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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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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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Physical visits to Fletcher are obviously not in the cards at the moment, so in the coming weeks I’ll do my best to provide the next best thing in the form of a blog-based virtual tour. There’s an obvious starting point for this exercise: the Hall of Flags.
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Another Commencement, come and gone. This one, clearly, was different than the usual affair, but may prove to be one of the more memorable in recent memory. I’ll take the opportunity here to vicariously toot the horns of all those involved in pulling this event off, as they’re too modest to ever do so themselves. I was immediately struck by the professionalism of the virtual ceremony, and the obvious huge amounts of work involved in bringing it to life. Seamless transitions, all involved ready to hit their marks, and real-time captioning made it the best possible version of itself.
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This Sunday brings one of the major events of the academic year. Like pretty much everything else in our viral times, this year’s Commencement will unfold entirely online. While it will certainly be unusual, it’s shaping up to be a no-less-special close to the academic year. While it’s true that this year’s ceremonies will feature no tent, no in-person champagne toast, and sadly no opportunity to shake hands with our favorite students as they end their time at Fletcher, there will also be no worries about the weather (Fletcher field gets pretty squishy in the rain in spite of the tent) and no parking difficulties.
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A quick note today about some neat breaking news that found its way to me recently: The Leir Institute, Fletcher’s research center specializing in human security, has been accepted as a member of the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions.
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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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