Retirement

Information for/about Former Faculty

We are grateful to our former faculty members for their service and dedication to the university. On this page, we host information regarding retired faculty members, as well as faculty members who have passed away while working at Tufts.

If an academic department in the School of Arts and Sciences or School of Engineering would like to recommend a full-time faculty member for emeritus status upon retirement, please refer to Chapter 2 of the AS&E Faculty Handbook for criteria about this type of appointment. For more information, please contact the Secretary of the Faculty for Arts, Sciences and Engineering, Erin Sullivan, or call (617) 627-3156.

Faculty Emeriti

The Office of the Provost maintains a database listing all emeriti faculty, in all schools of the university. To help keep the information updated, please notify the Office of the Provost of any change in mailing address, email address, or other information. If you have any questions or would like to update your contact information, please send an email the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty at faculty@tufts.edu.

See the Provost's website for Activities and Opportunities for Emeriti Faculty. 

Policy and Procedure for Websites for Retired/Emeriti Faculty Members

• Tufts cannot support website maintenance for lab sites for emeriti faculty. However, the TTS Web and Mobile Team is happy to give retiring/emeriti faculty their lab website content in a zipped file so they may build, re-build, manage, and/or maintain a site themselves on the sites.tufts.edu platform* or another platform of their choosing.
• If a faculty member already has a sites.tufts.edu lab website, this existing site will remain available to them when they become emeritus/a.

* Sites.tufts.edu is a web platform available to anyone with an active Tufts account to create and manage websites for any Tufts-related activity (e.g. personal portfolio, class activity, lab site, project site etc.) and is based on the open source WordPress platform.  Per the sites.tufts.edu retention policy, sites must be maintained and updated periodically. Sites are flagging for deletion after two years of inactivity.  

Policy and Procedure for Listing Emeriti Faculty Members on Department Websites

• When a faculty member is appointed emeritus/a, their title will automatically be updated in FIS/Elements on the effective date. Retired faculty members who have not been appointed emeritus/a will not be displayed.
• Emeriti faculty profile will be displayed in the Emeriti Faculty section of the department(s) websites that they are appointed emeritus/a in. Emeriti faculty are not displayed on program websites.
• If an emeritus/a faculty member would like to update their bio for the website, they may do so by logging into the Elements editor application at http://faculty.tufts.edu/ and updating their profile. Note: Edits will automatically be pulled into the department website profile, but the data transfer may take 1-2 days.
• Active emeriti faculty members can be listed on the department website for up to 40 years from the date of their emeriti appointment. The profile can include an email address if the faculty member is actively checking their Tufts email.
• The Secretary of the Faculty will keep an archive of resolutions on faculty retirements for 10 years