The GIS Council is a university-wide body of faculty and staff charged with advising Tufts leadership on cross-school GIS educational strategy. Membership consists of full-time faculty and staff actively engaged in GIS teaching and related support services across the Tufts schools.
The GIS Council serves as a central body for advancing institutional engagement with GIS education through four primary functions. First, the Council supports curriculum mapping of core material in GIS to provide a consistent learner experience across the various offerings. Additionally, the Council explores ways to extend uniform cross-school credentials in both the graduate and undergraduate spaces, and the development of shared teaching content and modules to support consistent GIS pedagogy and learning across the schools. The GIS Council also serves to support and elevate GIS research through collaboration on grants as well as events and speakers designed to bring the Tufts community together around the theme of GIS. Finally, the Council serves in an advisory capacity to the Provost’s office on the approval of new programs and credentials in GIS.
 Patrick Florance (Co-Chair) Senior Director of Research Technology Tufts Technology Services (TTS) Affiliate, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning |  Dr. Sumeeta Srinivasan (Co-Chair) Associate Teaching Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning School of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine |
 Carolyn Talmadge GIS & Data Lab Services Manager, Research Technology, TTS Course Director, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University |  Dr. Mary Davis Senior Associate Vice Provost for Education, Provost’s Office Associate Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning Associate Professor, Economics |
 Dr. Marcia Moreno-Báez Research Professor & Lecturer The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy |  Dr. Rebecca Shakespeare Associate Teaching Professor Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning School of Arts and Sciences |
 Dr. Laurie Baise Professor & Chair Civil and Environmental Engineering School of Engineering |  Dr. Thomas Stopka Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine Professor, Community Health Professor, Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning |
 Dr. Shikhar Shrestha Assistant Professor, Public Health and Community Medicine Tufts School of Medicine |