The net cost of attending Northeastern will increase 2.9 percent next year, and university leaders said at a budget rollout presentation Wednesday that financial aid allocations will increase at double the rate of tuition.
Since Northeastern announced Jim Yong Kim, World Bank president, as this year’s commencement speaker last month, students and faculty have chimed in on the selection – some highly supportive of the choice, and others decidedly less so.
Hundreds of students packed Matthews Arena last Friday night to raise awareness and money for cancer research through the university’s fourth annual Relay for Life.
Cheers and laughter along with oohs and aahs filled Blackman Auditorium on Friday night as Northeastern kicked off its 16th annual, three-day ASL (American Sign Language) Festival.
The university on Wednesday announced the incoming class of 2013 will boast the strongest academic profile of any group of Northeastern freshman in the school’s history.
A panel of students reflected on their experiential learning experiences on Wednesday as part of a discussion related to the recently created Presidential Council on Diversity and Inclusion (PCDI).
Northeastern’s Circle K Club, a community service group, held its annual PB Jam on Tuesday with the goal of making 3,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in two hours to benefit 15 homeless shelters in the Boston area.
Rapper Kid Cudi will headline the university’s Springfest concert this year, the Council for University Programs (CUP) announced Wednesday night on Twitter. Kentucky alternative rock band Cage the Elephant will also perform at the Springfest concert. CUP said an additional “special guest,” who will be announced at a later date, will perform as well.
In her new tell-all book chronicling the life of Boston’s most notorious gangster, Shelley Murphy pulled together years of research and journalism experience to divulge to the public the details of Whitey Bulger, a man who spent 12 years on the FBI’s Most Wanted Fugitives List. On Wednesday in Snell Library, Murphy, a 1980 Northeastern graduate, spoke to a crowd of over 50 students and faculty members about her new book “Whitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice.”
Northeastern is replacing its 100 Most Influential Seniors program with a new award initiative intended to honor both juniors and seniors, the university announced this month. The Huntington 100: Distinguished Juniors & Seniors Program aims to not only award students, but to also create a group of people who can support and promote the university, Emily Hardman, the university’s director of student programming and communications, said.
