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D65 apprenticeship program gets revamp Teacher salaries increase, partner university changes By KRISTEN AXTMAN
the daily northwestern @kristenaxtman1
Evanston/Skokie School District 65 launched a new teacher apprenticeship program to improve an existing teacher residency program this September, addressing an anticipated teacher shortage and hiring a more diverse teaching staff. The district announced that it will partner with BloomBoard, Inc, an organization that partners with school districts to strengthen their staff. First, the organization will select 10 paraprofessionals, assistant-teachers with associate’s degrees, who will receive their bachelor’s degrees and enter a teacher apprenticeship program. Andalib Khelghati, District 65 assistant superintendent for human resources, said the teacher apprenticeship program will expand teaching opportunities to people who do not have a master’s degree and recruit a more diverse workforce.
Khelghati said higher education has historically excluded people of color. According to the US Department of Education, in 2018 82% of teachers were white, compared to 48% of students. “The vision of this work really stems from the District 65 education board and its journey around really prioritizing the need for recruiting and bringing in more educators of color,” Khelghati said. Participants will start the program in October and are projected to finish the program, which includes 20 credits of college coursework totalling 60 hours of classes, in about two years. The program is free for participants and will cost the district $135,000. District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton said in a Sept. 14 Personnel, Building & Grounds, & Finance Committee meeting that the district plans to pay through the first year with grant money. The second year is not fully paid for, but the district is looking into possible grants. Joey Hailpern, District 65 Board Member, said in the September meeting
» See RESIDENCY, page 14
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The Northwestern Homecoming Committee planned festivities, including the annual pep rally, for returning alumni and current undergraduate students.
NU preps for Homecoming 2022
As alumni return to campus, students, staff plan slate of events By JULIAN ANDREONE
the daily northwestern @julianandreone
Alumni and current students will come together this weekend
for football, a pep rally and lots of free food as part of Northwestern’s annual Homecoming Week. Planned by the Homecoming Committee, a branch of the Alumni Association’s Arch Society, the weeklong celebration
began Sunday and will conclude this Saturday. Committee co-chair and Weinberg sophomore Duke Lin said it’s fun to engage with undergraduate students and alumni on campus through the
slate of events. “(Homecoming week) is a great opportunity for students to take a break, especially during the start of the Fall Quarter, and for alumni to come back to
» See HOMECOMING, page 14
‘starlight’ reflects on art, resistance Brew Coffee Lab SpaceShift Collective hosts event with Race, Caste and Colorism project
Main Library’s coffee shop brings boba to the menu
By KATRINA PHAM
daily senior staffer @katrinapham_
Students, artists and community members lined the entryway of the “starlight” space on Devon Avenue with pink, blue and green sticky notes. Attendees wrote quick reflections about art as resistance on the notes and placed them purposely on the wall. The activity concluded starlight’s Thursday “Art + Resistance” event, which is part of its ongoing programming hosted at the SpaceShift Collective in conjunction with the Race, Caste and Colorism project at Northwestern. The event featured an artists panel that discussed forms of anti-Black resistance through art followed by a community discussion on the panel. Second-year Asian Languages and Cultures graduate student Soumya Shailendra, a research assistant for starlight, said the project is meant to hold the diaspora accountable for different forms of anti-Blackness in the South Asian community. Hanging the sticky notes was
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replaces Brewbike By ALEX PERRY
daily senior staffer @whoisalexperry
Katrina Pham/Daily Senior Staffer
Community members gathered at the SpaceShift Collective space on Devon Avenue last Thursday for starlight’s “Art + Resistance” event.
a way to provide an open platform for folks to engage with art, Shailendra said. “(We’re) giving the community the vocabulary and the tools to understand themselves in relation to caste and to also seek out moments of resistance, in which these social structures are actively resisted and survived by people in the Black community,” Shailendra said. They said starlight centered the event on Devon because
of its history as a South Asian hub of community and culture. Chicago’s Indian and Pakistani communities have opened shops, homes, restaurants and community centers on Devon Avenue, as well as Arab, Somali and Bangladeshi groups. Third-year Asian Languages and Cultures graduate student Ishan Mehandru said since coming to Chicago from India, they have gone to Devon Avenue to find South Asian groceries,
confections and other items. Coming to Devon Avenue gives Mehandru the opportunity to interact with other members of the South Asian diaspora, he said. Mehandru was interested in the opportunity for creating a dialogue within the South Asian community in Chicago, which he said sometimes may remove itself from politics, when he
» See STARLIGHT, page 14
Main Library visitors will soon be able to pick up boba-filled ube lattes or lychee-jellied calamansi juice to sip while studying, thanks to campus newcomer Brew Coffee Lab. The Des Plaines-based coffee shop — which offers bubble tea, coffee and pastries — is opening its second outlet next week in the space formerly occupied by Brewbike, which shut down in August after failing to complete its latest round of funding. Brew Coffee Lab has postponed its opening date multiple times, but founder Japhlet Arañas said details will be ironed out soon and the shop is “99% ready to go.” It expects to open next Monday and will host a pop-up stall on Norris University Center’s East Lawn on Thursday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Both independently and minority-owned, the shop was founded in 2019 as a brick-andmortar outlet called Brew Coffee Lounge. After converting to a graband-go in the Des Plaines Metra station, Northwestern will be its third home. Despite the number of bubble tea shops in Evanston, Brew Coffee Lab will be the first outlet to open a location on campus. Arañas said he thought about expanding when a Compass Group representative invited him to tour the library’s vacant space late this summer. “The most beautiful part about it is the fact that the person that was part of Compass who reached out to us was actually a customer of mine,” Arañas said. “It was really a blessing in disguise that they chose us for all this.” After touring the space, Arañas immediately sent a follow-up email confirming his interest in opening a Brew Coffee Lab location in the library. Within two weeks, Compass got back to him with an offer, giving him less than a month to set up shop.
» See BREWBIKE, page 14
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