WNPR Bay Watch: What Connecticut Can Learn From Massachusetts’s Job Growth Labor pains and lessons from the north. As Connecticut comes to terms with recent job loss, Massachusetts emerges as a regional leader in statewide job recovery. This hour, we explore the latest job market trends and find out what Connecticut stands to learn from the Bay State. Are you a Connecticut or Massachusetts resident? What […]
EdSurge What Universities Can Learn from Udacity’s ‘Gig Economy’ Service “We’ll see more and more institutions gravitating toward this type of opportunity,” says Charles Kilfoye, who runs Northeastern University’s Experiential Network, a program that matches graduate and professional studies students with six-week projects at sponsor companies. “It really just mirrors the gig economy that’s happening out there.” Will part-time piecework replace traditional internships? Workers are […]
The Christian Science Monitor What do the SPLC’s post-election hate-incident reports mean? Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University in Boston, says these surges in hate reflect a pattern. The pattern reared its ugly head, he says, in 2001, against those perceived as Muslim or Middle Eastern following the 9/11 terrorist attacks; in 2004, against gays and lesbians with the passage […]
Uncertainty on Cuba Northeastern University is also moving ahead with its plans in Cuba. It is sending its first two students to do their required “co-op” — a work-related experience — with an environmentally focused nongovernmental organization in Cuba this spring and is in the process of developing a yearlong program that will include a six-month co-op component […]
Boston Herald Time for Trump to drop curtain on ‘lock her up’ Donald Trump’s recent comments in an interview that he would not appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton’s email practices, even though he had promised otherwise in the second debate, predictably sent off howls of protest from many of his supporters. But Trump’s apparent decision — assuming he and his appointees stick to it […]
Wallet Hub 2016’s Metro Areas That Most and Least Resemble the U.S. It’s hard to define what is or isn’t American. Although we can’t patent freedom, we can safely lay claim to buffalo wings, bluegrass and David Letterman. But we can’t have it all. Contrary to popular belief, English isn’t our official language. And the rumor that New York’s Italian immigrants invented pizza? That’s been laid to […]
The Week Syria: Aleppo on the brink after Assad breakthrough Max Abrahms of Northeastern University told Russia Today that “already we’re seeing a movement away from Obama’s older policy of regime change”. President Assad said yesterday that Trump could become a “natural ally” of his regime if he fulfils his campaign promise to destroy Islamic State. The news that Trump and Putin had discussed Syria […]
In Trump times, cities must lead on climate change AS A CANDIDATE, Donald Trump vowed he would abandon the Paris Agreement, reverse President Obama’s climate initiatives, and bring back coal. As president-elect, he’s been more circumspect, but his appointment of climate-change denier Myron Ebell to head the transition at the EPA suggests he may try to make good on these promises. If he does, […]
FiveThirtyEight We Asked 8,500 Internet Commenters Why They Do What They Do Comments often serve as identity badges, said Joseph Reagle, the author of “Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web” and a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University. “You see this particularly on social media,” he told me. The comment is meant to tell the world, “This is who […]
The Christian Science Monitor Dylann Roof trial resumes: hate crimes and the insanity defense “Even if there’s compelling evidence that insanity is plausible, juries certainly don’t buy it,” James Alan Fox, who studies criminal justice at Northeastern University in Boston, told NPR shortly after the June 2015 shooting in Charleston. “They look at nine people killed and they believe, not wrongly, but they do believe that someone who will get […]
Celebrating with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Richard Lapchick, the founder and former director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society, was among those who celebrated withKareem Abdul-Jabbar when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom last week. Lapchicktweeted a couple photos of himself with Abdul-Jabbar and other attendees of the star-studded ceremony, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., […]
Banker & Tradesman Economists Forecast Strong 2017 In Greater Boston Northeastern University economist and professor Alan Clayton-Matthews agreed, but pointed out that the view from the rest of the state isn’t quite as rosy. “The economy is great in Greater Boston, but much less so in the rest of the state,” Clayton-Matthews said. “Boomers are retiring, but Millennials entering the workforce are offsetting the loss […]