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Dear Parents,
We are delighted to bring you news and event information from Tufts University.
We were happy to welcome so many of you to campus for Parents and Family Weekend. We sincerely hope that you enjoyed the time spent with your child--and managed to get a taste of what being an undergraduate at Tufts is like!
Please take a few minutes to fill out this survey so that we may continue to improve your experience.
Several parents have requested the webcast of the Saturday morning talks with President Anthony P. Monaco and Professor George Norman. Please follow this link for the webcast. For those parents who requested a copy of Professor Norman's power point presentation, please visit parentsprogram.tufts.edu and click on the link on the homepage. We will be adding other power point presentations from our other lecturers, so check back soon.
For those parents who are planning ahead, next year's Parents and Family Weekend is October 19-21.
It's been an exciting couple of months on campus--we've had notable speakers, including Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who spoke on "The Financial Crisis and the Descent of the West;"
President Bill Clinton, who delivered the Issam M. Fares Lecture (you can read about his speech here); and
Kenzaburo Oe, the Japanese novelist and essayist who won the 1994 Nobel Prize for literature.
Upcoming Events
Holocaust survivor Dr. John Saunders, who graduated from Tufts Dental School, will speak to students at the Granoff Family Hillel Center, Wednesday, November 9, about his escape from five concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Annual Veteran's Day Ceremony, Friday, November 11, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. This ceremony honors members of the Tufts community who are military veterans. For more information, please follow this link.
Looking ahead, Commencement will be on Sunday, May 20, 2012. Many families arrive on campus the Thursday before Commencement to attend Tufts Night at the Boston Pops, a fun-filled evening at Symphony Hall. Information about the concert is mailed out in mid-March. To get an idea of what the weekend is like, please see last year's calendar of events.
For hotels with special rates for Tufts parents, please click here.
Best wishes,
Melissa White, interim director, Parents Program
Gina DeSalvo, associate director, Parents Program
Linda Levin-Scherz, A09P, assistant director, Parents Program
Deborah Hand, staff assistant, Parents Program
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GEARING UP FOR ACTION, MONACO PASSES 100-DAY MARK
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After 100 days in office, University President Anthony Monaco is ready to switch gears.
Across all three campuses and at alumni events in Washington, D.C. and New York City, the University of Oxford transplant has filled his days over the past three months with a crash course in the art of listening. He has listened to lengthy Facebook messages, to Tweets, to students and alumni who fill any empty time slots in his daily planner with personal meetings. He has listened to crowds rallying outside his office in Ballou Hall calling for improved treatment of the university's janitorial staff and to neighborhood residents at Community Day. For the rest of The Tufts Daily article, please click here.
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LIFE AFTER TUFTS: YOUNG ALUMNI DISCUSS HOW THEIR TUFTS EDUCATION CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR CAREERS
Career Services asked seven young alumni to discuss their early career paths in response to four important questions:
How has your Tufts education been of value to you?
Which aspects of your Tufts education contributed to your readiness for your first job?
Which experiences and resources at Tufts did you find most helpful in preparing you for life after Tufts?
What was most helpful to you in connection with your career decision-making and job search?
Whether your child is a first-year or a senior, click
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THANKSGIVING MESSAGE FROM HEALTH SERVICES
Thanksgiving weekend is fast approaching, and for many students, it will be the first visit home from college. The three months or so since they were last home have been packed with new experiences, new challenges, achievements, anxieties, and more. They return home having had their first taste of what college has to offer, and are poised between the self they knew before and the self they are becoming. Parents and families are also called upon to change in their relationship to these developing young adults, and the path can sometimes be bumpy as some of the 'old rules' and ways of relating need to give way to updated ones. Please follow this link for the complete article.
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HOST FAMILIES NEEDED
Each year we have several international students who are unable to return home during winter break (December 23, 2011 to January 16, 2012). We are looking for east coast families who would be willing to host students for all or part of the vacation time. If you are interested in hosting an international undergraduate student, please contact Jane Etish-Andrews, director of the International Center, at jane.etish-andrews@tufts.edu, or by phone at 617-627-3458.
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A MESSAGE FROM THE ASSOCIATE DEANS
By now your students are settled into their academic schedule for the fall semester. We hope they are enjoying a rich array of courses that will expand their knowledge and develop their skills as they continue their Tufts education. Please encourage your students to visit their instructors during office hours or other scheduled appointments to develop relationships that can further enrich their academic experience.
We want to remind you that there are many people here who support your student's academic endeavors. Each student has an academic advisor (pre-major advisor prior to choosing their major, and a faculty member in the major once they declare their major). The Academic Resource Center offers writing consultants, subject tutors, study skills and time management consultants and disability services. Visit their website for more information:
http://uss.tufts.edu/arc/
In addition, all students have an academic dean. Their dean can help them with a variety of academic matters including choosing a major, interpreting Tufts degree requirements, planning their curriculum and thinking about study abroad.
The Associate Deans are:
G. Kim Knox kim.knox@tufts.edu
for all Engineering students
Jean Herbert jean.herbert@tufts.edu
for Arts & Sciences students A-E
Carol Baffi-Dugan carol.baffi-dugan@tufts.edu
for Arts & Sciences students F-K
(also directs health professions advising)
Karen Garrett Gould karen.gould@tufts.edu
for Arts & Sciences students L-Ri
Jeanne Dillon Jeanne.dillon@tufts.edu
for Arts & Sciences students Rj-Z
(also Combined Degree BFA and NEC liaison)
Students may call the Dowling Student Service Desk at 617-627-2000 to schedule an appointment.
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