FIRST Center
These identities can find resources and support at the FIRST Center.
What are first generation, low income, and undocumented status?
It costs this much to participate in the BEAST Program
What is Free?
The maximum amount that the Unexpected Hardship Fund can grant to a student in 4 years
What is $500?
This location houses 10 FIRST Students each year and centers on Community Building
What is FIRST House (92 Professors Row)
Lots of smart people in this Massachusetts County home to Tufts and MIT (and many more)
What is Middlesex County
The FIRST Resource Center was founded this year
What is 2018?
The meaning behind this acronym (BEAST) also doubles as shorthand for its heartwarming mission
What is Building Engagement and Access for Students at Tufts?
Name 3 things you cannot request via the unexpected hardship fund
What are Items that are factored into the cost of attendance, such as tuition, textbooks, access codes, Rent/Utilities, and transportation to and from campus at the start and conclusion of each semester?
In the past, this dining hall was dedicated to All9Free food options (like peanut, Halal, tree-nut, and gluten-free)
What is Carmichael Hall?
Students will paint this public object (only at night) for every cause imaginable: be it advertising, commemorating, or just fooling around.
What is The Tufts Cannon
Tufts uses this expanded definition to identify students who identify as First-Generation
What is first in family to attend a private four year institution
Since it's inception the BEAST Program has collaborated with this one Pre-O Group
SQUAD Pre-O
This program is available to students "no questioned asked" when seeking emergency support for on-campus meals
Swipe it Forward Program. you can request up to 10 meals a semester that was donated by other students' swipes.
What spaces did Tufts University create through student activism to provide safe, inclusive spaces where friendship and community can be built as we work together to advace equity and justice?
What are Cultural and Identity Based Centers?
This Student Group published an open letter in 2014 which forever changed Tufts University's Admit Policy
What is the United for Immigrant Justice (UIJ)
When and how can you access the FIRST Resource Center?
What is 24/7 and through requesting access through an online form?
When creating the program a group of students proposed this acronym for our Pre-O program
What is TOAST?
Extra points if you know what TOAST Stands for?
Piloted during the COVID-19 Pandemic this resource offers students access to meals and snacks to avoid issues related to food insecurity
What is FIRST Food Mini-Food Pantry
Named after a Tufts alumnus (Class of 1876), this campus location is one of the more picturesque spots on campus. Should you kiss somebody under it, legend has it you'll get married someday.
What is Bowen Gate?
In the 1880s this showman bought the 7-ton jumbo, whose diet included, but was not limited to, 200 LBS of Hay per day
Who is the P.T. Barnum (One of Tufts Original Trustees)
OH NO! My Laptop needs to be repaired unexpectedly. Name 2 ways that I might seek support for this service.
Laptop Loan from the Tisch Library and/or Loan from the FIRST Resource Center. Also, Seek reimbursement for repair by using the unexpected hardship fund.
This Workshop in Sp2022 featured first-time author and alumna Phyllis Njorge. Participants received copies of her novel.
What is Identifying and Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
Name 5 things you can do to save money on a textbook.
What is buy used, rent, borrow from library, request or scan copies, see if the FIRST Center has a copy(Book It Forward lending library) buy an older version (check in with the professor) Look online for a free pdf copy
Daily Double: What Centers are included within the division for student diversity and inclusion (DSDI)
What are the FIRST Resource Center, Africana Center, Asian American Center, Latinx Center, LGBT Center, Indigenous Center, Center for STEM Diversity, & Women's Center
This often overlooked campus office houses the tail of our beloved mascot
What is Digital Collections and Archives