Kamran Rastegar, professor of Arabic and comparative literature in the Department of International Literary and Visual Studies (ILVS), is the new director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) after serving as interim director last semester. The former director, Lisa Lowe, was on leave last ...
More than a year following the release of the findings of a months-long investigation into Greek life on campus and the subsequent reforms to build a more inclusive Greek community, members of Tufts fraternities and sororities have mixed opinions on the effectiveness of the new rules.Nikolas Camp, ...
Executive Vice President Patricia Campbell and other faculty and administrators led a community update in Alumnae Hall on Wednesday morning to discuss the academic building planned for the corner of Boston Avenue and College Avenue between Halligan Hall and the new Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ...
Throughout the day on Monday, hundreds of students delivered letters to University President Anthony Monaco expressing their support for dining workers in their contract negotiations with the university.This student action, organized by Tufts Dining Action Coalition (TDAC), was done in solidarity with ...
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy will launch an online masters degree in global business beginning in May 2019.According to its website, students will be able to complete the new online degree program in 16 months or two years, with each student able to set their own pace. Applications are ...
The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) Foundation recently gave Tufts a grant to join the JED Campus program, an initiative of the Jed Foundation that aims to improve campus mental health services, according to an article in TuftsNow. The grant was the first of its kind.The grant follows the recent establishment ...
Hit lock bottomOn Jan. 25 at 2:00 p.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from several students that cash had been stolen from their lockers at the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center (Tisch Center). The students had left their gym lockers unlocked. TUPD has a possible suspect ...
Tufts University Social Collective (TUSC), a student-led organization that plans events on campus, has expanded its programming this academic year in order to stimulate social life on campus. Noah Brown, a junior and member of the executive board of TUSC, explained that the organization hosts over ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life hosted its first Civic Life Lunch of the semester on Feb. 4 featuring Bernard Fraga, a political science professor at Indiana University and author of "The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America."Fraga said ...
The Tufts community received an email announcing Andrew Shiotani as the new director of the International Center (I-Center) on Jan. 28. Shiotani assumes the leadership role of Jane Etish-Andrews, who retired after 35 years of work at Tufts.The I-Center provides immigration and student services to undergraduate ...
Construction on Miller Hall is largely completed, and renovations on Houston Hall have begun, according to Joshua Hartman, director of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife).Students living in Miller who were temporarily placed in Houston for the fall 2018 semester were moved back at the end of December ...
MONDAY“Civic Life Lunch — The Turnout Gap: Race & Voter Turnout”Details: Political scientist Bernard Fraga will discuss his latest book, “The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicity, and Political Inequality in a Diversifying America,” at this event, which is part of the Civic Life Lunch series ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met yesterday afternoon in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room to amend TCU Senate bylaws and hear a resolution calling on the administration to achieve gender parity among leadership. TCU Senate Parliamentarian Sharif Hamidi, a sophomore, began the meeting by ...
Disclaimer: Madison Reid is currently employed by the Nolop FAST Facility. Reid had no affiliation with the facility at the time of writing. Nestled behind Kindlevan Café in the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) is the Nolop FAST Facility, a newly-opened makerspace on campus. The Nolop FAST ...
In a Jan. 9 email to the Tufts community, Tufts’ Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President announced the official launch of Global Tufts, a website that provides online resources about global initiatives to the Tufts community.According to Diana Chigas (F '88), senior international ...
University President Anthony Monaco condemned Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' proposed changes to Title IX sexual misconduct policies in a letter released to the Tufts community this morning. Monaco’s letter, submitted yesterday, critiqued a number of the proposals, including limitations ...
Starting in the 2019–2020 academic year, Carmichael Hall will be a residence hall for only first-year students and Harleston Hall will house only sophomores. The new policy seeks to maximize bed space and improve the housing options for both first-years and sophomores, according to former Associate ...
The Tufts Board of Trustees voted to create a Student Affairs Subcommittee in November in hopes of further progress towards the recommendations the Student Life Review Committee (SLRC) made in Spring 2017.Mary Pat McMahon, dean of student affairs for the School of Arts and Sciences, said that Deb Jospin ...
Stop calling me maybeOn Jan. 18 at 12:52 p.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from the International Center that they had been receiving daily calls since the end of November. The caller had questions concerning immigration and obtaining a work visa but never gave their ...
MONDAY“Write for Rights: AmnesTEA”Details: Tufts Amnesty International and The Rez will collaborate to support four women activists through a letter-signing campaign. Tea will be served at the event. Where and when: Mayer Campus Center; 10–2 p.m.TUESDAY“The Flip Side, a film by Val Wang”Details: ...
