@airway1 I too am reading this thread and not understanding why you feel the need to be so authoritative on a school you really have no connection to or experience with. Why do you feel it is your mission to warn students, perpetuate old data, improper investigative reporting, and biased opinions? Again, your responses are evidence of one of the greatest problems of CC - people getting up on their soap boxes and spouting off misinformation about universities they don’t have the faintest ideas about. Why? I hope people reading comments such as yours are intelligent enough to realize when someone is definitely not an authority on the subject.
Colleges and universities are ultimately businesses who look for ways to improve the bottom line and to think they are acting any differently is naive. You better believe schools will make changes to insure survival into the next century. NEU has chosen a very specific way to adapt (criticized by many, except most of the kids who participate in NUin) and found a way to make this model work for them. It is ridiculous for people to condemn schools for finding ways to evolve. What’s the alternative to staying fixed in the status quo? For many schools, failure to evolve will mean closure in the next century.
If CC readers want to know anything truthful or realistic about NEU, please read @PengsPhils or @TomSrOfBoston comments. Honestly, sometimes I feel commenters on CC need to provide evidence that they have first hand knowledge of a school before being allowed to post anything. I see so much misinformation on these forums from individuals who join conversations simply to regurgitate hearsay and third hand information. Some people should do everyone a favor and keep disingenuous and inflammatory comments to themselves.