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- […]

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 […]

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,” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Northeastern University, in conjunction with Marketplace, surveyed American teens between the ages of 16 to 19 to create a “Portrait of Generation Z.”