On January 10-11, 2019, 46 representatives from 41 schools in 12 countries gathered in Toronto for the annual APSIA deans/directors meeting that looked towards the future of International Affairs education. The interactive meeting, which was hosted by the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, included discussions of innovation, faculty diversity, and fundraising. The event also had an intimate conversation with Canada's Deputy Foreign Minister Ian Shugart, through which the group became very engaged. 

For more information on the 2019 APSIA Deans' Meeting, please click here.

The U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship is a grant program that enables students of limited financial means to study or intern abroad, thereby gaining skills critical to national security and economic prosperity.

The program aims to encourage students to study and intern in a diverse array of countries or areas and world regions. The program also encourages students to study languages, especially critical need languages (those deemed important to national security). The program has been successful in supporting students who have been historically underrepresented in education abroad, including but not limited to first-generation college students, students in STEM fields, ethnic minority students, students with disabilities, students attending HBCUs or other minority-serving institutions, students attending community colleges, and students coming from U.S. states with less study abroad participation.

Deadline to apply is March 5, 2019 at 11:59 PM Central Time. 
To learn more about the Gilman Scholarship, please click here.

Yasir Naqvi is an alumnus of Carleton University's Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and was recently named as Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC). His family first emigrated from Pakistan to Canada in 1988. After studying at Carleton University, he went on to practice international trade and administrative law with major law firms.

In 2016, he was sworn in as the Attorney General of Ontario and implemented laws like the All Families Are Equal Act to ensure that all children are treated equally, regardless of how they are conceived, and recognize the legal status of all parents. He also championed new laws to prevent sexual violence and help survivors, increase respect for the rights and cultures of Indigenous peoples, expand access to restorative justice, and promote multiculturalism. Naqvi says that his personal experiences will assist his leadership in his new position. 
 

For more information on Yasir Naqvi and the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, please click here.

For 50 years, the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) has been training Canada’s best and brightest graduate students in international affairs. They have over 2,000 alumni, many of whom have gone on to key leadership positions in the Canadian federal and provincial public service, foreign governments, the United Nations, and the private and not-for-profit sectors. NPSIA offers comprehensive and advanced degree programs in international affairs at the Masters and Doctoral level in Canada.

The NPSIA program is interdisciplinary, reflecting the philosophy that exposure to a wide range of disciplines such as political science, economics, law, sociology, public health, and history is necessary to develop an understanding of our complex global environment.

Click here to learn more about NPSIA and its programs.