Tufts University: Building an Inclusive Community for the Future

Join us as a part of the university’s first cluster hiring initiative, Connecting the Community of Tufts Scholars. 

Connecting the Community of Tufts Scholars (CCTS) is a cluster hiring program designed to attract and support faculty whose work centers race, equity, and disadvantaged communities in the U.S. and around the world. 

As part of CCTS, you will join a group of talented scholars to shape important dialogues across our campuses. As a CCTS faculty member, you will be supported by mentoring and professional development programming to grow, collaborate and foster community throughout your Tufts career.

The second CCTS cluster is focused on health equity through the lens of racial justice by bringing together Tufts' strengths in child study and human development, community health, clinical and translational science, and nutrition. The CCTS Health Equity Cluster will foster collaborative and interdisciplinary research, scholarship, teaching, and community engagement efforts centering on health outcomes for racially and/or ethnically marginalized groups, both locally and globally.

Searches are currently underway!

Increase: Increase number and impact of faculty whose work across the University whose work centers race, equity, and disadvantaged communities in the U.S. and globally.

Nurture: Nurture the conditions for our faculty to address difficult contemporary problems as they arise around the intersection of race, racism, racial equity, and justice.

Build: Build a critical mass of interdisciplinary faculty whose work centers race, racism, racial equity and justice.

Encourage & Foster: Encourage and foster cooperation among an already strong faculty and staff research body.

Create: Create innovative educational and research opportunities for our students and trainees.

Target: Target broader arrays of research funding streams as well as other forms of recognition and support. 

Expand: Expand our racial equity efforts beyond Tufts.

Tufts University is the only U.S. university with schools of arts and sciences, engineering, fine arts, global affairs, and the health sciences (including medicine, dental medicine, veterinary medicine, and nutrition science and policy). In the spirit of our motto, Pax et Lux (“Peace and Light”), Tufts faculty and students work together as active global citizens, illuminating each other and the world. Centered in the vibrant academic landscape of Greater Boston, Tufts is the best of all worlds: a close-knit community with the resources of a major research university, welcoming campuses near big city opportunities, and a global network of accomplished alumni. Our commitment to the liberal arts, vital research enterprise, and collaborative, interdisciplinary culture combine to spark curiosity and create resounding global impact.  

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