Last week, SIPA Dean Merit Janow graced was interviewed by the Financial Times, where she discussed the importance of policy knowledge in business. Dean Janow was featured in FT’s “Meet The Deans” section, and was also interviewed on-camera by FT Reporter/Producer Vanessa Kortekaas. Read (and watch) the interview on their site by clicking here.
Today, I’m sharing with you a post by another one of our Program Assistants, Lauren Podber, MIA ’15. Lauren is a five-year dual-degree student with Columbia University’s School of General Studies, and her focus has been in International Security Policy, with a specialization in the Middle East. She wanted to share with you two of the opportunities you’ll have as a SIPA student: the opportunity to take coursework in fields you’re passionate about, and the opportunity to pursue a career in your chosen concentration. Here’s what she had to say:
Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution.
Since SIPA and Columbia University are global institutions of learning, I thought many of you would be interested in attending this week’s symposium about the International Fellows Program (IFP), on Friday, April 17, 2015 at the International Affairs Building, Room 1501. The IFP Symposium will feature a keynote address by Strobe Talbott, President of the Brookings Institution and former Deputy Secretary of State, on Russia, Europe, and the U.S., with a focus on the Ukraine crisis and beyond. Following the keynote, he will be joined for a panel discussion by Maxim Boycko, visiting scholar at the National Bureau of Economic Research; Kim Marten, associate professor of political science at Barnard College; Constanze Stelzenmueller, senior fellow at Brookings; and Stephen Sestanovich, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor for the Practice of International Diplomacy and director of the International Fellows Program.
You may RSVP for the event here.
If you’re asking yourself, what is IFP?, well, it’s pretty simple (and exciting). The International Fellows Program is a two-semester multidisciplinary seminar open to 30 students of all graduate degree programs at Columbia University. All fellows receive a stipend and study a curriculum with two goals – to examine the origins of the current international order, in which the United States has for decades played the leading role, and to look ahead to the new world that will eventually take its place, dominated by a larger number of actors, new problems, and approaches to problem solving that have yet to be defined. Participation in the International Fellows Program provides unique programming and networking opportunities with prominent figures of the international community. (Learn more about IFP in this 4-minute video.)
FYI, if you didn’t get into the IFP this year, it’s OK. You may still reapply for the program in your second year!
For questions about the program, please contact Director Stephen Sestanovich at [email protected].
Everyone here at the Admissions Office knows that many of our newly-admitted students are still torn between enrolling at SIPA or another public policy program this upcoming fall. With enrollment deadlines looming, I wanted to share with you a post by one of our Admissions Ambassadors, Camilo Lizarralde. Camilo, MIA ’15, is in the International Security Policy concentration and United Nations specialization. Since many of you are interested in SIPA’s ties with the United Nations, I thought Camilo’s story was pertinent to share. As one of the first UN Studies specializers, he has a lot of passion for SIPA and its connection to the United Nations. Here’s why Camilo chose SIPA.
On the admissions blog, we talk a lot about the admissions process and student experiences. Something we don’t often mention is what our world-renowned faculty members and practitioners are up to. So today, I wanted to bring your attention to an honor that was recently bestowed upon one of SIPA’s own. This week, Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger announced via email that’s SIPA’s very own Michael Doyle joined the ranks of top-ranked faculty, like Joseph E. Stiglitz, as a University Professor, which is Columbia’s highest academic honor. Congratulations Michael Doyle!
"The most global public policy school, where an international community of students and faculty address world challenges."
—Merit E. Janow, Dean, SIPA, Professor of Practice, International and Economic Law and International Affairs
