APSIA Continues Junior Faculty Support Fund
In order to deepen ties within the family, APSIA launched a small grant fund for pre-tenure and recently-tenured faculty at APSIA members and affiliates in [...]
Online Deans Meeting Help Schools Prepare for the Future
From January 11 – 14, 2021, 60 representatives from 46 institutions in 15 countries gathered for the annual APSIA Deans/Directors Meeting. This year’s session was [...]
GW Names New Dean for Elliott School of International Affairs
Alyssa Ayres, senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, is a respected foreign policy practitioner, author and researcher who has worked across multiple sectors.
Session Explores Why Indigenous Students Should Think about International Affairs
On September 17, 2020, APSIA and the Northeastern University (NSU) Native American Support Center co-hosted a session to explore why –with all the ways they [...]
Workshop for Diverse Students Moves Online
From July 20 – 24, 2020, undergraduates and young professionals from across the United States joined APSIA for the Fourth Annual Diversity Forum Workshop for [...]
Annual APSIA Career Reception Welcomes 22 Employers
On July 28, 2020, more than 275 students, alumni, employers, and staff gathered for the four annual APSIA Career Event. The 2020 event was moved [...]
Spotlight on the Sanford Class of 2020
Sanford students, both undergraduate and graduate, are always amazing. They come from all over the world, and from nearby neighborhoods in Durham. They start organizations, volunteer in the community, earn awards and develop friendships that have the potential to last a lifetime. This class had the extra challenge of an extraordinary spring. Here are some of the stories of the Class of 2020.
APSIA Statement on Dignity and Equality
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is clear in its “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members [...]
Dramatic drop in remittances puts struggling communities around the world at risk
As the toll of the COVID-19 economic shutdown reverberates around the world, money sent home by foreign workers is drying up.
Ali examines rising U.S.-China tensions over COVID-19 origins
Blame narratives over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic are deepening rifts between the U.S. and China, according to Javed Ali, Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School. In a co-authored op-ed featured in The Hill on April 23, Ali asserts that these rising tensions added to an already weak relationship, and “risks igniting a new Cold War.”
