Tufts announced on July 21 that it will disband the Institute for Global Leadership. The institute, founded in 1999, supports global education and scholarship through 28 program offerings, including student-led clubs, international exchange programs, research opportunities and alumni mentoring. The news came as a shock to IGL students and alumni, who have since mounted a campaign urging the university to reverse its decision.
Rather than being housed within a particular school or college, the IGL was conceived as a “cross-school program of the university” with a mission of preparing students to be engaged global citizens.
Caroline Genco, provost and senior vice president ad interim, attributed the decision to close the institute to “a mission that overlapped with other university entities, difficulty growing enrollment, insufficient infrastructure and marketing resources due to its lack of an academic ‘home,’ and additional issues around funding predictability and governance,” in a written statement to the Daily. https://tuftsdaily.com/news/2022/08/04/tufts-dissolves-institute-for-global-leadership/
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