News & Impact Stories at Columbia SPS
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Advancing Instructional Excellence at Columbia SPS
Professional education is not about one size fits all.
Strategic Communications as a Tool for Social Change: What Juli Spencer’s Journey Teaches Us About Purpose-Driven Work
The SPS alum reflects on how an ethics-centered education inspired her to found Depolarizing Discourse, a curriculum designed to foster critical thinking and more thoughtful dialogue in a polarized world.
Sustainability Management Alumni and Faculty Share Their Paths to Public-Sector Careers
Kasey Motley, Maria Inés Suaya Pons and Steven Caputo on how their experience in the M.S. in Sustainability Management program prepared them for their careers.
After Wealth Management
A Conversation with Matthias Kuhlmey on agentic advice, consumer control and the future of financial advice.
What AI Really Demands of Your Career
At a Columbia SPS panel on AI and the future of work, industry leaders examined why judgment, adaptability, and continuous learning remain essential in a rapidly changing labor market.
New SPS Student Government President on Her Journey to Columbia and the Most Pressing Issues at SPS
Halla Al-Moradi, student in the M.S. in Political Analytics program, shares her top priorities and how being a Yemeni American woman shapes her approach to leadership.
How Do You Regulate an Industry You Don’t Understand?
In Columbia Magazine, Steven Cohen discusses the need for transparency, independent oversight and accountability in AI regulation. (Columbia Magazine)
Resisting the Impact of Zeldin’s Environmental Destruction Agency
Attacks on environmental protections and scientific expertise threaten public health and sustainability.
From Knowledge to Impact: A Course Designed for the Moments You Can’t Script
A new SPS elective uses improvisation, behavioral science, and performance practice to help graduate students turn knowledge into presence, adaptability, and real-time professional impact.
Follow Me: A Lasting Leadership Legacy of 9/11, 25 Years On
Project Management Professor Howard N. Apsan reflects on the enduring lessons of 9/11 and the leadership-by-example legacy of the first responders who ran toward danger.
One Eager Student’s Successful Day at Columbia SPS’s Career and Networking Expo
Angela Zhuo was determined to make a good impression on employers, but she walked away with larger lessons that she didn’t expect.
From Biology to Analytics: Kadiatou Bah on Using Data to Improve Health Care
CUNY Fellow Kadiatou Bah discusses her path from Medgar Evers College to Columbia SPS, building new technical skills, and her goal of bringing analytics and technology into a future career in medicine.