Student Life Fund

Overview

Co-curricular opportunities are a natural complement to the student's academic experience and together are what makes Tufts a unique community. In an effort to increase these options, the Student Life Fund (SLF) has been created to provide funding and support to student groups and enhance a variety of programming in the community.

The goals of the fund are to:

1. Expand opportunities for community activities that benefit large numbers of Tufts students.
2. Allow for the funding of “spontaneous” activities that did not have the opportunity for funding consideration in the traditional budgeting cycle of the TCU Allocations Board
3. Allow more students to take on an active role in the planning and management of their own events.

Fund

Each application will be reviewed on a case by case basis to determine its merit and value to the community. Partial funding is a possibility.

Award Period – Funds awarded must be used during the semester in which they were approved.

Criteria for Usage of Funds:

• Event(s) must be held on campus
• Funding may not be used for the purpose of providing alcohol
• Awards do not cover travel expenses
• Groups are limited to one award per semester
• Applicant can use the total dollars to cover one event or a series of events
• Funded events should be open to the entire campus community (justification for an exception must be detailed in grant application). Preference will be given to those events for which no admission fee is charged.
• Events involving larger numbers of students and held outside of the block schedule and/or on weekends are preferred.
• Preference will be given to applications for funding events that demonstrate the connection between the curricular and co-curricular life in the community. However, the Board will also consider events that are primarily social in nature.
• Funding is available to student organizations or groups of individuals

Application

The Student Life Fund Board – Applications for funding will be considered by a board comprised of the TCU Treasurer, the TCU President, the Dean of Student Affairs, the Coordinator for Programs & Special Projects in the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs and the Director of the Office for Campus Life.

Award Period – Funds awarded must be used during the semester in which they were approved.

Application Deadlines – Applications will be reviewed twice during each semester, the first weeks of  March and April in the spring, and October and November for the fall. Late applications will be considered at the descrition of the Board.

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