Education Entrepreneur Fellowship

The Mind Trust is offering a $250,000 fellowship for Educational
Entrepreneurs with educational venture ideas for implementation within
the United States. There appears to be a strong preference for charter
school-type interventions, but I would love to see the ideas of
domestic-minded SIPA Education Collaborative members represented in
this kind of forum

Check out more at:
http://www.themindtrust.org/fellowship/apply.aspx

Happy studying!
Debi

SIPA Education Collaborative End of Semester Update

Hi Everyone!

   I apologize in advance for the length of this email.  However, we wanted to announce that between the meetings we held last week and today we have officially decided on a few things:

1. Name of the group - SIPA Education Collaborative.  After much debate, we decided this name best reflected the mission and atmosphere of our group.

2. Description of the group:
 We are a community of students and professors united by a common belief that education is fundamental to International and Public Affairs.  We aim to highlight the importance of education for human development and develop a platform for collaboration between SIPA, Columbia, and New York City to build on our diversity of experiences and interests in education.
While this description may not be 100% perfect, we thought it did an accurate job of reflecting the common thread among our ideas for the group while still being open to other possible initiatives (research, consulting, etc.).  We can definitely revisit the description after we see what initiatives emerge as being the core focus of our group.

3. Posts (Administrative Responsibilities):
There are three main categories of administrative responsibilities:
i) Co-coordinators - external coordinator (responsible for contact with UNSPWG, SIPASA, and any other SIPA student groups we may want to collaborate with in sponsoring activities, etc.) and internal coordinator (responsible for coordination within the larger group - keeping track of what various activity groups need, etc.)
ii) Treasurer
iii) Co-communication Chairs - external communication and outreach chair (This will likely involve outreach to TC, but really this person will be responsible for the blog, a calendar, resource sharing, etc. - basically everything Pablo has been doing) and internal communication chair/secretary (this person will be responsible for taking notes of meetings and sending out emails/posting decisions to the larger group, sending emails to the large group for meetings, etc.)

As soon as we come back in January we will make final decisions on people to fill these posts.  In the mean time, though, if you really want to fill any particular post, please email me back and let me know just so that we can get an idea of whether there will be any competition for the positions and decide from there how we should go about making decisions for filling them for the next semester. 

In the mean time, I believe Pablo has created a blog for the group and will be posting some items, gathering some information, etc. over break (please correct me if I'm wrong!).  We will also decide in January on what activities we will pursue next semester, who will be responsible for them, and what the broad but measurable 2nd semester goal for each activity will be.  Over break, if you want to do any work on a particular activity you are interested in the group taking on or if you want to send out an email with an idea for an activity in order to get an idea of group interest, feel free!!

And finally, thank you to everyone who took time out of these crazy last weeks of the semester to help make decisions for the future of this group! 

Good luck studying/writing!!  And have a terrific vacation! 


Cory

Education Task Force Planning Meeting v2.0 @Lehman study group

Hi, SIPA Education Task Force members,

Based on the information on our Doodle, finally we will meet this Monday Dec 12th, 1pm-3pm. We are going to meet at Lehman Study Group, because we didn't have enough time for scheduling a room for the meeting.

If you can come to the meeting, but you can't stay the whole two hours, it's ok!

See you there!
Pablo

Education Task Force Planning Meeting v2.0

Hi, SIPA Education Task Force members!

We had a great meeting today, planning the mission/ambition of the group, discussing our focus. Many things were part of the discussion: how to build a SIPA community with focus on education, including professors and students? how to collaborate with TC students and professors? what are the next steps? activities? dual degree?

Since there was a lot to be discussed, we decided to schedule a second meeting to continue the conversation. Paraphrasing what Cory said in a previous mail: these are incredibly busy days, but if you have strong feelings about the direction this group should take, we hope you'll be there!

If you are interested, please tell us when you are available, and we'll try to find a slot that works for everyone:
http://www.doodle.com/bmvcgi76a3fhb747

Cheers,
Pablo

Update: Education Task Force Planning Meeting Thurs 12/8, room 902

Hi All,

  The room has been cleared so we will be meeting in room 902 IAB for on Thursday December 8th from 1-2 p.m.I know its an INCREDIBLY busy week, but if you have strong feelings about the direction this group should take, I hope you will be there!

 

Cory

Education Task Force Planning Meeting

Hi All,

We will be having a group planning meeting on Thursday, December 8th at 1pm in a room soon to be announced. We have realized that getting people together and seeing what happens organically has worked really well for resource and information sharing and great conversation, but not as well for the formation of the kind of goal and action oriented group that we know is possible.

Thus, this meeting is designed to be a focused, decision making meeting with clear objectives to be accomplished in the hour that we'll have. By the end of the meeting we want to have come to conclusions about: the name of the group, the purpose of the group, the posts that will be held and who will hold them, and the activities that are really feasible for us to fully pursue 2nd semester (panels, volunteering, research, networking, etc), the people who will be responsible for those activities, the end of year goals that each activity will have, and a plan for following through on those goals as a group when we get back to campus in January. The thinking behind this is that we need to make these kinds of decisions in order to give structure and function to the group and create a group identity and atmosphere of shared responsibility. Our hope is that this will allow the group to really hit the ground running next semester ready to have some serious impact on SIPA and the surrounding community.

If you would like to help make these important decisions that will shape the group and/or are really interested in holding a post or leading an activity for at least 2nd semester, please, please come to the meeting. If you're more interested in the kind of get-your-hands-dirty education work and not really the background planning for the large group, you are still more than welcome to come, but we will not be designing specific activities or talking about logistics of activities at this meeting.

If you can't make the meeting, but still want to have some impact on what we decide and/or want to fill a post or lead an activity, please email me and we will collect and share your opinions and leadership intents at the meeting.

Finally, I know this week is busy and I'm really sorry we didn't get our act together to plan this important meeting until now. BUT, that is why it is so important that we have all opinionated, enthusiastic planners at the meeting- to give the group the kind of structure it will need to make sure this doesn't happen again!

Sorry for the long email, hope you all have a great weekend!

Cory

Take a minute to support the dual degree between SIPA and Teachers College

Hi members of the SIPA Education group,

Today's happy hour was a good moment to talk about the future of the group and other education-related topics, while drinking a good beer :)

Looking forward to see those of you that couldn't come in the next activities!

Please, remember that if you want to share events/activities with the group, you can find the members' contact details in our Google Doc http://bit.ly/sipaed and send us a mail.

In this email:

1) Take a minute to support the dual degree between SIPA and Teachers College

2) Still looking for interesting courses at TC? TOMORROW Thursday: Policy Course Advisement @TC

3) Panel “For‐Profit Schooling and the Politics of Education Reform in Chile”. Next Monday.

Content

1) Take a minute to support the dual degree between SIPA and Teachers College

• As we told you in a previous email, Jordan Brensinger (MIA 2013) has proposed SIPA to start a new dual degree with Teachers College.
• We know that if we want this idea to come true, the students (we) have to show interest and pressure.
• If you think this is an interesting idea, we invite you to take concrete action:
• Go to the Town Hall discussion board in Courseworks, look for Jordan's post under "Category: DUAL DEGREES" and add a message supporting it. Would be great to have the post with more messages. The discussion board will close this Friday.
  
• Also, you can go to the actual Town Hall to show your support: 6-8pm,Tuesday, December 6, 2011. 15th Floor IAB 1501.

2) Still looking for interesting courses at TC? Tomorrow Thursday: Policy Course Advisement @TC

We wanted to share with you an activity organized by the Policy Student Network @ Teachers College:

Policy Course Advisement

·    Want to know what policy courses are being offered next semester?

·    Looking for information about classes and professors?

·    Looking to share wisdom about classes and professors?

·    Got questions about classes outside of TC?

·    Just want a break from finals-stuff?

·    Wine?  Snacks?

Thursday, December 1, 2011

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Horace Mann 144

Wine and light refreshments will be served.

3) Panel "“For‐Profit Schooling and the Politics of Education Reform in Chile”. Next Monday.

For those of you interested in privatization and vouchers: the panelists will discuss the scholarly and policy debate, the evidence, and the international experience. They will analyze the Chilean case, where the consequences are being widely debated.

Moderated by Susan Fuhrman, President of Teachers College Panelists:

• Gregory Elacqua, Director of the Institute of Public Policy at the School of Economics at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago‐Chile
• Henry Levin, William H. Kilpatrick Professor of Economics & Education at Teachers College
• Miguel Urquiola, Professor of Economics at the School of International and Public Affairs and Department of Economics, Columbia University

RSVP by Thursday, December 1st by email to paupachecoflanagan@gmail.com

Cheers,

Pablo.

TODAY Tuesday 29th - Chilean student leader @SIPA

Hi all! (you are receiving this email because you are in the SIPA Education group contact list @ http://bit.ly/sipaed)

Sorry about the late notice, but I just got this information.

Giorgio Jackson, one of the key leaders of the recent student movement in Chile, will be today Tuesday 29th at SIPA. He was President of the Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad Católica de Chile (FEUC) in 2011 (one of the main Chilean universities) and speaker for Confederación de Estudiantes de Chile (CONFECH).

WHEN: 7pm, Tuesday, November 29th
WHERE: SIPA, Room 801
The event will be in Spanish

It will be a roundtable, and he will be talking about the student movement and protests of this year in Chile. Since I am from Chile, I can tell you that these have been probably the most important protests since we got our democracy back in 1988.

Al Jazeera interview: http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2011/09/201192955515178596.html
Info about the protests: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Chilean_protests

Please RSVP at paupachecoflanagan at gmail.com if you plan to attend.
SPACE IS LIMITED.

Best,
Pablo

Global Case Challenge with an Education Track

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know about an upcoming opportunity. The Hult
International Business School is holding its Global Case Challenge in
February of 2012. The Challenge provides teams of graduate students
and young professionals across the world the chance to participate in
a global competition in five cities. There are three tracks you can
choose from: Education, Energy, and Housing.

For more information on this, check out the following website:
http://www.hultglobalcasechallenge.com/2012/

Small groups for each track, including Education, will need to be
formed quickly within the next week, so if you're interested email
Irène Kapusta. There is a short application process and the first deadline is on
November 30th.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Coli

Reminder: EDUCATION HAPPY HOUR TODAY, 6:30-8:30

Hi Everyone,

 This is just a reminder to everyone who was at the first meeting of the Education Task Force that we have an EDUCATION HAPPY HOUR TODAY AT 6:30 at Haakon's Hall (on Amsterdam).  Even if you can't stay very long, or you can only get there at 8:00, it would be great to see you there - we don't want to lose momentum and we're hoping to be able to figure out what people want from the group, what people think is feasible for themselves in terms of participation in the group, and what the group's next steps are going to be! Please make it out if you can - sorry I didn't send this reminder earlier!

Looking forward to seeing you soon!!

Cory

SIPA Education group - Invitation to workshop / Monday 24th, 9:50 @501B IAB

Hi education group members!

How are the midterms / projects going? I hope everything is going well!

We would like to invite you to a short workshop for planning our activities and projects for this term.
When: Monday 24th, 9:50 - 10:50
Where: 501B IAB

Last meeting we created several teams, and we would like to invite you to use this space to meet with your team and define your activities / projects. If you weren't able to attend last meeting, you can join this workshop, join a team and propose your ideas! The objective of the workshop is to define one, two or three (or more) initiatives for each team. The teams are: Networking, Learning, Communications, Future of the Group, Research, In the field.

We know these are days with a lot of things to do, but still it seems it is a good idea to meet: 1) it is important to define activities and projects for getting funding and starting some of them this term 2) it is always relaxing to discuss about education ideas/projects with cool/interesting people like us :)

The next step, after the workshop, will be a meeting with enough time and food (hopefully) for presenting the initiatives created by the teams in the workshop and for agreeing the group priorities/focuses. It will be also the opportunity for getting to know each other a little more!

Best,
P.

Doodle Poll "UNSPWG Education Task Force Meeting #2"

Hello all,

Thank you to those of you who were able to join us on Monday! It was great to meet everyone in person, and we have a phenomenal group of students here. 

For our next meeting, please visit the doodle poll below to indicate what time works for you. We'll set a time based on responses this Friday and get the official time and location out in short order.

http://www.doodle.com/hvp75t4642wrssi6

For meeting #2, we'll be checking in with Networking, Learning, In-Field, Research, and Communications/Website teams about game plans moving forward. If you haven't joined a team yet, be sure to do so at http://bit.ly/sipaed.

Happy midterms, friends, and I can't wait to keep things moving on the other side.

Cheers,

New Education group meeting! - Monday Oct. 10th 1pm @902IAB

Attention Education Enthusiasts:

Room 902 IAB has been reserved for us on Monday October 10th from 1-2 p.m. Please let anyone else you know of who is interested in education and the possibility of an education working group know about the meeting! What are your interests? What activities could we organize?

A big thank you to Cory Fox for securing a room, and to Debi Spindelman for her leadership in organizing this.

If you aren't able to make Monday but are interested in being a part of this launch, please be sure to add your email to http://bit.ly/sipaed

(Bring your lunch if you want :) )





Please Like/Comment the Facebook event :)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=247721318607940

See you on Monday!
Pablo.

SIPA Education Working Group

Hi All, Thank you for expressing interest in being a part of an Education Working Group at SIPA! A few of quick items:

1. Thanks to Pablo, we are building out a Google spreadsheet sharing a bit of information about ourselves-- I included some of the information that you shared with me, but please add anything you would like so we can get an idea of the breadth of experience we bring to the table as a group http://bit.ly/sipaed
2. Mark your calendars for 1pm on Monday, October 10th for an initial planning meeting. MDP Program Assistant Extraordinaire Corey Pargee is working on a room reservation- I'll let you know when we get a location secured. 
3. Rochester's David Hursh has been invited by Columbia University to work in the Earth Institute as a visiting research scholar, where he will focus on education in the Millennium Villages during the 2011-12 academic year. He is currently developing curriculum for a course on education for sustainable development to be taught at SIPA in the spring semester, and has offered to meet with us at Brad's Cafe (near Journalism) TODAY Tuesday, October 4th at 5pm to talk through curriculum ideas. Pretty excited about being able to offer this kind of input! Apologies for the last-minute notice, but if you are interested check out more about David at http://thepointrochester.org/initiative-profiles/individuals/david-hursh-phd/ 

Please feel free to pass this on to other interested students as well!
Cheers,
Debi