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Under the leadership of the Chair and three Vice-Chairs, SIG is organized in a committee structure. Each committee—run by a Director and staffed by three to five committee members—focuses on a defined set of goals throughout the year. To learn more about a particular committee, please click on the appropriate link below.
- Public Policy Forum
- Campus Awareness
- Campus and Community Partnerships
- Fellowships Committees
- Communications
Public Policy Forum (PPF) Committee
PPF seeks to encourage political dialogue on campus. Through events with policymakers and experts, lunches with renowned journalists, and campus-wide Big Speaker in the spring, PPF brings students and policy experts together to enrich Stanford's political atmosphere. Past events have included a lunch with Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Walter Pincus, a policy discussion on Iraq with former advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority Larry Diamond, and Big Speakers such as L. Paul Bremer and John Edwards.
Campus Awareness (CA)
CA is responsible for spreading objective, insightful and relevant information about politics and public policy across campus. To this end, we put together panels of professors to talk about the day's most relevant issues and problems. We also hold weekly “Policy Lunches” with Professors, giving students a chance to talk one-on-one with senior faculty members about an area of their academic study. An additional program that will begin this year is regular “current events updates,” which will distill the most important national and international news into a short weekly newsletter for students who do not find the time to regularly read the newspaper.
Campus and Community Partnerships (CCP) Committee
CCP works to promote civic education and involvement through service projects. In the past, CCP members have worked with Stanford employees studying for their citizenship tests, created Habla units to teach basic government concepts, and organized informational sessions concerning citizenship.
This year, CCP is working to serve the East Palo Alto community through two current projects. We are organizing a government education class for eighth graders at East Palo Alto Charter School. We are also working to produce a "Know Your Rights" brochure in conjunction with Community Legal Services of East Palo Alto. We hope both of these projects will be valuable to the East Palo Alto community.
Fellowships Committees
International Fellowships Committee
DC/National Fellowships Committee
State/Local Fellowships Committee
The Stanford in Government Fellowship program sponsors over 30 fellowships every summer to send Stanford undergraduates to intern in high-profile governmental or non-profit organizations. Stipends for fellows are administered by Stanford in Government. To see the types of fellowships offered, please visit our website at sig.stanford.edu.
Each fellowship committee has similar responsibilities within the realm of fellowships they cover. Committee members secure summer placements, review fellowship applications, and work with professors to select SIG fellows. Committee members also work on promoting fellowship opportunities through putting on a fellowships night in late November as well as putting together a photo exhibit of fellowship pictures to be displayed in the CoHo and then later in the Haas Centre, amongst other promotional activities.
Communications Committee
The Campus Communications committee focuses on publicizing SIG events throughout the year, making sure all room reservations and other arrangements have been made for these events, emailing a weekly events newsletter to the student body, and putting together a quarterly newsletter that will be sent out to SIG alumni and donors. The Campus Communications is the public face of SIG and, operationally, makes the activities of both programming and fellowships a possibility.