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...
Matvei Isakov steps down from the top level of the sauna with his water and bottle of tea tree essential oils. He looks around at the sweat-covered faces of the others in the room and asks, “Mind if I put some water?”
“Go for it,” said one of the other two people...
Northeastern Chancellor and Senior Vice President for Learning Ken Henderson presented an annual university update to Northeastern’s faculty senate Dec. 11, 2024, covering a wide range of topics from application metrics to expanding campus student spaces. Here’s what you...
From carrying sandbags to climbing ropes to sharing stories about their week, Elite Heat members do it all.
The student-run obstacle course racing club meets weekly to work out together and share their love for group exercise. In the winter, the club meets Thursday nights...
Khoury College of Computer Sciences faculty voted Jan. 15 to change its core curriculum that has been in place for nearly 20 years. The college will begin to phase out three classes fall 2025.
The classes being phased out are three introductory courses for computer science...
Northeastern’s Resident Student Association, or RSA, unanimously voted to table legislation that would have added a question to the housing application form about allergies Jan. 15 after spirited deliberation.
Traditionally, Disability Access Services, or DAS, handles...
