The Tufts Daily | October 15, 2024
Meet trailblazer David Delvalle, the first known formerly incarcerated person to be hired by Tufts University Tufts, as an academic institution, prides itself on promoting the values of diversity, equity, inclusion and justice. This past summer, the university took a huge step closer to these embodying values when the Tufts University Prison Initiative of the Tisch College of Civic Life hired its new Education and Reentry Director, David Delvalle. Delvalle is the first person hired by Tufts known to have been formerly incarcerated.
Tufts Now | September 9, 2024
Undergrads Learn Research From the Inside. aylor McNeil writes, “Though most of VERSE focuses on the sciences, the program accommodates many different fields—and students. Case in point is John Sanchez, a graphic artist and 2024 graduate of the Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College (TUPIT). He worked this summer on an arts research project with Michael Smoot, professor of the practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.”
University World News | July 30, 2024
A university prison programme creating hope and purpose. Nathan M Greenfield writes, “In the spring of 2018, Nathan Miksch and David Delvalle saw the same flyer. Like hundreds of thousands placed on tables in high school gyms and cafeterias on Open House nights, these flyers detailed information about a college programme.”
Tufts Nows | April 2, 2024
College in Prison Changed Them. Now They Want to Change Minds. Julie Flaherty writes, "TUPIT students, including the first Tufts class to earn their bachelor’s degrees behind bars, celebrate the program that turned them on to civic responsibility."
Tufts Daily | March 29, 2024
Everything you need to know about how Tufts helps with prison reentry — and how you can help too, Jake Ren writes about the ways Tufts students on the Medford campus can be involved.
Boston Globe | Jan. 29, 2024
Tufts celebrates first class of incarcerated graduates at MCI-Concord, graduates of the Tufts prison initiative earned a diploma in Civic Studies by Ivy Scott.
Boston Globe | Jan. 19, 2024
Tufts prison initiative gives grads the gift of hope, One soon-to-be-graduate said the program "helped me gain back that ineffable part of me that prison repressed—my humanity." By Rachelle G. Cohen.
Tufts Daily | April 27, 2023
Students and faculty reflect on TUPIT: "A centerpiece of Tufts' work as a justice-oriented institution," reporter Sam Russo goes in-depth discussing the Tufts University Prison Initiative with participants in the program.
