Latest OER Grant projects to save 530 students $53K per year
Posted May 13, 2024
By Asha Mehta ’27 Ten faculty from the 2024 Open Educational Resource grant program will be awarded at least $5,000 per project to develop...Category: Faculty News
Librarians and faculty partner on digital scholarship
Posted February 20, 2024
As Northwestern’s data analysis librarian, Sarah Thorngate knows that her title may not generate an instant understanding of what she does. “Data analysis, that’s...
New digital modules make library skills training easier to access
Posted August 3, 2023
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 Northwestern’s librarians are as knowledgeable as the books that line their workplace. They enjoy helping students locate information...
One year after debut, Applied Transgender Studies journal continues to build bridges
Posted July 18, 2023
“Whither Trans Studies?” asks editor TJ Billard in the first issue of the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies published in June 2022. This foundational...
Latest OER Grant projects to save 940 students $110,000 per year
Posted May 30, 2023
Seven faculty-led projects will receive at least $5,000 from the 2023 Open Educational Resource grant program to develop free teaching material for a Northwestern undergraduate...
Librarians as educators: Developing the annual faculty practicum
Posted May 11, 2023
In spring 2020, as the debate about delivering college courses got Zoomed into the national consciousness, a cross-campus partnership of Northwestern entities, including the...
Kathleen Bethel, esteemed African American studies librarian for 41 years, retires
Posted May 8, 2023
On Kathleen Bethel’s first day as a student at Elmhurst College in suburban Chicago, someone in a passing car shouted a racial epithet at...
New Round of Grant Funding for OER Creation
Posted January 10, 2023
The Affordable Instructional Resources (AIR) initiative invites Northwestern faculty to apply for $5,000 grants to develop Open Educational Resources (OER) for undergraduate courses. OER...
Libraries’ first grant for undergraduate research supports Native American studies
Posted November 15, 2022
By Natalia Gonzalez Blanco Serrano ’24 After over a year of planning, the Libraries’ debuted a research grant last summer designed to support undergraduates...