Let’s go shopping!
Shopping Day today! It’s a chance for students to efficiently sample new courses, new professors, and the fall’s seminars. It’s like academic speed dating, with the result being a good schedule for...
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Here’s a word from Peter, our chat organizer and expert: If you are currently in the process of completing your application to Fletcher for September 2011, you’re probably busy putting the finishing...
View ArticleHuge Dilemma
As Admissions staff members don our blinders, all the better to focus on the task at hand, we hear rumors that the rest of Fletcher is carrying on as normal. Normal, that is, so long as we consider...
View ArticleTufts Energy Conference, coming soon
Erin, a current student, thought you all need a break from decision talk and she sent information about an upcoming conference, conveniently timed for one of the weeks when admitted students sometimes...
View ArticleHurry up and discuss!
April is a crazy time at Fletcher! Classes are nearing their conclusion on the 29th, which should be enough to keep students busy. But added to the reading, paper writing, and test taking, is a...
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Final weeks of the semester
The spring goes by in a blur of admissions work for me, but outside our office, it’s about the most interesting time of the year. In just the past few weeks, Fletcher students ran or attended a...
View ArticleBusiness Speaker Series
I never attend as many special lectures as I would want, but it’s always good to know that they’re happening and that students have the opportunity to broaden their education beyond the classroom by...
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Decolonizing International Relations
It’s been a busy week at Fletcher, which means a busy week for this blog, as well. There are so many events that take place throughout the year here that it’s impossible to highlight them all on this...
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SIMULEX 2018
One of the highlights of the academic year is taking place this weekend at Fletcher. SIMULEX, the annual crisis management exercise hosted by the International Security Studies Program (ISSP), will...
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Faculty and Staff Waits on You Dinner
Our colleague Liz recently represented Admissions at one of Fletcher’s most popular yearly events. Here’s her report: One of my favorite traditions is the annual “Faculty and Staff Waits on You” dinner...
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos returns to Fletcher
Fletcher is one of the few places where being able to drop in casually on a conversation with a Nobel Peace Prize laureate seems like a fairly normal Monday afternoon activity. Still, it felt like a...
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GIS Poster Expo
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are amazingly powerful tools. Take a few moments to study a well-designed map, and you’ll be amazed by the different types of information it can simultaneously...
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Summer admissions events
Far from being a period of laid-back indolence, the summer months have increasingly seen a pretty full roster of Fletcher admissions events. This year is no different! Prospective students should...
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Summer outreach
I get asked a lot if summertime in admissions is a slow season, with most students and faculty spending the summer months away from Fletcher. It’s certainly much quieter around the place, but overall...
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An extra-special Convocation
New student arrival: check. Orientation: check. Official start of classes: check. Things are basically underway here for the 2019-2020 academic year, but without a good convoking, it doesn’t quite feel...
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Odds and ends: Justice Sotomayor at Tufts, Mapping Futures, and student...
Lots going on this week, as is typical with students settled in to classes and the semester in full swing. On Wednesday we welcomed our latest cohort of Map Your Future (MYF) students to Fletcher at...
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Events!
It’s hard to imagine more of a toe-dipping into the admissions travel season than attending a fair here in town for my first recruitment event of the fall. That’s how the schedule worked out this year,...
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A big conference week at Fletcher
Fletcher is always busy with various events (as I’ve noted in this space on previous occasions), particularly in the middle of the semester. This week has seen two of the more prominent ones of the...
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Fletcher team wins Cyber 9/12 competition!
Not too long ago I wrote about the proliferation of cybersecurity-related curriculum and activity at Fletcher, including a brief mention of the annual Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge hosted by The...
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Fletcher Reads the News – even from afar
Today, a quick announcement about a cool upcoming event. “Fletcher Reads the Newspaper” has been a long-running series hosted by the Institute for Business in the Global Context (IBGC), and this...
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