Maintaining Accessibility to a Tufts Education

Continue to focus fundraising efforts on financial aid and graduate fellowship support with the help of the president, provost and school-based development team.

Develop a five-year forecast for undergraduate financial aid as well as a strategic plan to increase financial aid supporting undergraduates in A&S.

Review and update, as necessary, the university's needs assessment/packaging policies to restore the competitiveness of Tufts' aid awards in the undergraduate admissions market.

Increased loan replacement policy to family incomes below $60K (was formerly $40K) to yield more lower-income families. Financial aid package to international students will now provide annual roundtrip airfare. We are currently exploring housing options for international students during school breaks.

Ongoing discussions with the language and cognition program and neuroscience program to develop and submit training grant proposals. We are evaluating the possibility of submitting a minority training grant response to RFP from the NIH.