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Longtime dean Ella Robertson retired in February from her position as associate dean of special support services.

Robertson, who is also president of the university’s Black Alumni Association, started at Northeastern as a keypunch operator in the financial aid office. Two years later, she enrolled in the business college. Attending school and working part-time, she graduated in 1977 and became assistant financial aid director. Over the next three decades, she rose through the ranks of student affairs offices. Today, she calls her thirty-seven years at Northeastern “an awesome ride.”

Boston mayor Thomas Menino has tapped law professor David Hall for a new civilian review panel that will independently review allegations of serious police misconduct that are dismissed by the police department’s internal affairs division (the panel will also review lesser allegations, if a citizen appeals an internal affairs decision). In addition, the board will advise the police about the disposition of cases and the punishment of officers. The panel was formed after a city-requested study by Northeastern's Institute on Race and Justice recommended a new complaint procedure.

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