Former Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Donna Brazile, former U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and interfaith leader Eboo Patel will speak at Tufts University this semester as part of Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life’s Distinguished Speaker Series. According to the Tisch College website, ...
The Tufts International Development (TID) Ecuador team’s KoomBook digital library program was selected by Davis Projects for Peace as one of 16 outstanding projects from the summer of 2018, according to senior Cristina da Gama, one of the leaders of the Ecuador team. Davis Projects for Peace is an ...
Jacob Benner, a senior lecturer in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences (EOS), left Tufts this summer after accepting a position at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, according to EOS Professor Jack Ridge.Benner's departure has left Tufts' relatively small EOS department short-staffed. Benner's scheduled ...
Not all bargaining goals were met, Klatt said. The committee unsuccessfully tried to increase the benefits of starting lecturers.
Tufts has begun a three-year transition this fall to Canvas, anew learning management system (LMS) that will replace Trunk and Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase (TUSK). The new system has already been implemented at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the Friedman School of Nutrition ...
"The details of the new five-year contract are certainly important for workers’ material needs; centrally, part-timers won key raises in per-course pay," she said. "But even more important, I think, is the way in which this agreement demonstrates forward momentum towards larger goals of justice, respect and dignity in the workplace. It’s a sign that faculty, union workers, students, alumni, Boston activist communities can come together and make substantial change.”
This morning, Tufts Labor Coalition (TLC) led a march of around 25 students from the Res Quad to 200 Boston Ave., where negotiations are taking place between administrators and part-time lecturers to renew their collective bargaining agreement.Once outside the building, part-time lecturers on the ...
The Office of the Provost launched the Bridging Differences Initiative this fall to encourage people with "profoundly different" points of view to openly discuss their thoughts and opinions.The initiative, led by Provost and Senior Vice President David Harris and Chief Diversity Officer ...
A team of researchers at Tufts caused tadpoles to process information using eyes grafted onto their tails after the tadpoles were treated with a human-approved migraine drug, according to Michael Levin, a professor in the Department of Biology and director of Tufts' Allen Discovery Center.The original ...
Currents Magazine, a new arts-centered magazine, will release its first issue on both the Medford/Somerville and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts(SMFA) campuses this month, according to cofounder and SMFA dual-degree student Lily Pisano. Pisano, a first-year, founded the magazine with fellow first-years and SMFA dual-degree students Georgia Oldham and Polina Pittell.
