Pierre Omidyar, aTufts graduate who made billions of dollars after starting eBay has given $10 million to his alma mater to create a college dedicated to public service. The new college of citizenship will not have a campus building, nor will it confer degrees. Rather, its goal is to infuse every aspect of university life with a public service component. Administrators are evaluating the current course offerings to see which might be cross-referenced under public policy. In addition, 24 incoming students devoted to service will be Omidyar scholars, and the college will confer grants to students, staff members or professors with ideas for community service projects.
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University College of Citizenship and Public Service
Tufts University - MA, Massachusetts
President: John DiBiaggio
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As always, we are such fans of Campus Compact (both national and state chapters). Without your assistance, we could not have achieved many of the milestones we have enjoyed over the past two years. Among many other developments, these milestones include hiring a full-time Service-Learning Coordinator; forming a University-wide advisory committee that includes representatives from each school and from the community; and creating a course development series for faculty and their community partners.
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