With a mission to equip Columbia students with the tools necessary to grapple with the world’s pressing issues, the SIPA Institute of Global Politics (IGP) Student Scholars Program will provide the mentorship and professional experiences Columbia students need in order to understand and find solutions to our global challenges.
IGP Student Scholars will be selected to work closely with the IGP Faculty Advisory Board and IGP Distinguished Fellows, who include a Nobel Prize laureate, diplomats, politicians, and advocates.
IGP Student Scholars will have unique opportunities, including:
- Priority access to public IGP events, including Spotlight Interviews (the first of which was with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi!) and Across the Aisle events, where policymakers model respective and constructive exchanges of views across partisan and ideological lines.
- Priority access to closed-door IGP events, which will include small-group workshops and policy labs with Distinguished Fellows, policymakers, and policy experts.
- Priority access to work with Distinguished Fellows and on IGP policy reports as paid Research Assistants.
- Advising IGP staff on future IGP programming that would be useful and interesting to Columbia students.
* For its inaugural year (2023), the IGP Student Scholars Program is an unpaid opportunity.
Eligibility
Applicants must be:
(1) a rising first- or second-year SIPA student;
(2) a rising junior or senior in CC, BC, GS, or SEAS; or
(3) a rising second- or third-year Law student.
To Apply
- Request that a confidential reference letter be sent from a faculty member you have taken a seminar with. Faculty can send the reference letter to IGP@sipa.columbia.edu.
- Submit a 1-page cover letter explaining why you want to be an IGP Student Scholar and how the program will benefit your pursuit towards your anticipated future plans. We are looking for the future leaders of the world to be IGP Student Scholars. We look forward to hearing about how you have used your skills to address the world’s most pressing global challenges.
- Submit an unofficial Columbia University transcript. For first-year SIPA students, please submit your undergraduate transcript.
- Submit a CV.
Please submit your cover letter, unofficial transcript, and CV in one PDF file named [LASTNAME]_[FIRSTNAME]_IGPSS.pdf to IGP@sipa.columbia.edu.
Application decisions will be made by the start of the 2023 Fall Semester.
Please reach out to IGP@sipa.columbia.edu with any questions.