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Robert “Bob” Terrell passed on January 29, 2025. Nearly 100 of his colleagues, friends, and students gathered on April 23 at Tufts University (and online) to celebrate and continue his legacy. As many noted, Bob would not have wanted an event to glorify him as an individual. Rather, this event allowed for people to connectContinue reading Celebrating and Continuing Bob Terrell’s Legacy
Morgan Florsheim recently published an op-ed on highway removal in Next City. This piece is based on her Tufts UEP Master’s thesis, completed in July 2024 (titled “Deconstruction Ahead: Examining the History and Potential of Highway Removal in Milwaukee”). I and Kate Davies served as her thesis advisor and reader, respectively. Morgan asks the importantContinue reading Op-Ed on Highway Removal in Next City
By Gaston Neville Introduction Many universities collaborate with their local communities through research and outreach programs aimed at addressing systemic inequalities present within their local community. Very few, however, overcome the challenges of universities dominating the agenda and reinforcing hierarchies of knowledge and resources. The Co-Education/Co-Research (CoRE) model attempts to transform the unequal power dynamicsContinue reading A Non-exploitative Community-University Partnership? A Case Study on the Co-Education/Co-Research Model (CORE)
Si bien la pandemia de COVID-19 trajo enormes desafíos para las comunidades de los Estados Unidos, también fue un momento que unió a las personas y mostró el poder de la cooperación, la creatividad y la resiliencia. Cuando llegó la pandemia en marzo de 2020, las organizaciones comunitarias en el área de Boston dieron unContinue reading Nuevo informe:Cómo las Respuestas Comunitarias a COVID en Boston están Construyendo Nuevas Infraestructuras de Atención y Participación Ciudadana
While the COVID-19 pandemic brought daunting challenges for communities around the United States, it was also a time that united people and showed the power of cooperation, creativity, and resiliency. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, community-based organizations (CBOs) in the Boston area pivoted almost overnight to provide emergency response and mobilized to meetContinue reading New Report: How Community Responses to COVID in the Boston Area Are Building New Infrastructures of Care and Community Engagement
We have published another article on the Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership (CORE). It appears in the journal Social Sciences and is titled: Co-Education/Co-Research Partnership: A Critical Approach to Co-Learning between Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative and Tufts University. It was co-authored by Penn Loh and former Tufts UEP students Zoë Ackerman, Joceline Fidalgo (also a former DSNI staff),Continue reading Article published in Social Sciences on the Co-Education/Co-Research (CORE) Partnership
Luisa Santos and Molly Kaviar completed their Tufts UEP Master’s theses this spring 2021, working with the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI). Both served as Research Assistants on a community action research project between UEP and DSNI that started in 2018. [For more on this project, go to this website.] DSNI has been working forContinue reading Two Master’s Theses Completed in Collaboration with Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
On May 21st, students, alumni, and faculty in the Tufts UEP program gathered online to reflect on their involvement with the Co-Research/Co-Education (CORE) community-university partnership. CORE is a multi-year, community-based collaboration that integrates teaching, research, and practice. The goal of this event was to provide graduating students an opportunity to share their experiences and lessonsContinue reading Reflecting on UEP’s Community-University Partnership Practices
By Allie Wainer and Melissa Gordon In May 2019, a group of 18 students and faculty with Tufts New Economy and community members from the Solidarity Economy Initiative traveled to Montreal for a weekend to exchange ideas with organizations putting solidarity economy values into practice. Instead of traveling to an academic-style conference, we explored MontrealContinue reading Seeing Solidarity Economy in Action in Montreal
Read this Juneteenth 2020 post in the Conversation by Tufts colleague Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone (North Carolina State) on collective ownership and the black commons. Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? Underlying the recent unrest sweeping U.S. cities overContinue reading Advancing the Black Commons