Teenage inventors shine with lighted tacklebox For Adam Gibbs and Nick Bongi, the idea was born out of their shared passion for fishing. Since they were children, the two 18-year-old friends have taken an annual trip to the Gibbs family’s vacation home on Sanibel Island in Florida. “We were fishing down there one night, and we were on a dock,” Gibbs […]
Feminist ire in all the wrong places Indeed, feminism, in both its theoretical and its practical applications, is well known for vicious infighting. As early as 1976, the pioneer activist Jo Freeman wrote about this phenomenon in an incendiary article in Ms. Magazine calling out “trashing” or, as she put it, the “dark side of sisterhood.” And when Ti-Grace Atkinson resigned from […]
Rate my professors data shows students’ gender bias against professors A history professor at Northeastern University has created a new interactive graph that reveals various truths about how college students’ view female professors more negatively compared to their male counterparts. The graph compiles data from 14 million Rate My Professors reviews so the user can see which words students used to describe either male or female professors. […]
Yahoo! How gender bias survives at today’s colleges Need proof that gender bias has survived and been passed along to the millennial generation? Take a few minutes to play around with a new online tool created by someone who spends plenty of time with young adults—a professor at Northeastern University. Ben Schimdt, an assistant professor of history, invented Gendered Language in Teacher Reviews, an […]
Capital campaigns grow in frequency and duration Northeastern University built in such a regrouping period before launching its current $1 billion capital campaign in 2008. It did that, according to Joseph Donnelly, the school’s vice president for advancement, following complaints by donors after its previous campaign, which ended in 2005 and raised $200 million. “One of the things we heard at the […]
WGBH David Carr, RIP: Watch Emily Rooney’s interview, read Dan Kennedy’s appreciation This morning I woke up to the awful news that New York Times media columnist David Carr has died at the age of 58. Carr’s Monday column, “The Media Equation,” was a ritual — all of us who watch the media for a living would check out what Carr had to say, often on Sunday […]
International Business Times Obama Jewish support: President criticized for ISIS, Israel, Iran comments despite popularity among many American Jews “Despite the fact that [Obama] has overwhelming support from the vast majority of American Jews, there has been this minority, this core group of American Jews who are politically conservative and vote Republican who have been very critical, both of his stance toward Israel and believing that he is somehow, if not at least hostile […]
Northeastern students dig in, shovel neighborhood spaces As Mayor Martin J. Walsh looked for help from the National Guard and equipment from out-of-state to remove the snow on the ground, students from Northeastern University decided to pitch in the old-fashioned way: with shovels. University officials announced Thursday that they special ordered 200 shovels after hearing from students who wanted to help clear […]
5 colleges to consider if you want to work in criminal justice Boston’s Northeastern University offers one of the most comprehensive educations in criminal justice out there. Ranked 12th in the country for its graduate program in criminology by U.S. News & World Report, Northeastern offers bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. programs in criminal justice. The programs go beyond the intellectual to the practical, as students work alongside […]
The words female professors hardly ever hear from student reviews It’s no secret that women face double standards in the workplace, and that this is reflected in the words others use to describe them. Women are abrasive (a word mennever see in their performance reviews). Men are assertive. Women are bossy. Men take charge. But ingrained stereotypes start way before enter the job market. This […]
BetaBoston Northeastern professor’s work shows gendered language in teacher reviews Would you say that a female college professor is more likely to be annoying, bossy, or unfair? Or that a male professor has a better chance of being wise, intelligent, or awesome? An interactive chart gaining attention on social media this week suggests just that. By using 14 million teacher reviews from RateMyProfessors.com, Northeastern history […]
Telecommuting won’t fix snow woes When I called Barry Bluestone on Tuesday (to interview him for a different column), he was at home getting work done — responding to e-mails and so on. That’s what you’d expect from a Northeastern University economist who’s written extensively on issues affecting the local labor market. Nevertheless, Bluestone argued that telecommuting has been oversold […]