Joseph Aoun

Joseph E. Aoun (born 1953)^[1] is the seventh president of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, where he took office on August 15, 2006. Prior to taking on the presidency at Northeastern, Aoun was Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California. He joined USC in 1982 in the Department of Linguistics, and during his time at USC served as head of the academic Senate.

Dr. Aoun was Inaugurated as the Seventh President of Northeastern on Monday, March 26, 2007.

Education

• PhD: Linguistics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981
• Diploma of Advanced Studies: General and Theoretical Linguistics, University of Paris VIII, 1977
• Masters: Oriental Languages and Literature, Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon, 1975

Honors

• Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America, 2011
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010^[1]
• Doctor of Humane Letters: Anatolia College, 2009
• Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa: Hebrew Union College, 2007
• Chevalier de L’ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight of the Order of the Academic Palms): French Government, 2006
• Endowed Chair, Anna H. Bing Dean's Chair in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Awards

• MIT Robert A. Muh Alumni Award in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, 2011
• USC Associates Award For Creativity In Research And Scholarship, 1997
• USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for The Syntax of Scope (with A. Li), 1993
• USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for A Grammar of Anaphora, 1988

References

External links

• President's site at Northeastern
• Northeastern University
• Boston Globe op-ed piece on urban engagement
• Chronicle of Higher Education audio interview
• Boston Globe article on Northeastern momentum
• Boston.com Q&A on international commencement speeches
• Boston Globe op-ed piece on diversification of the higher education model
• Inside Higher Ed piece on public university crisis
• Inside Higher Ed piece on protecting unpaid college internships
• Politico piece on expanding students' global experiences
• The Presidency (American Council on Education magazine) piece on university’s decision to discontinue its football program
• Boston Globe piece on the costs of cutting higher ed
• The Chronicle of Higher Education piece on lasting impact of place-based education
• CNN piece on the value of a college degree
• NECN Business TV interview
• Joseph Aoun On Northeastern University’s National Expansion, 90.9 WBUR Radio Boston 11.04.11
• Northeastern University looks southeast to Charlotte, The Charlotte Observer 11.01.11
• U. Opens the First in a Planned Series of Graduate Campuses Across the U.S., The Chronicle of Higher Education 11.01.11
• Northeastern putting down stakes across the country, The Boston Globe 10.31.11
• President Aoun and Entrepreneur Peter Thiel Debate the Value of College, 90.9 WBUR Radio Boston 06.30.11

See Also

• Generative linguistics
• Noam Chomsky
• David Pesetsky
• Hagit Borer
• Richard Kayne
• Howard Lasnik
• Linguistics
• Lebanon
• Arabic Language