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An annotated Fletcher tour: the 7th floor

September 22, 2020August 30, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 71 Views Fletcher Virtual Tour

The 7th floor of the Cabot building leads the list of “hidden gems” at Fletcher. Getting there can take a bit of extra determination since it requires either a serious stair climb or dealing with Fletcher’s occasionally-balky elevator, but the space rewards the effort. You’ll immediately be struck by the views, some of the best available of the greater Cambridge/Boston area outside of the top of the Prudential Center (which, incidentally, is visible from the 7th floor).

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An annotated Fletcher tour: the Murrow Memorial Room

September 17, 2020August 30, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 92 Views Fletcher Virtual Tour

Certain spaces just feel “important” somehow. There’s nowhere at Fletcher for which that’s more true than the Murrow Memorial Room, named in honor of famed broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow.

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An annotated Fletcher tour: Ginn Library

September 14, 2020August 30, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 82 Views Fletcher Virtual Tour, Ginn, Ginn Library

Some Fletcher students might feel like they spend pretty much all their time in Ginn Library, or at least trawling its wealth of virtual resources in our remote environment. It makes a lot of sense that Ginn is a focal point of student life at Fletcher, and it’s much more than dusty old stacks of books.

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An annotated Fletcher tour: ASEAN Auditorium

September 9, 2020August 30, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 104 Views Fletcher Virtual Tour

Welcome to ASEAN Auditorium, located off the mezzanine of the Hall of Flags.

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Annotated Fletcher tour, continued

September 8, 2020August 30, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 128 Views Fletcher Virtual Tour

Regular blog readers may recall a few posts back in early June beginning a virtual tour of Fletcher. Ah, early June, not even three full months into our pandemic-adjusted lifestyles! At the time, I wanted to be sure that incoming and prospective students who might normally try to visit campus in the summer for a look around had something of an alternative option until the broader implications of the COVID-19 crisis became clear. As things progressed and the time horizon of our remote situation got longer, though, focusing on our physical space that no one could access for the foreseeable future started to feel a bit tone-deaf. So to the back-burner this series went.

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Orientation 2020

August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 230 Views Orientation

New student Orientation, like most things in this strange era, will look a bit different this year. The typical Orientation program takes place in a jam-packed final week of August, and a remote version of that week remains on the schedule this year.

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New courses for the 20-21 academic year

July 21, 2020July 20, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 186 Views Classes

I’ve written recently about the nimbleness of Fletcher’s academic community in responding to a generational international crisis. It’s important to underscore that this encompasses not just a variety of new faculty research initiatives, but also the curriculum available to students in the coming academic year.

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On language learning at Fletcher

July 7, 2020July 6, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 258 Views Language requirement

The “news” of the change in Fletcher’s foreign language requirement is maybe not really news to a lot of readers by now. The official announcement of the change in policy was made a week or so ago, and we’ve been in touch individually with a lot of incoming and current students since that time. For those to whom this is indeed still news, the core information is that Fletcher students will now have the option to demonstrate second language proficiency as an additional credential, rather than being required to do so in order to graduate.

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Fletcher Summer Live

June 15, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 208 Views

Fletcher’s Office of Executive Education has recently announced the start of an exciting new initiative: Fletcher Summer Live. Offering short and condensed online versions of several popular courses, the program makes available to the wider public Fletcher faculty expertise and scholarship on a variety of critical international issues.

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An annotated Fletcher tour: The big classrooms

June 8, 2020August 19, 2020 Daniel Birdsall 264 Views Fletcher Virtual Tour

As physical visits to Fletcher aren’t currently possible, this series attempts to provide the next best thing in the form of a blog-based virtual tour. Today we’ll check out a couple of the larger classroom spaces.

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