Blue Tiernan, deputy campus editor
• June 16, 2026
Mark Williams, professor and chair of the Department of Physics, will assume the position of dean for the College of Science July 1, according to a June 11 email to the college’s faculty, staff and students.
Williams, who joined Northeastern in 2001, will enter the role...
Senior Vanderbilt University administrator Brett Sweet will assume the position of senior vice president for finance and administration this fall, replacing longtime administrator Thomas Nedell.
Sweet held the position of vice chancellor for finance and information technology...
Executive Vice Provost Tom Sheahan will take over as interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, President Joseph E. Aoun announced June 1.
Aoun’s announcement comes five days after The Huntington News first reported on the unexpected departure of Beth...
Beth Winkelstein, Northeastern’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, has left her role after less than a year, the university confirmed in an email to The Huntington News May 28.
Winkelstein, a long-time leader at the University of Pennsylvania, stepped...
More than 100 people filed into Boston City Hall March 23 as community members testified about an alleged lack of transparency among Boston’s higher education institutions, particularly at Northeastern.
On Monday, I will be one of the panelists in a Boston City Council hearing about Northeastern’s alleged lack of administrative transparency. I plan to discuss The Huntington News’ difficulty in getting information from the university, including securing interviews with decision...
Boston City Council is set to hold a hearing Monday to review Northeastern’s policies around administrative transparency and academic freedom, according to a public hearing order on the council’s agenda.
The hearing order, filed and referred to the Committee on Education...
It’s the fall of 2023: college application season for Edlawit Zewde. A senior in high school at the time, Zewde spent every afternoon hunched over her computer writing and submitting applications. She had settled into a routine. Assess each university via its perfectly curated website and prepare to draft its required supplemental essay prompts like “Why this university?” and “Tell us about how you overcame a challenge.”
A preliminary list identified Northeastern as one of more than 30 universities with a “moderate to high risk” of losing military tuition assistance, according to reporting by CNN.
D’Amore-McKim School of Business, or DMSB, Dean David De Cremer and College of Engineering, or COE, Dean Gregory Abowd will leave their positions July 1, according to internal emails obtained by The Huntington News.
