Fletcher History
Faculty
Events
Courses
Praxis
100

What year was Fletcher founded?

1933

100

Dean of the Fletcher School

Kelly Sims Gallagher

100

The week before first-years start school

Orientation

100

Every first-year must take this Friday course

PDP

100

Who are our Editors-in-Chief?

Kellie Peitersen Sullivan and Aryama Bhattacharyya

200

Who founded the Fletcher School?

Dr. Austin Barclay Fletcher

200

Teaches A-frames or Analytical Frameworks

Professor Carolyn Gideon

200

Every Thursday we have...

Thursday Night Diplomacy Club (TNDC)

200

The website where your coursework can be found

Canvas

200

What is the Institute at Fletcher that we are affiliated with?

The Leir Institute

300

Is Fletcher the first graduate school in the U.S. established exclusively for the study of diplomacy?

Yes

300
Professor with the biggest personality

Rocky Weitz

300

A weekend full of snow the first weekend of February

The Fletcher Ski Trip

300

GIS stands for what?

Geographic Information System

300

When was Praxis established?

1981

400

Tufts College and what other school did Fletcher first operate under?

Harvard University

400

Director of the Leir Institute

Katrina Burgess

400

End of the year dance

Diplomats Ball
400

Decision trees are a central concept in this course

A-Frames or Analytical Frameworks

400

What was the theme of our Spring 2025 publication?

Migration

500

What government agency secretly had a professor teaching at Fletcher while also holding a funded research role in the 1960s?

The CIA

500

Director of the World Peace Foundation

Alex de Waal

500

A comedic event at the end of the year

Fletcher Follies

500

The place where you can find information about every course

The syllabus repository

500

What was our original name?

Fletcher School Journal of Development Studies

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