Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Donna Brazile, former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and interfaith leader Eboo Patel will speak at Tufts University this semester as part of Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life’s Distinguished Speaker Series. According to the Tisch College website, ...
"I remember watching a movie called 'Latter Days' and the film is so sad and what made me sadder was that I couldn’t relate to some of the characters," he said. "I was a Latino kid from a Central American immigrant family and I remember just crying and not understanding what I was going through."
Representatives from Tufts and negotiators from UNITE HERE Local 26, the union that represents Tufts dining workers, met yesterday morning at 200 Boston Ave. for the 11th time since talks began in August. After four hours of discussion, an agreement on key issues such as wages and temporary contracts ...
"I look forward to working with all constituencies to take the university to new heights so it can reach its highest aspirations," Aubry said. "That includes, of course, education … but I also like very much the fact that Tufts teaches active citizenship, and I hope to further this work … for the students to become not only successful, but also caring citizens in the society we live in. [To] not only do well, but do good."
E-cigarette and menthol products will no longer be sold in Somerville stores open to people too young to buy such products legally, starting at the beginning of April. A new city policy will only allow licensed 21-and-over tobacco stores to sell those products, though traditional non-menthol cigarettes ...
Julián Cancino announced in a Jan. 16 Tufts Daily op-ed that he will no longer be serving as the director of the Latino Center. Cancino had held that role since the fall of 2017.According to his op-ed, Cancino first came to Tufts in 2015 when he was invited to speak about educational equity among ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held its first meeting of 2019 on Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to hear two funding requests and updates from the Executive Board. The Senate then convened in a closed session to discuss a proposed bylaw amendment regarding the hearing of ...
Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College (TUPIT) has partnered with Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) to give men who are incarcerated at MCI-Concord the opportunity to earn an associate’s degree. TUPIT is a program of the Tisch College of Civic Life.
After the meeting, Kay told the Daily she felt it was crucial to galvanize student support as the negotiations head into their second semester and that student activism would influence the administration.
Nathan Foster (LA ‘18) ended his campaign for an alumni trustee seat on the Tufts University Board of Trustees on Dec. 18, after not being selected for the ballot by the Nominating Committee of the Tufts University Alumni Council. “While I respect this decision, it just shows the need for real ...
According to Karen Richardson, dean of admissions and enrollment management, Tufts Admissions received a record 22,725 applications to the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering for the Class of 2023, an increase of 5.7 percent from the record-setting pool last year. Record numbers of applicants ...
The FIRST Resource Center, which supports first-generation, low-income and undocumented students at Tufts, is currently developing a video project to raise awareness of challenges for first-generation and low-income students in the classroom, according to Rob Mack, Tufts' associate provost and ...
Tufts is pursuing the widespread installation of solar panels across the Medford/Somerville campus that could, if fully implemented, bring Tufts toward its goal of being carbon-neutral by 2050.An array of solar panels was recently installed on the roof of Lewis Hall, Tufts Director of Engineering ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate held its final meeting this semester Sunday night in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to discuss a proposed bylaw amendment, hear addresses on the state of the TCU and vote on funding requests.The proposed bylaw, introduced by TCU Parliamentarian Sharif Hamidi, ...
The Somerville Board of Aldermen approved a resolution on Nov. 20 in support of Massachusetts House Bill 2785, which would expunge the criminal records of people charged with marijuana-related crimes.The bill states that any record of a court appearance or violation of marijuana regulations prior ...
The university reversed course on its requirement that students must register campus demonstrations of over 25 people with the Office for Campus Life (OCL), according to a Nov. 29 email to the Tufts community from Dean of Student Affairs Mary Pat McMahon, Director of Community Standards Kevin Kraft ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) announced changes to housing lottery system in a Nov. 28 email to students.Three significant changes were made in the housing application process, according to Associate Director of Housing Operations Matt Austin: The application process for special ...
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) has been developing two new master's programs: the Master of Arts in Diversity and Inclusion Leadership and the Master of Science in Data Analytics.According to Dean of the GSAS Robert Cook, both degrees emphasize an interdisciplinary approach, ...
The same technology that has introduced innovative methods in the fight against art destruction has also introduced new ethical dilemmas, one of America's preeminent art crime professors told Tufts community members at an event on Wednesday night.Erin Thompson, associate professor of art crime ...
On the morning of Nov. 17, Medford City Solicitor Mark Rumley, acting at the behest of Medford Mayor Stephanie Burke, requested that Skinner Auctioneers and Appraisers remove seven Native American artifacts owned by the Medford Public Library (MPL) from a Dec. 1 auction, according to Rumley.The seven ...
