Jeffrey Sachs on OWS: “A Return to True Democracy”
Professor and Director of Columbia’s Earth Institute Jeffrey Sachs has spoken enthusiastically of the Occupy Wall Street movement, writing in The Huffington Post that, with the launch of the movement,...
View ArticlePutin on the Ritz: Russia’s Former, and Future, President
(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky) Vladimir Putin announced last month, to roaring applause from his United Russia Party supporters, his intention to return as President of Russia in 2012. At his side was the...
View ArticlePeace Corps an Affront to the Poor? Who Are We to Say?
Director of the Peace Corps and brother-in-law of President Kennedy, Sargent Shriver, speaks at the National Press luncheon in Washington, Oct. 18, 1962. (AP Photo/John Rous) In the late 1960s the...
View ArticleSIPA: A Man’s World?
Like in most programs in higher education, SIPA’s student body is majority female. But according to data provided by the SIPA Office of Academic Affairs, the gender distribution of its faculty...
View ArticleSIPA: A Pipeline to the Private Sector?
By Angela Beibei Bao Siwen Fan landed her internship at Moody’s Investors Service last May. Eight hours a day during the summer and sixteen hours a week in the fall, Siwen did fixed income research...
View ArticleNancy Schwalje Travis MIA ’97, co-founder of Communiqué
Kelsey Keech CQ: What led you to start Communiqué? NT: There were two main motivations. One was simply to create a paper that would share information among the SIPA community. Given the multinational...
View ArticleBetween Two Worlds? Dual Degree Students at SIPA
By Mehroz Baig We are a bit like the endangered species of SIPA, making up only 75 out of approximately 900 students. We are those who are technically second years taking first year classes, or the...
View ArticleA Panther at Columbia: Q&A with Jamal Joseph
By David Kortava This interview first appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of Communiqué Magazine. Founded in 1966, the Black Panther Party sought an end to police brutality and the institutional...
View ArticleCommencement Speaker Controversy: Dean Eggers Speaks
| By Robert Bachmann | A political firestorm—or the closest SIPA equivalent—broke out last month when students received an email from Senior Associate Dean Troy Eggers announcing this year’s...
View ArticleSIPA Student Publications Merge
Editorial Communiqué, SIPA’s student-run campus newspaper, and The Morningside Post, SIPA’s student- run news and opinion blog, have merged into a single multimedia publication, called The...
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