The Tufts administration responded on Monday to an open letter from university faculty, staff and graduate students calling for the establishment of a one-year task force following Tufts' decision to hand management of the Tufts Educational Day Care Center (TEDCC) to Bright Horizons Family Solutions.The ...
"This is the world, the kingdom I was looking for." These words, written by poet John Holmes (A '29), Tufts professor and alumnus, live on in Tufts memory, despite the passing of the poet himself. Now, however, Tufts students will be able to pay their respects at Holmes' grave. Walter ...
Tufts Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) hosted a panel discussion on the future of counterinsurgency featuring three experts in the field on Tuesday night at 6 p.m. in Barnum Hall.Colonel Andrew Zacherl, International Security Studies Program military fellow at The ...
The Tufts Office for Campus Life (OCL) has discontinued its rental van service this semester but will help facilitate use of alternative rental agencies such as Zipcar, according to OCL Director Joe Golia.Golia explained that the OCL felt that renting out the vans was a responsibility that was ...
On Monday night, senior Tatiana Joyce, a lifeguard at Tufts’ Hamilton Pool, saved the life of a woman who was at risk of drowning.Joyce explained that it had been a normal night at the pool, where she works from 7:30-10:30p.m. on Mondays and has served as a lifeguard for three years."Being ...
The Tufts University Chaplaincy, led by Reverend Greg McGonigle, appointed two new chaplains, Muslim Chaplain Celene Ibrahim-Lizzio and Protestant Chaplain Chanta Bhan, this semester. They join the chaplaincy alongside the new Humanist in Residence, Walker Bristol (A'14).Each chaplain aims ...
Two former members of the House of Representatives, Milton Robert “Bob” Carr and Ann Marie Buerkle, concluded their three-day visit to Tufts as part of the Congress to Campus program yesterday evening.
This fall, the Intercultural and Social Identities Program (ISIP) will go from a stand-alone office to a full-scale initiative led by a new director of Student Affairs Pluralism Initiatives (SAPI) and incorporated into the Dean of Student Affairs Office (DOSA). Director of the Women’s Center ...
Next week, Tufts faculty will be voting on an Educational Policy Committee (EPC) proposal that would make the numerical averages of teacher ratings available online to all students who filled out their evaluations for the previous semester, as well as incoming first-year students, according to EPC ...
Over 100 Tufts students took to the streets to bring the fight for climate justice to New York City, joining throngs of demonstrators in the People’s Climate March on the morning of Sept. 21. The march, which coincided with the United Nations Climate Summit on Sept. 23, drew over 400,000 protesters, ...
Library CaperOn Sept. 16 at 3:45 p.m., a student studying in Tisch Library reported to Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) that her wallet and pocketbook had been taken when she left her seat to make copies.Complaint FilerOn Sept. 18 at 1:12 p.m., a man entered the Office of Community Relations at ...
TUESDAYCommunicating Effectively with Federal Program Officials in the Humanities, Arts and Social SciencesDetails: The event will discuss developing strategies for building relationships with federal program officers and finding the federal agencies and grant mechanisms that best fit individual ...
This year’s Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) colloquium will explore Russia in the 21st century.The course is run through the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) and takes place over two semester. It will span a wide range of topics, including the society, culture, ...
The Tufts Effectiveness in Administrative Management (TEAM) Initiative will launch Tufts Support Services (TSS), a new organization that will centralize human resources and financial services, this December to improve administrative efficiency and expertise.University President Anthony Monaco and Executive ...
The Office of Graduate Admissions, formerly a part of the Office of Graduate Studies, was officially launched under the initiative of Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Lee Coffin on July 1, and will be run by the new Director of Graduate Admissions Karen Richardson.The Office of Graduate Admissions ...
iSIS is no more. While the actual system remains intact, the Integrated Information system (iSIS) returned to its former name of Student Information System (SIS) this semester. iSIS, which debuted in March 2013 as a replacement for the original SIS, is Tufts' online system of recording student ...
Two former members of Congress, Milton Robert "Bob" Carr and Ann Marie Buerkle, are visiting Tufts Sept. 28 - 30 as part of the Congress to Campus program, organized by a three-way partnership between the Stennis Center for Public Service Leadership, the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress and Tufts, according to Associate Director of the Stennis Center William “Brother” Rogers.
The 25th Anniversary Conference of the Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies (CSAIOS) kicked off last Friday with its Anniversary Keynote Lecture, titled "Is there Anything Special about South Asian Studies?" by Amartya Sen, Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and professor of ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed a resolution urging the university to rename Columbus Day as Indigenous People’s Day, elected two new members to its Allocations Board (ALBO) and allocated funds to several student groups at its first meeting of the semester last night.The resolution to ...
On Sept. 30, the City of Somerville's Legislative Matters Committee will consider an ordinance to increase regulation of off-campus housing occupied by Tufts students. The ordinance, proposed by Board of Aldermen President Bill White, would require the university to submit a list of off-campus ...
