Tufts University is a private research university incorporated in the municipality of Medford, Massachusetts, USA. Tufts College was founded in 1852 by Christian Universalists who worked for many years to open nonsectarian higher education institutions. For over a century Tufts was a small New England liberal arts college until the transformation into a larger research university in the 1970s. Tufts is a charter member of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).
The university consists of ten schools, including two graduate degrees and eight postgraduate divisions, at four campuses in the Boston metropolitan area and the French Alps. The University emphasizes active citizenship and public services in all its disciplines, and is known for its internationalism and study abroad programs. Among his schools are the oldest international graduate school in the United States, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The Museum of Fine Arts School offers an art program affiliated with the main museum, Museum of Fine Arts. The School of Engineering has an entrepreneurial focus with the Gordon Institute and maintains close ties with the original college. The university has a campus in Downtown Boston that has medical, dental and nutritional schools, affiliated with several medical centers in the area. The University offers undergraduate degree programs along with the Conservatory of New England, and Sciences Po Paris with additional courses with the University of Paris, University of Oxford and constituents of the University of London. Some of its programs are affiliated with Harvard University institutions and the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His alumni and affiliates include Nobel Prize winners, billionaires, heads of state, governors, senators, representatives, Emmy and Academy Award winners, and National Academy members. Tufts has also passed several Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright, Truman, Goldwater scientists. Other notable alumni include a number of CEOs and founders of Fortune 500 companies, high-ranking US diplomats, and Pulitzer Prize winners.
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In the 1840s, the Universalist Church wanted to open a college in New England, and Charles Tufts donated 20 acres to the church in 1852 to help them achieve this goal. Charles Tufts had inherited the land, a barren hill which was one of the highest points in the Boston area, called Walnut Hill, and when asked by a family member what he wanted to do with the land, he said, "I will put light on it ". A 20-acre donation (then worth $ 20,000) is still at the heart of the now 150-acre Tufts campus, which straddles Somerville and Medford. It was also in 1852 that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts hired Tufts College, noting that colleges should promote "virtue and godliness and learning in such languages ​​and liberal and useful arts as recommended". During his tenure, Ballou spent a year traveling and studying in England. The instructional method he started was based on a tutorial conducted at Oxford University and the University of Edinburgh. Now over 160 years old, Tufts is the third oldest college in the Boston area.
Being one of the greatest influences in College establishment, Hosea Ballou II became the first president in 1853, and College Hall, the first building on campus, was completed the following year. The building now bears the name of Ballou. The campus opened in August 1854. President Ballou died in 1861 and was replaced by Alonzo Ames Miner. Although not a college graduate, his presidency is marked by some progress. These included the establishment of a preparatory school for Tufts which included Goddard Seminary, Westbrook Seminary, and Dean Academy. During the Civil War, universities actively supported the goals of the Society. The Major George L. Stearns Mansion, which stands on the campus, is a station on the Underground Railroad. In addition to having the largest class of emerging, 63 graduates work in the Union army. The first course of a three-year program leading to a degree in civil engineering was established in 1865, the same year MIT was founded. In 1869, Crane Theological School was held.
The successor of the miner, Elmer Capen was the first president to become an alumnus of Tufts. In his time, one of the earliest innovators was Amos Dolbear. In 1875, as chair of the physics department, he installed a functioning telephone that connected his lab at Ballou Hall to his home in Professor Row. Two years later Alexander Graham Bell will receive a patent. Dolbear's work in Tufts was followed by Marconi and Tesla. Other notable intellectuals include William Leslie Hooper who, in addition to acting as acting president, designed the first slotted dynasty for the dynamo. His student on campus, Frederick Stark Pearson, will eventually become one of America's pioneers in the electric power industry. He became responsible for the development of electric power and electric street car systems used in many cities in South America and Europe. Another important character is Stephen M. Babcock who developed the first practical test to determine the amount of butter fat in milk. Since its development on campus, Babcock Test has almost never been modified. The expansion of chemistry and biology departments is largely led by scholars Arthur Michael, who was one of the first organic chemists in the US, and John Sterling Kingsley, who was one of the first scholars of comparative anatomy.
PT Barnum was one of the early advocates of Tufts College, and Barnum Hall was built in 1884 with funds donated to collect specimens of animals and jumbo elephants, which would become the university's mascot. The building stood until April 14, 1975, when fire destroyed Barnum Hall, destroying the entire collection.
On July 15, 1892, the Tufts Supervisory Council voted "that the College is opened to women in the undergraduate department on the same terms and conditions as men". Metcalf Hall opened in 1893 and serves as a dormitory for women. At the same meeting, the guardians chose to create a graduate school faculty and offer Ph.D. degree in biology and chemistry. In 1893, the School of Medicine was opened and in 1899 Boston Dental College was integrated into the university. In 1890, the Department of Electrical Engineering was created, and in 1892-1893 a three-year program in civil engineering was extended to four years. With the advent of a four-year program, degrees are graduated in civil or electro engineering. Tufts College added the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Chemical Engineering in 1894 and 1898, respectively. In 1898, the guardians chose to formally establish the College of Engineering scholars.
20th century
Jackson College for Women was founded in 1910 as a campus coordinator adjacent to the Tufts campus. In 1980 it integrated with the College of Liberal Arts but is still recognized in the formal name of the undergraduate arts and science division, "College of Liberal Arts and Jackson College". Women undergraduates in the arts and sciences continued to receive their diplomas from Jackson College until 2002.
Tufts expanded in 1933 with the opening of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the first graduate school of international relations in the United States. The Fletcher School began as a joint effort between Tufts and Harvard University, funded by donations from longtime donors Tufts and alumni Dr Austin Barclay Fletcher. Tufts assumed full administration of Fletcher School in 1935, and a strong relationship between the two schools remained.
During World War II, Tufts College was one of 131 national colleges and universities that took part in the V-12 Naval Training Program that offered students a path to the Navy's commission.
Due to travel restrictions imposed by World War II, the Boston Red Sox conducted spring training for the 1943 Major League season at Tufts College. In 1955, continued expansion was reflected in the change of school name to Tufts University.
The University experienced growth during the presidency of Jean Mayer (1976-1992). Mayer founded Tufts' veterinary, nutrition, and biomedical schools and acquired the Grafton and Talloire campuses, at the same time elevating the university from a monstrous financial situation by increasing the size of the endowment by a factor of 15.
The College of Engineering added graduate studies to its curriculum beginning in 1961, with master degrees available in four departments. He added Ph.D. In 1984, CEO and chairman of Analogic Corporation and NeuroLogica Corporation Bernard Marshall Gordon founded the Tufts Gordon Institute as the first educational institution which was created to encourage entrepreneurship in engineering. In 1991, the New England Schools and Colleges Association accredited the institute to award a Master of Science in Engineering Management and in 1992, Gordon Institute became part of the College of Engineering. In 1999, the College of Engineering became a School of Engineering, when oversight of the postgraduate engineering program was transferred from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. As part of the same reorganization, the Faculty of Arts and Science became the Faculty of Arts, Sciences and Engineering (AS & E).
21st century
Under President Larry Bacow, Tufts embarked on a capital campaign in 2006 with the aim of raising $ 1.2 billion to implement full blind acceptance in 2011. On December 10, 2010, the campaign raised $ 1.14 billion. Tufts received the greatest contribution in its history since 2005, including a $ 136 million inheritance for its contribution to the disbandment of a charity trust founded by 1911 alumnus Frank C. Doble, a $ 100 million prize from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar to establish Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund, prizes worth $ 40 million to certain schools.
In 2008, Hines Interests and TUDC, a subsidiary of the university, plan to make a breakthrough in South Station Tower. Tufts had obtained air rights from the South Station in 1990, with former President Jean Meyer imagining a tower that would become a medical research center. The initial design was carried out by Cesar Pelli, with construction now scheduled to begin in 2017. However, Tufts withdrew from the project in 2009.
On November 30, 2010, the university announced that Anthony P. Monaco, formerly of Oxford, would become the thirteenth president. The inauguration of Monaco took place on October 21, 2011.
On October 15, 2015, Computer Science went beyond International Relations as the largest department at the university, with 466 declaring majors.
On December 22, 2015, the university announced it would run the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Merger completed on June 30, 2016.
In December 2015, the university completed the Memorial Stair reconstruction. The new Central Energy Factory is in development and will be completed by summer 2016. It will replace an aged 60 year old plant and provide a new efficiency boiler that in addition to providing the university directly with electricity, hot and cold water will help the university cut emission. The university also built a new complex of science and engineering (SEC). The SEC will feature state of the art laboratories and encourage interdisciplinary research between the departments of neuroscience and environmental science. The new building will be completed by summer 2017 and will join the newly rehabilitated 574 Boston Avenue in the expansion of classrooms and laboratory facilities for technical schools.
In 2016, Microsoft founder Paul Allen pledged a $ 10 million donation over four years to the creation of Allen's Discovery Center at Tufts and Stanford. Centers will fund research that will read and write morphogenetic code. Tufts biologist Michael Levin will lead the center with research focusing on communication between cells and causes of birth defects, cancer, traumatic injuries and degenerative diseases.
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Tufts main campus is located at Walnut Hill in Medford and Somerville, about 5 miles (8.0 km) from Boston. This campus accommodates all S1 students of Art & amp; Science and Engineering, postgraduate programs at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and all postgraduate programs in Arts & amp; Science and Engineering. While most of the campuses in Medford, the Somerville line intercepts them, placing parts of the lower campus in Somerville and leading to the general terms "Uphill" and "Downhill".
The "Uphill" section of the campus consists of academic and residential quad "rez", and is surrounded by wrought iron fences. Classes that contribute to fence construction are commemorated along the length. The academic quad contains the earliest buildings and was built from the mid-19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. One of Tufts' first buildings, Ballou Hall was built from 1852-1854 and was designed in Italian style by the famous Gridley Boston architect James Fox Bryant. Ballou Hall was later restored by McKim, Mead, and White in 1955-56, and served as the president's office, provost, and several vice presidents and deans. Other notable buildings include: Packard Hall (1856), East Hall (1860), West Hall (1871), Goddard Chapel (1882), Goddard Hall (1883), Barnum Hall (1884), and Eaton Hall (1908). Company Whitfield & amp; King is responsible for the Eaton Hall design.
Quad "Uphill" housing contains more modern buildings. The most famous building is Carmichael Hall (1954), designed by Arland A. Dirlam. Dirlam also designed Bendetson Hall (1947) in the academic square. Adjacent to both thighs is the Cabot Intercultural Center designed by ARC/Architectural Resources Cambridge, Inc. one of the Fletcher School buildings. Many points on the hill have recorded the skyline of Boston, especially the terrace on the roof of the Tisch Library. It has been ranked one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.
The "Downhill" section can be accessed by a memorial ladder. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers in 1920, the memorial ladder forms one of the main entrances to the university and allows direct access to the engineering school of the academic quad. Famous buildings around technical schools include Bromfield-Pearson Hall (1893), Robinson Hall (1899), and Curtis Hall (1894). The Boston architect George Albert Clough is responsible for the design of Curtis Hall and Goddard Hall. In addition, Arland Dirlam is responsible for the design of many buildings declined. These included the Cohen Auditorium (1950), Hodgdon Hall (1954), and Jackson Gymnasium (1947). The administrative offices also occupy the surrounding neighborhood and nearby Davis Square, where Tufts makes payments in lieu of taxes on some tax-exempt properties (education).
Boston
The School of Medicine, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, School of Dentistry, and Friedman Nutrition School and Policy are located on campus in the Boston Chinatown neighborhood, adjacent to Tufts Medical Center, a 451-bed academic medical institution. All doctors full-time Tufts Medical Center holds a clinical faculty appointment at Tufts School of Medicine.
Grafton
The Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine is located in Grafton, Massachusetts, west of Boston, on a 634-acre campus (2.57Ã, km 2 ). The school also maintains Ambulatory Farm Clinics in Woodstock, Connecticut and the Tufts Laboratory at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole on Cape Cod.
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Tufts has a satellite campus in Talloires, France at Tufts European Center, a former Benedictine monk built in the 11th century. The Priory was bought in 1958 by Donald MacJannet and his wife Charlotte and was used as a summer camp for several years before MacJannets granted the campus to Tufts in 1978. Each year the center hosted a number of summer courses, and enrolled students directly with a local family. The Tufts Summit program is for American high school students during July. Tufts at Talloires is a 6-week program for Tufts scholars that extends from mid-May to late June. In addition Tufts in Annecy is a 4-week program that gives French language learners the opportunity to practice and learn the language. The site often hosts international conferences and meetings, notably the Talloires Declaration which brings together 22 universities to sustainability goals. The Talloires campus has been classified as one of the best branch campuses by the National Association of Branch Campus Administrators.
Organization and administration
Tufts University is an independent, private, and non-sectarian institution of higher education. The official company name is The Trustees of Tufts College . The university is managed by up to forty-one Supervisors and no less than twenty-eight. Supervisors themselves are responsible for choosing their successors. In addition the university president appoints the Supervisory Charter (up to 30 members) elected by the Supervisory Board and Alumni (up to 10 members) serving up to five years. Generally the Supervisory Charter is elected by a majority of members. The alumni supervisor is selected by the alumni. The Trustees appoint the President and other senior administrative officials from the university, and review and confirm the faculty appointments as necessary. They define the mission and objectives of the university, review and approve changes in the academic program, monitor the university's financial condition, establish institutional investments and policies, and adopt budgets. Corporate officials include Chairman of the Board, three Deputy Chairs, Treasurer, Secretary, Provost, President, who serves ex officio, and Executive Vice President.
President Tufts University, elected by the Supervisor, is the chief executive officer of the university. Assisting the President in managing the university is Provost, Executive Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary, all appointed by the Trustee on the nomination of the President and serving with pleasure. As the 13th president Anthony Monaco was sworn in on August 1, 2011. A capable leader, scientist and teacher, Monaco was once a professor and Vice-Chancellor at Oxford University. His doctoral research led to his monumental discovery of genes responsible for the X-linked Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy. He worked on the human genome project at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London and in the laboratory of human genetics at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford. In addition he identifies the first gene that is specifically involved in language and human speech.
Tufts is organized into ten schools. Each school has its own faculty, and is led by a dean appointed by the president and provost with the approval of the Supervisory Board. The School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Engineering is the only school that provides undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. The five schools that offer undergraduate education are: Arts and Science, a liberal arts college that offers a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degree, School of Engineering (also known as Gordon Institute) offers a Bachelor of Science, Special Studies School which provides a bachelor's degree art through the Tufts School of Museum of Fine Arts. The other two are Jonathan M. Tisch College Citizenship and Public Service and Experimental College is a non-degree grant.
Tisch College was founded in 2000 "to educate active citizens" with the help of a $ 10 million prize from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. The school was renamed in 2006 after a $ 40 million prize from Jonathan Tisch. It has been called "the most ambitious effort by research universities to make public services part of its core academic mission". The campus facilitates and supports a range of community services, community engagement programs, research, and teaching initiatives throughout the university. The University runs on a semester-based calendar with most undergraduate students completing within four years; however, Tisch College provides an innovative 1st year Bridge program in which students have the opportunity to take a community-based service gap before embarking on Tufts. Current projects conducted by Fellows Bridge Fellows involve serving as mentors and teachers for children, caring for savaged wildlife, contributing to renewable energy and sustainability projects. The project is currently based in Brazil, Nicaragua, and Spain.
Under the scope of the School of Arts and Sciences is the Experimental College, created in 1964 as a place of evidence for innovative, experimental, and interdisciplinary curricula and courses. It offers an opportunity for students to take credit courses with non-academic practitioners in various fields, as well as from upper-level students who have the opportunity to design and teach their own course. Another successful component of Ex College is EPIIC, a one-year program that began in 1985 to immerse students in global issues, culminating in the annual symposium of experts and experts from the field.
The Tufts School of Fine Arts offers an art program with the main museum, Museum of Fine Arts. One of the key figures in the merger, Nancy Bauer became dean of the museum school.
Postgraduate education is offered in eight schools. In addition to Arts and Sciences and Engineering Tufts offers graduate degrees at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the oldest US school for international relations and foreign affairs, Dental Schools, Medical Schools, Sackler School of Postgraduate Biomedical Sciences, Friedman School of Nutrition, and Schools Veterinary Medicine Cummings. In addition, the university does provide a master's degree in religion through the Crane Theological School. School was dissolved in 1968.
Academics
Reception
Graduate admission
The admission of scholars to Tufts is highly selective, with the Princeton Review giving it a selectivity rating of 98/99. For the 2020 class, Tufts received 2,889 or 14.3% of 20,223 applicants. The School of Arts and Science received 14.9% of applicants while the School of Engineering received 11.7%. The transfer rate is 5.6%. According to Dean of Young Admissions Lee Coffin, the admissions team still considers 8,108 students, or 40 percent of the set of applications, potentially eligible to receive. Coffin goes on to detail that the number of places to enroll in the university can offer at 1,325 rises from 1,310 last year. For the 2016 matriculation class, 91% of new students enter the top 10% of their high school class (up one percent from the previous year). For class 2021, the interquartile range of SAT scores is 1420-1540 while for ACT it is 31-34.
In 2006, Dean of Arts and Science Robert Sternberg added experimental criteria for application process for students to test "creativity and other non-academic factors", including inviting applicants to submit YouTube videos to complement their application. Calling it the "first major university to attempt such a departure from the norm," Inside Higher Ed also notes that Tufts continues to consider SAT and other traditional criteria.
Dean of Acceptance Bachelor Lee Coffin announced on April 7, 2015 that Tufts will accept students without documents with and without Suspended Action for the Arrival of Children (DACA). Coffin said that undocumented students will no longer be considered international students, but domestic students. This is due to the activism of United for Immigrant Justice's social justice group. The first cohort of unrecorded students is in the 2019 class. The university receives 21,501 undergraduate applicants by 2018.
Graduate admissions
Each graduate school carries out their own admissions process. Students apply directly to the graduate programs they seek to receive, so the admission level varies dramatically among programs.
Ratings
In 2016, Forbes placed the 12th Tufts among Research Universities, and ranked the 18th graduate school in the rankings of the American High School, which includes military academies, national universities and liberal arts colleges. In addition, the 2013 Vault.com rank puts the 25th Tufts undergraduate school in the country. Selected student college rankings Parchment 2014, which tracks the enrollment decision of 253,440 students who have been accepted to several schools to express their preferences for their school of choice compared to other schools that recognize students, ranked Tufts as # 17 nationally and # 13 for national universities to student preferences. By US. News & amp; World Report ' s 2018 ranked college, Tufts ranked 29th in the country, with a high school counselor ranking counselor tied to 22, and 173 globally. By 2015, the Times World University Rank of Higher Education places Tufts tied to 127th in the world. The university is ranked 101-150 in 2015 The World University's Academic Ranking and ranked 252th in 2015 QS World University Rankings . In addition, for classes enrolled in the fall of 2013, Forbes placed Tufts among the top 20 in "Ranking 100 Best Schools With SAT Score". Tufts peer school according to U.S. News & amp; World Report in 2015 includes Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, and Brown.
Foreign Policy rated the 4th School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts' Fletcher in the world for International Relations in 2009. US. News & amp; World Report for 2017 ranked Tufts tied for the 58th for engineering among schools that awarded a PhD degree, and also ranked the Tufts Institute of Medicine and Research 'tied for 52 in primary care and is tied to 49 in research, while the ranks of the 68th Sackler School in the rank of the Best Graduate School, Biological Sciences. The Boston School of Occupational Therapy, an entry-level master's program in Graduate School of Arts & amp; Science at Tufts, ranked 6th in US. News & amp; World Report 's Best Occupational Therapy Program. M.A. Program Tufts in philosophy ranks first in the United States in terms of faculty quality.
Tufts was named by Newsweek as one of the "25 New Ivies" in 2006. In The Princeton Review 's 2010-2011 "Best 363 Higher Education ", Tufts was ranked 14th for the happiest student and his overseas study program was ranked 3rd in the country. According to the October 2010 ranking compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tufts was ranked 12th in the country (tied with Harvard and Johns Hopkins) with 17 Fulbright scholars. Tufts also ranks fourth among high schools for the number of Teach for America volunteers it produces. Due to its continuous growth as an institution, Tufts was ranked 5th "hottest school" of the decade from 2000-10. Tufts was ranked 450th of the top universities in the United States by Payscale and CollegeNet Social Mobility Index rankings.
Collaboration
Students may enter a five-year program with a New England Conservatory. The Cosmology Department also offers a joint seminar with MIT. Organized by Alan Guth and Alexander Vilenkin, the seminar is open to all students. The Fletcher School also operates a dual degree program with Harvard Law School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, UC Berkeley School of Law among others. Some academic consortia allow research collaboration between local schools. Examples exist with the Program on Negotiation, ROTC, Tufts-New England Health Center, Center for European Studies, and School of Engineering. Some exchange programs allow students to study at the International Graduate Institute and Development Studies in Geneva and Po Science in Paris. Cross-admission exists for undergraduate students with schools at the Boston Consortium. Fletcher and other graduate students can cross-register with graduate schools at Harvard and MIT.
Tufts has offered courses abroad with various universities over the last 40 years. Tufts has a long semester and year program with Pembroke College from Oxford University, University College London, Royal Holloway University in London, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Paris, Science Po Paris, ÃÆ' â € ° cole nationale supÃÆ' Â © rieure des Beaux-Father, University of TÃÆ'¼bingen, University of Zhejiang, and University of Hong Kong. Each year over 500 undergraduate students study abroad, with most doing so during their junior and senior years.
Libraries and museums
Completed in 1908, Tufts' first library building, the Eaton Memorial Library (now Eaton Hall), was made possible by donations from Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie's wife requested that the building be named after Tufts graduate, Reverend Charles Eaton, who led the marriage. The building received an extension in 1950 with the construction of the War Memorial Library to honor the Tufts alumnus who served in World War II. In 1965, the collection surpassed the building and moved to a new library called the Wessell Library. In addition, demand for more square footage encourages Wessell's expansion. In 1995, with an additional 80,000 square feet, the library was renamed the Tisch Library.
Today the Tufts University Library System contains over three million volumes. The main library, the Tisch Library, holds about 2.7 million volumes, with other holdings scattered in the subject library including the Hirsh Health Sciences Library on the Boston campus, Edwin Ginn Library at Fletcher School, and the Webster Family Library at Cummings School of Veterinary. Medicine at the Grafton campus. Students have access to the institute's academic library at the Boston Consortium. Tufts is also a member of SHARES, which allows students to have library access at participating members such as Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Caltech, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, UPenn and Yale. Furthermore, students may apply for privileges to the Harvard Library System. Tufts also runs the Perseus Project, a digital library project that collects the digital collection of human resources.
In addition to the Barnum Museum of Natural History, Tufts has established a permanent art collection that includes art from ancient times to the present. The collection consists of 2,000 works from ancient Mediterranean and pre-Hispanic cultures to modern, contemporary paintings, sculptures and photography. Significant highlights in the permanent collection include the works of John Singer Sargent, Albrecht DÃÆ'¼rer, Isamu Noguchi, Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol, Milton Resnick, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Picasso. The collection exhibits are screened annually at the Aidekman Art Center.
Student life
Student body
According to the Princeton Review, university student bodies are ethnically and socioeconomically diverse. The Advocate rated Tufts as one of the 20 best gay-friendly campuses. Of those accepted for entry into Graduate Class 2019, 27 percent are Asian, Hispanic, African-American, or two or more races. There are 145 international students and 6 unregistered students or DACA students. Of the accepted domestic students, about 31 percent identify themselves as one or more races other than Caucasian, including Asian, African American, Hispanic and Native American Americans. International students make up 15 percent of the undergraduate student population. Students come from 50 states and represent 71 countries. The top 10 countries represented are China, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Turkey, Singapore, Canada, South Korea, UK, and Vietnam.
Student government
There are three forms of student government at Tufts University: Tufts Community Senate (TCU), TCU Court and CSL (Student Life Committee). The Senate is chaired by the head of the student organization and headed by a six-person executive board composed of Vice-President, Treasurer, Historian, Parliament, and Diversity and Public Relations Officer.
Publications and broadcasting
The Tufts Daily is a daily student newspaper, and the Tufts Observer, founded in 1895, is the school's bi-weekly magazine and the oldest publication on campus. The Zamboni is a magazine of Tufts humor and satire. The Princeton Review has named Tufts college newspaper as one of the best in the country, currently ranking no. 10. Tufts owns a television station (TUTV) that has produced and broadcast movies, news, operatic soaps, and comedy sketches. TUTV has also released web series such as "Jules and Monty". The station began operations in April 1977, from Curtis Hall and comprised of 40 volunteer students. Curtis Hall is also home to Tufts own radio station, WMFO, which is streaming locally at 91.5 FM. The first station was aired in 1970 and funded by the university.
Activism
In 1969, Tufts was the center of Civil Rights activism because of the controversy surrounding the Lewis Hall development. Students went on strike to protest against a racist recruitment policy by a Tufts construction company assigned to build a living quarters. In addition to writing letters, students sit in Ballou and East Hall, and collaborate with black workers. This demonstration eventually drew support from major metropolitan areas in the Northeast. In 1970, Tufts adopted a new recruitment policy which was later adopted by other universities. This leads to the creation of training programs for minority employees on campus, in addition to the foundations of the Africana Center.
Greek Life
There are 13 organizations of total Greek life in Tufts. About 25% of the student body is involved in Greek life. The six national fraternities with branches in Tufts are Delta Tau Delta, Delta Upsilon, Theta Chi, Theta Delta Chi, Zeta Beta Tau, and Zeta Psi. In addition, there are four student societies: Alpha Omicron Pi, Alpha Phi, Chi Omega, and Kappa Alpha Theta. There is also a fraternal brotherhood, ATO Massachusetts, and a local fraternity, Pi Rho Omega.
Athletics
Tufts competed in the New England Small College Athletic Conference - NESCAC - at the NCAA Division III. Their mascot is Jumbo, which is one of the two college mascots to appear in Webster's Dictionary with the other being Billiken of St. University. Louis. This mascot comes from the circus P. T. Barnum, because Barnum is one of the original guardians of Tufts College. According to legend, Jumbo the Elephant heroically jumps in front of the train, sacrificing himself to rescue a younger elephant from death. Jumbo doll leather donated to school, and displayed until the 1975 fire destroyed the body, except for its tail, which had been removed for conservation work. Now, the elephant statue is a prominent landmark in the square, near Barnum Hall, the building of Biology.
Recently, Tufts has become one of the top athletic schools in the Third Division. The school is consistently ranked as the top ten in the Learfield Director's Cup, which tops Division I, II and III sports programs in the country by providing points in the number of pre-determined sports for men and women. In 2015-16, Tufts is ranked 4th in the country, and in 2014-15 Tufts is ranked 9. The men's lacrosse Tufts team won the first NCAA championship at school in 2010, defeating Salisbury State University in a championship game. They lost in 2011 to Salisbury in the championship. In 2012, women's field hockey teams won their first national championship, beating Montclair State University 2-1 in the final. Coach Tina McDavitt won the DIII National Coach of the Year in 2012, as well. The previous field hockey team has been the runner-up nationally in 2008. The women's softball team won three NCAA Division III National Championships in a row in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The men's lacrosse team won their second NCAA III National Championship Division in 2014 and their third Championship in 2015, beating Lynchburg. On December 6, 2014, the men's soccer team won its first KeII National Championship, beating Wheaton College 4-2. The Jumbos repeated this feat two years later, winning the KeII National Championship in 2016 by defeating Calvin College 1-0. The men's and women's squash squads have been historically successful, ranking the top 30 teams in the country. The men's Varsity Swim and Dive team won the first NESCAC Championships in school history in 2018 and the 7th ranked team in the country at the National Championships meet in the same year.
Done in most football matches, "Tuftonia's Day", Tufts fight song, written in 1912 by Elliot W. Hayes. It can also be heard at many capella concerts and on homecoming Tufts.
Housing and eating places
Seven out of ten undergraduate students live on campus. Students can choose from 40 dwellings from homes with little special interest, to traditional dormitories, to shared apartments. There are 25 halls of residence. Similar to a housing campus, students will often organize discussions and bring in guest speakers and plan some activities together. Senior members have the option to stay at home with a special interest of 15 homes that reflect a particular cultural or academic interest. Each house offers arrangements for some activities and events are not limited to residents. Shared apartments are usually the most popular in universities with apartments such as Sophia Gordon Hall (SoGo) the main meeting place for juniors and seniors. High density residential neighborhoods around the university provide additional housing for students who choose to live off campus.
The university has two main dining centers, Dewick-MacPhie serves declining students, and Carmichael serves up-and-coming students. Each dining room has a menu and a different atmosphere. Both offer European style servery with many stations. Princeton Review has listed Tufts in the "Best Campus Food" category since 2005, ranking it as high as a second. The menu for this dining room can be found at Tufts Recipes. In addition to the two main dining centers, there are smaller cafes, including Deli Kosher and Hodgdon Food-To-Go which offer a place for students to grab a quick bite.
Tradition
A Cappella
Tufts also has a growing cappella scene, including Beelzebubs, known for their performances on NBC's The Sing-Off and Glee , in which the group organizes some songs performed by fictitious groups a cappella, The Warblers. Other important groups include Amalgamates, also known for their performances throughout the United States, and Jackson Jills, Tufts' oldest female group.
Naked Quad Run
Every winter shortly before the final exam, students will run naked in the Academic Quad as a way to eliminate the final stress, similar to a similar tradition like Primal Scream at Harvard. Due to increased supervision from the administration and injuries that occurred due to slipping on icy roads, the tradition was banned in 2011 by President Lawrence at the time, which made students anxious. The demonstrations took place the following year, with some students wearing bare-colored clothes and others taking the opposite tactics that called their show "Quadruple Overloaded Quotes". Beginning in 2016, the tradition was revitalized for the spring's final week and briefly became an annual tradition once again.
JumboSmash
JumboSmash is an application built from scratch every year by students in the computer science department. This idea comes from the handing over of 2012 to hackathon Tufts. Some of the students involved in his creation described him as "the local Tinder application, college-senior-only" available for a week before graduation. Iteration 2017 registered 1 million friction within the first 24 hours. Traditionally, developers delete apps on senior weekends, and next year's group starts from scratch.
Famous people
Tufts alumni in the government sector include Admiral James Stavridis, dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (M.A.L.D. 1983, Ph.D. 1984); Mulatu Teshome Wirtu (M.A.L.D. 1990), President of Ethiopia since 2013; Kostas Karamanlis (M.A. 1982, Ph.D. 1984), former Greek Prime Minister; Shashi Tharoor (M.A. 1976, M.A.L.D. 1977, Ph.D. 1979), former UN Secretary-General and Minister of India; Daniel Patrick Moynihan (B.A. 1948, M.A. 1949, Ph.D. 1961), former US Senator from New York and US Ambassador to the United Nations; Scott Brown (B.A. 1981), former US Senator from Massachusetts; Bill Richardson (B.A. 1970), former New Mexico Governor, US Secretary of Energy and US Ambassador to the United Nations; Thomas R. Pickering (M.A. 1954), diplomat; Joseph Dunford (M.A. 1992), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Peter DeFazio (B.A. 1969), US Democratic Representative of Oregon.
Graduates who have found success in business include Pierre Omidyar (B.S. 1988), founder of eBay; Laura Lang (B.A. 1977), CEO of Time Inc; Jamie Dimon (B.A. 1978), CEO of JPMorgan Chase; John Bello (B.A. 1968), founder of SoBe Beverages; Jeff Kindler (B.A. 1977), former CEO of Pfizer; Jonathan Tisch (B.A. 1976), CEO of Loews Hotels; Ellen J. Kullman (B.A. 1978), CEO of DuPont; and Anthony Scaramucci (B.A. 1976), co-founder of SkyBridge Capital and Former Director of Communications for Trump Administration.
In the media, alumni including David Faber (B.A. 1985), anchor at CNBC; Meredith Vieira (B.A. 1975), journalist and TV personality; Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. (B.A. 1974), publisher of The New York Times ; and Peter Roth (B.A. 1972), CEO of Warner Bros. Television, Josh Gates; [tv host, producer, explorer, and writer] In the arts, alumni including William Hurt (B.A. 1972), actor-winning Academy Award; Hank Azaria (B.A. 1988), actors and voice actors; Peter Gallagher (B.A. 1977), actor; Tracy Chapman (B.A. 1987), singer-songwriter; Darin Strauss (B.A. 1992), author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning; Ruben Bolling (Ken Fisher's original name) (B.A. 1984), cartoonist and writer; and Gregory Maguire (Ph.D. 1990), a novelist.
Other alumni include Michelle Kwan (M.A. 2011), Olympic medalist and world champion figure skater from the United States; Frederick Hauck (B.A.1962), commander of the spacecraft from the Discovery Space Shuttle; Rear Admiral Leo Otis Colbert (B.S. 1907), third Director of the US Coastal and Geodetic Survey; and Thelma C. Swain (B.A. 1931), philanthropist Maine.
Break-ups include actress Jessica Biel, actor Rainn Wilson, founder of American Apparel Dov Charney, and country music songwriter Darrell Scott. The fictional character Elaine Benes of Seinfeld claims that he attended Tufts, calling it a "safety school", a Tufts stereotype in the 1990s.
The former Tufts faculty today includes former president of the American Psychological Association Robert Sternberg, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Martin J. Sherwin, eminent philosopher Daniel Dennett, Nobel Laureate Allan M. Cormack (1924-1998), Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate Wassily Leontief, Nobel Laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, regular columnist at Foreign Policy Magazine, Daniel W. Drezner, hosted radio Lonnie Carton, Japanese author Haruki Murakami, and author Lee Edelman.
- Tufts University Alumni Includes:
See also
References
Further reading
- Sol Gittleman: Entrepreneurship University: Tufts Transformation, 1976-2002 , Tufts University Press, 2002, ISBNÃ, 1584654163
- Diversity, Resilience, Heritage: Adult Student Life at Tufts University , ed. by Jean Hebert and Tina Marie Johnson, Tufts University Press, 2008, ISBNÃ, 0595500463
External links
- Official website
- Tufts Athletics website
- Ã, "Tufts College". Encyclopedia Americana . 1920.
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