Tufts has updated its hazing policy for the 2025–26 school year, standardizing reporting procedures across all campuses, establishing mandatory training for all students and mandating the university to publish official statistics in the Annual Safety Report, created by the Department of Public Safety.
Digital Planet, a research initiative of The Fletcher School’s Institute for Business in the Global Context, completed a study in July that details the effects of rapid digitalization caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study aimed to examine the impact of digitalization on economic evolution and the environment through a metric coined the “Burn to Earn” Index.
On Monday, U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III transferred a motion to restore Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk’s Student and Exchange Visitor Information System record from Vermont to the District of Massachusetts.
The Boston City Council passed a resolution supporting the professors of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts on August 6. Negotations for the SMFA PoPs’ first contract began in April 2024. The resolution represents the most recent attempt to address prolonged negotiations and build support for the PoPs.
LinkedIn has released its first-ever Top Colleges list, with Tufts ranked No. 16 out of 50 schools recognized for strong career outcomes. The new ranking uses LinkedIn’s data to evaluate schools based on students’ job and internship placements, alumni achievements and network strength.
The list of candidates running for mayor, City Council and School Committee in Medford has been largely finalized following the July 29 deadline to submit nomination papers. Our Revolution Medford, the progressive organization that supports a majority of incumbent members on the City Council and School Committee, announced its list of endorsements on Tuesday.
In an American Association of University Professors lawsuit against Secretary of State Marco Rubio for the administration’s deportation policy, Peter Hatch, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency official, testified that ICE used Canary Mission for leads in its investigation of noncitizen pro-Palestine student activists.
The list of certified candidates for Somerville’s municipal election was finalized on Monday following the deadline for candidate withdrawals. According to Nicholas Salerno, chair of the Somerville Elections Commission, the drawing for positions on the September ballot will take place on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Preliminary elections are scheduled for Sep. 16.
Professors of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts were notified throughout March and April of several changes to the school’s administrative structure. According to an open letter from the union, these changes include revising the structure of deans at the school and consolidating SMFA’s four studio departments into two. The two new department chairs would not be eligible for union membership.
Tufts full-time union lecturers in the School of Arts and Sciences ratified their third contract with the university on Wednesday. The FTLs, represented by Service Employees International Union Local 509, began negotiations for workload and salary adjustments in April 2024.
The Cambridge Public Safety Committee held a hearing on the police department’s use of SoundThinking, formerly ShotSpotter, on June 2. The gunshot detection system, used in both Cambridge and Somerville, has recently drawn criticism from residents — particularly because both cities are sanctuary cities.
On April 18, the Daily sat down with University President Sunil Kumar to reflect on his second year as Tufts’ president and discuss the shifting state of higher education.
Even before stepping foot on Tufts’ campus, Daniel Vos knew he wanted to be a part of the Daily. “I joined the Daily my [first-year] fall,” Vos said. “I was always interested in journalism in high school, but we didn’t really have a strong newspaper or journalism club, so that was an experience that I was really focused on getting in college.”
The Tufts Community Union Senate confirmed the 2025–26 school year budget for student organizations to be roughly $3 million at its budget meeting on April 20. The budget set is slightly higher than the budget of $2.9 million for the 2024–25 school year. The budget increase comes from an internal reallocation of resources and the continued surplus funding from the COVID-19 pandemic that paused most on-campus activities, according to rising senior Dhruv Sampat, the 2024–25 TCU treasurer and incoming TCU president.
Graduating senior Sam Berman began his journey in the Daily as business director for the fall 2022 semester and continued leading the Daily’s business department for the rest of his sophomore year. He then went on to be an alumni liaison in fall 2023 alongside Ty Blitstein (LA’24) and a social committee chair in spring 2024 with Megan Amero (LA’24) and graduating senior Siya Bhanshali.
For rising senior Dhruv Sampat, it’s been a moment long in the making. After winning the 2025 TCU Presidential election a few weeks ago, he will serve as the president of the Tufts Community Union Senate for the 2025–26 academic year. Involved in student government since high school, Sampat will culminate years of experience serving his fellow students, including two years managing the $2.7 million Student Activities Fund as TCU treasurer, with this position.
Marlee Stout, a graduating senior majoring in child study and human development, wasn’t planning on pursuing journalism in any sense upon entering college. A general interest meeting for the Daily, though, changed her mind.
Editor’s note: The 2021–22, 2022–23 and 2023–24 recaps in this article are reprinted from the 2024 Commencement Issue of the Daily, with light edits. 2021–22 The Class of 2025’s first year at Tufts saw the return of majority in-person classes, extracurricular activities and study ...
Outgoing Tufts Community Union Senate President Joel Omolade sat down with the Daily to reflect on his presidency and the Senate’s accomplishments. Originally from the Bronx, N.Y., Omolade is a senior majoring in political science and community health and a member of the Children of Cultures of Africa dance team. He is also the former president of Tufts’ resident assistants union.
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn met with the Daily to discuss her initiatives and remaining goals for the city as she begins her fourth reelection campaign for Mayor.
