The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate discussed the U.S. presidential election in an online meeting on Sunday night and heard updates from the TCU Senate Executive Board and the various committee chairs.
Snapchat is attempting to reach these younger voters, who make up a large segment of their user base, to emphasize to them the power of their vote. They will use CIRCLE’s research on young voters to accomplish this goal.
Facing outcry over the high price of dues and criticism on social media, Alpha Phi and the vast majority of Chi Omega members will disaffiliate from their national organizations and plot a new course. These announcements mean that by next year, Tufts will only have two remaining sororities.
In past years, Health Services has offered flu shots to students and community members through their facilities. This year, however, they were concerned about social distancing measures while students waited in line for their vaccines.
Catch up on headlines from around the globe.
TCU Senate consists of five committees that specialize in initiatives to enhance student life: Administration & Policy, Community & Diversity, Education, Outreach and Services.
The Election Protection Behind Bars Coalition wrote a letter to Middlesex Sheriff Peter Koutoujian on Oct. 9, asking him to take further steps to protect the right of eligible incarcerated voters to cast their ballots in the upcoming election, and to provide guidelines for sheriffs statewide.
Senior university officials held a virtual forum yesterday to discuss the work of the campus safety and policing workstream, one of five workstreams created in July to address the dynamics of policing on campus.
If adopted, Massachusetts voters will have the option of ranking candidates in order of preference instead of casting a single vote for one candidate.
The City of Somerville recently entered the "higher risk" zone for COVID-19 cases, with an average of 8.2 new cases per 100,000 people, according to Massachusetts' COVID-19 Community-Level Data Map. Medford remains in the "moderate risk" category, with an average of 6.7 new cases per 100,000 people, based on the same data.
Though the fairs have had to satisfy new standards surrounding a virtual platform, the Center has continued to see high rates of attendance.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate elected two additional members to the TCU Senate Allocations Board (ALBO) and discussed an effort by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) to present a resolution to End the Deadly Exchange at Tufts as a referendum to the entire student body.
Over 2,000 family members streamed the live event, where various administration and faculty members shared remarks.
Divided into a keynote address and three panel discussions, the conference focused on the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, and issues regarding geopolitics, pluralism and security in the country.
After the Faculty Senate issued a resolution on Sept. 30 condemning Tufts’ lack of communication and transparency in its decision to lay off employees and reduce salaries at the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine (TUSDM), university officials responded in an Oct. 13 statement that the decision was not within the scope of the Faculty Senate.
In this second installment of the conference’s fall webinar series, panelists Jamille Bigio, Dr. Toni Haastrup, and Judicaelle Irakoze discussed how feminist foreign policy is constructed and implemented.
Amy Comey Barrett was questioned by Senate Judiciary Committee, early voting has caused problems, and Johnson & Johnson paused an important COVID-19 vaccine trial.
After some students reported an excess of 30 hours a week of coursework in intro-level computer science courses — and the faculty concern that followed — the Tufts computer science department impaneled a task force to review the department’s curriculum, according to computer science Department Chair and Professor Kathleen Fisher.
The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) revealed in a June poll that youth engagement is higher in the 2020 election cycle, than in 2016 and 2018. Researchers from CIRCLE discussed the large impact of the poll in the days leading up to the November election.
Tufts will lead a $100 million project called Strategies to Prevent Spillover (STOP Spillover). The five-year program was launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development and aims to address the impact of zoonotic diseases, which are transmitted from animals to humans.
