Every now and then an interesting student update will land on the news desk of this blog. I’m very happy to have been clued in to some of the recent activities of first-year MALD student Oishi, who was invited by the Brookings Institution to speak at their Annual Girls’ Education Symposium in Washington, DC.
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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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We’ve had a few blustery, rainy days here lately. Temperatures are getting cooler, and your Minister of Deadline Reminders and Other Action Items is hunkered down with his assistant. It seems as good a time as any to check in with current applicants planning to submit by the Early Notification (EN) deadline, who by now should be likewise hunkered down with their applications. The EN deadline is just a few weeks from now, on November 10.
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Today is the first of three “Visit Days” we’ll hold for prospective students this fall at Fletcher (November 4 and December 2 are the others, for those of you who might be able to join us). Sort of mini-Open Houses, or maxi-information sessions, Visit Days are designed to give prospective students a good look at a number of different sides of Fletcher, and usually are a lot of fun.
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With both the academic and admissions year well underway, it’s a good time to introduce (and re-introduce) our Admissions Graduate Assistants. These Fletcher students are crucial all our operations, and in many cases will be the first person with whom prospective students correspond and visitors meet upon their arrival. We’re so happy to have John and Madhuri (our second-year returnees) back, and to welcome Dani to our team, as well.
Read MoreOur final update from our returning 2nd-year students comes from Manaved, already well into the “home stretch” at Fletcher.
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Continuing with our returning student bloggers, Gioia recounts the transition from an extremely busy spring semester into an equally busy summer in the UK.
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Now that students are settling in to the rhythms of the semester, it’s time to check in with our returning second-year student bloggers. Typical for Fletcher students, each had a summer full of travel and busy internships. We start with Lisa, who returned to her native Ukraine to intern at a human rights NGO.
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Cybersecurity has become a major growth area at Fletcher, both in terms of student interest and offerings at the School.
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