Last November, Northwestern president Michael Schill gave an hourlong address at a meeting of the faculty senate, reportedly with more than 100 professors in attendance. The focus of his speech was the recent presidential election, held nine days prior, which returned Donald Trump to the White House. The rain was pouring and the mood ominous: the Orange Man was back in power.
“This is scary,” Schill reportedly told the professors. America faced a “crisis” that could plunge the university into the most difficult period in its 174-year history.
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Though the faculty had apparently succumbed to a persecution fantasy in response to Trump’s reelection, Schill did, in fact, have reason to worry. According to a lawsuit, he had overseen a policy of brazen racial discrimination, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act.
Schill presided over a “diversity and inclusion” bureaucracy at Northwestern, which sought to entrench an identity-based hierarchy on campus. In 2023, the university began soliciting statements about applicants’ “background, identity or community” as part of its admissions process, shortly after the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions. The university’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing, now rebranded as the Impact Institute, hosted a training program that banned heterosexual whites from participation. Similarly, the university incorporated race and identity criteria into many of its scholarships, such as the African American History and Culture Scholarship and the Dean Hansell LGBT Advocates Scholarship.
At Northwestern’s law school, discrimination seems to be official policy. According to a lawsuit filed last year, “left-wing faculty and administrators have been thumbing their noses at federal anti-discrimination statutes and openly discriminating on account of race and sex when appointing professors.” The plaintiff, a nonprofit organization that opposes identity-based preferences in academia, alleges that between 2021 and 2024, the university extended only three of 21 tenure-track offers to white male candidates, and that former dean Daniel Rodriguez sought to conceal communications about faculty hiring, which would have revealed intentional discrimination. {snip}
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