Students from countries hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, as well as several low-income international students, are frustrated that Tufts rejected their housing extension requests, sending them scrambling for plane tickets or a bed to sleep in.In his March 10 email to the Tufts community, University ...
University President Anthony Monaco announced his plan to relieve increasing strain on local hospitals by opening up Tufts’ residence halls to quarantine patients with low-level cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus, in an op-ed published in The Boston Globe on Wednesday, March 18. ...
Editor's Note: This event was live-streamed on Facebook at 12 p.m. EDT. Read the Daily's complete transcription here, or watch the video on Student Life's Facebook page here. In a Facebook Live session on Monday afternoon that focused on answering students' questions regarding Tufts' ...
Editor's note: Tufts administrators participated in a remote discussion via Facebook Live on Monday to answer students' questions about how the university will operate amid the coronavirus pandemic. On March 10, Tufts canceled in-person classes and instructed students to leave campus in an attempt ...
Dozens of Tufts students have been quarantined in dorms and off-campus housing for nearly two weeks after potentially coming in contact with a student who tested positive for COVID-19, throwing travel plans into disarray and putting lives on hold.The university sent out emails to students suspected ...
Disclaimer: Jessica Blough is a former editor-in-chief at the Daily. She was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.At least five Tufts students participating in School for International Training (SIT) and Butler University’s Institute for Study Abroad (IFSA) study abroad programs ...
Exchange students studying at Tufts this semester will not be allowed to remain in the United States,effective March 20, as part of the university’s response to the global coronavirus pandemic.Students studying at Tufts through the Global Education exchange program received an email Saturday afternoon ...
Tufts Dining workers remain in limbo as they await an announcement from the university about how the campus closure will affect their employment, according to union officials.Several UNITE HERE Local 26 shop stewards, who represent the dining workers, met with university officials, including Director ...
Tufts students living on the university’s Medford/Somerville campus and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) must leave their respective residence halls by 3 p.m. on March 16, according to an email sent Wednesday by the deans of Tufts schools with on-campus residents.In their email, the ...
The Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) and the Tufts Medical Center (TMC) have been preparing to tackle COVID-19 in recent weeks, according to Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, an attending physician at TMC specializing in infectious diseases and an assistant professor at TUSM.While not formally affiliated ...
The Daily published Letters from the Editors on March 11 encouraging the community to remain engaged despite the obstacles presented by the coronavirus. Read them here and here.
A Tufts student has tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the first university affiliate with a presumptive positive case, according to an email sent by Executive Vice President Mike Howard to the Tufts community on Thursday evening.The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH)informed the university ...
Tufts students are rallying to provide financial and in-kind assistance to students facing difficulty in the wake of the administration's decision to continue classes online beginning on March 25.In response to growing concerns about on-campus transmission of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, University ...
The university tested a student for COVID-19 on the advice of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Executive Vice President Mike Howard announced in a community-wide email yesterday afternoon.The test results were unknown at press time, but Howard reaffirmed that the university will ...
Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone said that negotiations with Tufts over a new payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement have reached an impasse despite some points of progress in the year-long talks.At a community meeting held last Thursday evening in the Tufts Administration Building, the mayor and ...
Most of the buildings on the Upper Campus were thrust into darkness yesterday morning as students and faculty began their second-to-last day of face-to-face classes of the spring semester.The power outage struck the Hill less than 24 hours after University President Anthony Monaco announced in an email ...
Tufts University announced on Tuesday night that it will conduct all classes online starting March 25 in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus on its campuses.In an email to the Tufts community,University President Anthony Monaco explained that undergraduate and Fletcher School of Law ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate passed two resolutions and approved 14 supplementary funding requests, including an appeal, during its meeting on March 8 in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose room.While TCU Senate had originally planned on reviewing more supplementary funding requests, TCU Treasurer ...
Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)announced last week a proposed ballot referendumcalling on the university to stop sending campus police officers on military training trips abroad.The referendum, which the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate discussed at its March 2 meeting, is part of SJP’s ...
Disclaimer: Esra Gurcay is a former executive social media editor at the Daily. Gurcay was not involved in the writing or editing of this article.Tufts administrators responded to growing concerns over the global coronavirus outbreak by implementing travel regulations and warning of potential disruptions ...
