What is institutional memory? Succinctly, it is the information and history held in personal recollections and experiences that provide an understanding of the history and culture of an organization, ...

Being a history major is depressing. Don’t get me wrong. The department is excellent. Unfortunately they’ve done too good a job, showing me how the study of history can be put to use. Sadly, I’ve seen ...

Content Warning: This piece contains mention of police violence. This is in response to the recent column by Prof. Luís Amaral regarding institutional violence and institutional memory. I would like ...

IOWA CITY — It was 30 years ago, outside his northern Iowa hometown of Charles City, that a dilapidated 156-year-old redbrick home — and efforts to restore it — compelled a then 35-year-old David ...

Organizations are complex systems composed of people who come and go, much like biological organisms are made up of individual cells that die and regenerate. But unlike biological systems, where each ...

In the first three months of their tenure, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) President Enzo Kho ’26 and Vice President Aishwarya Swamidurai ’26 have attempted to tackle a fundamental limitation ...

Content warning: This story contains mentions of anti-Black violence. Northwestern is extremely demanding — yet, undergraduate students have a 94% six-year graduation rate. This outstanding outcome ...