EPIIC (Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship)

IGL Programs

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    IGL Program
    ACCESS is a joint mentorship program between the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) at Tufts University and the Project on Justice in Times of Transition (PJTT) that combines our respective resources to mentor and foster a new generation of leaders in international diplomacy prepared to engage in today’s interdependent world with humility, sophistication, and an understandin
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    Student Program
    The Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (ALLIES) is an undergraduate organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations.
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    IGL Program
    As an alumni, what is your story? How has your experience with IGL enriched your global perspective? Why can this increased awareness benefit others? How can you assist today’s inquisitive youth to grow into tomorrow’s innovators for holistic solutions?
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    IGL Program
    This annual Award is given in honor of EPIIC's wonderful student Boryana Damyanova of Bulgaria (1983-2005), whose passion and professional aspirations centered around the complex issues of capitalism, integrity, and corporate citizenship and accountability. Boryana Damyanova was an international student at Tufts University from Sofia, Bulgaria.
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    BrandHaiti is a student led non-profit business marketing organization that re-brands Haiti’s negative image through highlighting the country’s strengths and comparative advantages to foster pro-Haitian business investment and revitalize a non-exploitative economy.
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    Student Program
    The BUILD Mission Statement
  • IGL Program
    Thank you to all who made the 5th Annual Tufts China-US Symposium a stellar sucess!   If you missed it, watch it now.
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    IGL Program
    Discourse provides an inclusive platform for reasoned discussion and prescriptive analysis of issues of both international and domestic concern, while also including poetry, fiction, art and photography to illuminate the human condition. Its emphasis is on exploring a diversity of thought and perspectives from students, scholars, and practitioners.
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    IGL Program
    The Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award was established in 1993 to honor Jean Mayer, by challenging and inspiring our students and the community, by bringing to Tufts distinguished scholars and practitioners whose moral courage, personal integrity, and passion for scholarship resonated his dictum that:   "Scholarship, research and teaching must be dedicated to solving the most pressing problems facing the world."  
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    IGL Program
    The Empower Program for Social Entrepreneurship educates, mentors, guides and motivates aspiring social entrepreneurs. Empower is a program for Tufts University undergraduate and graduate students to engage in practical, experiential learning for social entrepreneurship.
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    Student Program
    For the most up to date information, please visit our external website Engineers Without Borders
  • IGL Program
    EPIIC is a carefully integrated, multidisciplinary program. Through its innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people to play active roles in their communities, whether at the local, national or global level.
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    View our legacy of EPIIC programs in these archives from the past 25 years.  
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    Student Program
    Exposure is the Institute for Global Leadership’s photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights program. Dedicated to mentoring and developing young, knowledgeable photojournalists and documentary filmmakers, it is allied with the preeminent photographers of the VII Photo Agency, Contact Press, and other distinguished journalists.
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    IGL Program
    Students are encouraged to conduct original, policy-oriented research and projects that allow them to test their theories and assumptions on the ground. Since 1986, more than 650 students have conducted research or participated in an international internship in more than 70 countries. These projects often develop into significant projects and senior honors theses.
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    IGL Program
    View the Inquiry 2012 program here
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    IGL Program
    This program brings scholars and practitioners to campus for public lectures, classroom lectures and research and career advising.
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    IGL Program
    Mission
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    IGL Program
    NIMEP is a non-polemical student think-tank and outreach initiative aimed at finding progressive solutions to the historic conflicts in the Middle East. NIMEP provides a forum for productive dialogue, scholarship, and exploration of the region.
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    In a world with substantial partnership and commitment from the international community to eradicate global poverty, it appears antithetical that, in many countries, levels of poverty remain stagnant or are worsening.
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    IGL Program
    The Program for Narrative and Documentary Practice gives students the skills to explain the world around them to the people around them. The program teaches students to shape global issues into multi-media stories that are narrative and compelling.
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    Student Program
    RESPE: Haiti is a student initiative through the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership whose mission is to partner with the rural community of Balan in northern Haiti and support its local development projects.
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    IGL Program
    The Bendetson Public Diplomacy Initiative is an effort to bring key global policymakers and officials to Tufts to share their experiences and perspectives with students.
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    IGL Program
    Click on the images below to learn more about Special Programs that the Institute for Global Leadership has sponsored 
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    Student Program
    The program creates a framework in which intellectual juxtapositions, critical thinking and self-directed explorations are fully realized. Synaptic Scholars is a leadership program, meant to provide a forum for students to take risks, pursue passions, and challenge assumptions in an intimate, supportive and collaborative environment.
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    Student Program
    Tufts Energy Conference 2010 The Tufts Energy Forum is pleased to announce the 2010 Tufts Energy Conference. For more information, please visit the official website of the Tufts Energy Conference at www.tuftsenergyconference.com.  
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    IGL Program
    In 1998, Tufts University, in cooperation with Peking University (Beijing), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The University of Hong Kong, began this unique leadership program. The program fosters cross-cultural team building through intensive, intellectual inquiry and practical study.
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    IGL Program
    For the last seven years, the IGL has brought back to campus mid-career alumni (the Voices) who are presently working in the fields of nation building, complex humanitarian emergencies, human rights, U.N. peacekeeping, refugee assistance, preventative diplomacy, conflict resolution, and development assistance.