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The Northeastern Faculty Senate office, located in Ryder Hall. The Nov. 15 meeting included an annual update from Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs David Madigan and Ken Henderson, chancellor and senior vice president for learning.

Faculty senate hears annual update from chancellor and provost, discuss growing global campus opportunities, diversity, issues with Oakland housing

Ethan Wayne, news staff November 29, 2023

Northeastern’s faculty senate held its biweekly meeting Nov. 15 to discuss the university’s Oakland campus housing availability, experiential learning complications and developments, continued global campus expansion, adaptations the school will make to conform to the Supreme...

Students give feedback about current meal plans at a Nov. 16 event hosted by the Dining Advisory Board. The board has collected feedback for several months to propose a revamped meal plan.

Dining advisory board plans to revamp meal plans in fall 2024

Christina McCabe, news staff November 29, 2023

After months of collecting student feedback, the Student Government Association’s Dining Advisory Board is getting ready to put a new, revamped meal plan in place for students beginning in 2024. The Dining Advisory Board, created this semester and housed under campus affairs...

William Jennings holds a saxophone and poses for a photo. Jennings, who died Nov. 4, was remembered by friends as someone excited about the world who constantly put others before himself. Photo courtesy GoFundMe.

Northeastern community and loved ones remember William Jennings

Lily Webber, news staff November 28, 2023

William Jennings, who graduated from Northeastern in May with a degree from the College of Engineering, died Nov. 4. He was 22.  Jennings was killed in a plane crash in Queensland, Australia, along with two others on board who have not been publicly identified, while surveilling...

The John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse sits at 1 Courthouse Way. Former Northeastern admissions counselor Beau Christopher Benson was arrested Nov. 21 for allegedly receiving and possessing child pornography.

Northeastern admissions counselor arrested on child pornography charges

Emily Spatz, deputy campus editor November 22, 2023

Editor’s Note: This story contains details of sexual assault and child pornography. An admissions counselor at Northeastern was arrested Tuesday for allegedly receiving and possessing child pornography, the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s office said Wednesday.  Beau...

A crowd of union members and supporters gather in Post Office Square in downtown Boston following a tentative new contract agreement. The updated contract included the conversion of 500 part-time jobs to full-time positions. Photo courtesy 32BJ SEIU and Ann Hermes.

Union representing 330 Northeastern janitors tentatively agree to historic new contract, avoiding strike

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff November 17, 2023

At 4 a.m. Wednesday, a negotiation committee of janitors of Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, which represents about 330 cleaners at Northeastern, unanimously approved a new tentative union contract, preventing a strike, according to a press release...

 A participant in the chalk-in references the list of  Palestinians killed in Israel's counterattack,  as she writes in chalk on the sidewalk. The list of names was also posted in the window of the Northeastern School of Law.

Northeastern Students for Justice in Palestine holds chalk-in on Centennial Common

Ananya Kulkarni and Sonel Cutler November 16, 2023

Northeastern Students for Justice in Palestine, along with the university’s law school chapter of the same organization, held a chalk-in Nov. 15 on the paths encircling Centennial Common. Participants wrote the names of thousands of Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli...

Meg Heckman (left) and Linda Henry (right) listen as Geri Denterlein, CEO of Denterlein, introduces the event. The Jack Thomas lecture series was established by Denterlein and her family to honor the legacy of Thomas.

Boston Globe Media CEO Linda Henry talks innovation, diversity for journalism in new lecture series

Linden Burack, news correspondent November 15, 2023

At the inaugural event of the journalism school’s new Jack Thomas Lecture Series, Boston Globe Media CEO Linda Henry spoke to students and faculty Thursday, Nov. 9 about the trajectory and role of local journalism in an era of intensifying international conflict and growing...

Professor Dale Herbeck poses for a photo. Herbeck was chair of the Communication Studies Department for 10 years before his death Oct. 26. Photo courtesy CAMD Communications Department.

Professor Dale Herbeck remembered as brilliant, empathetic leader and educator

Ethan Wayne, news staff November 13, 2023

Professor Dale Herbeck, a faculty member at Northeastern for over 10 years, died Oct. 26. He was 65.  According to a statement released by the College of Arts, Media and Design, or CAMD, Herbeck joined Northeastern as chair of the Communication Studies Department in 2012....

(Left to right, top to bottom) Gregory Katz, Owen Kasmin, Charlie Zhang and Giovanni Falco. Photos by Darin Zullo, courtesy Owen Kasmin, courtesy CLEAN slate and by Jessica Xing, respectively. Graphic by Jessica Xing.

SGA members express concerns about internal communication following EVP resignation

Emily Spatz, deputy campus editor November 13, 2023

The Student Government Association, or SGA, spent the past several weeks reconciling with the resignation of former Executive Vice President Matty Coleman, a fourth-year psychology major who stepped down Oct. 23 due to mental health reasons. Since then, members of SGA have voiced...

The rats don’t run Northeastern, we do… or do we?

The rats don’t run Northeastern, we do… or do we?

Sara Sajjad, news correspondent November 12, 2023

As the temperatures drop and the cold creeps in, Northeastern students are preparing for the seasonal return of many campus and city traditions. But Homecoming, tree lightings and holiday gatherings aren’t the only things to expect this winter — students are also bracing...

Tomasa Rodríguez, a janitor at Northeastern since 2000, poses in front of the painting depicting union members with the words of the American Dream. "You can see here that we're asking for justice just like we're asking for now,"   Rodríguez said of the painting.

Union representing hundreds of Northeastern janitors pushes for better contract, nearing possible strike

Zoe MacDiarmid, news staff November 12, 2023

Three days before the expiration date of a contract between the union representing 330 cleaners at Northeastern and the Maintenance Contractors of New England, or MCNE, the union wrapped up another week of bargaining and negotiations. If an agreement is not reached by Nov. 15,...

An activist addresses students and faculty passing by the die-in via megaphone, inviting them to join the protest. Several passersby stopped to watch or film the event, or to talk with activists.

Demonstrators block Centennial Common during Huskies for a Free Palestine die-in protest

Sonel Cutler, campus editor November 11, 2023

About 70 students blocked off a walkway through Centennial Common on a dreary, misty and cold afternoon Thursday during a die-in demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.  Huskies for a Free Palestine, a campus group that is unaffiliated with the university, organized...