SIPA: School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University

Business Office

The Business Office is a unit of SIPA’s Office of General & Financial Administration which serves as the liaison between the University’s Finance Division and SIPA’s students, faculty, staff and affiliated Institutes and Centers. We provide a broad range of financial support services. These services include but are not limited to the processing of non-salary invoices, check requests, purchase orders, and reimbursements for travel and business expenses.

We also provide guidance on budget preparation, revision, monitoring, and reconciliation to ensure alignment with Federal and University financial policy and procedure. For salary related issues go to SIPA’s Office of Human Resources.

The office also serves as a primary financial resource for SIPA’s student groups. We provide advice, guidance and oversight for funds allocated to the various student groups. In general, student groups’ allocations are determined by SIPASA, the SIPA Student Association, which is the umbrella group for all student groups and it distributes and oversees student groups funding.

SIPA’s business office also assists the Office of Academic Affairs in providing faculty with general financial support. The business office assists by monitoring faculty research accounts and department operating budgets to ensure that Federal and University policies and procedures are followed.

Please direct questions and feedback to the SIPA Business Office:

SIPA Business Office
International Affairs Building
420 West 118 Street, Suite 1420
New York, NY 10027

Tel.  212-854-6301
Fax. 212-864-4847
Email: sipa_businessoffice@columbia.edu