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.
The Globe’s Great Divide team hosts a panel discussion featuring diverse perspectives on what a safe school reopening could, and should, look like. We’ll consider “safety” broadly -- considering the health, emotional, and educational well-being of students, families and school staff. Panelists include David Venter, the father of a child with special needs at Boston’s Green Academy; Newton schools superintendent David Fleishman; Jose Valenzuela, a teacher at Boston Latin Academy; and Sarah Dryden-Peterson, who researches education in times of disruption and uncertainty at Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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