The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Lifewelcomed presidential candidate and Montana Governor Steve Bullock for a town hall on Friday.The town hall was moderated by Dean of Tisch College Alan Solomont, who opened the discussion by making note of Bullock’s decorated political career. He mentioned ...
In the financial media, there has been a lot of speculation regarding a recession looming within the next 18 months. In the face of such uncertainty, you might be tempted to sell your assets before the market crashes, and once things pick up again, you believe you can safely invest and watch prices ...
TUESDAY"Cafe Chabad: Tuesday Kosher Meat Buffet Dinner"Details: Chabad House will be serving kosher meat to improve accessibility. RSVP encouraged to attend.Where and when: Chabad House, 21 Chetwynd Road; 1:30–2:30 p.m.WEDNESDAY"Tufts Presidential Town Hall with Bill Weld"Details: ...
In a decision made this past summer after three years of ongoing support by the organization, the Office for Student Success and Advising (OSSA) has been discontinued in order to incorporate its leadership and resources into the FIRST Resource Center, according to a Student Life email on Sept. 3. This ...
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) announced in a meeting with student staff on Sunday that it will be restructuring student roles within residence halls. The First-Year Assistant (FYA) and Community Development Assistant (CDA) positions will no longer exist and will be replaced ...
A third incident of hatred in under a month occurred on the Medford/Somerville campus, University President Anthony Monaco and Provost and Senior Vice President Nadine Aubry announced in an email today. According to the email, this most recent incident involved the defacement of a sign in the African ...
Tufts renewed its contract with the Confucius Institute, a Chinese government-funded language and cultural education center, until 2021, after a semester-long review process that was triggered by concerns over Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and suppression of academic freedom.The review committee’s ...
Tufts Climate Action (TCA) is urging current Tufts seniors, alumni and parents to withhold donations to Tufts until the university divests from fossil fuels in apledge posted on Facebook. The petition encourages alumni and parents to withhold donations or to donate only to Tufts’ Sustainability ...
Disclaimer: Caitlin Colino is a columnist at the Tufts Daily. Colino was not involved in the writing or editing of this article. Fourteen Tufts activist groups and political organizations, including groups that organized the Tufts contingent in the globalclimate strike two weeks ago, have recently ...
Hedrick Smith, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered stories such as the Vietnam War, the civil rights struggle and the Cold War spoke about his experience as a journalist and gave advice to the aspiring civic activists in the room in an event yesterday. The talk, entitled “Media For ...
On Oct. 1 at 12 p.m., Tufts University Police Department (TUPD) received a report from an individual who lost his wallet the previous evening and got it back that morning missing $90 in cash. The wallet was found in Cousens Parking Lot across the street from the Steve Tisch Sports and Fitness Center ...
The Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life hosted U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) yesterday in Cohen Auditorium for a conversation with professor of economics Gilbert Metcalf, who had previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment and Energy at the Department of Treasury. Markey's ...
The Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE), a research group run out of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life,reported that college student voting rates jumped from 19.2% to 40.3% between the 2014 and 2018 midterm elections. Amassing data from 10 million students across over 1,000 ...
FlixBus, a German long-distance busing company, added a new route between Boston and New York City on Sept. 26, which makes stops at the Tufts' Upper Campus Center and Boston's South End. The buses have begun departing daily from Professors Row with tickets costing $4.99.Joanna Patterson, the ...
Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson hosted community members, students and campaign volunteers on Saturday for a town hall sponsored by Tufts Democrats.The event began with Williamson delivering an opening statement in which she shared her experience being on the campaign trail.“It ...
The Tufts Community Union (TCU)Senate met Sunday evening in the Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room for a briefing from Dean of School of Arts and Sciences James Glaser on changes to the university’s administrative structure. Senators also shared committee updates with the body and reviewed supplementary ...
MONDAY"Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series: Senator Ed Markey"Details: In the second installment of the Distinguished Speaker Series this semester, the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life will bring Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey to campus for a conversation with Professor Gilbert ...
In the second act of hatred at Tufts in just three weeks, a student discovered their dorm door engraved with a well-known homophobic slur late Wednesday night. This incident has sparked calls by Tufts’ LGBTQ community for the university to take decisive action to address prejudice and intolerance ...
A homophobic incident occurred this Wednesday on campus, University President Monaco wrote in an email to the Tufts community, marking the second reported incident of hate this month. This email comes just two weeks after Monaco emailed the Tufts community about an incident of antisemitism.According ...
The Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College (TUPIT) held its second symposium on Oct. 3 and 4, titled “Engaging Justice: Inside/Outside Prison.” Hosted in the Aidekman Arts Centeron Thursday and in the Curtis Hall Multipurpose Room on Friday, the symposium presented panels, workshops ...
