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Tufts Class Brings Civic Education to Southern Audiences

The free, online Black Futures Matter civic humanities certificate course is aimed at adult learners in Mississippi, Georgia, and Alabama.

Teaching Toward Equity: A Pandemic’s Uneven Burden

A ‘Civic Science’ class helps students analyze, and talk about, COVID’s social consequences.

graphic depicting The Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy

A Robust New Vision for K-12 Civic Education

A team of experts, including two from Tisch College, created an unprecedented roadmap to improving civic education for U.S. students.

Summer Projects Allow Students to Combat COVID-19, Racial Injustice

When COVID-19 derailed their summer plans, these Tufts students were awarded grant funding from Tisch College for projects to help their communities instead.

What a Biden Presidency Means for Health Care, Politics, and the World

Tufts faculty weigh in on the prospects for incoming Biden administration policies and for the political future of the U.S.

Tufts Students Poll the 2020 Election

Tufts undergraduates in Tisch College Professor Brian Schaffner's election polling seminar conducted and analyzed a survey of a representative sample of Americans before the 2020 election.

Tufts Students Poll the 2020 Election

Tufts University conducted a nationally representative survey of 1,215 American adults in conjunction with Professor Brian Schaffner’s “Polling the 2020 Election” seminar.

Be a Civic Leader: Vote and Help Others Vote, Too

Op-Ed: As early voting begins, signs of growing participation are encouraging, but there are still red flags signaling risk for our democracy.

Local Governments Favor the White and Wealthy

Representation is not equitable for people of color and the poor, new book by Tufts professor shows.