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Financing Your Degree

Our International Fellows Program is a fellowship at SIPA allowing students to gain professional networking experience and socially join an elite cohort. Kamayah talks about her experience as an IFP fellow and her advice for applying to the program.

Nov 12 2025
Admissions Blog
Climate & Sustainable Development

“You never know what the straw that breaks the camel’s back is,” said Edward Fishman, a former U.S. government official now at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy. “The benefit of stopping the oil trade is that you are hitting the Russian military-industrial complex at its source.”

Nov 11 2025
Foreign Policy
In the Media
Climate & Sustainable Development

“The pressure on companies to very publicly demonstrate net-zero plans has certainly eased a bit,” said Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. “And some companies are responding by shelving their ESG goals entirely.”

Nov 10 2025
The Washington Post
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

Columbia University professor Robert Y. Shapiro on the federal government shutdown: “I think Americans have made sense of the finger pointing — there is partisan conflict, gridlock, both sides have dug in. They are not so surprised."

Nov 08 2025
Newsweek
In the Media
Inclusive Prosperity

If President Javier Milei cannot control inflation and translate his market-oriented agenda into tangible gains for a majority of Argentines, the electorate that brought him to power may quickly turn elsewhere, says SIPA Professor Victoria Murillo.

Nov 07 2025
Foreign Affairs
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

California Congresswoman and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is bringing nearly 40 years in politics to a close, announcing she will not seek reelection in 2027. CBS News' Erica Brown reports, and Lincoln Mitchell, Columbia University political analyst, joins "The Daily Report" to discuss.

Nov 06 2025
CBS News
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

SIPA Professor Robert Shapiro on the impacts of Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win for the Democrats: "There may be a big push among certain segments of the Democratic Party to try to run more left-leaning candidates."

Nov 05 2025
World Is One News
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

Vicky Murillo, Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, spoke on De Acá en Más about the NYC Mayoral Election results.

Nov 05 2025
De Acá en Más
In the Media
Inclusive Prosperity

SIPA Professor Ester Fuchs on Zohran Mamdani's policies as NYC mayor: "He is positioned very well to move forward on affordable housing."

Nov 05 2025
WABC-TV
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

On the Democrats' posture toward Donald Trump: "They are routinely waiting for Trump's actions to have an effect on the electorate," says Robert Shapiro, a political scientist at Columbia University.

Nov 05 2025
N-TV
In the Media