President Joseph E. Aoun announced the committee responsible for appointing David Madigan’s replacement as Northeastern’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs in a Feb. 5 email to the Northeastern community.
The announcement comes weeks after an internal...
Dressed up in their most formal attire, not an empty seat was in sight when over 200 people gathered in the Fenway Center Feb. 1 for a Lunar New Year gala to wish the community good fortune as the world rings in the Year of the Snake.
The banquet-style event was a result of...
A friend of Edward Coristine, a first-year student at Northeastern, said tech billionaire Elon Musk is an "idol" to Coristine.
“Through high school, his goal was never really to go to college,” the friend said. “He really just wanted to build his own thing, like Mark...
For several hours last weekend, one room in Curry Student Center was filled with some of the best “Super Smash Bros.” players in the New England region. While the competition was friendly, the players’ dedication was fierce, as they vied for pride and recognition in the...
As immigration raids ramp up across the country as a result of President Donald Trump’s executive orders and policies targeting undocumented immigrants, at least one Northeastern academic department on the Boston campus has issued guidance “about responding to possible activity...
Aiming to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders, Northeastern instructed faculty in an email sent Jan. 29 around 2 p.m. to report whether their National Science Foundation-funded research involves diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility, or DEIA, principles...
Siera Qosaj, news correspondent
• January 31, 2025
As Northeastern students returned to the campus for the spring semester, first-year students who spent the fall semester around the world as part of the university’s N.U.in program arrived in Boston for the first time.
Northeastern’s N.U.in program, originally introduced...
More than 430 faculty members sat in on a Jan. 29 faculty senate meeting, expressing confusion and concern following a series of federal executive orders that threaten research and diversity initiatives at Northeastern and colleges and universities across the country.
Faculty...
Northeastern’s total number of undergraduate applications surged once again for the 2025-26 academic year, totalling a record 105,092 applications, according to a Jan. 12 Northeastern Global News, or NGN, article.
The number of applications is up from 98,373 for the 2024-25...
Under the looming threat of federal examination, Northeastern has replaced or dismantled nearly all of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, messaging and websites.
Among several other changes, Northeastern replaced the website for its Office of Diversity, Equity...
When Sherri Miller studied on Northeastern’s Boston campus in the 1970s, there were around 15,000 undergraduate students and around 5,000 graduate students, according to documents preserved in Northeastern Library’s Archives and Special Collections.
Miller said she...
In the first faculty senate meeting of 2025, Northeastern faculty continued to criticize the university’s handling of its academic freedom policies, a topic that defined the majority of the senate’s sessions in the fall 2024 semester.
Louise Walker, a senator for the...
