Originally published here on July 14, 2020: On Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs in Boston announced that the Trump administration had agreed to rescind the policy that prevented international students from maintaining F-1 and M-1 student visas if they were enrolled in an online-only course of study in the fall of 2020….
Columbia to Participate in Litigation Against ICE Restrictions on International Students
Shared by Dean Merit E. Janow on July 9, 2020: Dear Members of the SIPA Community, I write to share with you that Columbia University is filing a legal brief in support of the lawsuit initiated yesterday by Harvard and MIT against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s recent directives regarding international students and online learning….
An Important Update from Dean Merit E. Janow
Columbia SIPA Dean Merit E. Janow made this announcement on July 8, 2020: Dear Members of the SIPA Community, In his message yesterday to the Columbia community, President Bollinger provided a significant update on the University’s plans for the resumption of on-campus activities this fall. I encourage you to review it as it speaks not…
Meet Francisco Martinez MIA ’20, Officer in the Chilean Navy
My name is Francisco Martinez, a Class of 2020 graduate of the Master of International Affairs (MIA) program with a International Security Policy (ISP) concentration and specializing in East Asia. What did you do before attending SIPA? I am an officer in the Chilean Navy. I was posted in the Naval Polytechnic Academy in Vina…
SIPA CERV – SIPA’s Newest Student Organization
This post is co-authored by Jacob Stern MPA ‘21 and Matthew Miller MPA ’21 (pictured on the far left, and third from the left respectively). One rainy Thursday night this past fall, we were sitting at a local restaurant waiting for some other friends to arrive. While we were talking about what we wanted to…
