Spring Admissions Webinar (June 9, 2021)

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Keep going and let's tell you a little bit about myself before we dive in. My name is Melissa McGinnis and I'm the assistant director of admissions at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University. So if that's the program you're interested in, you're in the right place. Thanks for joining me this evening. It's evening here. Wanted to make sure that there was some time zone availability for people across the world.

We are located in New Haven, CT. Added a nice little map there in case some of you are unfamiliar about where that is. We're in a nice central location in the Northeast Corridor partway between Boston and New York City. Easy train ride to DC.

Image here is our building which we have not been occupying for the last year, so I am currently still in my apartment working remotely and most of us should fingers crossed be returning probably soon after. Labor Day is the rumor that we're hearing for the Jackson Institute so yeah, so it's it's an exciting time, I think. Hopefully everybody is all well and safe as.

This global pandemic is hopefully coming to a close.

But I would like to hear about you. Some of you have found the chat. I love to get shout outs from where you might be signing in from. We had registrants from all over the world. Some I don't know if they're really going to actually pop on today because.

The time zone might be the middle of the night. We had people registering from. Let's see India, Australia.

DC Texas right here in New Haven. So if you want to find the chat and just give a shout out where your where you're logging in from, I'd love to see that. I think it just shows go bucks. I think it just goes to show the global nature of the program and just the reach of international relations and just, you know, it's a. It's a wonderful community that we have so wow Liberia. Great welcome from Liberia.

So thanks for doing that and so let me get started. Uh, one disclaimer that I want to give you just to be 100% transparent a few moments before I started this webinar, a spider ran across my desk and I have not been able to find him so.

If he shows up again during this webinar you you might have a story to tell.

So I'm keeping my eyes out and if you see any sudden movements for me, I apologize in advance.

So that is that is the nature of New England living. So anyway, I wanted to give you that disclaimer in case something happens and he shows up again in my line of sight. So thanks again for being here. Good afternoon and evening. I don't know what time it is in Liberia, but welcome everyone.

I'll talk a little bit about the Jackson Institute and then we'll dive into some details and then I'll open up to questions I really want this to be about what you want to learn and know. Some people are already coming with the framework of a little bit of knowledge about Jackson, and some people are here just exploring, so I want to make sure I cover all your bases so we are the, you know, some people think that Jackson Institute is knew. We were founded as the Jackson Institute in 2000.

Ten with a generous donation from John and Susan Jackson. And that's when we became the Jackson Institute. But we are really just an iteration of the long the decades old International relations program at Yale. But the most exciting news is that the Yale Corporation, which is yells board of trustees, has voted to have Jackson become Yale's next professional school. So we are slated to launch in fall 2022 is the Jacksons.

For global affairs, and so it's a super exciting time and you know all this submits the pandemic. I don't believe there should be any delays. Will talk about some of the, you know, maybe changes and exciting things coming down the Pike in a little bit, but that's sort of our big news. The last time you'll founded a school was in 1976 with the School of Management, which is Yale's Business School.

And so this you know is is filling that global affairs, that international policy space at Yale, and we're I'm really very excited to be part of it. I am at Jackson, just a little over 2 1/2 years. I spent 22 years prior at our friend and neighbor down in New Jersey at the School of Public and International Affairs down at.

Winston, and so I've been in this public and international affairs space for many many years, so I'm happy to help. I love this New England vibe we've got going on here, you know, New Haven is is a city. I know your DC in New York, people are probably laughing and then thinking of New Haven is a city, but it's it's very small city. Very manageable city. Very residential city Jackson is located on this beautiful tree lined St Hill House Ave in central campus.

And so it's it's been great. It's a little hot, unusually hot spring so far. At least this week so. But it's a beautiful location.

And I did want to talk about. Let's go through and talk about some of the actual.

Components of the program makes Jackson unique. What makes us different than some of our peers, and I like to call them the 5F's. I've done many, many, many of these webinars and with time and with questions and we you know, you start to see these things formulate and I really did. I came up with this 5F.

Title If you will, because I really feel like the words sort of bring out the nature of who Jackson is, and I think it's easy to remember, so why don't we go through a couple of them? All of them will go through all of them, so the first F is family and I call it family because we are definitely a community, a small community, our masters program, our two year masters program, the MA.

Global affairs is usually about 30 to 35 students. We also have in master of Advanced Studies from midcareer professionals, which is usually only about two to five students. That's the mid career program that requires a minimum of seven years of of related work experience. Most of the things that we'll talk about today tonight are geared towards the two year MA program because their mass is 100% customizable. 8 Courses, no core.

No other requirements, and so if anybody's on here and have questions about that, we can talk about that during the Question Time. Or we can talk about that offline later. But most of these things that we're talking about will be about the May the two year traditional program reflection program program. But overall the program is very small and it's intentional an even with us becoming a school or not anticipating growing the program in any significant way, at least not the student body.

And that is, I think, you know, we're located in a beautiful mansion on Hill House Ave. As you saw in the previous slide, this slide shows our expansion. So sometime in the next few years we will be taking over the mansions across the street. So it just really is being small. Being people who are just committed to the global good.

Just really is this community atmosphere, you know. Amidst this residential neighborhood in New Haven, CT, so.

Definitely with all of the student life activities and an I would say in every student at Jackson who's been there this year and haven't hasn't.

Been fully on campus yet during COVID. Would say the same thing. We've managed to foster community even during this time of social distancing, so we were able to have an in person. I'll be at smolan no visitors but an in person graduation just last month and that was just truly amazing. And if you've been following Jackson, maybe you've seen some of the articles and photos on line in our social media. So definitely in the family atmosphere and then flexibility. I think that's.

One thing that people.

I really like about the program is the ability to choose your own path and you know the the. I mentioned the Masq the one year program has you choose a course is an there. You're a courses and then the two year program has currently 3 core and we're working on a curriculum change. Maybe adding a policy class component of comparative politics so that is in the works.

And it's sort of in the works with the hopes that the Yale Corporation will also approve a degree name change. We are looking. We've applied for a masters in public policy, so that's sort of the in the feedback that we've been getting that people would like to have. So that is in the works. These things do need to be approved by the yield corporation, which was not a priority during COVID, so hopefully those things will roll out this fall, and hopefully most of you are following us and following events and news and whatnot.

And you know anything, any changes will be pushing out on our website through articles and probably on social media as well. So keep your eye on that. But currently we are still part of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. And for those of you applying this fall for the fall to start the fall of 2022, it is still the Jesus application so we can talk about some of the particulars of that a little bit later. But do keep that in mind. So there's some exciting things happening with the curriculum, but it isn't.

Academic playground for sure. You have access to all of Yale's courses and I will start putting in some links for you as well.

That will hopefully help you. Help explain to you a little bit more so this link.

Is the courses database at Yale and something to keep in mind is in addition to Jackson's core classes?

You can take the rest of your classes at Jackson or anywhere across sales professional schools. So many of our students take classes at the law school, which of course is the number one law school in the country, and they take classes at the School of Management, will take classes at the school and the Environment, School of Public Health. There may even be classes that you can make a case for out of the divinity school, or I think even Fine Arts. I think somebody took a documentary.

Class documentary film class because they want to go into.

You know, doing documentaries and in the world of international relations global affairs. So there is so much you can do with this interdisciplinary program, you don't have to be a joint degree student to take classes at the other professional schools, so that's something to keep in mind there are. We do encourage joint degrees, and many people do apply for those you do apply completely separate. Does each of the schools handle their own admissions processes and have their own applications and what not?

So there's there's no overlap there, but we do encourage you to apply for joint degrees, but it is not necessary to to be a Jackson student and take classes at the other schools. Matter fact, it's it's strongly encouraged, and because we do such a good job built, bringing in this unique group of students committed to the global good and coming from all sorts of different unique backgrounds and experiences.

Other schools are usually more than happy to have a Jackson student in the class, so it's very, very rare that you wouldn't get into a non Jackson class. So part of so there's also a language requirement for the MA program. You do have to meet a language proficiency by graduation.

But many people coming from different backgrounds may have may easily meet the language proficiency, and there's testing that can be done before you arrive, so you know if you have to take classes at Yale to fulfill that requirement.

And there are some questions in the application about the language, your language proficiency, but that's just to give us an overview of your background and you know what? Where you think your proficiency may fall. There are our Student affairs office. As part of that, and they sort of see where you fall to the L1L2L3L4 in there and you know.

Having language definitely strengthens your application. It isn't required to have it, but it can be really, really difficult to meet the language proficiency if you have no language, no non native English language. Before coming to Yale, so the more you have, the stronger your application will be and there may be resources available to you. If you don't have any language so those are parts. Those are some things that we're looking into with some of the new curriculum changes and with us.

Becoming a school that there may be some language training available if you don't already have language.

So I do see an actual language. Normally I like to just go through and go through all of these and then will handle it handle the questions later, but since where I saw it Celeste and we are talking about language, I will address it the best I can. So what language tests are administered to assess language proficiency? Student affairs does that to enrolling students and I do know that one. Your transcript can actually clear that up.

My CHEAT SHEET is still at the office.

Every time I go there, which isn't often, I forget to bring it back with me of how many courses actually meet that language proficiency so you don't have to worry about it. But if you're in the on the border testing is readily available. You know, I think there are many ways it can be done upon arrival a Yale. If you want to do it between if you're admitted and choose to enroll. If you want to do it before then, I think there's ways to do that. If it's a language that Yale doesn't offer, even though if you check out the courses database, the language offerings.

He looks so very robust.

There there there's a lot of flexibility with how that proficiency is is administered, so don't worry too much when you're filling out the application about the very the little nuances of that, because there will be, you will be giving.

Proficiency instructions later, but in the application process it's really just kind of getting a broad idea of where you sort of land in that and how it's relevant to what your career goals are.

And what you want to get out of Jackson and your retirement at Yale. So I hope that helps with the language thing.

And so go through these really quickly and then we'll go back through and answer any questions you might have an next the the third FI would say is faculty. So we have our ladder faculty and that's one main thing that is really going to change with us. Becoming a school is having more of our own Jackson faculty, faculty or untenured faculty that we have control over hiring. And they're not all joint appointments and.

Then we have a number of joint appointment faculties and and those are just as important again because of the interdisciplinary nature of program. But also our senior fellows and I have a link for them because.

They are actually a huge component of the program. So in case you haven't seen them yet or paid any attention and we'll always these always sort of rotate a little bit every year. I know there's new ones coming that aren't public yet, and some people rotate out, but our senior fellows, in addition to our Jackson faculty are very much incorporated into the Jackson community.

So many of you are probably interested in a lot of these top IR programs. If you're interested in IR, Abcya is an organization I could type that into the chat that you might want to follow some of you. They have resources, they have events, but you can learn about the 30 some odd member schools and you know all of these schools have these top names right. We all have them, but having spent 22 years at at another school.

I know that they're all handled differently, right? But in the Jackson world, they're not just coming for a week or coming for a few days or coming to campus to do research. They are fully integrated into the community. They usually teach classes. They usually hire TAS or research assistance. They are giving you know non academic lectures.

They are bringing in their network, right? So they may have networks of people, and so they're bringing in people to to as part of their academic courses an part of their may be sponsored lectures that they're doing. And, you know, in a normal pre COVID and hopefully post COVID world, they're just around there hanging out, sharing the coffee machine that we're all sharing in the lower level of four chow hall.

And they are. Some of them will be reading your applications, so you might have former ambassadors reading your applications so they are fully integrated and they are really passionate about being part of Jackson. Some of our senior fellows have been around for many many many years, so some rotate in and some rotate out. You know they're usually there for a year or two, maybe three, and some are a lot longer. They may teach one semester and not the other, so it's it's.

It's there's no like.

Pure consistency, but they are an amazing asset, accent, asset to the Jackson experience and they are there to help. Even you know with career advice and you know help you think through you know maybe even courses you might want to take. So you need to think of them as an actual integrated part of the Jackson community, not just you. Know coming to campus.

You know now and again and you know having three days of office hours or whatnot, so that that's a really unique feature in Jackson. I want to mention the World Fellows, even though they're not faculty. I sort of lump them in with this category and I didn't get a get the link out for them, but they are.

There's usually 16 of them every fall who come to Jackson Jackson hosts?

Them, and they're coming to learn they're coming to take classes to do.

You know, leadership, training, whatnot. But we also they also hot. We also have what are called world fellow liaison. So students are hired to work with them to help them with their integration to help them plan their curriculum. I mean in previous years I haven't studied the new ones. Yes, they actually just came out not that long ago, but I know in the past we've had a Nigerian Olympian and we've had an Iraqi comedian, and they're all sort of rising in their careers.

And have very unique experiences, and they're there in the fall semester their their lounges right across the hall from the our Grad student lounge. And there's a lot of informal activity interactivity that goes on as well as bill host events. They host lectures, they host talks, and so you need to think of them as an additional resource. While they're not a faculty.

There there networking.

Experiences is a huge part of your Jackson experience, so keep your eye on those there. You know the link I gave you will show you this coming fall. Of course they won't be there because they're only there in the fall semester, so there would be a new batch in the fall of 2022.

They usually come out sometime in the summer, so you would know who they are.

And yeah, so you think of them as an alumni network as well. And we'll talk about that a little bit when I do the future. That efuture it's.

You know there is that the programs I think on its 20th year and so all of those people are part of the Jackson network and they attend alumni events that we have all over the world. So keep them in mind as a resource and I want to make sure you realize how integrated they are into the Jackson community and the 4th F is for many of you probably considered the most important is funding.

So funding at at Jackson I would say is pretty good I. I think you know I come from a school that has the mic drop on funding so nobody could compete with the funding at our friends down in New Jersey, but Jackson is getting there, right? So currently for the MA program we give something to everyone who asks for it. So all you need to do is a simple list.

Checking a box on the application saying you are applying for funding from Jackson and.

That that doesn't matter if you're international or you know where you come from that you just check that box. No additional paperwork is needed if you are externally funded, we do need all that documentation and there's places to include that in your application so historically.

That minimum award has been half tuition. I will post in. I have a link for our tuition page as well so you have it.

So have Commission that you know we're looking this year that comes out to be, I think, 2020 two. 8:15, I think, is what it comes out to be. Perhaps tuition, so you can assume that you are going to, you know, get somewhere in the mid 20s a torture education right off the bat. The rest of our funding is merit based, so that's where we consider sort of all of those data points. Like how much work experience you have.

GPA, juries which we do still require.

And I will find that link. So you have it, which shows some of the AMA.

Data points.

Which we don't want you to be intimidated by. Need you to remember that these are medians and averages. But obviously having.

Posted the medians and averages strengthens an application right but we don't have minimums for anything but the TOEFL. There is a TOEFL or IELTS minimum, but otherwise we don't have minimums because we look at so much more. We look at the whole applicant and we look at your work experience and we definitely take into consideration your recommenders and your writing and all of those kinds of things. And obviously your transcripts and whatnot.

So those data points become more important when we do look at the merit based funding, but I can tell you that you know that's that's the second thing about that we're hoping will be a big change with us becoming a school. The first thing was having more of our own ladder faculty and the 2nd is hopefully we'll be able to do more funding for our graduate students. And we I think we're able to this year. This fall's incoming class we were able to bump everyone to full tuition.

So and then there's still about a third of the class that received a full stipend, so again, well not everybody is fully funded. We're getting there, and we hope to get there, so you will know if you are offered admission you will know usually within 2448, maybe 72 hours what your funding award will be something that I always want to make sure people are reminded of is think about cost of living. I know some of you are in DC NYC.

If you compare DC, NYC, Boston, London some places out in California.

Cost of living is much, much higher in those places than than the middle of New England, so you know we're right on the Northeast corridor, right? Easy train rides to these big cities, so it's kind of the best of both worlds and the cost of living is is is.

It's quite remarkable that definitely it's better than it was in my ways in New Jersey as well. So those are things that you'll want to keep in mind as you get your offers in the spring and do this comparisons you know if you're most of you are from the states, know that there's no consistency. So tuition you have is different and all across the board, so.

But hopefully the tuition link I gave you will be helpful. There are also keep in mind that if you there is a required summer internship for them, a program that you do between your first and second year, we call it the summer experience. And if that internship is not funded, you can apply for up to $5000 of funding from Jackson. So you can consider that there's funding available for summer.

Some people apply for additional funding to tack on and do some language training. There are other resources at Yale to do that, and also many of our students are TAS teaching assistance or course assistance, which is sort of just more helping out. With course not doing as much as a heavy lift is, the TAS an research assistance so that many of our senior fellows or faculties have Jackson students. You can also do that with.

Other schools that heal. So if you have an interest either in a specific interest in working with a particular faculty member and they needed to hey there department might offer them first dibs, but student Jackson students do sometimes TA for other other faculty members across Yale, so it can be more than just a funding, you know.

Additional funding resource to be able to.

You know, add to your living expenses while you're at Yale.

It becomes another networking opportunity. One story I remember when I first started. I had an alarm. Help me down in DC and an in person recruiting event which we hope will happen very soon again.

That she was a ETA for a senior fellow. A former General Jackson and when she was graduating, she ended up getting her first job with him down in DC. So it's more than just a supplement to your funding and actually is part of the experience. And in that networking experience that you can have while at Jackson.

Finally, let's talk about the 5th F and that is future. I'm assuming most of you are here because you want to go to grad school, so you can get that.

Potentially dream job for us. It really is about going into the global good and making a difference in society and people go on and do many many different things. Obviously global affairs is very broad.

Has a very broad definition and so when you look at what our students do and their small cohorts, right, but you could see how broadly or I will give you a couple more links. I'll give you this summer link as well, so here is this summer experience link. Make sure you scroll to the bottom and it actually gives you live data. It doesn't have names, but it gives you the title and the organization and.

The location you know.

Looking at this year would be a little weird, right? 'cause they're all they were all virtual, but that's the nature of a global pandemic. Great, but I think you'll find that as you look through the last couple of years to see what people do is it's pretty broad, and here is the link for.

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for Jobs and make sure there's you have to Scroll down to the bottom to see the the mall did live data for the last five or six years. Same thing. It gives you the job titles, the locations and the organization and you will see that there's a tremendous amount of depth and breath in where our Jackson students are and where they go.

So I think that's you know, future obviously is is what you want. Hopefully you are here.

You know?

Looking, knowing what you need, knowing that you need a graduate program and hopefully what you want to get out of that graduate program and what you want to do with it, and to get you further in your career. And you know, I will say you get even with choosing the courses as well as your internships in your job. You get one on one help from student affairs and career development office. That is also a beauty of small program and it also adds to the family atmosphere rate.

You as soon as you arrive, you aren't getting that one on help one on one help choosing your courses, they start right away trying to figure out what your summer experience plans are going to be and so they go through those things to figure out what it is you want. What it is you need and trying to help point you in the right direction and find resources for you to do that so and also the career Development Office has again pre and post COVID various trips usually NYC DC.

Sometimes London where they bring in the alumni network and I'm as I mentioned, the World Fellows as well as our Jackson students and also keep in mind we've adopted the International Relations alumni of 40 years. So when some people think that oh Jackson is NYU is, you know, does it have a good enough network? You know, we've adopted this network and so you know having access to them in live events is great and they come to Jackson and they do.

Career talks and all sorts of things so.

You know you get all of that help and then you have access to all of the emails they call across campus. Here. Access to vehicles along my network as well, not just Jackson. So the resources are there.

And there I think those 5F's, I think, give you a general feel about. There's another F about what Jackson is and what the community is like, and hopefully some of those links I gave you help with that.

We can talk a little bit about admissions and like the particulars of that. Maybe I'll stop there though and see if you have any questions before I keep talking about things that you know you may not want to know. I will say good, OK? I see it question coming in how smooth the transition be from the Jackson Institute to the Jackson Professional School. I'm trying to determine whether I will apply for this up.

Coming fall or later term. That's a great question. I would say we've we've really been operating as a school for.

Many years, right? So there's not the main difference. I think that.

You will feel is actually the application, so the school itself, the Institute, the school, not a lot is going to change. I don't think anybody who starts this fall will have that much. You know, different, there's not going to be a lot of difference. It's really going to be on us in the admissions office, which is a little scary thought because the applications this is just a technical issue. The application is still part of the Jesus, so we're going to have our own application because we won't be part of the Graduate School anymore.

So we'll have that go live sometime next summer.

You know and will be taking care of that, Anne.

I'm nervous about it. 'cause we definitely could use some more stuff to do that and take care of all of your transcripts and make sure everything's loaded properly in your applications are complete and we're doing all of that. So from a practical admissions application standpoint, that's the only thing you really have to worry about. If you are genuinely concerned about the degree name, you know I, I don't think it's as much of an issue. Again, I came from Princeton and the degree names were.

Opposite their MPA was everybody else is MPP, and you've got MSFS down in DC and you've got, so there's a maze and there's you know, foreign service and there's all sorts of degrees out there, so I think the degree name is just nomenclature and you really need to drill down into the Koran, sort of, the fit and the nature of each of the programs and what are the different nuances in the strengths that you want to get from particular program.

But if the degree name is is of concern to you.

You mean we don't know when that announcement is going to come again? It was not a priority in the Yale Corporation's agenda during COVID, so we're hoping that would be approved by this fall, meaning people applying for fall 2022 would be fine. But there's always that chance it's delayed again, so that's the one thing. Also, the curriculum changes. They should be announced this fall, so our application goes live, usually in August.

And you have our final deadline is January 2nd. You can apply by December 1st to get an automatic fee waiver, so the curriculum changes should be fleshed out and made public and announced, and all of that.

During your time of application, so you can decide if you know I don't want to take 4/4 instead of three right, even though it's still one of the fewer you know, the more flexible curriculums out of all of these you know. Like, especially the apsia schools, I think Princeton was up to six six and a half or something like that, so those are the two things that you might want to keep in mind and think about, but otherwise I don't think the the expansion to the buildings across the street if.

Facilities are of concern to you of XI. Don't think going to happen for a few years. Anthropology or somebody still in there and so their building has to get finished before they can move out. So I think those are the three things.

That if those are of concern that that would be an issue otherwise.

We are Jackson. We've been operating this way.

You know, that's why it's it's funny to think that you were going to be new again, right? But you can rest assured there's not really going to be too much change. Again, more faculty, hopefully, and maybe more money, but I hope that helps good I'm, I'm glad I said your name correctly. I should have asked him that. I said Peter, saying, how does Jackson typically evaluate applicants coming straight from underground? That's a great question, Peter. Thanks for asking that because it is a common question. And then you saw the profile.

That you probably saw that the average work experience is 3 to five years, so again, those aren't minimums. We do usually have a couple of people who are coming right from undergrad, but with such a small program.

And a program that we consider ourselves a professional program. A terminal degree, meaning you get this degree and you can go out and do international policy right? You can do global affairs, so we really do look for having some significant works writes that strengthens an application. That doesn't mean somebody coming right from undergrad doesn't have a chance. I will say though, for many of you in the states, you might be more familiar with this. A lot of those spots, or people who are coming right from undergrad or very recently.

From undergrad are going to, and there's no quotas or anything like that, but they're usually going to Pickering, foreign affairs Fellows or Rangel Fellows, because those those are fellowships there on the fast track and foreign service, and so in perfect condition with the Jackson Institute so.

It it.

It definitely takes. There's needs to be something really interesting and unique about somebody coming right from undergrad, and it happens, right? So just keep that in mind as you're putting together application. Somebody who doesn't have the post grad work experience. You definitely need to play up your your internships, your community service, your volunteerism and whatnot, which is important for everyone, right? We look at all of that, but it'll weigh much more heavily for someone who doesn't have the postgrad experience.

I will say that.

You know it's.

Well, I I think I'll leave it at that for right now. I bet there there might be more questions about that and we're down to about 15 minutes. I want let me read through and if there are no more questions I will get back to some of that. It looks like I only have one more Italia. Do you have a recommendation to apply straight out of undergrad? Take a few years to work? Perfect? Thanks. So that is a common question and I'll keep going there. We would.

Never tell anyone to not get additional work experience. There's very bad grammar, but basically because work experience will strengthen your application. If you have the opportunity to get some additional work experience, it's probably always a good idea.

I will say for us, Jackson in for many of these you know IR top IR schools or they're going to be looking for the same thing we are looking for.

We want the trajectory to make sense and we want you to connect the dots. So ideally some of the things you did in undergrad.

Point you into the direction of this global affairs degree. Maybe the courses you took, or you know, maybe the travels that you did. Obviously the Community service etc and any work post grad work experience that you've had ideal. Ideally they've all like the dots are being connected and they sort of make sense together. And one thing from an admission standpoint, I will tell you is that we definitely.

You need to tell us not just who you are and how great you are, but also why you need Jackson. And don't forget to tell us what you want to do with this Jackson degree. Once you're done right, what is your career goal and what is that trajectory so those three pieces are important together, and so think about that when you're putting together your application.

And I will say for those coming right from undergrad, I think there's there's.

You know genuine. How do I say this?

Flashback to the flexibility F right with us being such a flexible program and you have so much freedom on other F.

To choose your curriculum, you're basically choosing even as our little tagline here says you're creating your own path to global leadership.

Because you're taking your core of your stats, your E con your history class, and probably your your comparative politics class.

Beyond that, everything else is. You're like we said, it's your it's your playground, right? And so because if you look at that the course database link that I sent you and you use, you can use keyword searches like if you're interested in whether it's a region like Africa or whether it's you know more economics or whether it's diplomacy, or you know whatever the case may be, and I have my little word cloud there of the various things that people study that.

It's so very broad, so.

It's usually people who have been working in the field for a few years and that sweet spot seems to be about three to five years where they have this a-ha moment of.

Ha, this is what I need. I've been doing this karere you know I did this in school. I'm doing this career and this is where I'm I think I want to go. And now that I've been in the field I realize I need this. This and this. Maybe it's language. Maybe it's a regional area. Maybe it's one of those skill sets. Those tools like Statzer Recon. Maybe you want to take more classes at the School of Management, higher level like going into, you know.

Higher level ECON classes or taking languages like R and Python And all those things that I don't myself understand, you know, so there's the tools, those tools and resources. There's languages you start to.

So usually those people who've worked for awhile can can formulate better what they want to get out of a program where they have to to to build it themselves. Now again, going forward, maybe not this year. Maybe not next year. We are probably going to try and have some pads available right where you can actually will say. Take these to take these particular classes and you can get this. Maybe it is, you know.

International diplomacy or whatever.

So that those are some things that we're thinking you can do that now, right? You can do that now, but basically you're picking and choosing. And again, I will reiterate that you sit down one on one with our Student Affairs Office to help you navigate that massive course database that's available to you. There are matrices on the website there really hard to find, so let me see if I can find those for you. There. Samples right there, there there are examples of.

What some students have done?

In previous years in the classes they choose and the different schools at you know that they choose to do those from, so you have to sort of look at the bottom and you'll see there's looks like eight or nine nine different samples there, and it gives you whether the cross listed classes. So it'll just show you that people are taking these particular classes at the School of Public health, or these particular classes at the law school. It's sort of, you know.

Gives you a little bit more direction, but I will say that.

Feed flexibility in the non structure is really what Jackson students and Jackson Alumn.

Think is really special is really unique, so but we're trying to provide more opportunity to provide structure for those who do want it and those who do need it. But again, I'll just reiterate that it's the more you tell us an when you're applying, you don't have to say I want to take these, you know, 16 courses. You don't need to be that specific, but too. And you also need to be more than I, you know, want to change the world and.

You know, be part of the global good. That's obviously too broad, so you need to, you know, sort of piece those things together and tell us.

What you're thinking about? Do you want to take classes at the other professional schools? If you want to be a joint degree, you actually do need to submit additional statement. A joint degree statement. Flushing that out a little bit more so.

That's the probably too long answer, and maybe two philosophical answer.

Up to.

How?

People coming from undergrad might have a little bit of an upward upward battle if you will to put their application together. There are similar successful so I don't want to discourage you, but hopefully I'm giving you enough of that.

There's.

Thoughts and and what not to give you things to think about so you can hopefully build a stronger application to be one of those few people that actually do get in with a lesser amount of work experience.

I don't did I paste in this student BIOS yet. Let me make sure you have that.

I feel like I didn't do that yet, so let me because just like where you all are coming from.

Our students, I think.

The list of students will show you doesn't have the new ones yet the graduates aren't taken out now. That will happen sometime this summer, but I think when you drill down and you read some of these student BIOS, you'll see that students are coming from all over. And I keep saying depth and breadth, right? You will see that people are coming from different sectors, all ideally with that commitment to the global good. But people are coming from all different backgrounds and experiences and so I think that'll give you.

A feel for where people are coming from and might if you want to poke through some of those.

If you want to cross reference this with like LinkedIn or something, you could see if there's alumni with similar interests that maybe you could reach out to, or if you read a bio when you see a shared interest, you can check the Yale directory and the yale.edu web page and see if their email is public and if that's public you can feel free to reach out to them. You know if there's anything like that, we don't have a specific ambassador program or anything like that.

Alright, we have a few more minutes. Let's see Lambda students at Jackson work part time or consult during their studies. Is that possible with the courseload? Liam? Yes and no. It's it's not. It is meant to be a full time residential program, but there are people who sort of maintain there. Maybe some of their professional. I wouldn't say part time. I think it's more like you know, maybe people continue to serve on boards like I know an example of.

Someone who this year who has her own nonprofit and she hasn't been able to dedicate the time that she would like to it. So I think she's going to take a leave of absence from Jackson to sort of get that back up and running and then come back to Jackson so it isn't meant to be.

Somewhere where you can work, but some people do continue to do so. There's also opportunities, so outside of being TAS and whatnot, and there's levels of TAS like there's TTFTF, teaching fellow TF 10s, and TF 20s, it's sort of the amount of hours in the amount of work that might be necessary, so there's different levels of that, but there's also, I think that's the one thing I really appreciate about the New Haven community. Is that there are resources and they're available I do mentoring.

You know it's it's something that there were things I wasn't really able to get involved in with the community as much down in New Jersey, but here in New Haven there's there's tremendous amounts of relevant resources. I think a lot of our students, but a lot of our peace core fellows work with a program called IRIS, which is integrated refugee, something services, and so people do things like that.

Some people work for us right and help us in admissions and so there are. There are things that you can do locally and whatnot, so I think that people do consulting and whatnot, but it's not like major major, if that makes sense. I hope that makes sense. Let's see. I don't see any more questions, so let me put in. There's a there's a link on the.

Right, but you can't actually link to it, where usually I am happy too, especially in this world where we're still kind of stuck at home and not in the office, and you can't come to campus and whatnot. I am happy to provide.

My calendar.

Which links to.

If you find a slot on there, it sets it automatically, sets up a zoom like a 15 minute zoom meeting with me based on my availability, and so I am more than happy to, especially for those of you who have hung out till the end and maybe you have additional questions, maybe I didn't touch on anything or you know, maybe there's something I didn't touch on. Maybe there's an MASC here, wants a little bit more information. I know I missed a lot of things 'cause we could talk on and on and on.

But I am happy to have a chat with those of you who want an if you're watching this as a recording because you didn't make it.

The same applies to you. I think, as long as my calendar is active you can. You can go ahead and click on that and very happy you should. Also I don't know how some of you found this web and R, but if you found it on our events page, keep paying attention to the events page. We will soon be scheduling some more virtual alumni coffee chats. We had them last year. Virtually. We're still going to do the virtual this year.

Two years ago they were in person all over the world, right? So it was a different different kind of vibe, but I usually host these because we need a connection and a host, and it's easier for me to do it, and so hopefully we'll get a good chunk of alumni who are able to find time to spend 45 minutes chatting with perspective students. So keep your eye on our calendar for this summer because we'll add some more events. I don't know where.

If any of you are local or nearby, we still don't know exactly when campus is going to open to visitors.

We are slated to be back probably after Labor Day, so we'll just have to keep our eye on that. Whether or not we're going to do any in person visit days or if we'll have some virtual visit days, which will hopefully involve being able to sit in on classes so those are logistics that we haven't worked out yet because.

Like at the beginning of the pandemic, now we're at the end and we're trying to transition back to in person, and so there's a lot still to workout, so our email addresses here follow us on social media again. Schedule a meeting with me. I hope this was helpful. Thanks for signing on an evening. I know it's maybe early for some of you out West, but I was happy to do it a little bit later for you and.

I think I will close unless there's any last minute questions and I don't see any, so you're welcome to say, and Peter and.

Yeah, so I will say not signoffs and please be safe. We're not totally out of the woods yet, so take care and hopefully will see your application in the near future. Alright, take care, bye.