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One of the things I love about the Fletcher community is how full it is of doers as well as thinkers. This has really been on display over the past few weeks in the fight against the spread of COVID-19.
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With the COVID-19 crisis affecting pretty much all aspects of life worldwide, Fletcher and Tufts experts have been busy offering analysis from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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Standing on a bench on the tennis courts and speaking through a megaphone on a chilly, rainy Friday afternoon, Dean Kyte pointed out what the scene made plain: “this was not the plan.”
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An update from the “things I’m pretty sure only I care about” file: the nets and windscreens are up on the tennis courts!
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Okay, I probably should admit up front that that headline probably oversells things a bit. Still, a new food resource in the building – and one that fills an obvious need, not to mention lots of grumbly Fletcher tummies – is worth acknowledging. So welcome to the new Fresh Fridge!
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Fletcher will be unusually quiet today and tomorrow, and classes are on hold. A large portion of the student body – 214 students, to be precise – will be missing. While it sounds like the premise of The Leftovers, it’s far less alarming and, I’d argue, much more interesting. The annual Washington DC career trip, organized by the Office of Career Services (OCS), is a major event on the spring calendar, large enough to make it feel like Fletcher has temporarily relocated for a few days.
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Today, a brief highlight of a neat new service offered this year by the Office of Career Services (OCS). Our OCS colleagues are a nimble crew, and in the past few years they’ve added a variety of new types of programming to their already-substantial roster of services and activities for Fletcher students. The first few times I saw their staff hanging out in the Hall of Flags this semester, I figured they might be experiencing a space crunch in their office, and were just improvising some spillover meeting space. As I’ve since learned, though, their regular visits to the Hall of Flags are part of a new schedule of “drop-in hours” available to students for short appointments.
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Fletcher is always busy with various events, particularly in the middle of the semester. This week has seen two of the more prominent ones of the academic year, with SIMULEX 2019 taking place this past weekend, and the 2nd annual Decolonizing International Relations conference happening as I write this.
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Cybersecurity has become a major growth area at Fletcher, both in terms of student interest and offerings at the School.
Read moreA bit of a smorgasbord today of interesting tidbits that haven’t quite fit in other posts in recent weeks. First, a big congratulations to our friend Monica Ruiz (F16) for her inclusion in the New America Foundation’s Latino National Security & Foreign Policy Next Generation Leaders list!
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