Diversity

The mission of the Tufts Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is to offer graduate programs that feature stimulating academic opportunities, innovative research environments, and close mentoring from a world-class faculty. We emphasize the importance of communication, leadership, and teamwork skills.

In addition to promoting academic and research diversity in our graduate programs, our mission is also to achieve cultural diversity by developing an academic and social environment that welcomes underrepresented groups in all of our programs. The diversity of the backgrounds and experiences of our graduate students deeply enrich our community and we are strongly committed to having a diverse and active graduate student body.

Arts and Sciences graduate students are an integral part of Tufts. They come here to study, investigate, grow intellectually, perform research, conceive new ideas, and develop insights in a variety of areas of study. They are a vibrant component of our campus and we welcome and encourage opportunities to interact with them and listen to their thoughts and ideas.

There are a number of organizations and offices at Tufts that focus on issues of diversity. Graduate students interested in learning more about these offerings can access the links below:

Multi-Ethnic Graduate Alliance (MEGA)

Leadership Alliance

Office of Institutional Diversity (OID)

Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO)

Funding Opportunities

Pinderhughes

Ellen Pinderhughes
associate professor and chair, child development

Current Research: "In my research program, I seek to contribute an understanding of developmental processes in families whose children are at risk for dysfunctional behavior so that policies, interventions and services can be improved or designed to facilitate optimal child outcomes."

Why Tufts: "I was impressed by the commitment that the university has to educating, training and preparing students for leadership in an increasingly diverse world. The combination of a strong undergraduate program that has strong links between academic and service endeavors and a very strong graduate program in my department was quite attractive. I was particularly attracted to the multidisciplinary energy in the Eliot Pearson Department of Child Development that is focused on understanding children and families in the context of their cultures and on enhancing their lives through research, practice or policy advocacy."