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Updated Health and Safety Guidance for Fall 2021 - Friday, Baronial 20, 2021

Love Students, Faculty and Staff,

The first of the Fall 2021 semester brings with it a sense of excitement and renewal equally our community prepares for a long-awaited return to in-person education and activities at SIPA and across Columbia University. In but a thing of weeks, students will be back on campus, faculty will be teaching from their classrooms, and the full vibrancy of SIPA's intellectual and academic life will once again flourish inside the International Diplomacy Building.

Soon I will exist sharing with you a preview of some of the infrequent faculty and visitors, courses, events, and other activities that will contribute to what promises to be a dynamic and engaging Fall 2021 semester.

Even so, as the by twelvemonth reminds the states, even every bit we prepare to return to campus, we must continue to accept precautions and practise our best judgement with respect to the pandemic, informed by Columbia University expertise and in accordance with state and local wellness guidance. To that terminate, today I am writing to share updated guidance and reminders of the policies and practices the University and SIPA are implementing to aid provide a smooth and condom transition to fully in-person instruction and services for Fall semester. Delight find below information about the Academy's monitoring program, policy around mask-wearing, events and visitors, testing, and other of import procedures.

I am grateful to every member of our customs for the extremely high rate of compliance we have seen with these existing procedures and policies as well as those newly implemented over the summer. I am confident that SIPA will go on to be an exemplar in this regard as we each practise our role to keep our customs safe.

Please read on for further information.

Sincerely yours,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Exercise, International Economic Law and International Affairs

Important New Guidance/Updated Protocols

In response to inverse conditions as the pandemic has connected to evolve, the Academy recently issued important new guidance and updated protocols:

• Covid-19 Monitoring Plan
  The Covid -19 Monitoring Plan is a comprehensive framework for Covid-19 risk assessment and management, with Columbia experts continuously monitoring public health atmospheric condition in New York City and standing prepare to adjust the University's policies if key metrics indicate that a modify is necessary.  Currently, the hazard level is Depression /Yellowish. I encourage you to review the Monitoring Programme to understand the four run a risk levels -- Lower/Dark-green; Depression/Yellow; Moderate/Orange; and Higher/Reddish -- and the adjustments in Academy policy that accompany a alter in adventure level.
• Mask-wearing to go along through at least September 30
  Mask-wearing will exist required indoors for all students, faculty and staff through at to the lowest degree September thirty. The continuation of the mask mandate is an additional precautionary measure that results from the Academy'southward condition in the Low/Yellow chance level under the Covid-nineteen Monitoring Plan.
• Events and Visitors
  Before this week SIPA issued specific guidance on events and visitors, including conditions that attach to the current gamble level denoted by the Monitoring Programme. We are currently in Low/Yellow risk level. Please refer to the SIPA events and visitor guidance here for detailed data.
• Voluntary Testing Program to continue through September 30
  Weekly voluntary Covid-19 testing will remain available through September 30 for asymptomatic vaccinated faculty, staff, and students not selected in the weekly random sample. The program will be evaluated by CU Health and may exist extended beyond September 30 if conditions warrant.

Important Reminders

Every member of the SIPA community is required to complete the steps below before accessing campus and SIPA facilities:

• Comply with the CU vaccine mandate
• Sign the Columbia Community Health Compact
• Complete the Required Covid Safety Preparation
• Complete the Required Gateway Test for COVID-nineteen
• Download the ReopenCU App and complete the Daily Symptom Testament

Give thanks you for reviewing these important updates and for your compliance with the Academy'south requirements for accessing campus this fall.

I look forward to seeing you in IAB in only a few weeks.

Policy on Events and Visitors for Autumn 2021 - Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Dear Colleagues,

As nosotros prepare to resume in-person activities this fall at SIPA, we are mindful of the current surround in New York City with respect to the pandemic and the need to strictly adhere to both the University's and SIPA's COVID-19 plans and protocols.

In the coming week, I will be sharing a message highlighting the steps nosotros are taking to ensure the continued wellness and safety of our community in accordance with the Academy'southward COVID-19 plans and policies, including those recently outlined in Provost Boyce'due south August eleven advice.

Today, because many in our community are already planning potential events and thinking about inviting speakers, I am sharing new guidance regarding theAcademy's policies and SIPA's procedures for events and gatherings this fall. My hope is that the procedures beneath volition analyze which kind of events will exist permissible without boosted approval and which will require blessing from the Dean's Office and the University to proceed.

The procedures below also include guidance for SIPA facultyconsidering inviting not-Columbia invitee lecturers and speakers into the classroom this fall. In line with University guidance,all guests should be virtual unless it is deemed necessary to a form, an bookish program, or a research endeavor, and must be approved by the Dean's Office.

SIPA's event and company guidelines are derived from the Academy'south policies, which I encourage you to familiarize yourself with at the links beneath. Importantly, notwithstanding, the Academy's policies are not static, and will exist adjusted if conditions warrant, including possibly condign more restrictive should the University deem additional precautions necessary. The fastened chart has more information on the types of gatherings that are covered under these policies.

I believe the measured approach that we are implementing volition contribute to the vibrant academic and intellectual exchanges that are essential to the SIPA experience, all the while prioritizing the connected health and safety of our community.

I expect frontwards to welcoming you back to SIPA this autumn.

Sincerely,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, Schoolhouse of International and Public Diplomacy
Professor of Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs

Read about SIPA'southward procedures regarding CU's policies on events, gatherings, and academic visitors for Fall 2021

Planning for Fall 2021 - June three, 2021

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff,

I write to provide a farther update on our plans for the Fall 2021 semester. Since my last communication, conditions in New York City have connected to better and vaccinations have increased substantially. The University currently expects that all classrooms volition exist at total occupancy.

Accordingly, nosotros are at present planning for a total resumption of in-person education this fall. This ways nosotros look students, faculty, and staff to exist nowadays on campus. The hope of returning to in-person academic life holds great excitement, and I know we all look frontward to once over again seeing each other around Columbia's International Diplomacy Building and participating in the rich assortment of activities that accept long contributed to SIPA'due south intellectual vibrancy and uniqueness.

Our ability to reach this goal rests upon the cooperation of our entire community, and information technology will exist incumbent upon each of us to have some specific actions to ensure our collective safety. Crucially, the University has mandated that all students, faculty, and staff must exist vaccinated:

• On April 19th, the University announced that all students who access campus beginning in Fall 2021 must be vaccinated. All students – new and continuing – should program to be vaccinated well before the kickoff of Fall semester. It is anybody'due south responsibleness to understand the University's health and condom policies and protocols, and you can acquire more than here.

• On May 14th, the Academy announced that all faculty and staff must be vaccinated.  Proof of vaccination must be submitted to CU Health (via the ReOpen CU App) no after than August 2, 2021. Y'all may observe more data, including FAQs, here.

With classes starting on Thursday, September nine, SIPA staff will be working with all students, kinesthesia, and staff to help set up yous for our full return to campus.

Students

This calendar week all students (domestic and international, new and continuing) will receive a mandatory questionnaire regarding plans for inflow on campus. Nosotros enquire that y'all return it promptly — no later than June 11— and so we can learn more nearly your plans and help, where possible, if you lot are facing obstacles.

International students who are concerned about travel restrictions and visa delays must immediately consult with Columbia Academy'south International Students and Scholars Office (ISSO) for assist and options. Tardily arrivals may be accommodated, on a case-past-case ground, for a express period, only our assumption remains that students volition attend classes in-person.

This week nosotros will also publish a serial of Frequently Asked Questions that provides further guidance and which volition be updated regularly throughout the summer. A link to these FAQs volition exist provided along with the questionnaire.

Faculty

All faculty are expected to teach in-person this fall and Associate Dean Hazel May will attain out to faculty shortly to communicate further about classroom instruction and contingency plans.

Staff

We will take a phased arroyo for the return to in-person work for SIPA staff.  The timing of your render volition largely depend on your office and responsibilities, with the expectation that the majority of staff will return to campus starting in mid-to-late July to permit time to prepare for the inflow of students and faculty in the autumn.  Staff will receive a separate advice with more than detailed data soon.

Lastly, I want to thank everyone for their patience and flexibility. As we all have learned over the by year, public wellness conditions tin change quickly. The University and SIPA Administration are constantly assessing and evaluating our plans in calorie-free of atmospheric condition on-the-ground, too as any requirements of New York State. Conditions may require adjustments, but as of today we are optimistic that nosotros shall be able to resume in-person academic life and that the rigorous protocols implemented over the past year at SIPA and beyond Columbia Academy will keep us all safe.

I look forward to welcoming you back to campus in the coming months. Until then, nosotros will go along to provide regular updates throughout the summer.

Sincerely yours,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs

Random Sample Testing Program -Fri, March 5, 2021

Dear SIPA Community,

While some good news regarding COVID-19 can be gleaned from the decrease in cases, albeit deadening, and the increasing number of individuals getting vaccinated, at that place remains a long route ahead for all of united states. The daily number of new cases in New York Urban center and test positivity remain substantial. To that terminate, we write today to invite your standing commitment to contributing to creating a condom campus. Below, we provide critical information regarding the University testing program, particularly with regard to required random sample testing.

Random Sample Testing

All Columbia University graduate students, faculty, and staff who access campus are required to participate in the ongoing random surveillance testing program. Each week, a new random sample (at present 10%) of those accessing campus is selected and notified past electronic mail of a required examination.

Yous arerequired to participate every time y'all are notified by email that you have been selected (with no more 1 test per calendar week). The email you receive is sent past[e-mail protected]. Even if you accept been tested recently, either at Columbia or some other site, if selected for random testing, yous are still required to be tested during the dates noted in the email. Proceed in listen that if you lot are participating in weekly testing, you do non demand to take an addition test if selected in the aforementioned time flow.

If you are selected for random testing and do not have a test in the date range noted,you will receive a red pass on the ReOpenCU app for not fulfilling the testing requirement. Should that happen, yous tin can regain admission by having a exam, returning abode until the app updates (within 72 hours), and so you will be able to once more access Columbia campuses or facilities.There are no exemptions to this process and vaccination status has no bear on on testing requirements.

Weekly Testing Available

As a reminder, voluntary weekly testing remains available to you. We encourage you lot to take advantage of this resources and participate every week. To schedule your engagement, go to the Columbia Wellness Online Patient Portal.

Other Actions

By now each of us is deeply familiar with wearing masks, washing/sanitizing our hands, concrete distancing, fugitive non-emergency travel, and participating in vaccinations (if you lot are eligible). Please continue your diligent efforts, as these steps, combined with testing, can assist our entire community maintain a safe surround.

Thanks for continuing to Keep the Meaty and nosotros wish you a successful determination to the academic term.

Sincerely,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Practice, International Economic Police and International Diplomacy

Colleen B. Toomey
Senior Associate Dean
School of International and Public Affairs

Leap Semester Message Regarding COVID-xix -Mon, January 11, 2021

Dearest students, faculty and staff,

I promise you lot enjoyed a restful holiday break.  For returning students, welcome back to SIPA and a special warm welcome to our January entering form!

In apprehension of the start of the Spring 2021 semester, I am dedicating this customs message of the new twelvemonth to COVID-nineteen health and safety updates and reminders.  I accept asked Senior Associate Dean Colleen Toomey, who is SIPA'southward designated COVID-19 Safe Coordinator, to join me in this communication.

This is a hopeful moment for all of us because we are on the cusp of vaccine distribution that tin can end the worldwide pandemic.  Until then, however, the situation is especially precarious. COVID-19 continues to spread within communities worldwide. Nosotros must redouble our efforts to protect one some other by adhering strictly to the requirements of the Columbia Community Wellness Compact.

We identify in the post-obit paragraphs sources of information to ensure that you will be able to admission campus this semester and hopefully remain in good health until the assistants of vaccines:

Access to Campus:  Mandatory Gateway Test Requirement
You take received several messages nigh the University'due south new COVID-19 gateway testing requirement, but the requirement bears repeating, both for newly arriving students and for those who previously were tested during autumn semester. To ensure admission to campus facilities yous must complete your gateway examination past January 25; after that period, access privileges to campus facilities will be removed until the gateway test requirement is completed.  Please visit the Academy's Covid-nineteen Testing Program Website for more than information and to schedule your gateway test.  Once the gateway test requirement is satisfied, Columbia Health is encouraging graduate students, kinesthesia and staff accessing campus facilities to participate in weekly COVID-nineteen testing.

Columbia Meaty
We all must continue to abide past the Columbia Community Wellness Compact.  The wellness and condom of our community depends upon our adherence to its core commitments, which include mask-wearing, concrete distancing, routine hand washing, completing Columbia's ReOpen CU Covid Symptom Self-check App earlier coming to campus, staying home when sick or post-obit possible exposure to COVID-19, and other measures.

NYS Quarantine Requirements
Please comply with New York Land travel and quarantine regulations upon your arrival in or render to New York.  Quarantine requirements will be attested through the Reopen CU App.

Vaccine Distribution
Vaccine distribution is at present under way for certain groups within the Columbia community and more broadly across the NY region and nationally.  The Academy's program for vaccinating faculty, students and staff is being adult in conjunction with federal/CDC and New York state guidelines and will continue accordingly.  The University has prepared a preliminary vaccine FAQ here.  The FAQ volition be updated equally additional data becomes available.

Extension of University Travel Restrictions
Columbia-sponsored travel during the spring semester, including over spring break, remains subject to the Academy's COVID-nineteen Travel Restrictions.  These restrictions include stiff advisories regarding personal travel.

Start of Leap Semester and Important Dates
Equally a reminder, the first two weeks of classes for the Spring semester (Jan 11 through January 23) will be fully online in an effort to facilitate the completion of gateway testing and quarantine requirements.  Below are a reminder of boosted notable dates with respect to the Jump academic agenda:

• January xviii, Monday – Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday observed – no classes
• March 1, Monday-March 5, Friday – Jump Recess – no classes
• Apr fifteen, Thursday – last day of classes

• Apr 16, Friday-April xix, Monday – written report days
• April 20, Tuesday-April 26, Monday – Final Exams
• Apr 28, Wednesday – SIPA Graduation
• April 30, Fri – Academy Beginning

Nosotros will be sharing more information in the coming weeks about the many activities and events planned for our customs during the spring semester.

Welcome dorsum to SIPA and best wishes for an engaging, good for you and safe semester.

Sincerely yours,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Diplomacy
Professor of Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs

Colleen B. Toomey
Senior Associate Dean

Autumn Update and Planning for Bound 2021 - Nov 25, 2020

Love members of the SIPA Community,

As we approach the upcoming Thanksgiving break, I want to take a moment to wish all of you a restful period. Even in this global pandemic, I hope you are able to find means to safely connect with family, friends, and loved ones, fifty-fifty if only online.

I also want to briefly update yous on a few important matters related to campus safety, courses, and plans for Spring 2021.

Campus Condom and Travel

I am grateful to our students, faculty, and staff who, under the challenging circumstances we all are experiencing as a result of the pandemic, have consistently prioritized the wellness and safety of the SIPA and Columbia community. We must not permit our guard down. As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in New York City and elsewhere, information technology is important that we go along to follow all Academy wellness and prophylactic protocols and strictly adhere to the Columbia Academy Health Meaty.

At this time, the Academy is strongly recommending confronting non-essential travel. If you must travel, Columbia'due south Voluntary Testing Program has been expanded to cover travel-related testing (before you become and after you return). Delight go along in heed that all travelers returning to New York are required to comply with state and local regulations, including observing Land of New York quarantine requirements.

Study Spaces

With exams speedily budgeted and final papers due before long, I desire to remind our students that we continue to offer enhanced study spaces in the International Affairs Building and Lehman Library. If weather conditions permit, tents will besides remain available for private studying and pocket-sized group meetings (subject to the University's updated guidance about group gatherings). Nosotros empathise that the Academy may be installing heaters to make the tents more comfy.

Additionally, international students may take advantage of the Columbia University Global Centers as well equally Columbia-Designated WeWork sites. For more information, visit the Academy Initiative for International Students website.

Spring Classes

As of this writing, while nosotros are closely monitoring conditions in New York and on campus, we currently anticipate that SIPA will keep to offer in-person and hybrid classes afterward Thanksgiving break through the end of the Autumn semester.

In his message final week, President Bollinger discussed the approach of the University to the coming bound semester. For our part, SIPA will continue to offer all courses online and some courses via hybrid and in-person teaching, discipline, of course, to public health conditions and safety considerations.

Our Office of Academic Affairs will publish the Course Message for Spring 2021 during the first calendar week of December, which will indicate which courses volition exist offered via hybrid and in-person instruction.

Graduate Educatee Survey

I am grateful to all students who took time to participate in the University's recent Graduate Pupil Survey. The survey yielded of import insights and learning from the autumn semester. The bulk of students who responded to the survey rated their overall feel as satisfactory or very satisfactory. Moreover, the survey likewise reaffirmed that while many elements of online and hybrid instruction are working well, there are also challenges and some areas need farther refinement. Nosotros have taken this feedback to center and are already integrating changes into our Bound 2021 didactics modalities and course guidance. Faculty continue to piece of work to transform their courses for both online and in-person instruction to ensure that nosotros volition again offer a robust curriculum with excellent instruction.

Thank you, once again, for all that you take done this semester to support each other and the SIPA community. My best wishes again for a restful Thanksgiving break. Please stay condom wherever yous might be.

Sincerely yours,

Merit Due east. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Diplomacy
Professor of Practice, International Economic Law and International Affairs

Fall 2020 Update - October 26, 2020

Dear Members of the SIPA Community,

I write today to share a brief update since my last communication at the showtime of the schoolhouse yr. The fall has been active, with more than 1,000 students undertaking online and in-person classes with groovy success, dozens of engaging virtual events, and many other activities.

As the semester began, we knew it would be unique in many means only also continue the traditional SIPA experience. Campus is certainly quieter, just as always, SIPA is a hub of great vitality, intellectual date, and scholarly activity. I invite you to read the brief SIPA highlights below, and as well take a moment to read Interim Provost Katznelson's contempo message about the current environment at Columbia and plans for 2021.

I look forwards to sending further updates later on this semester. Until and then, I hope y'all are all staying condom, and thank you for contributing to SIPA'south vibrancy and our educational mission.

Sincerely yours,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Diplomacy
Professor of Practice, International Economic Law and International Diplomacy

Curriculum and Teaching

Our initial surveys bespeak that nearly 35 percent of students are enrolled in at least one in-person class this semester, with the remainder online. Twenty-five pct of classes are being taught in Hyflex classrooms, allowing simultaneous in-person and remote participation.  Feedback thus far has been extremely positive.  In the grade implementation survey at the end of the 3rd week, roughly 75 percent of students rated their courses as "very good" or "splendid".  This is a credit to the kinesthesia who spent considerable time over the summer redesigning their courses for online delivery, and to our students who are engaging in their online and hybrid courses with the aforementioned enthusiasm and seriousness they normally bring to SIPA classrooms.

SIPA faculty continue to redesign courses with the expectation that spring semester will again be a combination of online and hybrid instruction.  We will exist guided, of course, by public wellness considerations and University decisions.

Campus Safety

The latest study from the University indicates 35,075 COVID-19 tests take been conducted since June 22nd, with 24 full positive tests, for a positivity rate of .07% among students, kinesthesia, staff, and affiliates who have been tested. We will continue to monitor these results weekly and make any necessary adjustments should the circumstances warrant. I thank those of you on campus for adhering to social distancing and other safe requirements within the International Affairs Building and across the Academy. All of the states must do our office and uphold the Columbia Community Health Compact.

Virtual Engagement

SIPA events are always a highlight of the semester, and nosotros have been hosting some truly insightful and engaging discussions since the first of the year. Whether it is our weekly lecture series on policymaking in the throes of a global crunch led by Professors Jeff Sachs and Scott Barrett, or our serial on how cardinal banks are responding to the pandemic, or SIPA'southward participation in ClimateWeek NYC 2020 through the Heart on Global Energy Policy, we have been contributing our knowledge and expertise in important ways. You may find links to these and other events on SIPA's YouTube Aqueduct.

We have many other events planned, including a new serial around the 2020 Elections, which has already featured events on topics such every bit speechwriters and elections; online political advertising; race, inequality, and U.s. elections; the election through international eyes; and will also include a few more upcoming events:

• U.s. Elections, Foreign Policy, and National Security (Nov 6th, 1:00 – two:00 p.m. ET)
• Managing Presidential Transitions and Governance: Perspectives from the White House (November 9th, 1:00 - 2:15 p.1000. ET)
• US Elections and Domestic Policy (November 13th, 1:00 to 2:00 ET)

Stay tuned for more than information and additional announcements in the coming weeks.

New Study Spaces, Library Hours, and More

Nosotros have fabricated several adjustments to SIPA facilities since the kickoff of fall semester to raise the study environment for students and those on campus. A few examples:

• Lehman Library has expanded its reservation periods for dedicated report space to 4 hours (the previous elapsing was 2 hours). Students may visit hither to reserve a seat. Reservations may be fabricated up to two weeks in advance.
• Nosotros are increasing the number of rooms in the International Diplomacy Edifice that are reserved for students to utilize as study halls, workspaces, or as places to log into online classes (with headphones). The Office of Student Affairs has created a scheduling system for each room, available hither (UNI required).
• We have restored furniture in Publique café on the 6th floor of IAB to provide more than spaces where students may talk or use phones comfortably without disturbing others.
• Equally we communicated earlier this semester, SIPA has reserved the Ancel Plaza tent exclusively for SIPA events and activities every Thursday from 3 - half dozen p.m. through the end of Nov. Seating under the tent likewise is bachelor for students when the tent is not otherwise being used for University events.

We hope these improvements contribute to a more comfy and accessible environment for those of you on campus.

SIPA Magazine

Finally, I am excited to share that the new issue of SIPA Magazine, our signature publication, is beingness sent out this week. We hope you enjoy reading near the amazing research and activities our community has undertaken over the past year, with a particular focus on COVID-nineteen.  If yous would similar to read a PDF version of the magazine, yous can practice then here.

Give thanks y'all and my best wishes.

Fall 2020 Update - Baronial xiv, 2020

Dear SIPA Community,

I write to affirm that SIPA is going alee with its plans to offer a mix of hybrid and online courses this Autumn. As announced at the showtime of the summer, all courses will exist available remotely for all of our students, wherever they may exist—in the U.South. or effectually the world. Nearly a quarter of our courses volition be taught on-campus via hybrid modality—simultaneously for students attending in-person and online. Nosotros have designed our arroyo to instruction and SIPA life in the Fall to accommodate both modalities and to create a vibrant virtual community across our many programs, student services and co-curricular activities.

As President Bollinger announced earlier today, the Academy will drastically scale back the number of undergraduates in residence on campus this Autumn and will offer all undergraduate courses virtually. Important in President Bollinger's announcement is the fact that a very large pct of undergraduates are coming from states and countries that would require they be quarantined for 14 days in University-provided, single-person rooms. As President Bollinger put it, "while I have no doubt that nosotros could ensure a safe quarantine period from a public wellness standpoint, two weeks is a long fourth dimension to endure isolation, especially for students who volition exist leaving home for the first time."

Stepping dorsum from the special challenges related to undergraduates, President Bollinger also reaffirmed that Columbia, particularly the professional schools, will continue to re-open every bit planned: "The careful metrics, grounded in science, that nosotros have established to assess whether we have accomplished the necessary conditions for return have been satisfied."

The University has developed extensive protocols to enhance wellness and safety on campus. Columbia University'southward world-renowned public health professionals guiding this effort are actively monitoring developments in New York and on our campus. It is their judgement that current conditions permit a render to campus in the de-densified, physically distanced fashion that has been communicated previously—and for which SIPA and other schools have been preparing.

Co-ordinate to our latest data, about sixty% of SIPA students want to return to campus. Unlike new undergraduates, many SIPA students already live in New York City. For those who will demand to quarantine, we expect they will find it less of a challenge than undergraduates.

We have informed students of University public health and prophylactic requirements, which include confront coverings in all public spaces on campus, including classrooms. Nosotros also take provided students a list of hybrid courses to be offered on-campus, including reduced seating chapters in each classroom, due to concrete distancing requirements. In addition, nosotros have posted and continue to update an extensive Q&A well-nigh the coming year at SIPA.

In this time of COVID-19 and the many adjustments that we take all had to make, the Fall will inescapably include many challenges. Equally President Bollinger stated so well: "nosotros must assume nosotros volition be living with a meaning degree of uncertainty for quite some fourth dimension. That means many things. Among them, we must be prepared to shift as conditions change." At SIPA, we are keeping this important betoken clearly in heed.

It is too a historic time in the world and an extraordinary time to be at a leading schoolhouse of global public policy. SIPA will offer its full curriculum of 250 classes this Autumn, as well equally robust co-curricular programming, student advising, career services and all the other types of activities that contribute to the intellectual life of the School. It is remarkable that since March, SIPA has undertaken more than 200 online bookish webinars and co-curricular programs, including more than 100 during the summer.

I hope that, fifty-fifty more than than in usual times, we can piece of work together every bit a community with a shared sense of mission and purpose. I know that we have an boggling faculty and staff that are deeply dedicated to supporting our students and delivering the best possible graduate education in global public policy. I await forwards to joining you in that try—both online and in-person, to the extent possible.

Yours sincerely,

Merit East. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Professional Practice in International Economical Police force and International Affairs

Bulletin from Dean Janow – JULY 8, 2020

Honey Members of the SIPA Community,

In his message yesterday to the Columbia customs, President Bollinger provided a significant update on the Academy's plans for the resumption of on-campus activities this fall. I encourage you to review it as it speaks non only to bookish life but as well important features of campus life going forward. I write today to reaffirm what nosotros have previously shared with you most our plans for the fall, which have not inverse, and to further analyze SIPA'southward approach to the fall.

Starting time, while the Academy has given schools the pick to accept a three-term bookish year, SIPA volition offer our total curriculum in Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021, allowing students to complete their coursework in the usual timeframe. As previously noted, there are no changes to SIPA's fall bookish agenda, which volition begin on September eighth.  Bound semester, however, will commencement one week earlier than usual, on January 11th, and terminate on April 26th.  Kickoff will have place that same week.  One time the University determines our designated date and fourth dimension for kickoff, we will share that data with you.

Second, every bit previously announced, all Fall 2020 courses will exist offered online for the entire semester. In improver, a considerable number of these classes will be taught on campus. Every bit I shared in my message to students on June 24th, if New York State and University public health policies let, instructors will be able to teach from their regularly assigned SIPA classroom, and a limited number of students will be permitted to attend in person, field of study to social distancing requirements. Kinesthesia teaching in a classroom will simultaneously teach their online and on-campus students, utilizing newly installed audiovisual equipment.  Academy officials have informed united states of america that in-person capacity volition be 28 percent of the standard seating capacity and that work is underway to prepare classrooms to meet State and University public health guidelines.

On July 20 we volition provide students via the SIPA Message and Vergil a full listing of Fall 2020 courses. To the extent possible by that date, we will identify which courses volition exist offered merely online and which volition be taught from a classroom (in improver to online).  If nosotros know at that time that a form will be taught from a classroom, nosotros will provide information about the expected in-person seating capacity. We will provide updates on July 27, Baronial iii and August ten well-nigh the online/on-campus status of courses. We volition provide full information no subsequently than August 14 about which courses will be taught from a classroom and which volition be online but. As stressed by President Bollinger, "every decision we make related to resuming in-person instruction and residential life will exist contingent on New York State moving into Phase 4 of its reopening program," and any in-person instruction will depend on conditions on the basis in New York City.

Third, this calendar week's advance notice from the Department of Homeland Security of new regulations regarding online courses has doubtless raised many questions among SIPA's international students.  I am in consummate agreement with President Bollinger'south statement that these regulations are deeply misguided and "the subversive and indefensible purpose driving these policies" requires the states to remain focused on the steps we can accept to support our international students who are part of our Columbia family.  Although nosotros are pressing for detailed guidance from University experts, information technology is our understanding that SIPA'due south hybrid model (a mixture of online and in-person classes) will allow international students to enter the U.s. on a educatee visa equally long as they practise not accept an entirely online course load while in the US. In the meantime, students with any immigration or visa-related questions should consult the International Students and Scholars Function (here).

Fourth, we are working closely with kinesthesia to redesign their fall courses for online education or a hybrid format. Amongst other adjustments, we are helping faculty make provisions for students who take courses from disparate time zones around the world. For example, nigh all form sessions will be recorded and made available to enrolled students via CourseWorks. SIPA-IT is too upgrading acoustic capacity in all classrooms, in order to facilitate simultaneous teaching of online and in-person students.

Fifth, we will proceed to offer the full range of educatee services to all SIPA students, whether in person or online. Further data about enhanced pupil back up and services will be shared over the summer by the Office of Educatee Affairs, Office of Career Services, and other SIPA offices.

Sixth, from the onset of the pandemic, SIPA has taken steps to increase financial back up for students. The School is providing the largest amount of financial aid in its history. In addition, we restructured our emergency fund this past bound to provide for students facing pregnant financial stress due to the COVID pandemic. We volition proceed that fund through the summer and into the fall. I also am pleased to denote that we are increasing resources available in the emergency fund for continuing students (modified guidelines and awarding procedure will be appear shortly).

Finally, President Bollinger's message outlined the strict guidelines that will apply to all who live, work, study and teach at Columbia. Please review those carefully. As you will see, persons on campus must wear a face up covering at all times, unless they are in a private room with the door airtight. In improver, there are physical distancing, testing, symptom self-bank check, reduction in density, enhanced cleaning and other requirements.  More data about detailed public health protocols on campus tin can be institute here.

The virus has had a profound event on our community and the world. As we motion forward, delight know that we are securely committed to supporting the needs of all of our students, faculty and staff. SIPA is the world's most global school of international and public affairs, and we are proud of the remarkable students that join the states from the United States and around the world. Nosotros are committed, as stressed past President Bollinger, in finding means to enable the international students who are in the US to keep to complete their studies and those who are overseas to proceed to appoint with our faculty and students and be part of our vibrant virtual community.

Nosotros recognize many of you have more than questions about the fall semester, and we will strive to answer them as soon equally possible.  We are committed, no matter the incertitude and disruption effectually united states, to provide a safe learning environment consistent with our educational mission and to provide the rich array of intellectual experiences that are the defining features of the SIPA education.

The year ahead will be filled with complication and interest: it volition be a twelvemonth that brings a United states of america presidential election, important opportunities to consider economical, environmental, political, racial, social and other challenges facing the world and the United States. And despite the uncertainties and the precautions we all must undertake, we volition have opportunities to study, teach, larn and appoint with the world and each other. Our mission and our piece of work have never been more important.

I look forrad to our autumn together.

Sincerely yours,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Diplomacy
Professor of Exercise, International Economic Law and International Diplomacy

Message from Dean Janow – April xiv, 2020

Beloved SIPA Community,

Equally we continue to grapple with the many consequences of COVID-xix, I write to share just a few dimensions of the ways that our community is deploying its knowledge, expertise and energy in support of each other and larger response efforts in New York City and, indeed, globally.

This is a celebrated moment in global public policy that brings to the forefront many of the areas that nosotros engage at SIPA. In these unique times, we are reminded of the relevance of our work and our institutional and private commitment to solve issues in the global public involvement.

Members of our global SIPA community are sharing their expertise in and so many ways.  Below are just a few examples.

SIPA Kinesthesia

There is substantial work underway by our own faculty and across Columbia Academy to respond to the firsthand effects of the COVID-19 crisis as well as to consider the changed world we confront as this pandemic starts to motion behind us. SIPA faculty have been thinking and writing near the impact of the virus on the U.Due south. and the global economy, differential impacts on emerging markets, and inequality effects; various climate, energy and ecology consequences across regions; national mobilization lessons; and many other dimensions.

Kinesthesia have also inaugurated new enquiry; joined projects with other external partners; provided advice to governments and businesses; and are broadly sharing their views in the media.  We take collected some recent writings and commentary here. I invite you to larn more well-nigh their efforts and visit this webpage regularly for updates.

Our faculty are also partnering on innovative University-wide initiatives. 1 such example is COVID Watcher, a joint effort among Columbia schools to build and deploy new research tools to predict COVID-19 hotspots and to help slow the spread of the virus. You can read more than about this attempt hither.

SIPA Students

Every unit of SIPA is working to back up our students and the SIPA experience in many unlike ways.  For example, theOffice of Student Affairs has established some specific programming aimed at advancing well-being. OSA has beenfacilitating Zoom wellness chats and weekly Group Wellness Sessions for students to agree discussions and participate invirtual wellness action.  By pop student need, OSA has also been sponsoring virtual yoga sessions facilitated past aprofessional yoga instructor.

The Office of Career Service as well has been offering a variety of webinars geared toward the virtual environment. These include programs on "Repositioning Yourself for Remote Opportunities" and "Mastering Video Interviewing," among others.

Students accept been working directly in their own communities to back up COVID-nineteen response efforts.  I share one example here. We know there are many others and look forward to sharing those with yous.

SIPA Alumni

Our alumni are as well rising to this challenge in cities and communities around the earth.  For example, SIPA alumni have directly supported efforts in Taiwan to reply to the crisis and share lessons learned.  You may acquire more here.

SIPA and Columbia alumni from Mainland china also have donated more than 1.3 1000000 renminbi and hundreds of thousands of protective masks, goggles, gloves, and suits, and other medical supplies to the Columbia Academy Medical Centre and to other alumni in need.  We thank them for these efforts.

There are many other moving stories.

Convening And Date

While we take been forced to curtail our usual robust agenda of in-person events due to the virus, in that location is no diminution of convening and engagement. SIPA faculty and programs are continuing to undertake extensive programming online, including webinars, virtual conferences, forums, and more.

Our plan and specialization directors accept fix special sessions for each area and there is a growing number of highly topical webinars being launched.  I take included below merely a few examples of recent and upcoming activities.  Y'all should take received a more than comprehensive events newsletter last week.

• Monday, April 13, i:00 to two:00 p.chiliad. Julie Menin, Director, NY Census 2020, in chat with Professor Ester Fuchs.  Hosted by the Urban and Social Policy Concentration.
• Tuesday, April 14, 12:00 to 1:00 p.grand. Echoes of 1918? COVID-19 and the Spanish Influenza Pandemic.  A discussion with Dean Merit Eastward. Janow, Vice Dean Scott Barrett, and Professor Douglas Almond.
• Tuesday, Apr xiv, 7:00 to 8:00 p.m.Science Journalism and COVID-19, featuring SIPA Offshoot Professor Claudia Dreifus and John Schwartz
• Friday, Apr 17, 10:00 am. The Gendered Dimensions of the Pandemic: the implications of COVID-19. Hosted by the Gender and Public Policy Specialization
• Friday, April 17, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Disinformation in the age of COVID-19, featuring Professor Anya Schiffrin and Emily Bell.  Hosted by Technology, Media and Communications Specialization (TMaC)
• Wednesday, April 29, Tech and Entrepreneurship volume talk with Hollie Russon Gilman and Alexis Wichowski.  Sponsored by the SIPA Entrepreneurship and Policy Initiative.

SIPA Research Centers

SIPA research centers are always a hub of vibrant intellectual date and outreach and this continues unabated. As one example, the Middle on Global Energy Policy has been undertaking events, enquiry, podcasts and articles on the energy impacts of COVID-19 and has created a website highlighting its efforts.  I invite you to learn more here.

I am very proud of our community in New York and around the globe. We will proceed to share additional updates and welcome hearing from you.

Thank you for all that you are doing to contribute to understanding the great challenges nosotros face and supporting each other.

Sincerely yours,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Practise, International Economic Law & International Diplomacy

Message from Dean Janow – March xiii, 2020

Dear Students, Kinesthesia and Staff,

I write to provide farther updates on SIPA's response to COVID-nineteen and to thank you for your cooperation, patience and courage during this challenging menstruation.

As nosotros learned in President Bollinger'southward message of yesterday, all classes will now be conducted online for the remainder of the semester. All Columbia-related business concern travel, both international and domestic, has been suspended. The University is likewise strongly recommending the counterfoil or postponement of all not-essential events of more than 25 individuals, until at least April 30th. At the same time, the University remains open and operation.

Our primary focus at this time is ensuring the wellness and safe of our customs while standing our vital educational mission. I am proud of the extraordinary efforts that converted more than than 250 SIPA courses to online learning earlier this week, thank you to the tireless dedication of administrators and faculty.

Going forward, we volition effort to provide the highest quality of online learning possible by sharing all-time practices and resources. We are besides thinking creatively near steps that nosotros can take to go on our faculty and students engaged with each other and the world. Delight feel costless to share ideas with me or Vice Dean Scott Barrett or Acquaintance Dean Dan McIntyre.

This is a menstruum of anxiety and uncertainty. I particularly want to recognize the boggling response from our students. Nosotros appreciate your flexibility as nosotros take transitioned to online learning and your openness to participating in our newly established virtual community.

Because our campus remains open, we are working closely with SIPA staff to initiate a pilot plan to acquire more than about our chapters for mixed on-site and remote work, should this get necessary. We are committed to implementing this programme in a way that maintains the health and well-existence of our community and the continuity of our student and administrative services.

With jump suspension upon the states, I urge yous to continue to monitor your email for updates about changes with respect to Academy and SIPA actions and recommendations The Academy's COVID-19 site provides a central repository of information, where updates are posted equally developments unfold. SIPA's analogue site tin exist found here.

Nosotros know there are still many questions to reply. Nosotros volition make every attempt to communicate with you expeditiously as plans go frontward.

I promise the calendar week ahead is both restful and rubber. We are here for yous.

Sincerely yours,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Practice, International Economic Police & International Affairs

Message from Dean Janow – March vi, 2020

Dear SIPA Community,

I am writing to provide an update regarding SIPA's efforts to programme for possible adjustments to ordinary operations due to the COVID-xix outbreak. I also wish to thank you for your help and patience with preparations as we move forward.

As yous know, I have established a COVID-19 Planning Group at SIPA (run across membership, beneath). The Planning Grouping already has met several times. I will outline here a few of the initiatives under way, and provide periodic updates going forward as appropriate:

1. Preparing for the possibility of moving all SIPA courses online. It is possible the Academy will adopt remote didactics protocols depending on developments. SIPA is preparing to be set up to implement online instruction equally soon as necessary, although we hope circumstances will not crave this. The Office of Academic Diplomacy and Office of It are leading this effort and have begun communicating with faculty didactics this semester about the adjustments necessary to maintain the quality of our courses. Additional communications to students volition be forthcoming.

2. Preparing for the continuation of student services and advising in the event of a disruption in classroom pedagogy. Administrative units with meaning student service responsibilities, including all advising deans and assigned academic advisors, are preparing for a conversion to online and phone support in the event of a disruption in classroom educational activity or campus operations.

three. Preparing for possible work arrangement and staffing adjustments in the event of a change in Columbia University/SIPA operations due to COVID-19. SIPA will follow University policy in this event. We currently are considering a range of scenarios, from sustaining full staffing if circumstances permit, to reduced staffing with some staff telecommuting, to implementing remote work protocols in the event of a campus closure. In all scenarios we are planning for the continuation of services. We are consulting with unit directors and managers of each administrative unit with respect to planning for various contingencies.

four. Preparing for adjustments in event direction. We are proceeding with caution with regard to effect management, rescheduling or exploring virtual attendance options if feasible, merely otherwise proceeding with events as planned consistent with travel requirements that may utilise to international attendees and public health guidance applicable to all public gatherings. Given the changing nature of responses to COVID-19, new and different consequence guidelines and regulations are possible in response to developments. Until further notice, pupil organizations have been encouraged past the Office of Student Diplomacy to submit issue requests for approval that the student leaders believe in adept faith to be essential or critical to their mission, and to postpone or cancel other gatherings.

5. Communications updates. A dedicated component of SIPA's web site will report developments at the University and SIPA in light of COVID-nineteen and provide regular updates.

6. Facilities. Nosotros are working with University Facilities about adjustments to cleaning and sanitizing protocols appropriate in low-cal of COVID-19. We are using our best efforts to maintain sanitizing stations throughout SIPA facilities in light of product shortages.

The situation obviously is fluid. We will exist providing updates as circumstances and developments warrant. Thanks, once more, for your patience and aid with these efforts.

Sincerely yours,

Merit Due east. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Practice, International Economic Constabulary and International Affairs

COVID-19 Planning Group
Colleen Toomey, Dan McIntyre, Patrick Bohan, Milena Cerna, Cory Way, Diya Bhattacharya, Harpreet Mahajan, Hande Mutlu-Eren, Andrew Johnson, Ted Stiffel

Bulletin from Dean Janow – March iv, 2020

Dear SIPA Customs,

I am writing to share some data about how SIPA is responding to the worldwide COVID-19 epidemic. SIPA is paying close attention to the multinational spread of the virus and to the advice of responsible authorities with respect to precautionary measures.

Currently, there are no known cases of COVID-nineteen among Columbia and SIPA students, kinesthesia and staff, and the University's core campus continues to operate commonly.

Every bit you know, notwithstanding, the Provost'due south Function yesterday announced that, effective immediately:

• All University-sponsored international travel by students is suspended until further notice. This affects all SIPA-sponsored travel by students, including capstones, workshops, internships, and independently arranged travel in conjunction with academic requirements.
• All University-sponsored faculty and staff travel to Mainland Communist china, Hong Kong, South Korea, Iran and Italy remains suspended until farther notice. Additionally, the Provost's Role strongly urges all faculty and staff to postpone all non-essential University-sponsored international travel.

Even with respect to personal travel, the University is asking all CU travelers to annals international travel through the University'south ISOS travel portal. Please contact Senior Assistant Dean Stefan Brown ([e-mail protected]) in the Part of Pupil Affairs if you have questions almost registering your travel.

CU Health has issued guidance nigh the precautions each of the states should take in our solar day-to-day activities. These include regular hand washing, staying home if we feel ill, and remaining alert for symptoms of COVID-xix. The University's Preparedness web site provides this and related information.

If you are organizing an academic effect or program involving guests who have traveled recently in restricted areas or been exposed to COVID-19, please know that the guests must comply with the same protocols applicative to CU travelers (eastward.g., travelers who have been in Red china, Hong Kong, Italy, Iran, Japan and South korea in the past 14 days must fill out a secure and confidential registration class and follow the guidance provided). The University will be issuing further guidance afterward today regarding social events.

I have asked Colleen Toomey, SIPA's senior associate dean, to help coordinate the Schoolhouse'southward planning and response to COVID-19-related issues, which will include managing a small internal working group of SIPA administrators. Farther guidance as appropriate will be forthcoming.

I want to convey how beholden I am of the supportive way in which our community has responded to the COVID-19 outbreak. I know that this is how we will continue to contend with COVID-19 and any other challenges that come our way.

Sincerely yours,

Merit E. Janow
Dean, School of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Do, International Economic Law and International Affairs

Resources for Students

• Student Housing Information
• ISSO Contact Information
• Office of University Life Information
• Columbia Health Coping Tools
• mySIPA Citrix Portal
• Remote Learning FAQS for Students

Resources for Kinesthesia

• Online Teaching at SIPA

Resources for Staff

• SIPA Hr Contingency FAQs and Guidelines
• Coronavirus and Teleworking Employees
• Remote Working: Setting Yourself and Your Teams Upwards for Success
• Managing Remote Teams All-time Practice Guide
• mySIPA Citrix Portal
• Working with Zoom

Staying Healthy

• Columbia Health
• How to Protect Yourself
• What To Do if You Are Sick
• World Health Organization

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Source: https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/coronavirus

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