Monday, December 2 | Online Event
Meet the Dean: Northeastern in Vancouver
Join us on Zoom on Monday, December 2, at 7 a.m. PST to meet Steve Eccles, regional dean of Northeastern University in Vancouver.
During this conversation, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Hear firsthand about the current and future plans for the Vancouver campus.
- Learn how our campus supports student and faculty research, industry partnerships, and student career development.
- Ask any questions about our campus or life in Vancouver.
About Dean Steve Eccles
Steve Eccles is the regional CEO and dean of Northeastern University’s campus in Vancouver, British Columbia. He brings a unique background to his role at Northeastern, combining corporate C-suite executive experience with postsecondary education innovation and leadership. With a shared values-based approach to building teams and supporting student success, he focuses on education and workforce development strategies that secure positive economic and social outcomes for British Columbia.
Prior to joining Northeastern, Dean Eccles was the dean of the School of Computing at British Columbia Institute of Technology. He’s also previously led the Centre for CEO Leadership at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Additionally, he has over a decade of experience in the financial sector including his role as VP of Investments at HSBC Global Asset Management.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 300,000-plus alumni, and more than 4,500 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.