The National Labor Relations Board earlier this month dismissed unionizing graduate student workers’ claim that the university engaged in illegal labor practices, ruling there was no evidence of “any unlawful interrogation or threat in response to protected activity.”
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After a structural assessment of White Hall found significant internal and external damage, university officials announced Monday the century-old residence hall will be shut down indefinitely and the building’s intended residents will be reassigned.
The five-story White...
Emily Spatz, deputy campus editor
• August 20, 2023
Skyrocketing application rates to Northeastern — which have risen almost 50% in four years — resulted in a record number of undergraduate applications to the university for fall 2023. Northeastern accepted 5.6% of applicants from a record-breaking 96,327 applications for...
After an multi-year effort to unionize while facing sustained university opposition, Northeastern graduate student workers received authorization from the National Labor Relations Board July 14 to hold a vote in September deciding whether a union should represent graduate workers...
Fifty-three kilometers from the coastal city of Eilat, Israel, sits Kibbutz Ketura, a living community in the Arava Desert. Home to the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, the kibbutz houses a network of students, professors and researchers dedicated to conversation and...
Northeastern students say they are burnt out, anxious and isolated — and the school is struggling to support them. With the CDC announcing the end of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, many believe mental health issues are less of a concern. However, this may be...
For hundreds of students on campus, the Northeastern University Huskiers and Outing Club, or NUHOC, is an escape from the stress and chaos of Boston. Since 1971, members of NUHOC have spent their weekends at the Brown Memorial Lodge in Shelbourne, New Hampshire, or “the Loj”,...
After the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that race-based admissions programs at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are unconstitutional, President Joseph E. Aoun assured the Northeastern community in a statement that the university would “remain...
Dynasty Perez, a second-year business administration and communication studies combined major at Northeastern from San Antonio, Texas, taps on her phone with her long acrylic nails while smoothing her pin-straight hair. By the way she carries herself, she said, many assume she...
In the days following Jada Howard’s acceptance to Northeastern University, she found herself locked in a fight with the school’s financial aid office. As a first-generation, low-income admit to the class of 2023, Howard and her mother went back and forth with the office,...
Northeastern graduate students on May 5 filed an unfair labor practice charge, or ULP, against Northeastern after university police allegedly retaliated against two union organizers, visiting their workplaces to question their participation in union action.
The federal charges,...
Over 4,600 members of the graduating class of 2023 along with friends and family filled the iconic Fenway Park for Northeastern’s spring undergraduate commencement Sunday, where they heard from multiple speakers and celebrated their diversity through representation, recognition...
