Boston Magazine Northeastern University survey: ‘Generation Z’ thinks the U.S. is on the ‘wrong track’ The next generation of students getting ready to step into the world of higher education isn’t too worried about climate change, claims they always break up with a significant other in person—not via smartphone texts—and gets their news from online sources like the New York Times, rather than sites like Buzzfeed, according to the results […]
Diverse Poll: Generation Z teens describe themselves entrepreneurial, self-directed While placing a high value on higher education, the generation of young Americans now in their late teens can also be described as highly entrepreneurial and self-directed, a new national poll has found. On Tuesday, Northeastern University officials unveiled wide-ranging survey results detailing the life aspirations and social views held by Generation Z, or 16- […]
Boot camp gives students individualized attention for college essays This past, cold Saturday morning, about 100 Boston high school students trekked to Northeastern University to spend the day work-shopping their college essays as application deadlines approach for seniors. The College Essay Boot Camp — a day organized by 826 Boston, a nonprofit organization focusing on students’ writing skills, and Northeastern — provides the unique […]
CommonWealth Magazine Panel: End mandatory minimum drug sentences The Special Commission to Study the Commonwealth’s Criminal Justice System on Tuesday began debating legislative recommendations members plan to make to strengthen post-release supervision, improve prisoner reentry outcomes and reduce recidivism, and address overcrowding in the state’s jails and prisons. “Drug offenses are a huge reason we have so much overcrowding in the prison system,” […]
A soothsayer for the digital age Of course, prediction is a proven hazard. Just ask the weatherman, or seismologists or, for that matter, economic forecasters, whose reams of data and supercomputers don’t seem to help much. And then, data-based prediction has a serious limitations: It’s only as good as the data. “An algorithm will never be able to make predictions about […]
Will Generation Z disconnect? Today’s hot tech companies may soon be in for some nasty surprises. Teenagers are pushing back against the technology dependence that previous generations have developed — in fact, against anything the corporate world pushes at them. That’s one of the surprising findings in a survey just released by Northeastern University. Attempts to quantify Generation Z — those born after 1995 — are becoming […]
Politico Morning Education FINANCIAL ANXIETIES PLAGUE GEN Z: A new survey out of Northeastern University suggests the large majority of 16- to 19-year-olds believe a college degree is important, but they worry about being able to afford it. A quarter of “Generation Z” students surveyed said they don’t think any loan debt is manageable, and 44 percent said […]
Survey finds Generation Z to be motivated lot A new survey by Northeastern University found that a majority of Generation Z — those between the ages of 16 and 19 — is very self-motivated and seeks to craft its own future through higher education. The survey of young people throughout the country is the fourth in a series by the university, which focuses […]
Debt-averse teens Students born in the mid-1990s or later are overwhelmingly in favor of going to college, but they’re not too keen on taking out loans to pay for it, a new poll found. More than 80 percent of the survey’s participants – whom the researchers refer to as “Generation Z” – said that obtaining a college […]
CBS Boston Local researchers forecast spread of Ebola Don’t be surprised if there are a few more Ebola cases in the United States in the next couple months. That’s according to a Northeastern University researcher who’s created a forecasting map to predict the spread of the deadly disease. He warns it’s not an exact science, and says a vaccine could change everything. “We have […]
International Business Times Peter Kassig beheading: Academics ‘prove’ executions do not help terror groups achieve aims As the world reels from the brutal execution of aid worker Peter Kassig by knife-wielding Isis (Islamic State) militants, academics claim they have uncovered proof that executing hostages does not help terror groups achieve their aims. Max Abrahms of Northeastern University and Matthew S Gottfried of UCLA argue that an analysis of thousands of hostage […]
Marketplace Meet Generation Z Gen Z, or the iGeneration as some have called it, refers to those born since roughly 1995. These are kids who have never known a world without the Internet and smartphones. And they’re just starting to hit college. Marketplace teamed up with Northeastern University to survey the latest crop of college-bound teenagers, aged 16 to […]