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Columbia's campus in Morningside Heights boasts one of the richest concentrations of educational resources and academic activity in the United States. Its fifteen schools draw on a renowned faculty, making it among the country's most productive research centers. Columbia may be Ivy League, but it is not an ivory tower. Not only does Morningside Heights offer the diverse activities that are characteristic of New York, it is also representative of the contrasts that define this city. The challenges facing large urban areas-educating children, helping the poor, stimulating affordable housing, and preserving the environment-are evident throughout New York City's many diverse communities. The University's urban setting reinforces SIPA's emphasis on real-world problems and their practical solutions.
As a student in the Executive MPA program, you will be a part of the Columbia community, as well as the equally vital community at SIPA. This is more than just a collegial affiliation. In any given week, SIPA hosts dozens of speakers who share their expertise on topics ranging from children's welfare to environmental issues facing New York. SIPA's programs continue to adapt in exciting ways to a rapidly changing world. What remains unchanged, though, is the abiding public spirit at the heart of our mission. The educational experience at SIPA is facilitated and enhanced by numerous resources offered by both the School and the University. Click here to learn more about Columbia's School for International and Public Affairs.
Libraries
The Columbia University Libraries system is a fully integrated research library. with 8.6 million volumes, 65,650 current serials, and an extensive collection of electronic resources, manuscripts, rare books, microforms, and other nonprint formats at your disposal, ranks as one of the top ten academic library systems in the nation.
The collections are organized into 25 libraries, each generally supporting a specific academic or professional discipline. Lehman Library, the primary library associated with SIPA, is located on the third floor of the International Affairs Building. Along with Butler Library, which houses two million volumes, students in the Executive MPA program will find the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business and Economics, the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, and the Arthur W. Diamonds Law Library to be particularly useful.
The goal of the Libraries is to provide excellent service to students and faculty that will advance each user’s learning, teaching, and research experience at Columbia and they strive to support library users anytime and anywhere. Their success is enabled by the outstanding staff that builds and manages the collections and technologies and provides strong and innovative services across the Columbia Libraries.
The Libraries are wonderful gathering places to pursue scholarly research, to learn about and use information technology, to write, to study, and to draw on our rich collection of print and electronic resources. Click here to connect to Columbia's many libraries.
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Computer Lab
The Picker Computer Center is named in honor of former SIPA dean Harvey Picker, whose generous gift enabled the School to expand and upgrade its existing computer resources. The Computer Center's six lab facilities are equipped with 130 Pentium-based systems, 6 Macs, and several laser printers on the Novell network. In addition to being used for word processing, the lab also serves as an instructional facility, providing students with the skills needed to compete in the current job market. Students in the Executive MPA program receive hands-on training in financial management, quantitative analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and accounting. They also have access to SIPA's outstanding computer network, which features a number of important software packages as well as Internet and Nexis services. Click here to learn more about SIPA's computing services.
Research Institutes, Centers and Programs
Over the years SIPA has established a number of institutes, centers, and programs that reflect both the research interests of the faculty and the issues faced by today's policymakers. Among these are the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy; the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation, and Public Policy; the Center for Urban Research and Policy; the Center for Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy; the Center for the Study of Human Rights; the Institute of War and Peace Studies; the United Nations Studies Program; and the International Conflict Resolution Program.
Click here to learn more about SIPA's Research Centers and Institutes.
Regional Institutes
With five National Resource Centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Columbia has the most comprehensive area studies program in the United States. The regional institutes, which are housed at SIPA and cover nearly every part of the world, bring together the University's extensive resources in each geographic area and attract distinguished visiting scholars and speakers to our campus. Click here to learn more about SIPA's Regional Centers and Institutes.
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