The power of a football boycott It’s the economic impact players have on a university — whether at a large football program like Missouri or a smaller institution, like Grambling State — that can empower athletes to take a stand, said Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society. If there was any doubt […]
Most future Mass. jobs will not require a four-year degree, study says And while many news outlets have pointed out welders don’t often make more money than philosophers, his point is taken — why don’t we talk more about vocational schools as an option for students? The need for vocational schools is pointed out in a new study out of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern. […]
Northeastern to open new center for student veterans Northeastern University on Wednesday will launch its Center for Advancement of Veterans and Servicemembers, a facility that will allow student veterans to “benefit from the university’s experiential learning infrastructure through specialized co-op placements within a global network of 3,000 employers.” According to a statement released by the university, the center will offer mentorship opportunities and […]
Federal judge strikes down Worcester panhandling laws Michael Meltsner, a Northeastern University law professor, said ordinances that specifically target panhandling “go too far,” adding that broader laws are already on the books to handle public safety situations. “Courts are slowly beginning to realize that poor people have a right to free speech, too, and it has to be protected,” he said.
Debate moderators want to be ‘invisible’ Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, questioned whether moderators should encourage candidates to attack each other, calling that something of a debate cliché. The main thing, he said: “Stick to the facts, stick to the topics you are comfortable with as a journalist.”
Boston Herald Marco Rubio will be center stage at GOP debate Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor and debate expert at Northeastern University, told the Herald Rubio really needs a home run tonight to move the needle on his campaign. “He’s had three very good debates so far in a row,” said Schroeder. “But he hasn’t really had to withstand a lot of incoming artillery, and the […]
Boston Herald Drug loss stats spike: 15 percent bump in stolen, missing pills “There’s still a lot of demand and the supply is being constricted, so people are responding as you would expect: By doing more, sort of desperate acts to get their hands on these drugs,” said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University who has been studying overdose and drug […]
WGBH All revved up: Mizzou controversy is the product of a racist climate The University of Missouri’s president, Tim Wolfe, stepped down Monday morning after months of racial tension, growing protests by African-American students, the threat of a walkout by faculty and a strike by football players who said he hadn’t done enough to combat racism on campus. Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe joined Jim […]
Report warns of future Mass. labor shortage “The real barrier to meeting some of those needs is very much in our vocational schools that desperately need to be expanded,” Barry Bluestone, a report author and professor of political economy at Northeastern University, told WBUR’s Morning Edition on Monday. He pointed to waiting lists for the state’s existing vocational schools, and said Massachusetts has not built a new […]
Group pitches in at Big in Boston Northeastern University a cappella group Pitch, Please! entertained guests at the annual Big in Boston gala for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston. WBZ’s Lisa Hughes emceed the benefit at the Museum of Fine Arts. The night’s honoree was Paul Guzzi, former president of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
International Business Times Flu season 2015: New model tracks virus more accurately than Google Flu Trends ARGO, however, reportedly accounts for changes in Google’s search engine and shifts in search behavior. The new model also combines Google data with historical records from the CDC and information on seasonality of the flu. The team of researchers is reportedly working to make ARGO widely available. David Lazer, an expert in computational social science […]
Job training system in Mass. falls short, study says The report, which examined US Census data, Labor Department employment projections, and enrollments at the state’s vocational schools, was commissioned by the Massachusetts School Building Authority, a quasi-public agency that finances school construction. The authority sought the study because it has been inundated with funding requests from vocational schools seeking to expand, said Barry Bluestone, […]