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

Agyeman

Julian Agyeman
associate professor, urban and environmental policy and planning

Current Research: "I'm investigating the nexus between environmental justice and sustainable development movements, based on the conviction that permanent social and environmental policy change requires the vision of sustainable development and the awareness of justice, including a more equal distribution of resources and wealth."

Most Recent Book: "Sustainable Communities and the Challenge of Environmental Justice puts forward the idea that social justice and environmental protection can be achieved through the concept of 'just sustainability'; a middle ground, or bridging paradigm between the stewardship-focus of environmental sustainability, and the anti-racist and anti-classist focus of the environmental justice movement."

Why Tufts: "I'm part of a community where students are of such high quality. I am really impressed with their commitment to wanting to change the world. My students help with my research and challenge me constantly."