With ridership of the off-campus student shuttle expanding, the Student Government Association (SGA) and the Northeastern University Police Department (NUPD) have entered talks to expand the service to the nearly 6,300 students who live off campus.
In the coming weeks, Boston’s new mayor Martin J. Walsh, who took over the helm at City Hall Monday from Boston’s long-time patriarch Thomas M. Menino, is sure to present plenty of ideas to address the city’s most pressing problems. How the Walsh administration addresses Boston’s overburdened housing stock could have a very direct effect on Boston college students.
As work on the university's most recent Institutional Master Plan (IMP) winds down, local residents, city officials and Northeastern administrators focused on a new business initiative and outreach in Roxbury at the two-hour-long Community Task Force Meeting on Tuesday.
An independent researcher at a community meeting last Thursday outlined her plans for a housing impact study in the neighborhoods around the Northeastern campus.
Second semester is here, and in many ways it’s a bit disappointing the world didn’t end last month. Especially for all of you sophomores who have a firmly set group of friends from freshman year and are wandering into Off Campus Student Services and making calls to real estate agents. Apartment hunting season is on.
After consistent complaints, a group of Northeastern officials met with some students this week to discuss ongoing construction on Huntington Avenue and its effects on the students housed in the YMCA.
Less than 18 months before its planned opening date, Northeastern officials said they have no news to report about a new dorm building announced in 2010. Under the proposal, construction was supposed to start in June 2011.
Months before Northeastern will begin requiring the sophomore class to live on campus, university officials were unclear about specific plans to create more on-campus housing.
Huntington News: What are the Resident Student Association's responsibilities at Northeastern?
Tina Sherman: RSA's primary responsibility is to improve the on-campus living experience for Northeastern residents. We do this through two main means: Programming and advocacy. Throughout the year we put on various large-scale events to engage students. These range from speakers and comedians to trivia nights, barbecues or our famous 24-hour scavenger hunt, Husky Hunt. We also work on various advocacy initiatives including sending representatives to the Food Advisory Board to suggest dining hall improvements, or working to fix broken laundry machines in the halls.
Boston Fire Department officials cite a faulty heating and ventilation unit as the cause of a a three-alarm fire Monday morning that ripped through a Westland Avenue building, displacing a dozen Northeastern University students. No one was injured in the fire, but BFD Spokesman Steve MacDonald said in a news release issued Tuesday damages were around $400,000 and are expected to rise. It could be weeks before any of the 40-45 apartment residents are allowed to move back in.
By Zac Estrada, News Staff
About a dozen Northeastern students were displaced early Monday morning when a three-alarm fire ripped through a mixed-use building on Westland Avenue.
Boston Fire Department Spokesman Steve MacDonald said about 75 firefighters responded to a...
Despite a raft of changes that has boosted the number of Living and Learning Communities (LLC) and expanded gender-neutral housing, housing officials expect room assignments for incoming freshmen and returning students to go smoothly.
Northeastern’s Assistant Director of Housing Services Tim Touchette spoke Wednesday in front of the Student Government Association (SGA).
