Op-ed by President Joseph E. Aoun: As President Obama develops his second-term agenda, his administration will no doubt focus on a range of higher-education priorities, including affordability, attainment levels, and career preparation. Yet as important as these issues are, something more fundamental is happening: We’re witnessing the end of higher education as we know it.

As longtime bookies know all too well, I have occasionally been derelict in my duties as your literary cruise director here at #1book140. No, no, you doth protest too much. It’s true, it’s true. And the plain truth is that I can no longer manage our burgeoning book club all on my own. Luckily, the […]

In a city built and defined by its miles of red-brick mills, call this a mill for the 21st – and 22nd – centuries: the new Mass. Green High Performance Computing Center. The $95 million Bigelow Street facility promises to become a “knowledge mill” where researchers from Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts […]

The case of Stephanie Bongiovi makes the argument for broader Good Samaritan laws and the wider use of the overdose antidote naloxone. In the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers call for wider adoption of Good Samaritan laws and federal action to facilitate the distribution of naloxone to treat […]

The state unemployment rate rose for the fourth consecutive month in October as the Massachusetts economy grew too slowly to absorb an influx of workers seeking jobs. Economists have warned in recent months that the Massachusetts economy is slowing in the face of global economic slowdown and uncertainty about US tax and spending policies. Congress […]

President Obama travels to New York Thursday to get a first hand look at the continuing recovery efforts and lingering damage from Hurricane Sandy. Damage and lost economic activity from the storm have been estimated as high as $50 billion. State officials and lawmakers from the affected region say they intend to tap the federal […]

We had the chance to check out a couple of student projects at Northeastern University’s fantastically-named Action Lab during a trip to Boston this week. On our quick tour through the facilities, we were shown a haptic controller being used to simulate the act of carrying a cup full of coffee, in order to monitor […]

Filibuster reform must be via bipartisan cooperation. Majority Leader Harry Reid, frustrated by abuse of the filibuster, has vowed to change the Senate’s rule on the first day of the new Congress. If he chooses to invoke the “constitutional option” — the assertion that the Senate can, on the first day of a session, change […]

Political leaders from the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast have not been shy about their intent to seek as much federal funding as possible for their storm-struck states. Damages and lost economic activity as a result of Hurricane Sandy have been estimated as high as $50 billion. If the past is any guide, there are likely to […]

Greater Boston’s housing market will improve, but buyers and tenants may seek different types of housing, according to the Greater Boston Housing Report Card 2012 released Wednesday by the Boston Foundation.

VentureCrowd, a startup that has developed an online portal for connecting entrepreneur-minded students at universities, on Tuesday launched with its first customer, Northeastern University.

AUDIO: Marty Baron, the highly-respected editor of the Boston Globe, will become the new executive editor of the Washington Post. Baron starts his new role in January, and in the meantime The Globe is launching a national search to fill his job. Baron was with the Globe since 2001. During his time as executive editor, […]