The Huntington News Q&A: PRESIDENT AOUN DISCUSSES GLOBAL STUDENT EXPERIENCE, NEW MIAMI CAMPUS

By Rachel Erwin and Marta Hill

Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun spoke with The News in a conversation Dec. 14 about the university’s global expansion and experiential learning programs, after the announcement of the new Miami campus.

Below is a transcript of the full

The Huntington News: We want to start with the recent news of the Miami expansion. What can we expect from that new campus, why Miami and what are you looking forward to?

President Aoun: By definition, whatever we do has to be experiential, and what is experiential? It is learning in different contexts. And that’s what we do. And so, from

Seattle, you can be in San Francisco, you can be at Mills, you can be in Charlotte and in Vancouver and in London, and now Portland, and now Miami. So this will provide our learners — our students — opportunities to have co-ops in different contexts and also will provide opportunities for learning. For instance, we have now a semester of entrepreneur- granted the full fledged title of university in London, which means that we can also provide our students with opportunities to have dual degrees.

If you look at it from the point of view of the undergraduate students, moving forward you have the opportunity to spend time in one of our campuses and study there, especially on the West Coast

Because we all are going to become obsolete one day, one way or another, because there are new fields, new domains, new discoveries and we want to be able to reach learners and help them wherever they are. We are not going to ask them all to come to one campus.

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