From Tufts, Forward: A Celebration of Student Voices
Celebrate the end of our Civic Life Lunch series with food, collaboration and fun prizes on Wednesday, Dec. 3.
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Tufts Civic Semester
Follow along with our Tufts Civic Semester students in Thailand and Peru through their blogs and Instagram posts.
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Material Witness: Then and Now
Visit us in Barnum Hall to see an exhibit by Boston artist and Tisch College Coordinator Nancy Marks drawing on her mother's experience as a Holocaust survivor to explore how creativity processes loss, amplifies voices, and sparks dialogue.
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Big Data for Democracy
Tisch College has one of the biggest research teams in the U.S. devoted to understanding the challenges to our democracy—and the opportunities to build and sustain it. We use that scholarship to inform our own programming at Tufts and to drive national conversations about voting and elections, the role of citizens, the health of democratic institutions, and the power of young people.
Tisch College News
How to Be a Mayor
In the classroom, as in City Hall, former Somerville mayor Joe Curtatone models the art of truly engaging your community
The ‘Black Forager’ Nibbles the Campus
Alexis Nikole Nelson, an expert on foraging, shares advice for safely eating foods found in the wild
CommonWealth Beacon
Survey: Mass. business confidence stuck in longest rut since pandemic
cSPA's Evan Horowitz discusses the latest “business confidence index” from the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, which is trending negative for the eighth straight month. Horowitz highlights “the unparalleled levels of uncertainty and disruption resonating from Washington” as a major factor.
The Boston Globe
Among the largest tax overrides in Mass. history loom in Melrose and Stoneham. Will voters go along?
A cSPA report written on behalf of the Massachusetts Municipal Association examining the impact of rising costs and sluggish growth in state aid on municipal budgets is linked in this article.
WBUR
Why a 45-year-old tax law is back under the microscope
Evan Horowitz of cSPA joined WBUR's Morning Edition to explain why Proposition 2 1/2, the 45-year-old Massachusetts law that limits how much cities and towns can raise property taxes in a given year, is in the spotlight.Upcoming Events
