Resources

Race, Ethnicity, and Religion

The Institute on Race and Justice focuses its interdisciplinary projects on criminal justice and education that include community and practitioner components.
The Jewish Studies Program sponsors public lectures, faculty seminars, performances, and exhibitions.
Middle East Studies offers an interdisciplinary minor and co-sponsors events.
The Department of African American Studies offers a major, dual major, a minor, and elective courses based on an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Africa and the African diaspora.
The Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, oversees diversity and equity issues, sponsors programs and events about race relations and diversity.
The John D. O’Bryant African-American Institute provides cultural programs, resources, services, and activities for students of African origin.
The Asian American Center increases the visibility of the Asian American community on campus.
The Latino Student Cultural Center seeks to empower Latino/a future leaders.

Gender and Sexuality

The Women’s Studies Program organizes lectures and hosts visiting scholars in addition to offering an interdisciplinary minor.
The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Community works towards a more inclusive Northeastern community through advocacy, education, social action, and community development.
Housed by the School of Law, the Domestic Violence Institute is an education, service, and research organization dedicated to combating partner abuse.

The Arts and Media

The Cinema Studies Program connects disciplines in the humanities through film, offering courses and programs/events.
Northeastern Creates and Gallery 360 are Northeastern’s initiatives/venues for the visual arts.
The Creative Industries Initiative explores innovative uses of digital media, focusing on games for learning.
Artists in Context assemble artists and other creative thinkers across disciplines to conceptualize new ways of representing and acting upon the critical issues of our time.
Spectrum is a student-run literary arts magazine.
WRBB Radio is Northeastern’s student-run radio station.
The Northeastern University Voice is a newspaper published 15 times a year by the Division of Marketing and Communications.
The Huntington News is an independent student newspaper.
Covering a range of time periods, The New England Quarterly publishes on New England’s cultural, literary, political, and social history.
The Annals of Environmental Science provides free publication for research in the environmental sciences.

Social Justice and Public Policy

Scholars collaborate with policy makers, environmental advocates, students, community activists, the media, and the public at the Environmental Justice Research Collaborative.
The Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence facilitates collaborative research projects and hosts conferences related to inter-group conflict and violence.
A partnership between the New England First Amendment Coalition and Northeastern’s School of Journalism forms the New England First Amendment Center at Northeastern.
The Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy is a “think and do tank” with an emphasis on the Greater Boston region.
Through research, education, and advocacy, the Sport in Society Center promotes physical activity, health, violence prevention, and diversity amongst young athletes.The Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) is a legal research center focused on public health.
The Institute on Urban Health Research (IUHR) focuses its research on health issues that disproportionately impact urban communities.
The Center for Criminal Justice Policy Research provides criminal justice agencies with data analysis in order to influence policy.
The Center for Labor Market Studies (CLMS), housed within the Economics Department, conducts research on trends and problems with employment programs.
Civil Rights and Restorative Justice addresses harms resulting from the breakdown in law enforcement during the civil rights movement.
The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) combines scholarship with legal advocacy and activism through a collaboration with the Co-op Program.
Artists in Context assemble artists and other creative thinkers across disciplines to conceptualize new ways of representing and acting upon the critical issues of our time.

Community Involvement at Northeastern

Northeastern University Community Engagement is an initiative that puts Northeastern’s resources to work in its surrounding community.
The Community-Based Research Initiative (a.k.a. the CBRI Project) organizes a series of applied research projects that partner students and faculty with local civic, public affairs, and social service groups.
Through a summer program and an academic year tutoring program, Balfour Academy helps Boston middle and high school students prepare for college.
The Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project sends law students to local high schools to teach the U.S. Constitution using Supreme Court cases involving young people.
The Legacy 2000 Mentoring/Retention Program uses the time and skills of Black and Latino faculty, staff and students to enhance student retention.
The Center of Community Service supports Northeastern University’s long tradition of service to the community and commitment to civic engagement.
The Young Scholars Program offers future scientists and engineers a unique opportunity for hands-on experience while still in high school.
The Stony Brook Initiative is a new university approach to partnering with the community on issues of youth and community development.

Library Collections

The Boston History Collection allows users to browse archives by subject.
Documenting Diversity contains the most important and at-risk historical records of Boston's African American, Chinese, gay and lesbian, and Latino communities.

Other Collections of particular interest include:

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