Exploring All Options for Funding Your HKS Education
Now that both the admission and financial aid applications are behind you, we encourage you to explore additional opportunities to fund your HKS degree. In an ideal world, we would be able to provide financial assistance to all who are admitted to HKS......
Faculty Reflections: Teaching at the HNC
Elizabeth Gonzales interviewed several Hopkins-Nanjing Center professors, who shared the inside scoop on their favorite thing about teaching at the HNC and their best advice to incoming students. What do you like about teaching at the HNC?Qi Lingl......
An update from Princess
I am so happy to be at this point in my journey at the Fletcher school. Although my Fall semester this academic year was my busiest semester at Fletcher so far, it was extremely fulfilling....
Five Reasons Why You Should Attend the Denver Democracy Summit
Democracy and democratic governance in the U.S. and around the world face extraordinary challenges. Hyper-partisanship, growing inequality, and technology’s disruption of media and economies have emerged as deep threats to democratic ideals alongside other dilemmas like the capacity of democratic institutions to tackle the problems posed by climate change and the ongoing debate of how to best guarantee free and fair elections. The 2022 Denver Democracy Summit convened by Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver is a nonpartisan gathering of citizens, leaders, media and thinkers in government, nonprofit, business, and academia who are dedicated to protecting and promoting democratic ideals. This year’s Summit, Confronting Democracy’s Dilemmas, will take a closer look at the tensions inherent to democratic institutions and ideals that have led to some of the most vexing challenges we face today. Here are five reasons why you should attend the 2022 Denver Democracy Summit, as quoted by speakers from last year’s inaugural event....
Student Reflections: Semester in Review
Final papers are in, Chinese New Year is fast approaching, and Hopkins-Nanjing Center students are embarking on a much needed holiday between semesters. First-year MAIS student Nathan Rose reflects on his semester. With the Fall 2021 semeste......
Christine’s fall semester wrap-up
Hello all! It is hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I am already a fourth of the way through graduate school. My first semester at Fletcher was full of long nights studying, exploring a new city, making incredible friends and asking myself the dreaded “what am I going to do after graduation?” question. After one semester I can say that the fuzzy picture of what I want to do is getting clearer, but isn’t in full focus yet. I am excited to see how another semester sharpens that picture for me. As I head into my second semester, I wanted to take a moment and share with you some of my favorite memories from last semester....
Financial Aid Application FAQs (Part 2)
As more of our applicants have turned their attention to the financial aid application in advance of the January 24 deadline, we’ve seen an increase in the number of questions about the application. Read below for responses to several specific question......
Emma’s first semester wrap-up
It's time to check in with our student bloggers as they begin their spring semester. We'll start with Emma, who covered a lot of academic, professional, and geographic ground during the fall...
Recommendation Letters 101
Because of the sheer quantity of applicants and because of the geographic distances from which they apply, SIPA regrettably cannot… Read More Recommendation Letters 101...
How to Balance a Full Course load at the HNC with an Internship
Master of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) student Albert Heidecke shares his best tips on balancing a full course load with an internship while studying at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. Just like any graduate program, the Hopkins-Nanjing Center......
Jackson School of Global Affairs to open fall 2022, Levinsohn named dean
Yale University President Peter Salovey announced Jan. 18 that the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs will open in the fall of 2022, and he named James A. Levinsohn, distinguished economist and educator, as inaugural dean. Levinsohn’s term begins July 1. The school is currently known as the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, and Levinsohn, the Charles W. Goodyear Professor in Global Affairs, is its founding director. In 2019, the Yale Board of Trustees approved plans to expand the institute into a professional school that will train and equip a new generation of leaders to devise thoughtful, evidence-based solutions for challenging global problems....
Application tips redux
In acknowledgement of the many of you out there currently preparing applications for our upcoming deadlines (February 20 being the next one), I thought it worth "bumping up" some recent guidance from our team on various parts of the application. These folks read a lot of applications, so their tips are worth noting!...