
The Tufts University Prison Initiative of Tisch College (TUPIT) began with a bold vision: that offering higher education within prison walls can be transformative, not only for incarcerated individuals but also for traditional Tufts students—and for society as a whole.

“Nobody knows what engineering is,” Stacey Coleman Morse, E77, said. She understands that firsthand. In high school, when Coleman Morse’s father suggested she study engineering in college, “I didn’t even know what it was,” she recalled.

James Glaser served Tufts for more than three decades.