Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun ranks as the highest-paid university president in Massachusetts with his total compensation exceeding $3 million in the 2025 fiscal year, reports show.  Aoun’s total compensation reached $3,045,428 during the 2025 fiscal year, marking...

Mark Williams, professor and chair of the Department of Physics, will assume the position of dean for the College of Science July 1, according to a June 11 email to the college’s faculty, staff and students. Williams, who joined Northeastern in 2001, will enter the role...

Senior Vanderbilt University administrator Brett Sweet will assume the position of senior vice president for finance and administration this fall, replacing longtime administrator Thomas Nedell.  Sweet held the position of vice chancellor for finance and information technology...

Northeastern introduced a new billing system for summer classes this year, with a flat rate for full-time students, according to an announcement posted by Student Financial Services, or SFS.  Under the new system, students taking either three or four classes during Summer...

Executive Vice Provost Tom Sheahan will take over as interim provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, President Joseph E. Aoun announced June 1. Aoun’s announcement comes five days after The Huntington News first reported on the unexpected departure of Beth...

Beth Winkelstein, Northeastern’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, has left her role after less than a year, the university confirmed in an email to The Huntington News May 28.  Winkelstein, a long-time leader at the University of Pennsylvania, stepped...

Northeastern’s acquisition of Marymount Manhattan College, originally announced in May 2024, is set to be finalized by the summer.  The New York State Department of Education approved the acquisition last May, and Northeastern expects to receive approval from the federal...

The Boston City Council passed a resolution April 15 calling on all colleges and universities across the city to increase administrative transparency and student representation.  The resolution, which passed April 15, follows a March 23 city council hearing where more than...

When Jimmy Fanuele began taking college engineering classes as a first-year, he didn’t expect students at a local elementary school to fundamentally shape his perspective on engineering. This notion changed when he took his first service-learning class.  Fanuele, a rising...

Updated May 9, 2026 at 6:30 p.m.  There is no indication that the cyberattack by ShinyHunters compromised any Northeastern-affiliated Canvas account information thus far, university security officials reported. “At this time, Northeastern hasn’t observed compromised...

Northeastern police arrested a sex offender April 29 after the individual allegedly hid in the women’s bathroom in the Stetson East dining hall and assaulted officers, Boston 25 News reported.  Boston 25 cited a statement from Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden, who...

Upon hearing about the string of violent events on and near Northeastern’s Boston campus, Irene Halsey, the mother of a second-year, emailed Northeastern police, concerned for her child’s safety. She was one of many parents who directly contacted the Northeastern University...