MONDAY"Senate Town Hall: Discussion on Capen Village & Spatial Inequity"Details:Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate will hold a town hall to discuss two large upcoming projects: the construction plans for Capen Village, which will consist of 15 wood-framed houses for upperclassmen, and ...
Changes to the Tufts housing lottery system were proposed at the Oct. 15 Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate meeting by Matt Austin, associate director for housing operations in the Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife).Austin, who started in his position in April, said that he was hoping ...
The Financial Aid Student Advisory Board (FASAB) met yesterday for the first time this academic year to provide feedback and input to the financial aid office on its communication and outreach efforts. The board was reinstated in January 2017; it had existed in the past and disbanded over five years ...
Saïda Oumoulkhairy Ibrahim Niasse, the leader of a Sufi Muslim women’s movement in Niger, was honored by the university with the Global Humanitarian Citizen Award during a ceremony in Distler Hall on Wednesday afternoon.The ceremony was hosted by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life and cosponsored ...
Tufts Food Rescue Collaborative (TFRC) launched their Tufts Food System Rescue series yesterday with the event The Ethics of Eating, featuring guest speakers from the Ethical Choices Program as well as Assistant Professor of Anthropology Alex Blanchette. The event series is a part of TFRC's ...
Bartman said the meeting helped the planning department understand how community members’ viewed had stayed consistent and differed since the plan was introduced in 2013.
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has begun to update its Spanish language page this fall to make it more accessible for Spanish-speaking students and their families, according to Farley Flores, a student who works in admissions.Jessica Acosta-Chavez, a former Tufts admissions officer, led the ...
"The meal bank is incredibly helpful for when I'm on campus for long periods, want to go to a dining hall with friends or just don't have time to cook," Griego told the Daily in an electronic message. "It really helps me as a low income student."
During Parents and Family Weekend, a group of students arranged an anti-Greek life protest in front of Sophia Gordon Hall and the Aidekman Arts Center. The protesters held three signs with the following text: “1. DID YOU KNOW??? Kappa Alpha Theta ~ A Phi ~ DTD ~ Chi O ~ Theta Chi ~ AOII ~ ZBT ~ Zeta ...
Tufts undergraduates have responded in force to Hurricane Maria's devastation of Puerto Rico, launching fundraisers and staging supply drives with the aim of helping residents of the struggling U.S.territory.At the same time, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life is working to support those ...
The Tufts Women's Center has initiated biweekly POC Circles, which are dedicated to "community care, solidarity and intentional coalition building" for people of color, according to their first Facebookevent. The first POC Circle was hosted on Sept. 14 at the Women's Center ...
Tufts has begun a three-year transition this fall to Canvas, anew learning management system (LMS) that will replace Trunk and Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase (TUSK). The new system has already been implemented at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Friedman School of Nutrition ...
Starting this fall, Tufts Center for Awareness, Resources, and Education (CARE) introduced a new program: Sex Health Reps. Alexandra Donovan, CARE's sexual misconduct prevention specialist, said the impetus for the program was to find a better way to spread information about sex health and education.“We’ve ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room last night to discuss the upcoming town hall on social spaces along with general updates. The body also heard a presentation from Career Center Executive Director Greg Victory.After a presentation on networking strategies, ...
MONDAY“Startup Nation Tech Fair and Pitch Competition”Details: TAMID Group at Tufts is hosting an innovation trade show and student pitch competition. For the first hour and a half of the event, students will network with eight startup companies, and during the second half of the event, student ...
Content Warning: This article discusses sexual violence.The Department of Public and Environmental Safety (DPES) released its Annual Security and Fire Safety Report on Sept. 30, breaking down reported instances of crime in 2016 on each Tufts campus. Reported cases of crime increased on the Boston ...
This year's first-year class at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) is the first admitted through Tufts' admissions policies, the first to pay full Tufts tuition and the second class to be fully designated as Tufts students after Tufts acquired the SMFA in June 2016. Some Bachelors ...
Tufts will soon expand its footprint into the study of collegiate education with the launch of the Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI), according to a Tufts Now article. The institute will focus on developing more effective methodologies and techniques that can improve learning ...
Tufts' Department of International Literary and Culture Studies (ILCS) hosted its first Language Fair in Alumnae Lounge yesterday, attracting nearly 200 students to a career-oriented event that featured Tufts administrators, employers and educators from around the Boston area.The event was designed ...
The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) hosted its first panel discussion of the year, which focused on the history of segregation and its implications in urban spaces on Wednesday night, featuring Justin Steil, an assistant professor of law and urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute ...
