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.”
At Northeastern’s first faculty senate meeting of the spring semester, held Jan. 28, faculty and administration discussed faculty concerns, a new master’s program, the consolidation of experiential learning studies, artificial intelligence and enrollment statistics.
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Ruggles station’s Columbus Avenue entrance closed Feb. 9 for structural repairs, renovations and upgrades, diverting riders to alternative entrances of the Orange Line and Commuter Rail with tall metal fences and bright orange “Detour” signs.
The city of Seattle reached a $29 million settlement Feb. 4 with the family of Jaahnavi Kandula, a student on Northeastern’s Seattle campus who was fatally struck in 2023 by a speeding police officer.
In his annual address to the faculty senate Sept. 17, President Joseph E. Aoun spoke on the future of learning and artificial intelligence, or AI, emphasizing how AI has prompted the university to redesign its curriculum and research to embrace the technology as a learning “companion” rather than a “substitute.”
As the Trump administration looks to mediate regime change in Venezuela and acquire Greenland, the College of Social Sciences and Humanities hosted a panel Feb. 10 to examine U.S. foreign policy.
The panel, titled “Sovereignty, Security, and Coercion: U.S. Power from Venezuela...
Classes at Northeastern’s campuses in Boston, Burlington, Portland and New York City will be held remotely Feb. 23 ahead of a “significant winter storm,” the university announced in a Feb. 22 email.
Six on-campus cultural organizations gathered Feb. 12 to discuss belonging, immigration concerns and gaps in support from the university, highlighting the shared frustrations and challenges that minority students currently face at Northeastern.
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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.
