Joseph E. Aoun, a leader in higher education policy and a renowned scholar in linguistics, is the seventh President of Northeastern University.
President Aoun has strategically aligned the University’s research enterprise with three global imperatives—health, security, and sustainability. Northeastern’s faculty focus on interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and transforming academic research into commercial solutions for the world’s most pressing problems. During President Aoun’s tenure, the University has realized a 189 percent growth in external research funding, along with approximately 1,500 patent applications filed by faculty and students.
Politicians and pundits often mention issues like affordable housing and transportation when they're talking about what ails the Bay State. But there is another crisis, once at the center of public debate but now largely forgotten: school segregation. And it has gotten worse, not better, in recent decades - radiating out of Boston to other corners of the state. In this session, Globe Ideas writer David Scharfenberg moderates a conversation about what it would take to integrate the state's public schools - and whether we should even try. He’ll be joined by community leaders and a former student at the heart of the debate.
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