Inclusive Excellence

Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO)

• Sexual Misconduct Policies & Procedures
• Sexual Misconduct Reporting
• Sexual Misconduct Resources- Boston One Page Resource Guide (PDF)
• Non-Discrimination Policy
• Report Discrimination and/or Harassment
• Reporting FAQ: What to Expect
• OEO Liaisons are specially trained staff from different schools within Tufts University. All OEO liaisons are available to receive reports from students, faculty, staff, patients, visitors and other community members regarding any type of discrimination or harassment, including sexual misconduct
• Ethics Point- Tufts University has selected EthicsPoint, Inc. to provide you with simple, risk-free ways to anonymously and confidentially report activities that may involve unethical or otherwise inappropriate activity or behavior in violation of Tufts University’s established policies and Business Conduct Policy

Accommodation Policies

Lactation Policy (PDF)

Pet, Service and Assistance Animals on Campus Policy (PDF)

Religious Accommodation Policy (PDF)

Printable Policies, Forms & Flowcharts

Starting Information

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Definitions

Consent 101

Podcasts

• Seeing White Podcast
• Black Girl Dangerous
• Code Switch Podcast
• Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt
• Intersectionality Matters! with Kimberlé Crenshaw
• Pod for the Cause
• Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies

Articles

• Why it's hard for people of colour to be themselves at work
• Making the Transition from Ally to Co-conspirator
• Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
• The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
• My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
• The 1619 Project

Books

• How To Be An Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi
• The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
• Step Up and Lead for Equity: What Higher Education Can Do to Reverse Our Deepening Divides
• Does Diversity Make a Difference? Three Research Studies on Diversity in College Classrooms
• Searching for Excellence & Diversity: A Guide for Search Committees at UW-Madison
• Master Class in African American History and Culture
• Language of Appeasement

Please visit Diversity Syllabus for Institutions for a more comprehensive list

More Information

Emergency Resources

Office of Student Affairs

• Student Travel-Related Resources
• Student Council

Tufts Public Safety Anti-Racism Recommendations Progress Dashboard  

Student Resources

• Tufts University is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for students, staff, faculty and community members with regard to:
  • Qualified disabilities (including service animals)
  • Sincerely held religious beliefs
  • Pregnancy and Pregnancy-Related Conditions
  • Lactation
  • Immunization exemptions (for sincerely held religious beliefs)

International Students

• International Student Center
  • International Center Newsletters and Announcements
  • Navigating Life in the US - The following information is to assist you on a variety of practical matters concerning your life in Boston and at Tufts.
  • Banking and Money
  • Health and Wellness
  • Housing Resources
  • Social Security Numbers (SSNs) and Individual Taxpayer ID Numbers (ITINs)
  • US Income Taxes
  • Drivers Licenses and Massachusetts State ID Cards
  • Safety Resources and Conduct Policies
  • Avoiding Scams and Identity Theft

Confidential support: If you have experienced sexual misconduct or discrimination and/or harassment, or witnessed it happening to someone else, you may want to talk to someone confidentially. - for students, staff, faculty

Talk One2One Student Assistance Program:

Talk One2One is a free counseling service. You can also schedule an in-person or telephone appointment with a trained, master’s level counselor at either the Grafton or Boston campus.
Website | 1-800-756-3124 | confidential support 24/7

Student Wellness Advisor (Boston Health Sciences students):

The Student Wellness Advisor provides short-term confidential counseling for personal problems, academic concerns, stress management, anxiety and family/interpersonal issues. Referrals can also be made for long-term confidential counseling services.

Website | 617-636-2700 | 9:30am – 5:30pm

Tufts University Chaplaincy

Through the University Chaplaincy, chaplains offer confidential pastoral care to all members of the Tufts community - students, faculty, and staff. Pastoral care provides a space for you to share your concerns in the context of your religious or spiritual beliefs. The Tufts chaplains work with many different worldview communities including the African, Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim, and Protestant communities.

Website | 617-627-3427 (confidential)

Center for Awareness, Resources & Education (CARE)

Website | 617-627-3752

CARE (Center for Awareness, Resources and Education) offers policy confidential trauma-informed emotional support, answers questions about the OEO process, offers accompaniment to OEO meetings and connects you to other resources. To make a policy confidential appointment in person or virtually, use our online calendar: care.tufts.edu

Food resources

• Free Food at Tufts Elist

Programs and Research Opportunities at Tufts

Staff and Faculty Resources

• Training for Employees- Discrimination & Harassment
• Confidential support: If you have experienced sexual misconduct or discrimination and/or harassment, or witnessed it happening to someone else, you may want to talk to someone confidentially - for students, staff, faculty
• Tufts University Chaplaincy
  Website | 617-627-3427 (confidential)

Through the University Chaplaincy, chaplains offer confidential pastoral care to all members of the Tufts community - students, faculty, and staff. Pastoral care provides a space for you to share your concerns in the context of your religious or spiritual beliefs. The Tufts chaplains work with many different worldview communities including the African, Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, Humanist, Jewish, Muslim, and Protestant communities.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  Website | 800-648-9557

The Tufts Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers free, confidential counseling for both faculty and staff.  EAP counselors are licensed professionals experienced at helping with a wide range of personal and work-related issues. During your first conversation, the counselor will gather information, evaluate your needs, and suggest a plan of action.

• Employee Affinity Groups

• Video: Creating a Syllabus Diversity Statement Presentation
• CELT website
  • Teaching@tufts
  • Newsletter
• Inclusive and Equitable Teaching
  • What is inclusive and equity- centered teaching?
  • How do my identities and experiences impact how I teach?
  • Who are the students I am teaching?
  • How do I create an inclusive learning environment?
  • How do I create an inclusive syllabus?
  • What are inclusive and equitable teaching practices?
  • What are equitable assessment practices?
  • How can I better support students and their learning when challenging moments arise?
  • Anti-Racist Teaching Resources
  • Trauma-Informed/ Healing-Centered Engagement Teaching Resources
• CELT Programs At A Glance
  • Equity & Inclusion Fellows Program: Reflect upon ways to integrate equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist practices into your teaching. (Spring, ~10 meetings)
  • Pedagogical Partnership Program: Partner with a student for a semester to create innovative strategies for enhancing student engagement, increasing equity, and improving learning outcomes.
  • Assessment, Grading & Equity Faculty Learning Community: Create a space for instructors to share experiences, brainstorm, and support each other in exploring new practices to increase equity and learning in their courses. (2x per month)
  • Bridge program: Explore how historical legacies of racist policy and practice manifest in higher education today

• Tufts CTSI Mentor Training Program
• University of Minnesota Online Mentor Trainings
• BHM Mentoring Curriculum
• UCSF Mentoring Toolkit

Offerings and Programs:

• Pedagogical Partnership Program: Partner with a student for a semester to create innovative strategies for enhancing student engagement, reflecting on equity, and improving learning outcomes.
• Mid-Term Feedback: Midway through the semester, invite CELT staff to gather feedback from students using a research-based protocol.
• Teaching Squares: Join a collaborative non-evaluative process of reciprocal classroom observation and self-reflection
• Individual Consultations: With a CELT colleague, discuss your teaching goals, assess and further develop your teaching skills and identify areas where you would like to improve your teaching skills. We are also happy to observe your class and offer feedback.
• Tufts Springboard Funding: This intramural grant program sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR) offers Tier 3 funding of up to $15,000 to support a range of research, scholarly, and/or pedagogical activities.
• Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Partner with CELT to conduct a systematic inquiry research questions related to student learning that are shared publicly in peer-reviewed journals to advance the field of teaching and learning.

Online Resources:

• Feedback from Students – Students’ feedback about their experience and learning can be collected with: surveys, informal conversations, performance on assignments and in class, end-of-the-semester exams, and through institutional student evaluations.
• Feedback from Colleagues – Faculty peers and learning specialists (e.g., CELT and ETS colleagues) can provide invaluable insight into your teaching through conversations, review of materials, and observations.
• Feedback from Self-Reflection – Self-reflection can range from informal (brief, end-of-day reflection) to formal (documentation for annual review, a teaching philosophy statement, or scholarly, data-based investigation into your teaching practices).
• Feedback from Scholarship – Building on teaching practices embedded in an evidence-based culture of ongoing learning assessment, reflection and iterative change, we can publish research related to student learning in peer-reviewed journals.
  • Getting Started with SoTL
  • Engage with the Institute for Research on Instruction and Learning (IRLI)

• Africana Center
• Asian American Center
• FIRST Resource Center
• Latinx Center
• LGBT Center
• Women's Center
• Center for STEM Diversity
• Indigenous Center
• Office of Multicultural Affairs (School of Medicine)
• Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Racism Council (Medical School)
• International Student Center
  • Emergency Information