SIPA is constantly expanding it’s curricula so that students are equipped with the tools they need to start solving pressing global policy issues. There’s a wide range of areas that SIPA students choose to go into, so here are some new course highlights from this semester. (No need for a TL;DR, these course highlights are just one minute long.)
Working with the Private Sector for Development Outcomes
Military Technology Assessment
The Art of Creating Social Impact Campaigns
Despite popular belief, the International Security Policy (ISP) concentration is not only for veterans and war hawks. Rather, it is a multidimensional concentration designed for students interested in topics as diverse as political violence, conflict management, defense policy, military strategy, terrorism and unconventional warfare, arms control, intelligence, peacekeeping, coercion, negotiation, and alternatives to the use of force as an instrument of policy.
Not only do students cover a wide breadth of topics in the concentration, the students themselves represent a number of different backgrounds and come from various experiences. Enrolled in ISP are diplomats, former soldiers, recovering private sector analysts, humanitarian workers and peacekeepers. And then there are those that are still finding their way.
SIPA’s diversity is constantly benefiting students, but perhaps no more so for those studying in the ISP concentration. More than 50 percent of the student body comes from outside the United States, which allows for classes to integrate different points of view on the same conflict. When studying conflict, the students’ unique perspectives plays an outsized role. There is nothing quite like analyzing the phenomenon of transnational crime from a Mexican or French perspective, or looking at terrorism through the lens of Israeli and Palestinian students.
The professors in the ISP concentration are phenomenal; most have field experience and many are adjuncts who come to teach after spending the day at the NYPD, DoD, Capitol Hill, among other security institutions. They are always willing to meet with students and impart their professional advice.
Though SIPA’s curriculum is often characterized as being broad and flexible, one will be able to niche themselves in the ISP concentration.
The application for the Yellow Ribbon scholarship will be live on Monday, June 10th at 12:00pm EDT (tomorrow). SIPA students who qualify at the 100% level for the Post 9/11 GI Bill may apply for consideration. Under the Post 9/11 GI Bill, eligibility for the Yellow Ribbon Program is determined on a first-come, first-served basis. The application will be available at: http://new.sipa.columbia.edu/admissions/applying-to-sipa/applying-for-financial-aid under a link that will be labeled “Yellow Ribbon Program Application.”
If you are a veteran of the US Armed Forces and would like to learn more about eligibility for these benefits, please visit the GI Bill website at www.gibill.va.gov/.
SIPA is committed to honoring those who have served our country by being one of seventeen individual schools at Columbia University participating in the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The Yellow Ribbon Program is an initiative authorized by the Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 (the Post-9/11 GI Bill) in which educational institutions provide eligible student veterans with a tuition waiver or grant matched by the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. This program supplements the base educational benefits provided by the Post-9/11 GI Bill. To be eligible for the Yellow Ribbon Program, you must be a US veteran eligible for the maximum level (100%) of benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill according to your VA Certificate of Eligibility. If you are a veteran of the US Armed Forces and would like to learn more about eligibility for these benefits, please visit the GI Bill website at www.gibill.va.gov/.
An application is required and will be available on Monday, June 10, 2013 at 12pm EDT (New York) at http://new.sipa.columbia.edu/admissions/applying-to-sipa/applying-for-financial-aid under a link that will be labeled “Yellow Ribbon Program Application.”
Prior recipients must apply if interested in receiving the scholarship; it is not automatically renewed. SIPA cannot guarantee funding for every eligible candidate, and funding will be on a first come, first served basis.
For general information about Veteran Affairs at Columbia University, please visit: www.veteranaffairs.columbia.edu.
SIPA participates in the Yellow Ribbon Program. This is just a reminder that the application goes live on Friday, June 15th at 1:00 p.m. EDT (tomorrow). Consideration is based on a first-come, first-served basis. The application will be available at: http://sipa.columbia.edu/resources_services/financial_aid/index.html.
For details about the Yellow Ribbon Program, visit The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs website. If you have questions about your eligibility level for the Post 9/11 GI Bill, please contact the VA at www.va.gov or 1-888-442-4551.
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—Merit E. Janow, Dean, SIPA, Professor of Practice, International and Economic Law and International Affairs
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