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Northeastern University and Marymount Manhattan College to merge, giving Boston school foothold in NYC

Northeastern University is expanding to the Big Apple where it will open its fourteenth campus, to be called “Northeastern University — New York City,” officials announced Wednesday. 
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Tiny New York City College to Merge With Northeastern

Marymount Manhattan College, a small, private college on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, is merging with Northeastern University. The move adds a sought-after New York presence to Northeastern’s rapidly growing footprint and would establish its 14th campus. 

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Marymount Manhattan College agreed to merge with Northeastern University. (NYT)
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Northeastern University to merge with New York City college

Northeastern University is merging with Marymount Manhattan College in New York, the Boston college’s third such merger with a smaller school in the past five years. The merger with Marymount Manhattan, a small private liberal arts school, gives the Boston school a foothold in the country’s largest city.
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Identity theft ring claims responsibility for plot to sell Graceland

Similarly a Northeastern University criminology and criminal justice professor, Nikos Passas, added that the scam artists likely knew that the auction of Graceland was going to fall through.
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Boston has had only three murders this year. What is it doing right?

“It really comes down to dialogue. That’s the key,” says Jack McDevitt, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. “You want to include the community in the decisions about how they are policed. You can give them feedback and really include them as an actual partner in your strategies.
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‘Nigerian scammer’ takes credit for bizarre Graceland auction scare

Nikos Passas, a Northeastern University criminology and criminal justice professor, also told the AP the scammers likely knew that successfully auctioning off Graceland was impossible.
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How To Help Skills-Based Practices Stick Within America’s Businesses

However, many aspects of the HR tech stack were not built with skills-based practices in mind. Recent research from Northeastern University found that most HR information systems are unable to meaningfully collect, structure, and use skills data.
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Why Walmart, Walgreens, CVS retail health clinic experiment is struggling

But the business experience in the retail health clinic space has largely disappointed. That’s not a huge surprise to Timothy Hoff, professor of management health-care systems at Northeastern University. 
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32 Boston high schoolers honored at annual valedictorian luncheon

Some of the students plan to become cardiac surgeons, social workers, and software engineers. They will study such fields in the fall, with 12 of the 32 committed to attend Northeastern University, several with full scholarships.
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‘I’m not sure this helps us much’: European countries are recognizing an official Palestinian state

Mai’a Cross, a professor of political science at Boston’s Northeastern University, said the recent European recognitions are essentially saying they recognize the “aspirations” of a future Palestinian state.
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Ticketmaster Lawsuit Slows Live Nation Stock As Sales Expectations Dip

Swift keeps 105% of her average Era’s Tour ticket price of $456 because concert promoters are so happy to have their venues filled by her fans, according to my April 2023 interview with Northeastern University Professor David Herlihy.