ABC News Analysis: The Diversity Lottery — Do We Need It? In a country where 11 million people live without papers, cutting 50,000 more visas without improving legal immigration flows will do nothing to fix the greater system, according to Rachel Rosenbloom, an associate professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law. “We have millions of people in this country who have been here for […]
U.S. News Survey Shows Younger Americans More Accepting of Online Education According to a new national survey for Northeastern University by FTI Consulting, a vast majority of Americans believe a college degree is important to achieving the American Dream, gaining crucial intellectual benefits and finding a good job. Still, 83% of respondents said the U.S. higher education system must change if it wants to remain globally […]
Enterprise News Experts say fires set by local arsonist probably linked with sadism, love and revenge Sadism, revenge, hate, boredom, greed. These can all be motives for the crime of arson, experts say. A string of recent fires in Easton, Middleboro, Hanson and Plympton have been declared intentionally set or deemed suspicious, although authorities have not said whether the fires are connected. The string of blazes is still under investigation, officials […]
Program teaches working poor ways to save, build credit The Compass Financial Stability and Savings Program combines federal aid and education to help people earn more, save more, build assets, and better their lives.
Millennials Support Online Education, Concerned About College Costs: Poll Millennials are concerned about the high cost of college, and that worry is leading them to be more supportive online education, a new poll from Northeastern University finds.
New York City logs murder-free Monday, police say The big news in the Big Apple this week may be what didn’t happen. There was not a single reported slaying, stabbing, shooting or knifing in any of the five boroughs on Monday, according to the New York Police Department. “It is unusual in a city of 8 million people, but we never read that […]
Minnesota Daily Americans say universities must change their course, poll shows Americans believe that without innovation, higher education could lose its edge in the future, a national poll released Tuesday showed. FTI Consulting administered the survey for Northeastern University in October, according to the Northeastern news service. Survey results were revealed to government leaders, academics, and members of the private sector at a forum in Washington, […]
Americans Support Higher Ed and Online Degrees, Poll Finds A large majority of Americans who have attended college believe higher education is a good investment (83 percent) and key to achieving the American dream, according to the results of a national opinion poll Northeastern University released on Tuesday.
WNYC Radio Wrongful Conviction AUDIO: Radio producer Helen Borten and Daniel Medwed, law professor at Northeastern University and author of Prosecution Compex: America’s Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent, discuss a wrongful conviction murder case that raises hot-button issues: domestic terrorism, racial prejudice—and the techniques of prosecutors that have led to a shocking number of wrongful […]
Survey finds 4 in 10 Americans believe college is a good value Americans believe that higher education is imperative for a successful future, but they believe that the US higher education system is providing poor value for the cost, a Northeastern University survey has found.
Americans Are Proud of U.S. Colleges but Not of Their Direction Amid recession-era challenges in higher education and concerns about the nation’s competitiveness, Americans are simultaneously proud of colleges in the United States and critical of the direction in which they’re heading, according to the results of a national opinion poll released on Monday by Northeastern University.
CommonHealth: Mass. A National Leader In Overdose Prevention AUDIO: In our weekly CommonHealth segment we discuss a new move to make a drug overdose antidote more available. Some say it will save lives, but others worry it will promote bad behavior. Co-authors of “Prevention of Fatal Opioid Overdose,” a viewpoint piece that recently appeared in the Journal of the Medical American Association, join […]