Presidential Inauguration on the Columbia Campus

A crowd of several thousand students, staff, and administrators gathered in the center of campus on Tuesday for the inauguration of Columbia College alumnus Barack Obama on a jumbo tron television screen.  President Bollinger welcomed the crowd prior to the event and extended an invitation to everyone in the audience to join he and his…

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SIPA Professor Appointed Chair of Advisory Board of the UNDEF

The faculty members who teach at SIPA bring both strong academic and professional backgrounds to the classroom.  SIPA has approximately 60 full-time faculty members along with 100 practitioner faculty members per year. SIPA professor Michael Doyle was recently appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to a new term as Chair of the Advisory Board…

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International Fellowship Opportunity for College Sophomores (IIPP)

Most of you reading this are probably not college sophomores, but you might know a college sophomore or perhaps the parents of a college or even high school student and you can encourage such individuals to look into a wonderful fellowship program that will help pay for a professional graduate degree related to international affairs….

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World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program

As shared in a previous entry SIPA does partner with a number of organizations to provide scholarship funding.  The process is always competitive and we cannot guarantee funding to all applicants who are affiliated with partner organizations or specific scholarship programs. We identify most candidates through a mechanism on the the admission application.  In the…

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Six SIPA Students and UNICEF Awarded First Place at U.S. Agency for International Development Competition

Most of the news on the blog lately has been about admission related news and notes, but there is always a lot going on at SIPA that is newsworthy. Workshops are opportunities designed for SIPA students to work in groups with external organizations to put their learning to real world use.  You can think of…

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