Want a college experience that matters? Get to work Colleges need to get more comfortable with integrating students into the working world, Mr. Gardner says. Otherwise, when they make the transition to the job market, “they just won’t have the experience, and they will wander in the wasteland for a couple of years until they put stuff together. That is cruel.” Of course, some […]
InformationWeek Chief Data Officer: Do you need one? The role of Chief Data Officer is relatively new in the corporate world. In fact, nearly two-thirds of CDO positions have been created within just the past three years, according to research by Yang Lee, a professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business and co-director of MIT’s Chief Data Officer Research Program; and Randy […]
From different sides of Tremont Street, two people forge a tie Charles J. “C.J.” Nessralla IV was a 24-year-old Northeastern graduate bound for medical school. He roomed on one side of Tremont Street — the Northeastern side — in the South End. Manny “Alex” Peguero was a 15-year-old immigrant growing up without his parents on the other side of Tremont — the more dangerous side — […]
How work culture changes a man’s idea of fatherhood The study’s authors, Beth Humberd of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Jamie Ladge at Northeastern University and Brad Harrington of the Boston College Center for Work and Family interviewed 31 working fathers with working spouses for their results. They recommend that employers acknowledge that fatherhood is a more time and attention consuming task than it […]
Learning to adapt The term “adaptive learning” can mean many things, even to colleges that have begun experimenting with it. A broad definition is the use of software — often driven by data collection — to create a more individualized learning experience for students. Experts say adaptive learning has promise in tailoring coursework and supports to students, which […]
If a teenager lands a summer job, the value is lasting Failing to find work doesn’t just mean a shortage of cash in the near term. A study released in March by the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program said finding a job when you’re older is harder if you haven’t worked during your teenage years. In addition, “research shows those who work in high school have […]
My World Cup runneth over I have tried to fall in love with the beautiful game. In fact, when I taught a semester in the UK during a sabbatical, I even purchased shares in the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, and I proudly wear its colors. The problem is that for me — and apparently no one else in the world […]
Northeastern has a whiteboard truck driving around Boston looking for good tech ideas Got a good idea? Why not write it on a white board mounted on a truck? Northeastern University is launching a new master’s degree in innovation and is celebrating with a “whiteboard innovation challenge,” meant to identify innovators who might be good candidates for the degree. The online contest includes an interactive mobile white board […]
Northeastern wants you to write how you use technology on the side of a truck Northeastern University wants your answer to the question: “How would you use technology to solve a problem you face every day?” And they want you to scribe that answer on the side of a truck. On Thursday, the university’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business will be announcing its Whiteboard Innovation Challenge at BostInno’s State of Innovation […]
Deadly attacks prompt new training The Oregon high school incident occurred five days after a shooting at Seattle Pacific University in Washington left one student dead, and slightly more than two weeks after a May 23 killing spree near the University of California, Santa Barbara, claimed seven lives, including the perpetrator. A study by Mr. Nichols and others published by […]
Live feed from Fabien Cousteau’s Mission 31 slated for Tuesday The live feed to Nahant from Fabien Cousteau’s Mission 31 is scheduled for next Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the Northeastern University Marine Science Center on Nahant Road as part of the Summer Cinema by the Sea series. Previous announcements had it scheduled on a different day. A number of faculty and students from the […]
Toronto Star When young men go from angry to a parent’s nightmare Yet it’s striking that these alienated and hostile young men had parents who knew something was terribly wrong. So why couldn’t they stop the carnage? Experts say that is a very complex question. In the first place, their sons were adults with agency — they could do what they wanted, and couldn’t be taken into […]