The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate met on Sunday, Jan. 31 for the first time of the semester to review relevant updates from the fall semester and discuss its first set of supplementary funding requests from student groups.
Federal investigators found last December that Higher One, the student refund vendor that Tufts partners with, had improperly collected 30 million dollars in fees from students across the United States over the course of around a year and a half. Following the investigation, the Federal Reserve ordered ...
After 40 years of service, Robyn Gittleman retired from her position as Director of the Experimental College (ExCollege) on December 31, 2015. Gittleman explained that she became Director of the ExCollege and the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education in 1975, about five years after her start ...
"Somerville will be the first city in North America to develop its own social progress index," Curtatone said. "We need our stakeholders and allies in the nonprofit world especially along with the innovators to help us understand how we achieve social progress."
Tenured and tenure-track faculty from the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) filed a petition to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last Dec. 11 to hold on campus union elections, which has been challenged by the TUSM administration partially on grounds of legality.
Tufts accepted students from the first pool of Early Decision (ED) applicants last month, marking the fifth time in the last six years that the university has broken or tied the record for the number of first-year applications received.
Changes made to the Federal Perkins Loan Program with the passing of an act through Congress last year on Dec. 17, will raise borrowing costs for students in the Class of 2020.The loan program, which would have expired on Sept. 30 last year, was extended through fiscal year 2016 with the passing ...
Students and faculty remembered the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in an event entitled "Moving the Movement Forward" held yesterday at Goddard Chapel. This year's celebration surrounded five themes: faith and hope, equality, unity and collective action, justice as well as action. The ...
Northeastern University became the fifth Boston-area university to allow its campus police officers to work with semiautomatic rifles last December, following a similar policy that has been in place at Tufts since 2008.According to Deputy Director of Public Safety Leon Romprey, all sworn Tufts ...
Members of the Tufts community participated in the second annual Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) Day of Service, volunteering at four different locations in the surrounding area this past Saturday.The MLK Day of Service, hosted by the University Chaplaincy, brought volunteers from Tufts to serve at ...
Tufts Alumni hosted the first-ever Global Reach event for alumni, a symposium in Hong Kong, featuring programs led by University President Anthony Monaco, Provost David Harris and the International Board of Advisors from Jan. 15 to Jan. 17. Students studying abroad in Hong Kong and several alumni attended the event to learn about the progress of the university and to build connections with other attendees.
Senior Sharad Sagar was featured in the annual Forbes "30 Under 30" list for the second year in a row, for his work as CEO and founder of the nonprofit organization Dexterity Global. Sagar's efforts to promote education among children and teenagers in South Asia landed him on the list ...
The brothers of the former Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) chapter announced last Thursday the establishment of Pi Rho Omega (Pi Rho), the local and independent fraternity the brothers are transitioning to.According to Pi Rho Spokesperson Ben Kaplan, the brothers voted on the new name on Dec. 11 after formally ...
Following several months of discussions, Tufts announced that the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA) is due to become a part of Tufts University by June 30, 2016 pending final approval, in a Dec. 22 statement.According to the statement, written by University President Anthony Monaco ...
After months of being closed off to the Tufts community, the Memorial Steps reopened in December, bringing to an end to the university’s six-month construction effort to preserve the campus landmark.The steps, also known as the Memorial Stairs, were built in the 1920s and designed as a tribute to ...
Stephen W. Bosworth, dean emeritus of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, passed away from pancreatic cancer at his Boston home on Jan. 4. He was 76 years old. Bosworth served as the Dean of the Fletcher School from 2001 to 2013 and a U.S. ambassador three times, to Tunisia,the Philippines and ...
Alpha Gamma Delta (AGD) has delayed its timeline for joining the Tufts Greek community, pushing its extension efforts on campus to the fall 2016 semester.
This fall, faculty and staff from the School of Arts and Sciences participated in mandatory discrimination and harassment prevention training.The Office of Equal Opportunity holds this training to prepare faculty for approaching “all types of discrimination and harassment across all ‘protected ...
Ultimately, a translator for the students and a community worker ended up addressing the village instead of the volunteers, according to Boden.
Tufts Dining Services will start a pilot initiative, "Food 4 Free," to donate leftover food from dining halls to a local agency beginning in January. The program follows a petition signed by almost 250 people calling for the "rescue and redistribution of Tufts’ unused food."The ...
