Aspiring Foreign Service Officers, take note! Three major fellowships for those interested in Foreign Service careers have recently announced their upcoming application cycles, and there are some changes afoot to the process and eligibility criteria.
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Even while conducting the fall 2020 semester remotely, Fletcher makes itself felt on the Tufts campus. It was such a delight to get the recent update that the Tufts cannon has been Fletcherized. The cannon functions as a low-tech message board of sorts for the entire Tufts community, and is repurposed so frequently that it has been covered in an actual ton of paint in the fairly recent past.
Read MoreA plug today for Admissions interviews, currently open for registration on our site. Normally the formal interview program runs from mid-September through mid-December or so, but throughout this summer and continuing for the next month we in Admissions have been offering a regular slate of interview slots, too. What else do we have to do? A whole heckuva lot, actually, but nothing as important as the chance to chat individually with prospective students.
Read MoreSummer is generally a quiet period for application-related activity. That’s fortunate for us, because our annual preparations for the upcoming cycle require us to de-activate the online application for a short period.
Read MoreMIB pre-session begins this week. In a change from the normal routine (a now-standard qualifier, that), it’s not the only game in town. Pre-session is usually a herald of the academic year to come, but with this year’s expanded Orientation, it’s just one of several student activities getting underway currently.
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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.
Read MoreReaders, the fall semester is nearly upon us even though we’re just in the first week of August. While classes won’t begin for most students for close to another month, now is a good time of year for incoming students to do some low-level preparation around the margins.
Read MoreFletcher is proud to have three alumni named to the “Out Leadership List 2020,” published by Out in National Security in partnership with New America.
Read MoreOnce in a while a blog-worthy tidbit just falls in my lap. Fletcher PhD alumnus Dr. Matthew Levitt, currently of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, recently updated us on a major new initiative he will soon launch tracking Hezbollah activities globally. See his note below for details and links to the new interactive platform as well as an upcoming launch event!
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Summer is one of my favorite periods on the blog calendar, as it means it’s time to check in with some of our recent alumni. I’ve tried to carry on a longstanding tradition started by Jessica of providing periodic updates from alumni who are one and five years removed from Fletcher. It’s always interesting to see what these folks are up to, and more selfishly, it’ s a personal treat to have an excuse to reach out to some of our favorite students from years past. We’ll start today with our good friend John, who longtime readers may remember as a Graduate Assistant in our office during his student days. I recall being in touch with John when he was a prospective student himself, finishing up his Peace Corps service in China. We miss having him in our office, but it’s a delight to learn more about his transition to DC and the exciting work he’s been doing there.
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