimmer, Zach Braff, and Stephen Colbert. Alumni such as Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Heather Headley, and Walter Kerr have seen prominence on Broadway. Amsterdam-based comedy theater Boom Chicago was founded by Northwestern alumni, and the school has become a training ground for future Second City, I.O., ComedySportz, Mad TV and Saturday Night Live talent.

The Medill School of Journalism has produced notable journalists such as Elisabeth Bumiller, Mike Greenberg and Michael Wilbon.

Northwestern alumni living in New York City and Los Angeles, especially those involved in theater and film, are commonly known as the "Northwestern Mafia" due to their high concentration in the area and their willingness to help out fellow Wildcats [4]. They were referenced in an episode of Joey, in which Matt LeBlanc's character pretends to be a Northwestern alumnus in order to improve his industry connections.

Famous American musician, Andrew Bird, graduated from Northwestern with a bachelor's degree in violin performance.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Northwestern University.

Professional Schools

Undergraduate and Graduate

Miscellaneous

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References

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Further reading

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