Category Archives: Deans’ Events

Supporting Someone Who Has Experienced Intimate Partner Violence

 

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Examine the behaviors and warning signs that may indicate an unhealthy or abusive relationship and understand how to gauge and take next steps if a relationship becomes violent. Participants will also learn how to effectively support someone who is in an abusive relationship.

Led by Sexual Violence Response staff and volunteers.

Thursday
October 13
6 p.m.
RSVP: http://bit.ly/SRI_Jour2

Attending this event will satisfy the
2016-2017 Sexual Respect and Community Citizenship Initiative

REMINDER: SCHEDULE FOR NEXT WEEK

Dear Students,

 This is just a reminder about the schedule for next week:

  • Monday, January 19: University Holiday – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Tuesday, January 20: FT M.S. Students submit first draft of Master’s Project (10 am); M.A. students attend outside classes of interest. No Journalism School classes held.
  • Wednesday, January 21: Spring Prep Day. All FT M.S. students attend mandatory Spring Prep Day events; M.A. students attend Spring Prep Day events (except when attending outside classes of interest); All other students invited to attend. No Journalism School classes held.
  • Thursday, January 22: Spring 2015 classes begin at the Journalism School.

Spring Prep Briefing with the Deans

WHEN/WHERE:

Monday, Nov 10,  1:00-2:00pm – World Room

Wednesday, Nov 12, 5:00-6:00pm – Stabile Student Center

 

WHAT WILL BE COVERED:

Rest of the Fall

  • Fall evaluations of students (mid-term and final)
  • Fall grades
  • Fall evaluations of courses by students (FT via Reporting; PT via link)
  • Diploma applications
  • Honors in Class
  • Winter Break
  • Assessment

 

Spring Planning

  • Spring course types: S&Ps & Modules
  • Spring schedule
  • Application classes
  • Add/Drop

 

Graduation Preview

  • Grading
  • Honors
  • Awards

 

Key Dates

  • Spring Preview (aka Dog & Pony Show): Tuesday, November 18, Lecture Hall
  • Spring MS Registration: December 1, 2014
  • Winter Break: December 14 through January 19

 

MAJOR MEMO: M.S. Spring Planning

SPRING SEMESTER PREP (updated several times a week) Here’s the schedule for Spring Semester Prep – events and dates to help you prepare for the Spring Semester. All the information will be available electronically, but you are encouraged to attend any events/briefing sessions you can. Please note we are offering events on a variety of dates and times. All this is subject to change, so please check back often.

The deans will be available throughout November to discuss your options and help you plan for the Spring.

PLEASE NOTE: This information is for M.S. students. There will be an M.A. briefing session on November 19, at 2 p.m., in the Lecture Hall. Tali Woodward and Melanie Huff will go over Spring Semester questions and dealing with Fall final evaluations.

  • Friday, Nov 7, 8a.m.,Stabile Student Center: BOOK WRITING SEMINAR – Preview & Application Instruction session with Prof. Sam Freedman.
  • Week of Nov 9: M.S Spring Curriculum released. Link will be emailed to students.
  • Monday, Nov 10, 1-2pm., Lecture Hall: Spring prep meeting with focus on Spring Semester questions and dealing with Reporting final evaluations.
  • Monday, Nov 10, 6-7p.m., Lecture Hall:  COVERING RELIGION. Preview & Application Instruction session with Prof. Ari Goldman.
  • Wednesday, Nov. 12, 5-6p.m., Stabile Student Center: Spring prep meeting with focus on Spring Semester questions and dealing with Reporting final evaluations.
  • Thursday, Nov. 13, 6:15p.m.-7:15p.m., 601B: SPORTS JOURNALISM – Preview  session with Prof. Sandy Padwe.
  • Monday, Nov 17, 5 p.m.: Applications due for COVERING RELIGION.
  • Monday, Nov 17, 6:15-7:00p.m., World Room: Preview of MANAGING THE 21st CENTURY NEWS ORGANIZATION with Prof. Grueskin.
  • Tuesday, Nov. 18, 6-7:30 p.m., Lecture Hall: Spring Preview Session – an evening when professors who teach Spring Seminar & Production courses are invited to present three-minute previews of their classes. Typically, most professors present and all M.S. students gather for this session. Please note that only a handful of classes have individual briefing sessions (as listed above), so it is critical that you attend this large gathering
  • Wednesday, Nov 19: Preview of RADIO WORKSHOP with Prof. John Dinges and Prof. Kerry Donahue
  • Friday, Nov 21: Preview of VIDEO STORYTELLING with Prof. Lisa Cohen
  • Monday, Nov 24: Students notified of application results for Book Writing and Covering Religion.
  • Monday, Nov 24, 1-2p.m., Room 607B: Preview of COVERING EDUCATION with Prof. LynNell Hancock.
  • Monday, Nov 24, 5-6p.m., Lecture Hall: Preview of NIGHTLY NEWS with Prof. Lennart Bourin
  • Friday, Nov 28: Deadline for students to accept offers for application classes.
  • Monday, Dec 1: Online Registration via SSOL
  • Dec 15-Jan. 20: Winter Break; work on Master’s Projects for M.S. students (first draft due Tuesday, Jan. 20)
  • Jan 5-Jan 30: Add/Drop period
  • Tuesday, Jan 20: M.A. and other University classes begin.
  • Wednesday, Jan. 21, 9:30-5:00: ALL-CLASS EVENT: SPRING PREP DAY: “An annual day of academic, career and writing/reporting tips and advice, before the semester formally begins. Brought to you by Student Affairs, Academic Affairs and Career Services “ – mandatory for all full-time MS students and MA students (except those MA students whose outside classes begin then); all others welcome. Presented by Student Affairs and Career Services.
  • Thursday Jan. 22: M.S. classes begin

 

 

EVENT: Dean’s Seminar on Governance of the Internet @ SIPA

SIPA has extended an invitation to their upcoming event: Dean’s Seminar on Governance of the Internet   

Monday, April 14, 2014
12:00 – 1:15 P.M.
International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street, New York, New York

Moderated by Merit E. Janow, Dean, Columbia SIPA and Professor in the Practice of International Economic Law and International Affairs.

Join Dean Merit E. Janow and an all-star panel of technology experts to discuss regulation and supervision of the internet.

PANELISTS:

Gordon Goldstein, Managing  Director, Head of External Affairs, Silver Lake Group with responsibility for global external affairs including government relations, public policy, strategic communications, and media relations issues; represented Silver Lake as a member of the U.S. government and industry delegation to the World Conference on International Telecommunications

Ambassador David Gross, Partner, Wiley Rein, LLP; previously U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy in the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs at the U.S. Department of State; one of the world’s foremost experts on international telecommunications, having led more U.S. delegations to major international telecommunication conferences than anyone else

Eli Noam, Professor of Economics and Finance and Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility at the Columbia Business School; formerly Commissioner for Public Services of New York State; appointed by the White House to the President’s IT Advisory Committee; and Director of the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, a research center focusing on management and policy issues in communications, internet, and media

Laura DeNardis, Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Communication at American University; globally recognized internet scholar and author of The Global War for Internet Governance (Yale University Press, 2014); Director of Research for the Global Commission on Internet Governance; and member of the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP).

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This event will be livestreamed at sipa.columbia.edu/live