Anti-Racist Institution Resources
The Path to Becoming an Anti-Racist Institution
Beginning in 2020, more than 100 students, faculty, and staff worked tirelessly across five separate workstreams–Institutional Audit and Targeted Action, Campus Safety and Policing, Public Art, Compositional Diversity, and Equity and Inclusion–to audit the status quo, identify possible solutions, and make recommendations. Over 180 recommendations, across the five workstreams, were submitted to the senior leadership team for consideration.
Learn more about the recommendations.
Anti-Racist Resources
Tufts University has complied anti-racist resources to help students, faculty, and staff put change into motion every day. Learn more about the anti-racist resources, terminology, and practices by exploring the documents below:
Anti-Racist Resources for Academia Tisch Library Anti-Racism Resource Guide
Diversity Dashboard
Tufts's interactive diversity dashboard helps raise awareness of inclusion as a university priority, enables us to celebrate our achievements, and illuminates areas for improvement.
Land Acknowledgement
Tufts University is located on colonized Wôpanâak (Wampanoag) and Massachusett Tribe traditional territory. The hill Tufts is built on was not an empty plot. Beyond the Medford campus, the Tufts-owned Loj, operated by the Tufts Mountain Club, is located in the New Hampshire homeland of the Abenaki People. The Land Acknowledgement Committee at Tufts is actively engaged with local Indigenous leaders in order to draft a land acknowledgment for the University and to decide how and when to use the acknowledgment.
To help indigenous students on campus, Tufts created an Indigenous Student Center in 2021. The Indigenous Center is part of the larger effort and connects directly to the efforts of the Diversity Membership Task Force and the Tufts Initiative as an Anti-Racism Institution. The center is under the leadership of Vernon Miller, Center Director; and Ellise LaMotte, Associate Dean of Student Diversity, Inclusion and Success.