Boston.com Learning how countries develop “Why on earth would you go there?” That’s the question posed to most people who want to visit Cambodia, says Kristen Paonessa, a senior at Northeastern University majoring in international affairs and economics. Paonessa, who aims to pursue a career in international development, fulfilled an experiential learning requirement by interning in Phnom Penh for the […]
Business leaders see U.S. colleges as lagging in readying students for jobs Fifty-four percent of business leaders believe the American higher-education system is falling behind developing and emerging countries in preparing students for the work force, according to a poll released by Northeastern University. The survey is the third in a series by the institution. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said college graduates lacked the most important skills […]
Poll: business leaders seek higher ed improvements Most business leaders (54 percent) believe the U.S. higher education system lags behind those of both developed and emerging countries, according to a new poll by Northeastern University. An overwhelming majority of executives (97 percent) believe that colleges should expand experiential learning, and nearly as many (89 percent) believe colleges should do more to teach […]
The Best Schools Sports Management: Online Master’s Degrees 4. Northeastern University (Boston, MA) Northeastern University is a private, research institution that is proud of having the “world’s largest and most innovative cooperative education program,” offering professional work, research, service, and global learning. Even in the beginning, in 1898, as the Evening School of the YMCA, Northeastern had a cooperative program which possessed these characteristics. Today, […]