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.
Tisch College News
Advocating for Equity at Every Level
Michael Zarra, M25, honored with Tufts Presidential Award for Civic Life for his leadership in policy, research, and community engagement.
After 20 Years in Prison, He’s Now a Tufts Grad
Nathan Miksch is the first TUPIT student to start his bachelor’s degree behind bars and finish it on campus
What’s driving Gen Z’s voting behavior?
Data from both CIRCLE and the Cooperative Election Study is cited in this article on the youth gender voting gap in the 2024 election.
Mikayla Paquette’s Hoop Dreams
Finding joy in basketball and purpose in public service, she has created a program that aims to empower youth, on and off the court.
Can Democrats win over Trump voters with this one issue?
This article cites data from CIRCLE that shows 26 percent of youth respondents to a post-election survey said climate was one of their top three priorities.