Author: Daniel Birdsall
Advice to incoming students: dive into the curriculum
Continuing our series of tips to help incoming students prepare for life at Fletcher, today I’ll focus on another topic that might make you think “well duh.” A reasonable response to my advice to start digging into the Fletcher curriculum is to point out that any student who applied to Fletcher, much less confirmed their plans to attend, surely has done quite a lot of this already. I sure hope so! However, the lens through which you view curricular offerings as an applicant or even an admitted student can be quite different for enrolled students.
Read moreAdvice to incoming students: know your resources
Over the next week or two I’ll focus on offering advice to incoming students, which I hope will be useful not just for those arriving this fall but also for future students interested in understanding what comes next after confirming enrollment.
Read moreThe mulch is back!
Over my years at Tufts I’ve become attuned to a variety of weird harbingers of seasonal change and annual milestones.
Read moreSummer courses with Fletcher LIVE Online
Fletcher’s Office of Executive Education is pleased once again to offer summer courses via Fletcher LIVE Online, a slate of accelerated online courses for professionals looking to expand their understanding of complex global issues.
Read moreVishal on the Rt Honorable Alok Sharma’s exclusive visit to Fletcher
Fletcher recently had the privilege of hosting the Rt Honorable Alok Sharma, MP, and President of COP26 (the United Nations Conference on Climate Change), his only public event during his US visit.
Read moreSapna’s Spring Break
Today we’ll check in with Sapna, finishing up her time at Fletcher. As you’ll see, she picked the perfect time of year to visit Washington, DC.
Read moreFletcher entrepreneurs on a roll
Blog readers recently learned about the winners of the 2022 Fletcher D-Prize, a poverty solutions entrepreneurial competition held annually by the Institute for Business in the Global Context. I’m pleased to be able to share some more good news in the same vein, namely the victory of current first-year students Ashira and Kimberly in the Tufts $100K New Ventures Competition.
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