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.

AUDIO: If you use the MBTA to commute to work, you know it can take a very long time to travel just a few miles. But, if you’re black, chances are your commute on the MBTA is longer than your white counterparts- to the tune of 66 hours longer per year if you take the […]

The United States is a hard country to love right now. Economic growth has been anemic, too many Americans are looking for work, others are watching their real incomes fall, and the middle class is seeing its purchasing power decline. Income inequality is at historic highs; the ever-widening gap between low wage earners and the […]

Micro units will likely be cool, with features such as convertible storage and bicycle wall mounts. What they’re less likely to be, regrettably, is affordable.

Iran has to be ready to listen to foreign experts that can offer valuable advice on how the country could stabilize its currency rate and lower inflation, but it should be ready to heed the councel, U.S. Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah told Trend.

You hear a lot these days about the national epidemic of painkiller overdoses. What you don’t hear so much about is what you can do to respond to those overdoses when they happen, much as we learn about CPR or defibrillators for heart attacks. In an opinion piece just out in the Journal of the […]

Is gun violence inevitably a pervasive fact of life in urban neighborhoods of 21st century America? Or can the staggeringly high murder rates — and the ongoing trauma that results — be diminished or eliminated? With over 60 years of combined experience working on city streets, Edward Powell, Jon Feinman and Edward Davis offer their […]

Just months after the MBTA raised fares, the T faces a $130 million deficit for the next budget year, according to an analysis released Monday by a regional think tank. But that daunting financial gap is eclipsed by a $240 million shortfall to operate the highway system, the study concluded. The budget analysis, conducted by […]