Three resource guides and one on-line toolkit have been developed to help facilitate greater awareness within the Tufts community and our local partner communities about the range of resources available to foster greater civic engagement. For more on how Tufts works with its host communities, visit the Tufts University Office of Community Relations.
The Community Outreach Portal provides listings of the most up to date outreach opportunities at Tufts.
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Advancing Student Engagement in Communities: A Wiki Toolkit for Effective Orientation and Evaluation is our most recent resource and our first web tool. This wiki web tool is meant to complement the Partnering with Communities resource guide and houses a series of tools that community co-educators, faculty, staff and students can use in developing and evaluating community-university partnerships. These tools can be easily downloaded as Microsoft Word documents to allow individuals to adjust the tools to best meet their individual needs.
Partnering for Education: A guide to Pre K-12 Education and Youth Development Related Resources at Tufts documents the impressive array of Tufts departments and programs that address Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade education and child and youth development. It is intended as a resource guide to facilitate, stimulate, expand and deepen Pre K-12 connections between Tufts and its partner communities of Medford, Somerville and Boston’s Chinatown and beyond.
Partnering for Community Impact: A Resource Guide to Active Citizenship and Public Service Activities at Tufts This 55-page guide created in 2005 provides details on civic engagement opportunities with information on many active citizenship courses, internships and community work-study and other programs available to students at Tufts. This can also serve as a resource for community organizations interested in partnering with specific included programs.
Partnering with Communities: A Guide to Getting Involved with Tufts Partner Communities A 2006 production, this is intended as a resource guide to facilitate, expand and deepen connections between Tufts and local partner communities. It contains basic information on our partner communities as well as guidance and resources to support student and faculty engagement in mutually beneficial relationships.
