Jason Merges, Arts and Sciences, 2011

I am very excited about this movement. Tufts University is an amazing place where social responsibility is taught as a virtue, something that definitely inspired me to work on environmental and social causes while I was there, and pursue them when I graduated. Divesting from fossil fuels is an important bound forward for an institution that promotes its students to think about how they can use their education to have an impact on the world around them, and align this institution's actions with its philosophies, undeniably an extremely important step forward.