Posts Tagged ‘Tufts’
NEBHE Welcomes Another Compact to 45 Temple
by NEBHE Staff
August 1, 2013
The Massachusetts Campus Compact (MACC) relocated to 45 Temple Place in downtown Boston, the headquarters of NEBHE and the National Campus Compact network.
MACC is a nonprofit coalition of college and university presidents committed to developing the civic skills of students, building partnerships with the community, and integrating civic engagement with teaching and research. MACC had ...
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Single-Source Responsibility: An Innovative Way to Build College Sports, Fitness and Rec Facilities
by Jim Wakely
February 6, 2013
While schools wrestled with how to build a new athletic facility in the middle of a recession, Tufts University’s Athletics and Operations Departments worked with a Massachusetts-based developer called Stanmar Inc. to devise a creative solution to designing, building and financing a new sports and fitness center in just under 24 months.
In an education environment ...
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Kaleidoscope
by Robert J. Sternberg and Lee A. Coffin
April 7, 2010
In the fall of 2005, the Academic Council of Tufts University proposed a new slogan to characterize its mission in educating students: “New Leaders for a Changing World.” Many colleges, of course, have slogans of various kinds. The challenge is how each translates its words into action in an authentic manner.
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