Tufts admitted 530 students from the first round of its Early Decision (ED) Program into the Class of 2019 on Dec. 15 after receiving a record-breaking number of ED applications this fall.According to Director of Admissions Lee Coffin, this year's first ED round saw a six percent growth in applications ...
Dozens of Tufts students walked in the 4 Mile March through downtown Boston yesterday in continued protest of police violence and racial profiling against black Americans.The group met at the Mayer Campus Center and traveled together to the Old State House, the site of the 1770 Boston Massacre, ...
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy announced the selection of Nadim Shehadi as the new director of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies last month.Shehadi previously served as the director of Lebanese studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and worked for theEuropean Unionwriting ...
Tufts students gathered at the Mayer Campus Center's lower patio on Wednesday to speak out against transphobia, conversion therapy, gay/trans panic defense and institutionalized hatred.The rally, titled "Enough is Enough: Rally for Trans Rights," was sparked by the suicide of transgender ...
This winter, Somerville's Board of Aldermen voted to crack down on residents and landlords who do not clear their sidewalks after a snowstorm.According to Somerville Alderman at Large Jack Connolly, the city has created a new ordinance that amends its original snow removal policy. Previously, ...
After 16 years serving as Tufts' Director of Athletics, William Gehling (LA '74, G '79) will officially step down from his current position on July 1 to assume the new role of senior advisor to University Advancement. According to Gehling, the search for a new director is currently underway.In ...
With the recent installation of parking meters along Boston and College Avenues, university staff and students will likely have more difficulty finding free parking on the Medford/Somerville campus.According to the City of Medford website, workers have installed parking meters and kiosks in the Medford ...
After a semester of gathering signatures and garnering support, full-time, non-tenured Tufts faculty members will vote on Jan. 28 and 29 to determine whether they will unionize.The vote, which will be held on campus, is a result of the preliminary efforts made by a group of non-tenured faculty who ...
Tufts students led a march that shut down major thoroughfares throughout Somerville and Cambridge on Friday evening as a part of the national #IndictAmerica movement.Reacting to the recent non-indictments of white police officers in the killings of black victims Michael Brown and Eric Garner, over ...
University administrators and Somerville city aldermen collaborated to revise the city's proposed University Accountability Ordinance during the Dec. 3 meeting of the Board of Aldermen's Legislative Matters Committee.The proposed ordinance, which was initially introduced during the board's ...
On Friday, Dec. 5, several full-time, non-tenured Tufts lecturers went to the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston to file for an election that would create a union for full-time lecturers after reaching the required threshold of 30 percent of full-time faculty showing interest in a union, according to a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) spokesperson.
In its final meeting of the fall semester,the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held elections for an open position within the TCU Allocations Board, voted on an amendment to a bylaw on outreach and listened to updates from various chairs.Allison Aaronson, the senate's diversity and community ...
Tufts Mock Trial (TMT) hosted its annual Mumbo Jumbo Invitational Tournament, a two-day on-campus event that hosts mock trial teams from all over the country, from Nov. 15 to Nov. 16. This year, the tournament consisted of 22 teams, including Harvard University, the University of New Mexico and ...
Over 100 students came together on Wednesday night for an open group meeting called “#BlackLivesMatter / Tufts Community Town Hall Meeting: Mobilizing for #IndictAmerica & Ferguson Aftermath," in Alumnae Lounge.The meeting was part of a series of actions this week, organized by a group of ...
JumboDreams, a philanthropic group created by the fall 2014 Experimental College class "EXP 46: Philanthropy, Nonprofits, and Community," raised over $1,250 from its Basic Needs Drive which took place from Nov. 10 to Nov. 21 during November's National Homeless Youth Awareness Month. Funds ...
The Crafts Center received a grant of $6,718.20 from the Tufts Community Union (TCU)Senate on Nov. 9 to overhaul its supplies for the remainder of the academic year. The managers of the center hope to use this grant to ensure the sustainable, long-term existence of the center at Tufts.Junior Charlie Wiebe, ...
Tufts Amnesty International will hold their annual Write for Rights event on Tuesday, Dec. 8, during which students will be able to sign or write letters for 10 different human rights cases.The event is part of Amnesty International’s 17-day letter writing campaign, which kicked off on Monday, and ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Judiciary recently amended its bylaws to include more stringent regulations on student group recognition, with the new process to take effect at the beginning of the spring semester.The Judiciary implemented the changes in light of a rapidly increasing number of ...
One year after its launch last fall, the Tufts Threat Assessment and Management (TTAM) program remains dedicated to supporting Tufts’ violence free university policy statement, which maintains that members of the Tufts community should be able to learn, work and live on campus without threat of violence or intimidation.
Boston Mayor Martin Walsh joined Tufts community members for a conversation on his personal history with public service, the importance of civic engagement, the continued unrest in Ferguson, Mo. and his vision for Boston yesterday morning in the Alumnae Lounge.Walsh, a Boston native, began his service ...
