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If you’re an athlete, your skills, ambition and work ethic are supposed to determine your career path, rather than nepotism or insider connections. Which means you can come from anywhere and succeed. Clint Dempsey grew up in a trailer park in South Texas, playing soccer with migrant kids from across the Mexican border. LeBron James […]
The managerial obsession with ‘busywork’
“Managers may not even know if an employee has finished their core work, but they are giving additional busywork to ensure that they don’t finish [for the day],” says Barbara Larson, an executive professor of management at D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, Massachusetts. “It’s work that is literally just being given to ensure […]
It Looks Like AOC’s Squad Will Double After Election Day
“For too long we’ve been focused on the climate crisis in a really kind of technocratic way,” Jennie Stephens, director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs and author of the new book Diversifying Power, told VICE News. “These new emerging leaders…bring a better capacity to center social justice, racial justice, and economic […]
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Diverse Issues in Higher Education: Co-op Programs Becoming Popular for Real World Experience
Northeastern University, which has one of the oldest co-op programs in the country, is a prime example. From 2006 to 2012, 90 percent of Northeastern grads were in full-time jobs or graduate school within nine months of commencement. Eighty-seven percent of graduates who were working had jobs related to their major. Of those, half had […]
WTKK set to switch from talk to music format
WTKK occupied an ill-defined position among the Boston market’s nonmusic radio stations, according to Fybush and Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and author of the blog Media Nation. It did not fully embrace conservative talk radio, like WRKO, nor did it blend news and talk like WBZ-AM or WBUR and WGBH. “A […]
Paying Kids for Chores?
Parents have long differed on whether children should be paid for doing household chores. Some say tying kids’€™ allowances to housework is good training for entering the workforce. But others say children should do chores for free, reserving allowances as a tool for teaching money management.