Education: Northeastern’s painting the streetcars red for launch
Puget Sound Business Journal, August 3, 2012
With a new Seattle-based Northeastern University campus just weeks away from its official leases, new hires and a splashy new marketing plan, Tayloe Washburn enjoys watching the project rapidly take shape.
“I’m having a great time every day,” said Washburn, a prominent Seattle attorney and civic leader who recently took the helm of the region’s newest graduate-level university.
Northeastern plans to offer graduate classes in Seattle early next year in engineering, energy systems, computer science and other fields — with a goal of training the talent that the region’s technology and science industries crave.