Institute for Global Leadership
Tufts’ Institute for Global Leadership is built on the premise that globalism is the dominant force affecting change at every level of society. The effects of globalism on public and private, government and non-government organizations can hardly be overstated. Headquartered at 96 Packard Avenue, IGL provides leadership on global issues through classes, global research, internships, workshops, simulations, and international symposia, all involving national and international leaders from the public and private sectors.
Learning from Exposure
An International Photojournalism Program
This intense experience has a transformative effect.
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EPIIC – Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship
Each year, EPIIC explores a single, major global dilemma – an issue that transcends national sovereignty. It offers a student-centered approach that promotes the linkage of theory to practice and encourages moral responsibility, life-long learning, and engaged citizenship. The main components of an EPIIC program are: a yearlong academic colloquium, a global research and internship program, an international symposium, professional workshops, and a media forum for editors and reporters. EPIIC also sponsors INQUIRY, a national high school global issues simulation program.
EXPOSURE
EXPOSURE is a student program dedicated to the advancement of human rights through the facilitation, distribution, and instruction of photojournalism and documentary studies. The center’s goals include facilitating the education of student photojournalists and the development of their projects through workshops, artist-in-residence programs, internships, and consultations with professionals; providing a forum for dialogue among professional photographers, journalists, publishers, and students through lectures and forums on contemporary issues; creating a web-based documentary archive, with participating photographers, which can be accessed by organizations that would use the work to pursue the advancement of human rights issues; establishing a fund to help student photojournalists implement projects; raising awareness of the role of documentary studies in advancing human rights; and partnering with world-class photo agencies, publishers, magazines, and corporations to help the center achieve these goals.
EXPOSURE often collaborates through trips, internships, and research projects with the internationally renowned VII Photo Agency, de.Mo publishing, Canon USA, the nonprofit organization Witness, Tufts Anthropology Collective, and the Center for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
INSPIRE
INSPIRE bridges public and university intellectual space, bringing practitioners in the field to the campus to spend extended periods of time with students, lecturing either in university or public settings, and consulting with students on their individual research projects. In its inaugural year, the INSPIRE visitors were Jack Blum, the former U.S. Senate investigator who uncovered the B.C.C.I. corruption scandal, among others, and Sidney J. Zabludoff, the former deputy chief of narcotics operations at the CIA. The INSPIRE program is cosponsored by the Tufts Institute for the Environment.
Related Programs
BUILD – Building Understanding through International Learning and Development
BUILD is dedicated to strengthening working partnerships and friendships within the Tufts community and between Tufts and other world communities. Its goal is to foster international and intercultural understanding, to inspire commitment to global development, and to develop innovative learning through education, service, and experience.
In addition to IGL, BUILD is supported by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and the School of Engineering. BUILD participants spend two weeks of winter break in rural Siuna, Nicaragua living and working in the community. Upon return to Tufts, BUILD participants conduct a course to broaden their understanding of global poverty and rural development. They also give presentations to share their experiences with the larger Tufts community.
Engineers Without Borders
Tufts’ Engineers Without Borders, supported by IGL, Tisch College, and the School of Engineering, works with its parent national organization to design sustainable development projects for communities around the world. Included in its mission is a desire to engage the wider Tufts community of students, faculty, and staff in the process of improving global standards of living. Thus the organization seeks two goals: global communities with the independent capacity to maintain adequate living conditions and Tufts engineers with an abiding sense of social responsibility.