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.
An education at Northeastern comes with a price tag that tops $42,000/year. Before required fees, room and board and other expenses that come with living in the 10th most expensive city in the country, according to Business Insider, a Northeastern student can expect to be out almost $200,000 by the time they walk across the stage and shake President Joseph E. Aoun’s hand.
After years of watching students cringe when paying full price for textbooks at the Northeastern bookstore, the Student Government Association (SGA) is releasing an online platform to save students the sticker shock associated with purchasing texts for a full course load.
President Aoun addressed members of the Student Government Association (SGA) Monday night, focusing on why members of the senate and the student body are the factors that are pushing the university forward.
Upon reading in The News that Northeastern on March 7 issued a suspension of the student group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), I read into the situation and was disappointed to learn that the university failed to apply regulations and policies in a consistent manner.
The 2013 Budget Priorities Survey by the Student Government Association (SGA) revealed that most surveyed students emphasized the importance of instructors’ qualities and evaluations and were dissatisfied with the lack of accessibility to NUwave in residence halls.
As a student body, I have the impression that we are largely like-minded. We are kids with ambition; kids motivated by our own passions who thrive on independence and excel with opportunity. We don’t need a cookie-cutter curriculum, but more importantly, we don't want one.
While I initially believed that this decision was a mistake by The Huntington News and a failure of the paper to report on matters important to the Northeastern community, after putting in additional thought, I realized that the true failure lies within SGA. If SGA does something for the student body, but no one knows about it, did it ever happen?
Some attentive readers of The News may have noticed a striking lack of coverage of Northeastern’s Student Government Association (SGA) throughout the current academic year, and especially now, during direct elections for student body president and executive vice president. The News does not believe the actions of the SGA have substantially impacted the Northeastern community on a week-to-week, and therefore has decided to direct its resources towards covering other topics.
I have been a member of the Student Government Association (SGA) for the past four years, and on the Executive Board for two terms in the roles of Executive Vice President (EVP) and Vice President for Student Services. Therefore, I have an understanding of how SGA currently operates as well as what it takes to successfully serve the student body. Based on my experiences both in and outside of SGA, I firmly believe that Mary Corrado and Zach Shaw are the best candidates to serve in these roles for the upcoming year.
Textbook prices have risen faster than tuition, housing costs and health care costs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the phenomenon is beginning to catch the eyes of local politicians, who are seeking to form an exploratory committee to examine what can be done to reduce costs.
