The Tufts Community Union Elections Commission hosted a debate on Wednesday night between three candidates running for TCU president: Brendan French, Michael Glueck and Defne Olgun.
In another lengthy meeting last Sunday, the Tufts Community Union Senate passed its budget for the 2027 fiscal year and received several appeals from clubs.
Tufts Dining has reduced work hours for all student dining employees at Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center following budget cuts, leaving students concerned about future reductions.
The professors of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts alleged in a March 19 Instagram post that the SMFA administration rejected a union proposal to compensate PoPs for taking on additional review boards.
In the coming months, Tufts Technology Services will be leading focus groups to evaluate the Student Information System, aiming to refresh the site to enable more intuitive and functional use for students and faculty.
A federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit against the Saving on Valuable Education student loan repayment plan on March 9, which was created by the Biden Administration. This decision will increase strain on borrowers, including those in the Tufts community.
CNN anchor and senior analyst Audie Cornish visited Tufts on April 15 as the keynote speaker for the 17th Edward R. Murrow Forum on Issues in Journalism, an annual event that brings leading voices in journalism to campus to discuss contemporary issues facing the industry. There, she shared her thoughts on critical challenges facing journalists, including artificial intelligence and political polarization.
Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts graduate student who was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last spring, will return home to Turkey following a settlement between her lawyers and the government over removal proceedings.
On Friday, Tufts’ Office of Residential Life and Learning sent an email to all remaining students in the random housing pool informing them that they had not yet been placed for the 2026–27 school year. Students will now have to wait until May 8 for updates on their fall housing situation.
In an over four-hour-long meeting on Sunday, the Tufts Community Union Senate heard from Reverend Elyse Nelson Winger, the university chaplain, about a new institutional fund for religious holiday celebrations. The Senate also approved a resolution establishing a new community senator seat for religious and philosophical student organizations and passed sweeping changes to the Treasury Procedures Manual.
The Tufts Community Union Senate held its reelections for the fall semester this past weekend, with voting running from April 9 to April 11. A total of 904 students, or 13.1% of the student body, voted in the election, similar to the fall semester, which saw a participation rate of 13%.
A state court ruled in favor of eight Tufts School of Medicine basic science faculty members earlier this month in a lawsuit over compensation plans that were determined to have violated tenure’s promises of “economic security,” ordering the university to pay nearly $4 million in damages.
Tufts Community Union student leaders are expressing frustration with the stagnant Student Activities Fee, which is currently $396. The Student Activities Fee is added to all students’ tuition and managed by the TCU Treasury for all student activities on campus, from clubs to campuswide events put on by students.
Tufts University and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy have been effectively banned by the Russian government due to allegations of “anti-Russian propaganda,” open solidarity with Ukraine and support for the LGBTQ+ community, according to a Tuesday statement from the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation.
In a March 6 social media post, the SEIU 509 Tufts University Graduate Workers Union shared that the Departments of English, Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry all attempted to violate the union’s contract this year.
The Tufts Community Union Senate met on Sunday to discuss recent and upcoming events, recap its Dining Survey initiative and hear the final Allocations Board requests of the semester, including an appeal for funding from the Tufts Solar Vehicle Project.
Tufts students joined more than eight million people around the country to protest the Trump administration on March 28 as part of the third No Kings rally. The day marked the largest protest in American history with roughly 3,300 rallies nationwide, including 162 in Massachusetts and over 180,000 attendees at the protest on Boston Common.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced on March 5 that 53 medical schools, including the Tufts University School of Medicine, had signed on to Kennedy’s federal nutrition training initiative.
The Tufts Community Union Senate met on Sunday to hear updates from members of the Residential Life & Learning team, discuss current events within the Senate and hear two resolutions which will be voted on in upcoming weeks.
This semester, Tufts Mail Services introduced a series of changes aimed at improving the reliability of package deliveries that occur outside of normal operating hours. The updates include a new overnight and weekend drop box at the loading dock, expanded multilingual signage for delivery drivers and a new whiteboard in the pickup area providing students with information about the mailroom’s operations.
