An Inside Look at the Perspectives Program
For our first blog post about the Perspectives program we have a two for one special: insights from co-leaders Bill Cotter and Travis Grodkiewicz! As the deadline to apply to teach in this program quickly approaches check out their reflections on what it was like to be a part of Perspectives this year! Bill’s Perspective: [...]
The ExCollege: A Freshmen Perspective
Becoming a freshman at Tufts is an experience like no other. Your script for the first few days consists of three questions and then three answers: 1. What’s your name? 2. Where are you from? and 3. What dorm you are living in? Then you would move on to meeting the next person. This is [...]
First-year Seminar Leaders Boot Camp
Since last Wednesday night, the Explorations and Perspectives leaders have been in intensive training to get ready to teach their seminars for incoming first-year students. Check out some of the photos from our kick-off dinner.
Welcome Back, Explorations and Perspectives Leaders!
It’s an exciting day at the ExCollege…the upperclass students who are teaching Explorations and Perspectives seminars for first-year students start their training tonight with a kick-off dinner and inspiration from Steve Cohen, lecturer in the Education Department. Then they’ll go through intensive training for teaching and advising through next Tuesday, and next Wednesday, the first-year [...]
Back from Houston!
A post from Ali Mehlsak: So a few weeks ago Cindy mentioned that I was headed to Rice University in Houston for a conference. I promised a blog entry, and finally, here it is! What to say first about my trip…Well, I left a clear, crisp forty-degree Boston morning for the muggy eighty-degree afternoon of [...]
What happened?
I haven’t blogged all week! What’s happening? Well it’s been a little crazy around the ExCollege. Let’s see…we are finalizing the Explorations and Perspectives seminars for the fall (see below for a list), getting all of the application information together to make final selections for fall visiting lecturer courses (on our website by May 9), [...]
Why you should team up with a friend and teach Perspectives
As I mentioned earlier, some of our previous Perspectives Leaders have been sharing their thoughts on the program and why you should look into it. Molly and Elana On Teaching Perspectives
Deadline, Schmeadline
If you’ve known the ExCollege for a while, you might realize that we never met a deadline we didn’t want to extend in some way. We like pushing the envelope and giving folks every opportunity to take advantage of what we have to offer. So it is in that vein that we are now extending [...]
Flipping Out
Since I don’t have enough disposable income to buy all the newest toys for myself, I’m always excited when I can buy new stuff for the ExCollege. Usually Howard gets to buy the fun filmmaking equipment, but I beat him to it this time. I just ordered 4 Flip MinoHD video cameras to use for [...]