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What Universities Can Learn from Udacity’s ‘Gig Economy’ Service
“We’ll see more and more institutions gravitating toward this type of opportunity,” says Charles Kilfoye, who runs Northeastern University’s Experiential Network, a program that matches graduate and professional studies students with six-week projects at sponsor companies. “It really just mirrors the gig economy that’s happening out there.” Will part-time piecework replace traditional internships? Workers are […]
Boston students prepare for the 69th annual citywide science fair
Northeastern University’s Center for STEM Education runs numerous programs to engage students from elementary through high school in STEM learning. The center hosts science-related field trips, offers free summer programs and helps to organize the Citywide Science Fair. On Monday, the fair organizers at the Center for STEM were in the midst of preparations. “This […]
Northeastern to offer business innovation degree
Northeastern University is launching a one-year graduate program focused on business innovation that will cater to working professionals by holding classes on Saturdays and help students develop actual products and services for their companies. The university’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business is accepting applications for the first class of about 30 students. The program will cost […]
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Northeastern University Young Scholars Program
Six weeks of lectures, computer classes, college campus, field trips, and lab work in the middle of a summer vacation. Sound like the way most juniors in high school spend their summer? Well, that’s the way twenty-five high school juniors and sophomores (and I) spent summer vacation. The program is called Northeastern University’s Young Scholars […]
There’s Meaning In The Process, Not Just The Product
It’s almost the end of the fall semester, a time when students are inordinately focused on one singular number: their final grade. I fear that even as they construct their final project, their writing e-portfolios, they are so concerned with the grade that they miss out on seeing the best parts: their growth over the […]
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Northeastern University steps up for military
It’s one more example of spreading fallout from the partial federal government shutdown: Some two dozen active-duty U.S. military personnel beginning classes next week at Northeastern University were going to be forced to withdraw from NU’s College of Professional Studies because their Pentagon tuition aid has been shut down. But Monday, Northeastern president Joseph Aoun […]
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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, […]
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First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund expands to Boston, with initial investments this fall
For entrepreneurial students, there’s a new source of capital on campus this fall: theDorm Room Fund is coming to Boston. The fund, backed by Philadelphia-basedFirst Round Capital, will have $500,000 to invest in student startups over the next two years. And a student investment team will be giving deals the green light. “Students will have a […]
13 Student Entrepreneurs To Keep Your Eye On
Over the course of the year, Greater Boston’s students have stepped up their startup game. Between Summer@HIGHLAND, Startup Summer and the Boston Startup School, students have been itching to get involved, interning from coast to coast to make a name for themselves in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Although we’ve already given you a list of nine […]
Students seek productive summer
Too old for traditional summer camp but too young to hold jobs, middle school students are at an impressionable stage — and they have time on their hands, said David Roach, cochairman of the governor’€™s Commonwealth Corps Commission.