The Compass Financial Stability and Savings Program combines federal aid and education to help people earn more, save more, build assets, and better their lives.

Millennials are concerned about the high cost of college, and that worry is leading them to be more supportive online education, a new poll from Northeastern University finds.

The big news in the Big Apple this week may be what didn’t happen. There was not a single reported slaying, stabbing, shooting or knifing in any of the five boroughs on Monday, according to the New York Police Department. “It is unusual in a city of 8 million people, but we never read that […]

Americans believe that without innovation, higher education could lose its edge in the future, a national poll released Tuesday showed. FTI Consulting administered the survey for Northeastern University in October, according to the Northeastern news service. Survey results were revealed to government leaders, academics, and members of the private sector at a forum in Washington, […]

A large majority of Americans who have attended college believe higher education is a good investment (83 percent) and key to achieving the American dream, according to the results of a national opinion poll Northeastern University released on Tuesday.  

AUDIO: Radio producer Helen Borten and Daniel Medwed, law professor at Northeastern University and author of Prosecution Compex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent, discuss a wrongful conviction murder case that raises hot-button issues: domestic terrorism, racial prejudice—and the techniques of prosecutors that have led to a shocking number of wrongful […]

Americans believe that higher education is imperative for a successful future, but they believe that the US higher education system is providing poor value for the cost, a Northeastern University survey has found.

Amid recession-era challenges in higher education and concerns about the nation’s competitiveness, Americans are simultaneously proud of colleges in the United States and critical of the direction in which they’re heading, according to the results of a national opinion poll released on Monday by Northeastern University.

AUDIO: In our weekly CommonHealth segment we discuss a new move to make a drug overdose antidote more available. Some say it will save lives, but others worry it will promote bad behavior. Co-authors of “Prevention of Fatal Opioid Overdose,” a viewpoint piece that recently appeared in the Journal of the Medical American Association, join […]

State officials and industry leaders today will hold the first meeting of the Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative to draw attention to a sector whose work force is aging and projected to have 100,000 job openings over the next decade. While some analysts have predicted the decline of industry as a major economic player, manufacturing is Massachusetts’ […]

Nearly half of all Americans have a dim view of the quality of U.S. higher education, and most think it’s not only too expensive but also only a fair or poor return on their investment, according to the results of a new survey. Most of those surveyed—particularly college-aged Americans themselves—agree that U.S. higher education must […]

Northeastern’s newest survey woke up academia today, reiterating the ever-present, looming, yet feared, truth: the higher education system needs to change, and it needs to change now.