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Tufts Blueprint Spring 2012
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The elephant that’s not in the roomStudents who apply to Tufts today are superbly qualified and highly sought after; admission has become more selective than ever.
But each year, Tufts cannot accept a portion of its applicant pool solely for the lack of sufficient financial aid resources.
SPRING 2012
F O R T U F T S U N I V E R S I T Y
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News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude Spring 2012
The work being done in physicist Cristian
Staii’s lab may one day help prevent
disease, help a paralyzed person again
use his or her limbs, or lead to a deeper
understanding of the wiring of the
nervous system.
Generous support from the Knez Family
Charitable Foundation helped recruit Staii to
Tufts and start up his lab with an atomic-force
microscope—capable of imaging neurons 10
millionths of a meter and proteins a billionth
of a meter in size—that facilitates his research
at the interface of biological physics and nano-
technology. [See story below]
Now a new $1 million gift from the Knez
Family Charitable Foundation will be used to
recruit and launch the careers of additional
talented junior faculty like Staii at the School of
Arts and Sciences.
The gift engineered by foundation trustees
Debra Smith Knez, J82, A09P, and Brian Knez,
A09P, establishes the Knez Family Faculty
Investment Fund, which will support salaries,
startup costs, and laboratory renovations asso-
ciated with the successful recruitment of junior
faculty to Arts and Sciences.
The Knez Family Fund will become part
of a larger Fund for Excellence in Teaching
and Research dedicated to faculty recruit-
ment, retention, research, and career develop-
ment in the School of Arts and Sciences. In the
future, the university may expand the Fund for
Excellence in Teaching and Research to other
schools.
“We hope the launch of the Fund for
Faculty Excellence will serve as a catalyst, moti-
vating others to invest in Tufts’ extraordinary
scholars and educators,” Brian Knez says.
President Anthony P. Monaco says: “I am
most grateful for Deb’s and Brian’s leader-
ship support, which represents an important
milestone for me as the first transformative gift
during my presidency of Tufts. Their gift sig-
nificantly strengthens our ability to attract out-
standing young scientists who will build their
careers here, and in doing so foster a robust
research environment at Tufts.”
The Knez Family Charitable Foundation
supports education and children’s causes in
the greater Boston area and Vermont. In 2007
the foundation gave $300,000 to establish two
three-year term junior faculty professorships in
the School of Arts and Sciences, used to recruit
Clay Bennett, assistant professor of chemistry
(profiled in a Blueprint feature, “Focus on New
Knowledge,” Winter 2009), and Staii, assistant
professor of physics.
“As a Tufts graduate, I always have valued
the caliber of the professors I had,” Debra Knez,
a university trustee, has said. “Tufts believes in
creating a great environment for its professors,
an environment in which they are passion-
ate about their teaching and research and feel
supported by the university in their work. Who
benefits? The students!”
Cristian Staii, assistant professor of physics, launched his teaching and research career at Tufts in 2009 with support from a junior faculty profes-sorship created by the Knez Family Charitable Foundation.
He told Blueprint that Tufts has enabled him as a physicist to strike up valuable interdisciplinary partnerships with colleagues in both biomedi-cal and electrical engineering, and to involve students in the resulting research enterprise. Of seven undergraduates who work in his lab, five have presented at international conferences.
Physicist thriving on balance of interdisciplinary research and undergraduate teaching
Fund to help recruit, retain, and develop scholars, educators
For the record:An item in the Winter 2012 edition of Blueprint incorrectly reported that Tufts lacked a registered dietitian. It should come as no surprise to any reader who has enjoyed the many and varied healthy (and delicious) food offerings here on campus that Tufts Dining Services, of course, does have a registered dietitian on staff, and has for many years. Blueprint regrets the error.
Johnson to lead Advancement Eric C. Johnson has been named vice president
for University Advancement, effective April
1. He has served as acting vice president since
March 1, when Brian Lee left Tufts after 25 years
to take a position as vice president for develop-
ment and institute relations at the California
Institute of Technology. Johnson has 28 years of
fundraising experience, 24 of them at Tufts. He
started his Tufts career as associate director of
development for the School of Arts and Sciences
and subsequently was promoted to director of
development for the school. He helped lead suc-
cessful capital campaigns to complete the Tisch
Library and the Gantcher Family Sports and
Convocation Center as director of principal
and leadership gifts and as executive director
of development. He managed principal and
leadership gifts, worked closely with the Board
of Trustees and key volunteers, and worked
in partnership with the president through the
successful completion of the $1.2 billion Beyond
Boundaries campaign last summer.
Staii gestured in the direction of David Kaplan’s biomedical engineering offices across the foyer of the Science and Technology Center. “Good collaborators are vital, and I have a great deal of expertise right next door,” he said.
He currently is partnering with Kaplan, Stern Family Professor and chair of biomedical engi-neering, on an exploration of how neurons grow and form the connections that enable them to communicate with each other. Neurons are cells that transmit electrical signals between each other, conveying messages governing learning, speaking, memory, and movement, among other things. The research has potential applications in the treatment of spinal cord injuries in which the connections between neurons have been severed but the cells are still alive.
In other research, Staii is investigating how pro-teins—sequences of amino acids, which perform most biological functions in cells—change shape and function. “Most cancers and other diseases in humans result from misshapen proteins, which don’t perform the functions for which they are intended,” he said. “If we learn how the sequence of amino acids influences shape and function, we could, in theory, reconfigure the amino acids and prevent disease.”
Chair, Board of TrusteesJames A. Stern, E72, A07P
PresidentAnthony P. Monaco
Provost ad InterimPeggy Newell
Vice President for University AdvancementEric Johnson
University AdvancementTufts University, 80 George Street, 200-3 Medford, MA 02155 USA 617.627.3200 • [email protected]
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Scholarships made it possible for all eight of the stu-
dents spotlighted in the following pages—and others
like them—to bring their stories to Tufts. From here
they will bring their unique talents to the world. While
there are no “typical” financial aid students at Tufts, all
share this in common: they contribute at least as much
to the university as they receive.
However, as you know, the rising cost of higher educa-
tion has routinely outpaced the Consumer Price Index and
today is an issue of national concern. Higher education has
long opened doors for individual opportunity, and in our
knowledge-based economy it is more important than ever,
playing a critical role in the job market and national competi-
tiveness. I share the concern that in the face of tuition increases,
applicants and their families may find higher education out of
reach. For many, indebtedness from student loans will be too
significant a factor in deciding career choices. Unfortunately,
we are not exempt here. Each year we must withhold the prom-
ise of a Tufts education from superb applicants—candidates
like the students in the pages that follow—solely for lack of
sufficient financial aid resources.
Though the challenge is national, some solutions may be
local, and we are entirely committed to doing all that we can
at Tufts to ease the financial burden on current and future stu-
dents. We are taking a fresh look at our cost structures—so that
we can ensure that as much as possible of the university budget
directly supports our teaching and research, and keep tuition
increases down while continuing to deliver the transformative
educational experiences for which we are known.
Student financial aid remains our number-one fundraising
priority. It is a cause that is important to me personally: I was
able to become a first-generation college graduate because of
generous financial aid. Scholarship dollars are critical to closing
the college affordability gap. Students arrive at Tufts each
year from all corners of the globe and from all backgrounds,
bringing rich and diverse perspectives that will enrich our
educational community. Financial aid opens the door.
We welcome your support—both for the students repre-
sented in these pages and for other students we will know in
the future as a direct result of your continuing generosity.
On behalf of all of us, thank you for all you do for Tufts.
Best wishes,
Tony Monaco
Tufts is full of remarkable students. In this issue of Blueprint you will meet eight of them.
Put simply, they would not be among us, were it not for financial aid.
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Angelo Yoder grew up separate
from the world while also
engaged in it. In the Amish
Mennonite community in
Kansas where his father is a
senior pastor, he was raised
with plain clothes, a tradition of non-
participation in war, and no radio, tele-
vision, or movies. “We had a sense we
were a community apart,” he recalls.
At the same time, their branch of
the Amish Mennonites had a strong
missionary tradition. His parents served
in El Salvador, where he was born. His
father now travels often to India.
While no longer part of the com-
munity, he says, “I very much value—
and always try to remember—where I
came from.” His parents’ international
work sparked a desire in him to experi-
ence the world beyond Kansas. After
working for a time as a stone mason,
he applied to community college—and
then, successfully, to Yale.
He was working in South Sudan
with an international relief organiza-
tion when he met his future wife, Anna,
a nurse. “She came looking for cholera
and found me.” Expecting their first
child, they hope eventually to return to
East Africa.
“One of the things I love about
Fletcher is that everyone has his or her
own amazing tale,” he says. “I feel very
fortunate to be here. A Fletcher Board
scholarship covers 75 percent of my
tuition. I was raised to be leery of too
much debt, and thanks to this scholar-
ship, I will leave with a relatively small
amount. For that I am hugely grateful.”
Bernard Simonin, professor of
marketing and international business
at Fletcher, says, “If ‘change is the only
constant,’ as is often said, Angelo is the
solid constant in the act of change. His
own transformation is methodic and
inspired. I cannot wait to see him enter
the international business arena; he will
make his mark with brio.”
Angelo Yoder is supported by the Fletcher Board Scholarship.
“ I very much value—and always try to remember—where I came from.”
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5On Kristen Davenport’s first day at
Tufts, she didn’t have time to be
nervous—the farm girl with a pet
goat named Charisma had not
only just wrapped up working
the state fair and an internship,
she had also just beat out 33 other girls
to become the New York State Dairy
Princess. With only a day to pack and get
to the Hill, Davenport says “it was wild”
but she’s used to diving into experiences
head first—and keeping busy.
“It’s sort of been a trend in my life,”
she says. From Leonard Carmichael
Society tutoring to late nights with her
biochemistry books; from playing pic-
colo and “crashing cymbals here and
there” in pep band to giving campus
tours; from applying to work in Facilities
(“I missed mulching”) to making friends
who constantly surprise and educate
her (“like learning how to keep a Kosher
kitchen”), “Kristen is perpetually in
motion,” says Mitch McVey, associate
professor of biology and Davenport’s
advisor. “She approaches each of her
experiences as a unique learning oppor-
tunity and embraces diversity.”
Davenport has given her all these
past four years because it’s her nature
and, says the future D.V.M. and micro-
biologist, because she was given a gift.
“Being at Tufts surrounded by people
your age but with totally different back-
grounds,” she says, “that’s just a huge
learning opportunity, and I think we
need to make sure that everybody who
deserves it can get their hands on it.”
Kristen Davenport received financial aid made possible by the Tufts Fund.
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“ Being at Tufts surrounded by people your age but with totally different backgrounds, that’s just a huge learning opportunity.”
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Philip Chan didn’t have to look—
or walk—too far to find his
path to becoming a doctor; the
son of Chinese immigrants,
he grew up just down the road
from Tufts University School of
Medicine (TUSM) in the South End
near Chinatown, Boston. Proximity
to the medical issues that impact the
Chinatown population has been crucial
to understanding those he treats, as was
the tragic passing of his father to cancer
when Chan was only 12 years old.
Helping to act as a translator for
his mother during those long, strained
hours in the hospital eventually fueled
Chan to pick up a stethoscope, with a
focus on bridging the language and cul-
tural gaps between recent immigrants
and the medical system, and working
with underserved immigrant popula-
tions. Mentorship as a Big Brother and
time spent shadowing doctors in high
school and as a Tufts undergraduate
also pushed him to pediatrics.
Financial aid is “amazing,” adds
Chan. “It gives me so much more free-
dom. With the amount of money one
pays for medical school, it’s hard to jus-
tify choosing family medicine or pediat-
rics as a career, but I have the option to
pursue what I love.” Having this option
will help this future family doctor keep
families like his own healthy and whole.
Says TUSM professor James
Schwob, M.D., “Phil is simply a stellar
individual—smart as a whip, hard-
working, and a fantastic lab-mate/col-
league. Tufts is lucky that he is on his
way to becoming a ‘double Jumbo’.”
Philip Chan has been supported by the Stern Family Endowed Scholarship, Paul and Elaine Chervinsky Endowed Scholarship, and the Charles J. Preefer, M.D., and Beatrice B. Preefer Scholarship.
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“…it’s hard to justify choosing family medicine or pediatrics as a career, but I have the option to pursue what I love.”
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Spring 2012 News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude
Raised in Honduras by two
professors of agriculture, with
plenty of fresh fruits and veg-
etables at the kitchen table,
Johanna Yvonne Andrews from
an early age not only under-
stood the benefits of healthy living, but
formed a passion for policy.
At the Friedman School of
Nutrition Science and Policy, Andrews’s
international roots and continent-
hopping (she gained a bachelor’s
degree in Texas and a master’s degree in
Sweden, as well as research experience
in Central America) regularly come
into play. “Johanna’s experience and
knowledge of Latin America are prov-
ing invaluable to our research project
on program sustainability in Bolivia,”
says Dr. Beatrice Lorge Rogers, profes-
sor of economics and food policy, and
director of the Food Policy and Applied
Nutrition Program. “She was able to
become an active, contributing member
of the study team from her first day.”
But her heart is still in Honduras.
“One of my main interests is health
policy in Central America, because I’m
from the area,” she says of her doc-
toral studies as a Gerald J. Friedman
Fellow. The fellowship was created
by the Gerald and Dorothy Friedman
Foundation to support future change
agents like Andrews. “You hear a lot
about Mexico and Colombia producing
violence and drug lords, but if you look
at a map of who’s in between and who
suffers the most it’s actually Central
America. I think we’re going to see
many more issues that have to do
with nutrition and access to health
care there.”
Johanna Yvonne Andrews is a Gerald J. Friedman Fellow.
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“We’re going to see many more
issues concerning nutrition and
access to health care [in Central
America].”
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News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude Spring 2012
During high school, Meagan Rock
was required to perform com-
munity service to graduate. She
resigned herself to doing her 80
hours at a nearby animal shelter.
Fifteen years later, she recalls:
“I never left.”
By the time she graduated high
school, the Stoughton, Mass., native
had clocked some 1,600 hours at
the Massachusetts Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(MSPCA) shelter in Brockton. She kept
working at the Brockton shelter dur-
ing her summers as a Tufts undergrad.
After college she went to work full time
for the MSPCA, eventually serving five
years as director of the MSPCA Animal
Care and Adoption Center in Boston.
“At the Boston shelter we took in
6,000 animals a year, including some-
times more than 40 cats a day in the
summer months,” Rock says. “It wasn’t
just kittens. We literally saw every com-
panion animal you could imagine: dogs,
cats, gerbils, hamsters, rabbits, huge
birds, small birds, snakes, lizards. Each
animal received individualized care.”
Currently she is co-president of the
Shelter Medicine Club at the Cummings
School. “The shelter is a place where you
can do something every day to make a
difference,” says the owner of two pets
from the Animal Care and Adoption
Center, a Boston terrier, Rose, and a
domestic longhair cat, Sprocket.
Dr. Emily McCobb, V00, VG02,
director of shelter medicine at
Cummings, says: “Meagan is thoroughly
committed to improving animal lives
as a career. She also is a natural-born
leader who can tackle complex ‘people’
problems with grace and style, and who
jumps right in when there is work to be
done.”
This summer Rock will be work-
ing on a research project evaluating
the nesting behavior of lab mice to
ensure their conditions are comfortable.
Animal welfare, she says, is “a huge part
of who I am as a person.”
Meagan Rock has received the Carlos P. Echeverria Scholarship and the Aurelio M. Caccomo Annual Scholarship.
Meagan Rock
“ The shelter is a place where you can do something every day to make a difference.”
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Spring 2012 News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude
Alice Lee is heir to her parents’
American dream. Her mother
and father, immigrants to
Boston from China by way of
Burma, didn’t have the oppor-
tunity of a higher education.
“They always told me, ‘Work hard in
school so you can get into a good col-
lege and get a good job so you can buy
your own house,’” says Lee, who has
wanted to attend Tufts since visiting
campus on a sixth-grade field trip.
Four years from now, she says, she
imagines herself writing complicated
computer code for the hot video games
she loves to play. But before she lands
her dream job, she must first get past
some pretty serious math, physics, and
electrical engineering courses.
Thanks to Bridge to Engineering
Success at Tufts (BEST), the computer-
science major is well on her way. Lee was
among 11“BESTies” in the Class of 2015
who enrolled prior to their first semes-
ter in the six-week summer program
for aspiring engineering students from
diverse backgrounds who would benefit
from extra academic preparation.
The aim is to attract and retain
members of populations underrepre-
sented at the School of Engineering,
with a focus on first-generation college-
goers with high financial need. “BEST
gave me the confidence to do well even
when courses are challenging,” says
Lee, who made the Dean’s List her first
semester with a 3.2 grade-point average.
Lee stands out for her great sense of
humor and willingness to try the unfa-
miliar, says Travis Brown, who directs
BEST as program manager of Tufts’
Center for STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics) Diver-
sity. “Alice is an enthusiastic learner who
takes challenges in stride,” he said. “She’s
just the kind of student we look for.”
Alice Lee receives financial aid made possible by the Tufts Fund.
“Bridge to Engineering Success at Tufts gave me the confidence to do well even when courses are challenging.”
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For Mark Rafferty sometimes the
Hill just isn’t high enough; on a
sunny day, you can usually spot
the international relations major
perched in the comfiest campus
trees, where he often camps out to
study, chat with fellow climbers, hum a
tune from Anchord a cappella rehearsal,
or literally, just hang. Since moving
from a small town in Pennsylvania to
Medford, Rafferty’s found a niche in
making a place for himself in exotic
locations.
In only three years, Rafferty’s
taken an independent research trip to
Bangladesh to study poverty alleviation,
participated in an Iraqi Parliament co-
sponsored trip to Kurdistan, and spent
a semester abroad in Jordan. “Political
science is my passion,” says the avid
cellist who’s now proficient in Arabic.
“I want to pursue diplomacy in the
Middle East, because I really want to be
involved in the most constructive way.
And I’m really grateful to Tufts for these
hands-on experiences.”
Says Kathleen Devigne, assistant
director of the international relations
program, “The first time I met Mark
I was struck by his energy and enthu-
siasm for life and learning. That was
three years ago and he continues to
amaze me. Not only does he enroll in
the most rigorous courses here at Tufts,
he has made the world his classroom.”
Mark Rafferty is a Martin/Bacow Term Scholar.
“I want to pursue diplomacy in the Middle East, because I really want to be involved in the most constructive way.”
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Spring 2012 News of Giving, Growth, and Gratitude
A physician’s daughter, Urvi
Ruparelia decided to study
biomedical engineering so she
eventually could help cure or
prevent illnesses at their source.
“I wanted to find solutions
that would help or treat more than
one person,” she says. She first thought
about dental medicine when she took
a course on biomedical engineering in
dentistry in which local dentists gave
presentations on prosthetics, implants,
and the like. Ruparelia had received
an implant herself when she cracked a
tooth down to the root her freshman
year at Georgia Tech; she says she was
“completely intrigued.” As a student at
the School of Dental Medicine, she has
taken that interest to new levels. In 2009
she was one of only two dental stu-
dents nationally chosen by the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute to take part
in the HHMI/NIH Research Scholars
Program at the National Institutes
of Health campus in Bethesda, Md.
Her independent research project on
immunology was inspired by the medi-
cal courses at the foundation of Tufts’
dental curriculum. She says: “Tufts is
really good about teaching you to not
just look at the mouth.” Her next stop
is the University of Washington, where
she will be doing a general practice
residency in dentistry this coming year.
A Tufts faculty mentor, Dr. Kanchan
Ganda, a physician who is professor
and director of medicine in the depart-
ment of public health and community
service, says: “Urvi is critically astute,
approaching questions in a scientific
manner. With her patients she is per-
sonable and approachable. She is going
to make a great dentist.”
Urvi Ruparelia was awarded the Drs. Ann M. Sagalyn, D79, and Suzanne Rothenberg, D41, Endowed Scholarship.
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“With her patients she is
personable and approachable. She is going to
make a great dentist.”
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Inspired partnership
A story in Blueprint has helped
inspire a $25,000 gift to the Gerald
J. and Dorothy R. Friedman
School of Nutrition Science and
Policy as part of a new partnership with
an alliance dedicated to humani tarian
assistance to Africa.
The story on the late Leah
Horowitz, N06—a food-policy research
analyst for the International Food
Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) who
died tragically in Ghana and became
the namesake of a humanitarian award
created by the Friedman School Alumni
Association—came to the attention of
Aid for Africa, a partnership of charities
devoted to promoting grassroots devel-
opment in sub-Saharan Africa.
Aid for Africa’s $25,000 gift estab-
lishes an endowed scholarship at the
Fried man School. The Aid for Africa
Endowment for Food and Sustainable
Agriculture will support a Friedman
student’s research in Africa into the
ways agriculture and nutrition may
be used to improve food security and
reduce poverty.
“Like Leah, I had worked previ-
ously at IFPRI. At the time that I saw
her story, we had been seeking a link
with an academic institution. With its
interdisciplinary focus on nutrition,
agriculture, and policy, the Friedman
School seemed a very good match,” says
Barbara Rose, executive director of Aid
for Africa.
“The Friedman School is a school,
not a department, yet it’s small enough
that we can have a voice,” Rose says. “It’s
unique, and we’re unique as well. We
felt we could make a difference here.”
When Tufts created what is now the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Deb Jospin became a founding mem-ber of its national advisory board, which she now chairs. In this role she recently led a university-wide appraisal of Tufts’ 10 Boards of Advisors, formerly Overseers: the new
name reflects members’ roles not only as advisors to the schools, but also as advocates and ambassadors for the university. A former director of AmeriCorps, Ms. Jospin, also a Tufts University trustee, lives the mission of active citizenship in both her professional and private life. She is a founding partner in sagawa/jospin, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting group that provides expertise to foundations and nonprofit organizations. Ms. Jospin is president of the Daniel A. Dutko Memorial Foundation, established in memory of her late husband. Through its Dutko Fellowship program, outstanding Tufts graduates interested in public policy got their critical “first job” in Washington, D.C., working in politics, in media, or for a nonprofit organization. Ms. Jospin was also a leading force in creating Tufts’ Active Citizenship Summer program. While at Tufts, Ms. Jospin played varsity tennis and was a long-distance runner. She earned an M.Sc. in public policy from the London School of Economics in 1983 and a law degree from Georgetown in 1989. In 2009, Ms. Jospin received the Light on the Hill Award, the highest honor that the undergraduate stu-dent body bestows on Tufts alumni. Blueprint asked her to share her perspective on active citizenship.
Q. How does an idealist adapt to getting things done in Washington’s corridors of power? Sharp elbows?
A. Maybe I am the biggest idealist of all, but I still think a sharp mind gets you further than sharp elbows! Before you can get anything done in Washington, you need “hands on” experience with the issues that matter to you. You also need to do your homework, to understand all sides of the issue, including why people may disagree with you. And always be respectful—a little graciousness goes a long way these days.
Q. Public service can be an expensive privilege when one is tens of thousands of dollars in debt after college. What can we do to not only encourage but enable young people to put their talents to good works?
A. Tufts is already doing it. The Tufts Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) helps Tufts graduates working in public service repay a portion of their annual Tufts-incurred education loan debt. Believed to be the first university-wide program of this kind in the country, LRAP encourages and enables Tufts grad-uates to pursue careers in public service and reduces the extent to which their educational debt is a barrier to working in comparatively low-salaried jobs in the public and nonprofit sectors. I am super-proud of this program and the fact that we are a leader in this area.
Q. What is most gratifying about your work with the Tisch Board of Advisors?
A. The most gratifying thing about my work with the Tisch Board is getting the chance to support the amazing civic engagement work of Tufts students and faculty. I also love working with the talented and committed staff of Tisch College, and with my fellow board members, all of whom are the most active citizens—they inspire me every day.
Deborah Jospin, J80, E14P, chairs the Tisch College Board of Advisors
An Advisor’s perspective…