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Tufts University


Self Description

November 2005: "Founded in 1852, Tufts University is recognized among the premier universities in the United States. Tufts enjoys a global reputation for academic excellence and for the preparation of students as leaders in a wide range of professions. Recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a "Doctoral/Research Extensive" institution based on the breadth of basic and clinical research conducted, Tufts has extensive and highly regarded liberal arts, sciences and engineering programs that draw outstanding students from around the world with the highest academic achievement and standing.

More than 98 percent of enrolling students expect to pursue graduate or professional study. Approximately 40 percent of all undergraduates attending Tufts pursue course work outside the United States to add a strong international dimension to their field of study, and the university's language studies are both popular and rigorous."

http://www.tufts.edu/home/about/?p=profile

Third-Party Descriptions

October 2009: "Tufts, a liberal arts college near Boston founded in 1852, is believed to be the first university to explicitly forbid sex in the presence of roommates (unless, presumably, the other person is the roommate)."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dorm-sex3-2009oct03,0,5920342,full.story

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Organization Nov 10, 2005
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Organization May 4, 2010
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) Organization Dec 18, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Frank Ackerman Person Dec 18, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Jerome A. Barron Esq. Person Dec 1, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Hugo Adam Bedau Person Feb 16, 2007
Student/Trainee (past or present) Tony Bove Person Jan 18, 2006
Student/Trainee (past or present) Sen. Scott Brown Person Dec 20, 2010
Student/Trainee (past or present) Prof. Gregory N. Connolly D.M.D., M.P.H. Person Mar 21, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael Doyle Person Apr 2, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Marsha J. Evans Person Dec 30, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Felipe Fernández-Armesto Ph.D. Person Apr 28, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Michael J. Glennon Esq. Person Jul 31, 2006
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Leo Gross Esq. Person Apr 2, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. John Ioannidis M.D. Person Jul 21, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Mark Jurkowitz Person May 2, 2013
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jerome Kassirer MD Person Oct 11, 2004
Student/Trainee (past or present) Matthew Levitt Ph.D. Person Feb 21, 2013
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Alice Lichtenstein Person Nov 12, 2003
Edited by Lawrence Lindner Person
Director/Trustee/Overseer (past or present) Pierre Omidyar Person Apr 14, 2007
Cooperation (past or present) James L. Repace MSc Person Mar 7, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Dr. Susan B. Roberts Ph.D. Person Jul 24, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Alfred P. Rubin Esq. Person Mar 11, 2008
Student/Trainee (past or present) Atika Shubert Person Feb 22, 2008
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Sam Sommers Ph.D. Person Jan 15, 2007
Advised by (past or present) James A. Stern Person Dec 22, 2008
Organization Executive (past or present) Gov. John H. Sununu Person Dec 19, 2005
Student/Trainee (past or present) Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Timothy A. Wise Person Dec 18, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Prof. Jeffrey Zabel Person Sep 28, 2006

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Oct 03, 2009 It's a touchy subject on campus: 'sexiled' students

QUOTE: Tufts, a liberal arts college near Boston founded in 1852, is believed to be the first university to explicitly forbid sex in the presence of roommates...

 Los Angeles Times
Mar 29, 2007 Scientists weigh risks of climate 'techno-fixes': Schemes from space mirrors to vast algal blooms have sparked debate over the ethics of geoengineering.

QUOTE: Proposals run the gamut from space mirrors deflecting a portion of the sun's energy to promoting vast marine algal blooms to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. The schemes have sparked a debate over the ethics of climate manipulation, especially when the uncertainties are vast and the stakes so high. For many scientists, the technology is less an issue than the decisionmaking process that may lead to its implementation.

 Christian Science Monitor
Sep 14, 2006 Is early admission unfair? Harvard's decision to scrap the practice this week has sparked a debate about how colleges should pick students.

QUOTE: critics say it also rewards advantaged students in a system already skewed in their favor...a national conversation about the equity and transparency of admissions, the fairness of early admission, and how any number of admissions practices contribute to the pressure cooker of the application process.

 Christian Science Monitor
Apr 17, 2004 Pushing for Union, Columbia Grad Students Are Set to Strike

QUOTE: Graduate teaching assistants at Columbia University said yesterday that they would go on strike Monday morning and remain out until Columbia recognized their right to unionize...

 New York Times