2024 New Year’s Greetings from Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo
This has been a momentous year – for SIPA, for the world, for humanity. As 2023 draws to a close, I continue to be inspired by the intellectual energy and passion of our community. Nurture that spirit. It is what makes us SIPA. Happy New Year to you and your loved ones. I look forward to a joyous, prosperous, and eventful year ahead!
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2023 has been a momentous year. Here at SIPA we have accomplished so much and at the same time have confronted many challenges. If there's one thing this past year has made clear to me, it is the vital importance of a policy school like ours.
Our hearts are heavy with the suffering we see around the world. Members of our communities are reeling from recent global conflicts, including the Israel Hamas war, Ukraine, and beyond. We simultaneously faced growing threats to democracy, increasingly severe effects of climate change, political polarization and the unknown challenges of new technologies are pending how we live.
Yet it is in these moments that we are reminded overall at SIPA to grapple with the difficult questions over time and develop policy solutions to today's most pressing global challenges. This is the work our faculty are committed to and they're leading brilliantly in this regard. In the past few months, I have been inspired by our community's unwavering passion, energy and engagement. We do not shy away from difficult subjects, we embrace them.
I'm proud of our school-wide efforts to meet head on the issues of hate speech, and doxxing by creating faculty-led task forces, and I am proud of our student leadership on these issues. We're all committed to making SIPA the best it can be from launching the Institute of global politics to provide a forum for respectful dialogue across partisan and ideological divides, to creating opportunities for open and honest discussion, and hosting a series of webinars about current events. I am proud of our work from this past year.
And as we look to 2024 We must continue prioritizing having difficult, respectful conversations with those with whom we may not agree, we must listen to one another to find common ground. As I reflect on this year, I am deeply grateful to be a part of this community. In the new year, we will continue the work of making SIPA even stronger, even more impactful and even more engaged with the world. That is our mission.
As you gather with your family and friends this holiday season, I want to leave you with a message of hope, the energy of our students and alumni the commitment of our faculty and staff and the essential importance of our shared work together. Bring me hope. Finally, and above all, I want to leave you with a wish for peace.
Happy New Year to you and your loved ones.
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