Fletcher students know Professor Dyan Mazurana well. She co-advises the Gender and Intersectional Analysis Field of Study (one of the only areas of concentration of its kind among APSIA schools), and I can tell readers from personal experience that her course Gender, Culture and Conflict in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies is not to be missed.
Read MoreIt’s decision time, readers! It’s a momentous point in the year for all of our applicants as well as us in the Office of Admissions. There’s always a sense of accomplishment, and a somewhat exhausted exhalation, at the release of decisions on our end. Also an understanding that a new phase of even more important work is just beginning as we help our newly-admitted students determine whether Fletcher is the right fit for them. More than all of that, though, we feel a great sense of gratitude to all of our applicants for the time and effort you’ve expended to complete and submit your applications to us.
Read MoreSharp-eyed readers may have caught the odd reference in recent weeks to updated Fields of Study in the Fletcher curriculum. If you’re relatively new to the ins and outs of Fletcher you might not notice anything different at all. Those who have been considering Fletcher for a bit longer, though, will see that the list of Fields of Study has been refreshed and streamlined.
Read MoreAn update today from Fletcher’s Digital Planet research project, whose work I’ve touched upon before in this space. The project just released its Digital Intelligence Index, a survey of 90 countries measuring the robustness of digital economies.
Read MoreI’m reminded at this time of year, as I look out at yet another fresh blanket of snow, how fortunate we are that application “reading season” takes place in the dead of winter. Reading piles of applications seems a more doable prospect when one is pretty much confined indoors anyway. There’s still a chunk of reading to go, but we’re getting there! So much so that we’re starting to look toward preparing for the release of decisions, currently looking like sometime in the first couple of weeks of March.
Read MoreA quick plug today for the Fletcher Africana Club, specifically a recent feature in Tufts Now about the Club’s current work and activities.
Read MoreThe annual Washington, DC career “trip” took place late last week, and it was a busy affair as always. “Trip” more in spirit than in practice this year, for obvious reasons, but in spite of being screen-mediated this time around it still felt familiar, with all classes cancelled for two days to allow over 300 students to take part in many dozens of discrete events.
Read MoreRegular blog readers have come to know FSociety, Fletcher’s cybersecurity simulation team, pretty well. They’ve had a lot of success over the past year and change, and I’ve done my best to keep up with the deluge of accolades as I hear about them.
Read MoreA quick public service announcement here today, reminding prospective applicants to most degree programs that there’s still time to submit your application for fall 2021. The February 20 deadline is fast approaching, and now is the time to start pulling together all the various pieces of that application on which you’ve been pecking away.
Read MoreIt was a delight to hear recently from second-year MALD student Neiha, who provides an update on the variety of human security research with which she’s been involved at the Henry J. Leir Institute, Fletcher’s research center dedicated to human security topics.
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