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.
Massachusetts families have never faced tougher choices about how best to educate their children than this school year. School officials and policymakers, too, must balance competing--at times conflicting--needs and priorities when the stakes are higher than ever.
How should policymakers weigh the public health risks of potential COVID spread in schools with lost educational time and services, particularly when considering inequities in needs and access to learning opportunities? Whose needs--and voices--should be given priority in an increasingly clamoring, and complex, debate over safe school reopening? What does it mean to be "all in this together"? And, how can we best pursue our own interests and safety while keeping the common good in mind?
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