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The ultimate guide to Columbia graduate schools The ultimate guide to Columbia graduate schools Isai Soto / Staff Illustrator If you’ve just completed your undergraduate degree or are currently pursuing it, it’s never too late (or early!) to consider graduate school. In the face of Columbia’s whopping 17 graduate schools, each with its own set of unique requirements and degrees, choosing the right program might feel like an overwhelming decision. To help you through your selection proce...

Akerman LLP, a top 100 U.S. law firm serving clients across the Americas, is a participant in the Orlando Economic Partnership’s (OEP) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pledge, a focused effort from CEOs and executive leaders in Central Florida to create meaningful and lasting change in their organizations.

Article content An Indigenous-Filipino woman from Fisher River Cree Nation has been trying to address food security among Indigenous peoples through academia for two years now. “Going through university and academia, I came to this realization of how torn I felt being an Indigenous and Filipino person going through Western academia,” said Taylor Wilson, a project coordinator at the Winnipeg Boldness Project. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or I...

MNREGA during COVID-19 pandemic: More households got work in 2020, but fund crunch a major concern, finds study The importance of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme as a safety net for the rural poor increased manifold during the COVID-19 lockdown, a new report has found Neerad Pandharipande December 31, 2020 15:55:52 IST File image of migrant wo...

Indigenous owned and operated water utility launching through new partnership model Indigenous owned and operated water utility launching through new partnership model VERNON, British Columbia, Dec. 14, 2020 — The first Indigenous owned and operated water utility in Canada developed by way of Public-Private-Community Partnership (PPCP), is a step closer to reality with a formal agreement signed last month between the Okanagan Indian Band Group of Companies (OKIB GC), EPCOR and Enterprise Cana...

December 17, 2020 It was a most unusual summer project for two students at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs—spanning two continents, 10 time zones, and an ocean—to deliver important public health information about the coronavirus pandemic to an isolated island population in Kenya. But the students, who are pursuing their Master of Development Practice (MDP) degrees, took on and succeeded in that challenge.  Aimee Carlson and Neamatallah Elsayed (both MDP ‘21) collaborated with sever...