This is from a former Northeast University Alum who is currently a graduate student at the Boston area’s Northeastern University. I have been an EUN alumnus for 14 years now. I have taken classes with many wonderful people, I have a large network of contacts in the field, and I feel very comfortable being myself. I hope you enjoy reading about my past adventures as a student, research assistant, and faculty member.
For those of you who don’t know, Northeast University is located in the Northeastern region of Massachusetts. As an alumni, you may recall that it was one of the first two Northeastern Universities to have a medical school, which is where we met a fellow student. We became lifelong friends and it was an unusual pairing. We started working and spending time together the day a new Northeastern building was being built.
During the construction of this new building, I went to give a talk to the freshmen as part of the orientation process. We were given a microphone and told to talk as if we were in the middle of a lecture. I was up near the top of my class, so I said, “Sorry, I’m going to have to talk to you just a little bit differently, I’m going to make sure you understand this and then you can stop being such a butt.
While I was giving my talk, I was told that if I gave a lecture like that again, I could be kicked out of college. I was told this because on an average day, Northeastern was having a student body of over 2,000, so it would take a lot of power and pressure to kick someone out of college. I knew that I was doing a good thing, and I was just very glad that my class had a microphone.
Northeastern University is an elite institution which has a student body of over 2,000. It’s also a public Ivy League school, so it’s not like we’re in a private school. But what makes this even harder is that Northeastern is also a public university. This is a very rare thing in today’s American system of education where public universities get to make a profit off of their students without having to worry about how taxpayers are paying for it.
In order to make money, universities often rely on students to pay for their own books and supplies. But Northeastern is in the process of raising tuition to $6,000 per year and is also considering a cut in student fees. This move has already helped the university expand its reach into the northeastern United States in terms of funding academic programs.
Northeastern is also exploring the idea of charging students to watch lectures from professors in their respective departments. This seems like a great idea, as it would increase the amount of learning that students receive from professors. However, as it currently stands, Northeastern’s faculty members are paid with public funds, so this new idea may not be able to cover all of the costs.
According to the Northeast Higher Education Partnership, Northeastern will receive a $50 million grant to expand some of its academic programs and add new ones. In addition, they will have to increase their endowment from $25 million to $50 million, but they will also have to add ten new faculty positions. They will also have to increase the number of new students that they take to Northeastern by 30 percent.
While this sounds great in the short term, it isn’t anything like the real thing. Northeastern University is a private institution. While they do have a lot of money, they don’t have that sort of monied status like private universities sometimes. It would be nice to see them get a little more than they’ve gotten recently.