Spring on Campus, 2024 – the Thinker

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Application Advice

Sena offers her advice to students who seek out this program directly out of their undergraduate. From her personal experience, she highlights knowing your "why" and expressing that in your application.

Jul 24 2025
Admissions Blog
Democratic Resilience

Maria Ressa — professor of professional practice at Columbia SIPA, member of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) — discusses her work “to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”

Jul 24 2025
Capital for Good
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

The Sahel is pivoting toward Turkey. IGP Student Scholar Jordanna Yochai MIA '25 writes about what that means for Washington in her latest piece for the Atlantic Council.

Jul 23 2025
Atlantic Council
In the Media
Climate & Sustainable Development

Europe wants a “more reliable rare-earth supply coming from China,” said Tom Moerenhout, who heads the Critical Materials Initiative at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.

Jul 23 2025
Foreign Policy
In the Media
Inclusive Prosperity

In The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It, Joseph Stiglitz draws writings from across his five-decade-long career into a broad analytical framework that describes what causes and perpetuates inequality.

Jul 23 2025
LSE Review of Books
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

Stuart Gottlieb: "This is a realignment that has significant staying power. The standard advice to Democrats — come back to the center! focus on “affordability”! protect migrants from deportation! — might have worked in the 1990s, but it is falling on deaf ears now because the Democrats have lost credibility with far too many swaths of voters and the brand is deeply tainted."

Jul 22 2025
New York Times
In the Media
Geopolitical Stability

The scholars will be publishing research, holding events and roundtables, and working with faculty and practitioners to help ensure that academic research can best inform public policy choices.

Jul 21 2025
Faculty Spotlight
Democratic Resilience

Trump's support fell off because he has gone too far beyond what even his supporters have wanted -- to secure the southern border and deport the bad guys," Robert Shapiro told Newsweek.

Jul 21 2025
Newsweek
In the Media
Democratic Resilience

"The fight against scam compounds in Southeast Asia has seen significant setbacks in recent months — another seeming casualty of the United States foreign aid freeze", states SIPA lecturer Laura Scherling.

Jul 18 2025
Tech Policy Press
In the Media

A special counsel is an independent prosecutor appointed by the attorney general to investigate, and potentially prosecute, cases in extraordinary circumstances, Robert Shapiro told McClatchy News.

Jul 18 2025
Miami Herald