Honos Civicus
Tisch College kicked off Commencement 2025 weekend by inducting 198 graduating students into honos civicus on Friday, May 15.
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11 Students Honored with Tufts 2025 Presidential Awards for Civic Life
The Presidential Award for Civic Life is the highest recognition for service, leadership, and civic engagement conferred by Tufts University.
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Tufts Civic Semester
First year students can join this transformational first-semester program combines academic and experiential learning with a focus on community engagement and social and environmental justice based in either Urubamba, Peru, or Chiang Mai, Thailand,
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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.
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WBUR
Healey signs a slimmer state budget than proposed
Evan Horowitz, executive director of cSPA, comments on Massachusetts state legislators getting the state budget in almost on time following a long-term issue with meeting deadlines.
WBUR
How the Senate version of Trump's policy bill will impact Mass.
Evan Horowitz, executive director of cSPA, discusses the “devastating” impact of the Senate’s version of President Donald Trump's massive tax-cut and spending bill in Massachusetts, noting repercussions for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the state's Medicaid services.
WCVB-TV
CityLine: Teaching social justice and leadership through hip hop
WCVB's CityLine profiles Dee-1, a hip hop artist and inaugural Alan Solomont Artist/Scholar-in-Residence at Tisch College, who teaches students how to include social commentary in hip hop without glorifying violence, misogyny, or drug culture in his class "Hip Hop and Social Change."
Good Authority
Democrats’ losses among Hispanic voters may be larger than they look
Caroline Soler, A25 and A&S political scientist Brian Schaffner discuss their research, using Cooperative Election Study data from the 2020 and 2024 presidential elections, into the impact of conservative Hispanics who are no longer identifying as Hispanic.
The Boston Globe