Category Archives: PhD

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

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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

Call for Entries: Robert Harron Award

Awards/Grants, Graduation Awards, Knight Bagehot, M.A. Program, M.S. Program, Major memos, Part-time Students, PhD
The Faculty is currently accepting nominations for the ROBERT HARRON AWARD.

The ROBERT HARRON AWARD is presented each year to the student (M.S. [FT or PT]; M.A.; Knight Bagehot; Ph.D.) who has demonstrated excellence in writing and reporting as well as exemplary kindness and courtesy to fellow students. It is popularly known as the “nice guy/gal” award.

The award was established in memory of Robert Harron, a former sportswriter and long-time assistant to the presidents of this university, through gifts from his many friends.

While all members of the School (faculty – full-time and adjucts, staff and students) may submit nominations, only students in the Class of 2014 (part-time and full-time, M.S., M.A., Knight Bagehot, Ph.D.) are eligible for the prize, which will be announced with other awards on Journalism Day (this is a separate prize from SPJ’s “Student of the year” and the other awards determined by the Faculty.

A committee will examine the nominations and use the input to pick the winner of the prize. Please understand that this is NOT a popularity contest, and you are not “voting.” You are providing background information on a particular student. The Faculty makes the final decision.

We are looking for concrete examples that describe, as much as possible, the spirit of the award (see first para above), with special emphasis on the exemplary kindness and courtesy to fellow students (while maintaining high academic standards).

Please complete with form (http://fs8.formsite.com/cjdos/Harron/) with a paragraph about the person you are nominating.

Summer Employment Opportunities: Educational Testing Services

Career Services, Fellowship Programs, M.A. Program, M.S. Program, Offers, PhD

Summer Employment Opportunities at ETS

ETS is looking for candidates to  fill two open positions:

Reading Assessment – The Assessment Development Division of Educational Testing Service is seeking freelance writers, graduate students, teachers, and other college graduates who have an appreciation for good writing and a sense of the interests and abilities of high-school students. Successful candidates will work with ETS test development staff in developing lively and appealing materials for assessing reading comprehension skills aligned with the Common Core State Standards.

Interested candidates should apply online no later than Monday, March 31, 2014:

http://www.ets.org/careers/internships_fellowships/

or

http://bit.ly/etsreading

Writing Assessments – This paid summer program will provide the opportunity to work with Educational Testing Service staff in developing assessments of writing skills. Summer employees will learn the fundamentals of test design, including principles of test validity and fairness, and then learn to develop the materials and questions used in these assessments.

Interested candidates should apply online no later than Monday, March 31, 2014:

http://www.ets.org/careers/internships_fellowships/

or

http://bit.ly/etswriting

MEMO: Commencement & Graduation Registration Info

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Dear Graduating Students, Just Graduated Students, Spencers, & 3rd semester doc students:

This year’s graduation information page is now live at: http://bit.ly/CUJ14Grad.

Those graduating must register to attend & receive tickets for the University Commencement and the Journalism School Graduation via the separate forms listed below.

You will receive your tickets for both events from the JSchool in early May.

JOURNALISM SCHOOL GRADUATION REGISTRATION/TICKET REQUEST:  http://fs8.formsite.com/cjdos/gradprogram/

·     * All those graduating must complete this form even if they will not be participating in either ceremony.

·     * Please complete this form before completing the University form.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COMMENCEMENT:

http://bit.ly/CURegTix

·     * Only those who will be participating in this ceremony need to complete this form.

PLEASE NOTE: If you have not submitted a diploma/certificate application (or graduated in October 2013 or February 2014), you will not be on the graduation ticket eligibility list (so will not be able to log into the university’s registration/ticket request site).  *The 3rd semester doc students have been added manually and do not have to submit a diploma application at this time.

You may check the status of your diploma application in SSOL (https://ssol.columbia.edu/).

If you have not completed the form, please do so immediately AND contact Dean Huff!

http://registrar.columbia.edu/content/application-degree-or-certificate

There will be multiple graduation info sessions in April at which you can ask all of your questions. The dates are listed at http://bit.ly/CUJ14Grad

Call for Entries: AAJA National Journalism Awards

Awards/Grants, Contests, M.A. Program, M.S. Program, Part-time Students, PhD, Student work

The Asian American Journalists Association is proud to announce the call for entries and nominations for the 2014 National Journalism Awards.

Award winners will be announced at the 2014 AAJA National Convention in Washington, D.C. at the Gala Awards & Scholarship Banquet on August 16. Submissions are made online.

Please note: this year they have added a Student Journalism category. See links below for more details: