The Tufts Elections Commission (ECOM) determined the results of the elections for the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate, Committee on Student Life (CSL) and Judiciary on Friday, just as candidates for TCU president commenced their respective campaigns.
Several of Tufts' libraries have expanded their virtual resource offerings in recent weeks, seeking to support the educational activities of students, faculty and staff in the wake of most campus facilitiesclosing their doors in March due to COVID-19.
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions opted to go test-optional for a three-year cycle, beginning with applicants matriculating in fall 2021, which was announced in a March 24 blog post by Dean of Admissions JT Duck.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) elections were hit by a series of technical errors and ballot mix-ups which prevented dozens of students from casting ballots.
The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate reviewed and approved its entire fiscal year 2021 (FY21) budget last week , allocating $2,070,872 to over 300 student organizations.
Several unusually competitive races for positions in student government began on Friday, as prospective candidates were made official ahead of this week’s online-only general election.Undergraduates will elect candidates to fill 29 Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate seats, seven Judiciary seats and ...
The Tufts administration, collaborating with the identity-based centers and Tufts Mutual Aid (TMA), has taken steps in recent weeks to provide assistance to students from low-income and minority backgrounds amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Tufts Health Service will conduct outpatient visits through telemedicine indefinitely and implement new procedures for handling and testing potential COVID-19 patients to protect the safety of patients and clinicians from the spread of the coronavirus.
In an abrupt departure from the administration's previous decision, University President Anthony Monaco announced that an in-person commencement will be postponed until the danger of the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.The Tufts community initially received an email on March 26 notifying members of the ...
Elections for the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate and other student government positions will begin this month as scheduled. The student organization budgeting process, however, will now continue online, according to TCU Treasurer Sharif Hamidi.TCU Senate hopes to complete the student group budgets ...
The Tufts research community has suspended all nonessential on-campus research activities in accordance with new guidelines outlined in a March 19 email from the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) as of March 20 at 5 p.m.The new measures have been taken in a concerted effort to minimize ...
Faculty in the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering (AS&E) on March 23 approved temporary changes to Tufts’ academic policies for most undergraduate students, effectively ending the debate raging among students about which alternative grading system would work best for Tufts' undergraduate ...
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 ...
