Commencement Newsletter: May 18, 2025
Q&A: Sunil Kumar on federal threats to higher education, the future of Tufts: Your Tufts Daily Commencement Edition
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Q&A: Sunil Kumar on federal threats to higher education, the future of Tufts: Your Tufts Daily Commencement Edition
Timeline of Rümeysa Öztürk’s detention, subsequent activism and judicial proceedings: Your Tufts Daily Commencement Edition
Hot Chelle Rae, Quinn XCII and Tinashe lit up the Academic Quad for Spring Fling, Tufts University Social Collective’s end-of-year concert on April 26.
Q&A: Mayor Lungo-Koehn shares goals for fourth mayoral campaign, accomplishments as Mayor: Your Tufts Daily Commencement Edition
The 2024–25 Diversity & Inclusion Report continues the Daily’s effort to gather insights into the composition of our staff and their experiences in our organization. The report was created by a group of Daily staff members under the purview of the paper’s Ethics & Inclusion Committee, formerly known as the Intentionality & Inclusivity Committee.
On April 5, 2025, The Jackson Jills performed five songs in the Daily’s newsroom. They then joined Daily members for a conversation about the origins, rehearsals and seniors of Tufts’ oldest all-femme a cappella group.
The charts displayed here are a few of the many featured in the 2024-25 Diversity & Inclusion Report authored by the Daily's Ethics & Inclusion Committee. We encourage you to read the full report here.
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk returned to Massachusetts on Saturday and spoke publicly to a crowd of reporters at Boston Logan International Airport following her release from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Öztürk was joined in speaking by members of her legal team, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Updated May 9
Dear Class of 2025 and the Tufts community,
On April 18, the Daily sat down with University President Sunil Kumar to reflect on his second year as Tufts’ president and discuss the shifting state of higher education.
Mayor Breanna Lungo-Koehn met with the Daily to discuss her initiatives and remaining goals for the city as she begins her fourth reelection campaign for Mayor.
Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on the evening of March 25 on her way to an Iftar dinner. The Tufts community and local residents demanded that she be released from ICE detention and return to her studies at Tufts. This article provides a timeline of actions relating to Öztürk’s case and related activism on and off campus, from her detainment to her release.
The Tufts Community Union Senate confirmed the 2025–26 school year budget for student organizations to be roughly $3 million at its budget meeting on April 20. The budget set is slightly higher than the budget of $2.9 million for the 2024–25 school year.
Editor’s note: The 2021–22, 2022–23 and 2023–24 recaps in this article are reprinted from the 2024 Commencement Issue of the Daily, with light edits.
Editor’s note: The Daily’s editorial department acknowledges that this article is premised on a conflict of interest. This article is a special feature for Commencement 2025 that does not represent the Daily’s standard journalistic practices.
Summer is upon us! As yet another school year comes to a close, the Editorial Board has brainstormed some changes that we hope can improve students’ experience at Tufts.
Tufts students spend upward of 200 days each year at school. While it often feels like so much is going wrong in our world, both near and far, we want to make your time here more enjoyable by drawing attention to some of our favorite parts about life on the Hill.