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The Value and the Values of College
In our forthcoming book, Getting Learning Right: The Promise of Higher Education (MIT Press), we share the results of a study that followed 20 Northeastern University students every semester from their first year through graduation.
What 3,147 Employers Just Revealed About The Value Of College Degrees
Use cicmap.ai, a U.S. map of AI undergraduate degree programs developed by Professors Felix Muzny and Carla Brodley and the Northeastern’s Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC), to identify AI credential gaps in your region.
Know Your Professor
Until now, college students mostly have relied on word of mouth, professors’ reputations, previous student evaluations and the often rude and anonymous comments (complete with a “hotness” ranking) on RateMyProfessors.com before choosing a professor for a particular class.
‘Window-dressing’ Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and how we got here
WBUR’s The Common spoke to Donathan Brown, vice provost for faculty diversity at Northeastern University and co-editor of “Dream and Legacy: Revisiting King in a Post Civil Rights Era,” about where we fall short in our collective memories of Dr. King’s values.
NBC News
Storm brewing in college basketball: Should fans be banned from rushing floor?
“Yes, it is part of college sports culture, but if the coaches and the athletes are saying, ‘Wait a minute,’ then you have to think about it. There’s a lot of culture that’s embedded that we are re-evaluating,” said Nicolette Aduama, the senior associate director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society […]
Pandemic-inspired idealism is prompting careers in health care. Caveat emptor
Timothy Hoff is a professor of management and health care systems at Northeastern University in Boston, a visiting associate fellow at Green-Templeton College, University of Oxford, and author of “Next in Line: Lowered Care Expectations in the Age of Retail- and Value-Based Health” (Oxford University Press, 2017).
How To Make Sense of All The COVID-19 Projections? A New Model Combines Them
The latest update — released Tuesday — incorporates eight models, including some oft-cited ones, such as those built by the Imperial College London, the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Columbia University and Northeastern University.
How To Make Sense of All The COVID-19 Projections? A New Model Combines Them
The latest update — released Tuesday — incorporates eight models, including some oft-cited ones, such as those built by the Imperial College London, the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Columbia University and Northeastern University.
The Degree Rules, for Now
Recent headlines have touted the move by several big employers to stop requiring new hires to hold college degrees. Meanwhile, a drumbeat of studies show increasing labor market returns for degrees, and employers say they value the critical thinking skills of liberal arts graduates. These seemingly oppositional trends are both real and on display in a new report from Northeastern University’s Center for the Future […]
Physics Today
Humans control complex objects by exploiting their stability
Dagmar Sternad of Northeastern University in Boston, her postdoc Salah Bazzi, and their colleagues have turned to a different way of evaluating stability that’s applicable to transient motions like moving a cup of coffee from one point to another. Rather than analyzing perturbations about a steady-state closed orbit in phase space, they applied a method that […]
From corners to college: Boston group offers school stipends to some ex-gang members
College Bound Dorchester is working with Northeastern University and MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) to evaluate the program’s impact.
For former gang members, making education pay
The goal of Boston Uncornered is to engage with 900 former gang members, convicted felons, and high school dropouts, and to eventually enroll 250 in college over three years. The program pays participants $400 a week, to focus on school, tutoring, and work-based learning as an alternative to making money on the streets, officials say. […]