Joseph Aoun
Joseph E. Aoun (born 1953) 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 and makes $3,121,864 in salary and benefits a year, enough to make him the second highest paid university president in the nation.
He is married to Zeina and has 2 sons, Adrian Marwane and Joseph Karim.
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 American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013