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Class of 2022 most diverse in history, receives record-breaking financial aid
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A group of prospective Tufts students poses together at Jumbo Days on April 20. by Minna Trinh News Editor
The first-year Class of 2022 is the most diverse in university history, according to an Aug. 29 Tufts Now article. Of domestic students in the Class of 2022, 37 percent identify as students of color, compared to 32 percent of students in the Class of 2021. Five percent
of the students identify as black, seven percent identify as two or more races, eight percent identify as Hispanic and 17 percent identify as Asian. Furthermore, 202 students identify as first-generation college students. Eleven percent of the class are international students. Almost half of the students in the School of Engineering identify as female, reaching near gender parity.
Jianmin Qu, dean of the School of Engineering, noted that last year’s class in the School of Engineering was 44 percent female, while this year’s entering class is 49 percent female. Qu noted this was well above the national average of around 20 percent. “We are excited and proud to see this growth in the number of new women engineers entering the Class of
2022,” Qu told the Daily in an email. “It is our hope that our efforts at improving gender diversity in engineering education will result in gender diversity in the workforce, in STEM fields in particular, as our women graduates move on to become successful engineers, leaders, researchers and scholars.” see 2022 , page 2
ResLife hires Angelic Sosa to help students navigate offcampus housing by Daniel Nelson and Connor Dale
Executive News Editor and Assistant News Editor
The Office of Residential Life and Learning (ResLife) hired Angelic Sosa as an assistant director of housing operations over the summer. According to Sosa, she assumed her role in July, and will work directly with
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Tufts’ off-campus and prospective off-campus student population. The hiring of a dedicated off-campus housing specialist is one of many recent moves by the university to address the campus housing crisis, which has seen student groups such as Tufts Housing League (THL) petition for, among other things, an
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increase in the availability of affordable student housing. Along with the summer launch of an off-campus housing search website, Sosa’s hire represents part of Tufts’ effort to assist students searching for alternatives to living on campus. Sosa previously served in a similar student housing-oriented position in San
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Francisco, according to her LinkedIn profile. Working amidst that city’s affordable housing crisis has helped her understand Tufts’ own situation, she said. Armed with a belief that the current campus housing crisis should never get in the
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