Lisa Philip
Higher Education Reporter at WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL)
Failed musician, better journalist covering #education for grownups (aka #highered) @WBEZ & @opencampusmedia.
Articles
-
1 week ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Lisa Philip
Northwestern University students and faculty on Thursday protested President Donald Trump’s attacks on higher education — and demanded that their university leaders stand up for academic freedom, the institution’s independence and for the safety of international students.
-
1 week ago |
wbez.org | Lisa Philip
The Trump administration’s move to terminate the legal immigration status of hundreds of international students is leaving Illinois educators scrambling to find ways to help. But they don’t know which of their students might be targeted next and how to protect them. “The bar keeps moving, as far as who’s at risk,” said Alyson Kung, an assistant director at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Asian American Resource and Cultural Center.
-
2 weeks ago |
ipmnewsroom.org | Lisa Philip |WVIK-Rock Island
EVANSTON, Ill. – The Trump administration has frozen about $790 million in funding for Northwestern University amid civil rights investigations. The administration has also frozen more than $1 billion earmarked for Cornell University in New York. The White House confirmed the funding pauses late Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. The New York Times was the first to report the news.
-
2 weeks ago |
opencampus.org | Lisa Philip
College senior Alicia Morel, whose family immigrated to Chicago from El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, grew up speaking Spanish, but she never received formal education in the language — until she arrived at the University of Illinois Chicago. “I wanted to take classes at UIC to … learn some vocabulary that isn’t Dominican slang or Salvadorean slang, [so] I could help other people all around the Hispanic community,” she said.
Informe revela que la administración de Trump congela $790 millones para la Universidad Northwestern
2 weeks ago |
chicago.suntimes.com | Lisa Philip
El mejor lugar para cobertura de noticias y cultura latina en Chicago. | The place for coverage of Latino news and culture in Chicago. Según informes, la administración de Trump ha congelado $790 millones en fondos para la Universidad Northwestern, esto en medio de investigaciones sobre derechos civiles, según informaron dos funcionarios de la administración al New York Times.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 2K
- Tweets
- 3K
- DMs Open
- Yes
RT @SSKedreporter: Chi Bd member Jitu Brown says he went to Springfield with seven other board members to insist that Chicago Public School…
.@NorthwesternU student: "I would like to see from my academic institution ... some resistance and some strength in the face of … what is starting as an attack on pro-Palestine speech, but is going to continue as an attack on academia as a whole.” https://t.co/MsizLJkP6g
Talk about whiplash. In January I wrote this story👇 about a PhD student's experiences with racial discrimination as a Black woman at @UChicago. Today UChicago is under federal investigation relating to supposed preferential treatment of Black students. https://t.co/yvzlEkFreF
