Faculty and Staff Resources
Academic Support
Students are supported through faculty-student mentorship, a dedicated academic advising team, and academic resource centers. Learn more about our programs, academic advising team, and our accommodation resources.
Accessibility and Accommodations
Tufts University is committed to taking steps to ensuring and improving physical and technological access on campus. Explore resources like assistive technology and policies, web accessibility, and campus maps.
Accessibility and Accommodations
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. View the recommendations, helpful guides, and the university dashboard.
Building an Inclusive Environment
Tufts University and the School of Engineering are committed to providing support for the continuous professional development of each faculty and staff member through an array of resources and programs. Explore the pages below to learn how you can implement diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice concepts into your daily work.
Department Initiatives
The School of Engineering fosters an inclusive environment that recognizes individuals for their ideas, respects people for their differences, and actively encourages participation by students of diverse learning approaches and backgrounds. Our engineering departments have developed initiatives specifically designed to support students within their undergraduate and graduate programs.
Funding Opportunities
The university offers a variety of grants and funding programs to help foster the development of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice initiatives across campus. Learn how you can reduce the cost of course materials, improve campus climate, and engage across divergent perspectives at Tufts.
University Initiatives
At Tufts, diversity and inclusion are central to the University's academic mission. We believe in the inherent worth of all people, regardless of race and ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, physical and intellectual ability, religion, geographic origin and language background, and socioeconomic status.
Responding to an Incident
Tufts University is committed to employment practices and a learning environment free of discrimination and harassment. The Office of Equal Opportunity (OEO) works to support this effort. The office's primary responsibility is to establish uniform guidelines in order to promote a work and educational environment at Tufts University that is free of discrimination and harassment and to affirm Tufts’ commitment to equal opportunity, Title VI, Title VII, Title IX, and affirmative action.
How to Help Students in Distress Offices and Policies Reporting an Incident