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Tufts Civic Semester
Incoming Tufts students can apply for this transformational first-semester program combining academic and experiential learning with a focus on community engagement and social and environmental justice in either Urumbaba, Peru or Chiang Mai, Thailand.
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Alumni Profile: Bethany Kirby
Bethany Kirby’s, A19, path to providing access to quality educational opportunities and to addressing inequity began as a student at Tufts University, where she was introduced to the Jumpstart program, housed at Tisch College.
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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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Civic Semester fellows spend first-year fall semester in Peru, Thailand
Students from the two fall 2024 Tufts Civic Semester cohorts reflect on their experiences in Peru and Thailand.
How Democratic Gen Z activists lost the Gen Z vote
Analysis of youth voter data from AP VoteCast by CIRCLE, which found a general “rightward lurch” by young voters in the 2024 election, is highlighted. Data on overall turnout, top issues that drove voters, and candidate support differences by race and gender are all mentioned.
The dividing line on millionaires tax money
Evan Horowitz, director of cSPA, is quoted from a December Massachusetts legislative panel about trade offs related to the revenue generated by the state’s millionaires tax.
Republicans won the election’s influencer race. Democrats want to catch up.
This article references youth voter data from CIRCLE that showed Kamala Harris had a 4-point lead over Donald Trump in 2024, compared to Joe Biden’s 25-point lead over Trump in 2020.
Watch: With the inauguration approaching, Gen-Z voters reflect on their political influence and ballot choices
This video uses data from CIRCLE to examine how Gen Z voters feel about the 2024 election and their influence on it.