Empower : The Campaign for Northeastern University
Northeastern University recently revealed the final total of its historic Empower campaign:
$1.4 billion raised, for students, faculty, and research. President Aoun fêted Empower’s success at an event with donors on October 26 in the Cabot Center. Attendees engaged with interactive exhibits highlighting faculty and student research, including, on a giant 180-degree screen, videos that featured Northeastern’s history, its bright future, and the impact of Empower.
Northeastern’s Marketing and Communications Department worked closely with staff from the Archives and Special Collections department to find photographs, documents, maps, stored in the Archives to illustrate the deep and rich history of the University, starting with its beginnings in 1898 as the Evening Institute for Young Men. Archival items used in the video include photographs of early sports teams and
King Husky I, the dog who was the first Northeastern mascot, and
selections from the Cauldron yearbook. The video traces the history of Northeastern’s programs, including
the nation’s first-ever Automobile School and
cooperative education, and the development of campus from the YMCA and
the site of the first World Series to the
construction of Richards Hall and beyond. In all, over 100 archival items were included in this testament to Northeastern’s growth and development.