NBC News Video game courses score big on college campuses So far, only four universities offer full-blown Ph.D. programs: University of California in Santa Cruz, Chicago’s DePaul University, Northeastern University in Boston, and Adelphi University in Garden City.
Intel will close Mass. plant, cut 700 jobs High-tech manufacturing accounts for nearly one in every three factory jobs in Massachusetts, and many of those pay high wages — $80,000 a year or more, according to a recent Northeastern University report on the sector. And the Intel jobs would be at the higher end of the industry scale. “In terms of these people […]
Forbes Money Matters (But Not As Much As You Think It Does) So when you’re out looking for a job, the dollar value of your time is a serious issue. But once you shake your new boss’s hand and are led to your workstation, what motivates you to do your bestwork? Whether you admit it or not, money is probably not at the top of the list. “I […]
Violent Hazing In High School Sports Hazing is nothing new, but two recent local hazing incidents raise some interesting questions. In one incident, 3 Somerville high school students are charged in the brutal sexual assault of a High School freshman during a summer camp for the junior varsity soccer team. In the other, police are investigating a hazing incident in Chelmsford, N.H. involving […]
The Hidden World of the Typewriter I met Soboroff in Boston, where a curated selection of his typewriters is being displayed at Northeastern University. The collection routinely tours, and people can type on their favorite luminary’s machine for a fee that goes towards a fund for journalism scholarships. I brought my camera; the images included here were shot, in keeping with the analog […]
The NSA sponsors ‘cyber operations’ training at universities. Here’s what students learn. The NSA has run this “cyber operations” program since 2012, working with Northeastern University, Dakota State, the University of Tulsa and the Naval Postgraduate School to design curricula that match the agency’s intelligence and infrastructure needs. (CMU, the Air Force Institute of Technology, Auburn and Mississippi State joined last week.) The purpose, says Carnegie Mellon’s […]
U.S. News & World Report U.S. News & World Report: Take 3 Steps to Build In-Demand Job Skills at College Meanwhile, interest in co-op education has jumped since the job market slumped; co-op powerhouse Northeastern University, for example, received 47,359 applications for 2,800 freshmen seats this fall, 74 percent more than in 2006. “Northeastern’s emphasis on experiential learning and the co-op was the big draw,” says Taylor Hogan, who left in July for his first six-month […]
College rankings reflect change in emphasis Among private national universities, Boston University and Northeastern University in Boston each moved into the top 50. Boston University jumped from 51st to 41st, and Northeastern improved from 56th to 49th. Wake Forest University rose four spots from 27th to 23rd.
U.S. News & World Report Discover 11 Hot College Majors That Lead to Jobs 5. Cybersecurity: Large companies and governments are moving aggressively to protect their computer systems. Between 2014 and 2016, the Pentagon plans to add more than 4,000 experts at its Cyber Command. Specialists in cybersecurity can also expect to find openings in health care, energy and at security services firms. The National Security Agency is identifying centers […]
Boston.com First Round Capital’s Dorm Room Fund expands to Boston, with initial investments this fall For entrepreneurial students, there’s a new source of capital on campus this fall: theDorm Room Fund is coming to Boston. The fund, backed by Philadelphia-basedFirst Round Capital, will have $500,000 to invest in student startups over the next two years. And a student investment team will be giving deals the green light. “Students will have a […]
U.S. News college rankings: The big gainers and big decliners over three years Here is The Post’s review of major movement on the U.S. News national universities list since the 2010-11 edition, released three years ago. The analysis encompasses schools that were on the top 200 lists this year and three years ago. (Yes, we know there is a national liberal arts list too. We’ll try to look at that […]
Harlem On Their Minds: Life In America’s Black Capital With her story Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, historian Carla Kaplan, who teaches at Northeastern University, introduces readers more fully to those women. (“Miss Anne” is a generic term within the black community for white women, especially those who rely on the privilege of their race. Kaplan’s use of it […]