After more than a decade of service to the university, Northeastern athletic director Peter Roby announced his intention to retire in June 2018. “Being associated with Northeastern University for the past 15 years has been one of the greatest honors of my professional career,” Roby said in a statement.

The goal of Boston Uncornered is to engage with 900 former gang members, convicted felons, and high school dropouts, and to eventually enroll 250 in college over three years. The program pays participants $400 a week, to focus on school, tutoring, and work-based learning as an alternative to making money on the streets, officials say. […]

Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University and the editor of Signs, an interdisciplinary feminist journal, called the call for retraction “an attack on scholarly peer review.” Ms. Tuvel’s critics had attacked her citations and conclusions, Ms. Walters said, without engaging her reasoning. “Could Tuvel have cited different people, or made different […]

New Orleans’ removal of four of its prominent sculptures marks a significant moment in the South’s history, a determination to challenge longstanding white supremacist symbols, said Martin Blatt, director of public history at Northeastern University and a former president of the National Council on Public History. “All this debate and the controversy points to a […]

However, only Congress has a clear path to Donald Trump’s removal and, therefore, the calculus for the Republican majorities in the House and Senate will be whether they stand to lose more by forcing Trump out, and enjoying a President Pence, or by sticking with him and his penchant for malfeasance. It is now clear […]

We should not weaken the school lunch standards further, says Jessica Hoffman, associate professor at the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University. Instead, we should truly make school lunches great by providing schools with the resources they need to offer the healthiest, best tasting foods possible. Investing in the health and development of […]