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    • Ivy policy conference 2018 at cornell

      April 20-22nd, 2018

    • Our vision

      The Ivy Council serves as a platform for student leaders to represent students voices within the Ivy League and create positive change.

      Who are we?

      The Ivy Council is a 501(c)3 federal tax-exempt organization of student government leaders, student organization leaders, and students at large from the colleges and universities of the Ivy League. The Ivy Council was established in 1993 by members of the Ivy League student governments in order to facilitate effective communication between the student governments of their respective institutions and to provide a unified voice for the Ivy League student governments.

      today

      Since its inaugural year, the Ivy Council has expanded the scope of its activity both nationally and internationally with programs such as the Ivy Leadership Summit and student-exchange opportunities in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

    • ivy council PROGRAMS

      From the annual Ivy Leadership Summit to the Ivy publication, Ivy Inspire.

      Ivy Leadership Summit

      National Student Leadership

      The Ivy Leadership Summit (ILS) is an annual two-day conference hosted by the Ivy Council to bring together students from the eight Ivy League universities along with leaders from the business, government, academics, and non-profit sectors of society. The conference is usually held in the fall and its location is rotated each year through the campuses of the schools in the Ivy League.

       

      Click here to see photos from the 2017 Ivy Leadership Summit, hosted at Princeton University!

      Ivy Policy Conference

      Collegiate Policy Change

      The Ivy Policy Conference (IPC) is an annual conference hosted every spring by the Ivy Council. IPC emphasizes in-depth, candid conversation on public policy solutions to the social, intellectual, political, and cultural issues facing today’s college students. Ivy League schools take turns hosting IPC on their respective campuses.

       

      Click below to read the policy reports from the past 4 conferences!

      Global Partnerships

      Ivy-China, Ivy-Russia, Ivy-Middle East, Nobel Peace Laureates World Summit, United Nations Youth Assembly

      In May-June 2008, then-President Bing Chen (Penn '09) and then-VP External Affairs Sue Yang (Columbia '10) facilitated two dozen student government Presidents and student journalists to travel to Beijing, Wuhan, and Shanghai for the first Ivy League student delegation through mainland China.[3] The American students held a dialogue with their Chinese peers on international student relations at Peking University, and met with Chinese leaders.[4]

       

      The American students held a dialogue with their Chinese peers on international student relations at Peking University, and met with Chinese leaders.[4] Currently, the Ivy-China program is in its seventh year, and has brought a delegation of 8 Chinese students from the top universities in China, who visited the Ivy League Universities and continued with the goal of international cultural exchange. The program has also seen expansions to Europe and the Middle East.

      IvyInspire

      Ivy Inspire, Ivy Council National Newsletters, Ivy Council Local Newsletters

      From the first inter-ivy online magazine to weekly local newsletters from each IVC school.

       

      Click here to access Ivy Inspire!

      IvyCORPS

      International Philanthropy

      The IvyCORPS (Ivy Community Outreach and Public Service) is the philanthropy arm of the Ivy Council--a student union group of the Ivy League.

       

      Click here to access Ivy Corps!

    • IVY COUNCIL NEWS

      Recent updates from the Ivy Council's own publication, the Ivy Inspire.

      Southern Souls in Ivy Towers

      "When considering the geographic origins of Ivy League students, many think Greenwich, Andover, or New York City. When I tell people that I’m from Alabama...

      Bringing Dark Matter Into the Light

      “There is a finite limit to how far we can look into the past. The universe is expanding faster and faster the farther you look back in time; most of the light...

    • Meet THE 2018-19 Ivy council EXECUTIVE BOARD

      The IVC Executive Board runs the day-to-day national operations of Ivy Council and are elected by members from all 8 Ivy League schools.

      Elizabeth Ulanova

      President

      Columbia University

      IVC Executive Board

      Edward Mowinckel

      Vice President of Internal Affairs

      Princeton University

      IVC Executive Board

      Jennifer Hu

      Vice President of Technology/Marketing

      University of Pennsylvania

      IVC Executive Board

      Shayan Rauf

      Vice President of External Affairs

      Columbia University

      IVC Executive Board

      Sebastian Contreras

      Vice President of Finance

      University of Pennsylvania

      IVC Executive Board

      Lenore Schiller

      Vice President of Policy

      Cornell University

      IVC Executive Board

      Jaiden Fallo

      Vice President of Philanthropy

      University of Pennsylvania

      IVC Executive Board

    • Meet THE ivy conference executive directors

      The executive directors oversee their respective IVC conferences throughout the academic year.

      Edward W. Mowinckel

      Executive Director

      Princeton University

      IEC Fall 2018

      Stephen Polcyn

      Executive Director

      Princeton University

      IEC Fall 2018

      Dina

      Chotrani

      Executive Director

      Princeton University

      ILS Fall 2017

      Sarah

      Chong

      Executive Director

      Dartmouth College

      ILS Fall 2018

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    • Timeline of ivy council

      Check us out through the years - more to be coming soon!

      1

      Creation of Ivy Council

      1993

       

      Founded in 1993 as a way to collaborate and exchange ideas on common student life issues at their respective school, student government leaders set the stage for the Ivy Council that exists today. In 1997, in response to the complexities of running a loose federation of organizations over seven states, a defining structure was created.

       

      The Ivy Council draws its membership from the Brown University Undergraduate Council of Students, Columbia University (the Columbia College Student Council, the Columbia Engineering Student Council, and the Columbia General Studies Student Council), the Cornell University Student Assembly, the Dartmouth College Student Assembly, the Harvard University Undergraduate Council, the University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Assembly, the Princeton University Undergraduate Student Government, and the Yale College Council.

      2

      Creation of the first ever ILS

      2000

       

      ILS was originally created to promote the exchange of ideas between students of the Ivy League and today’s leaders on subjects of public policy such as affirmative action and ethics in science and technology. The first ILS was held at Yale University in 2000 and had the topic of “Integrity and Ethics.” Eighty participants were selected from a pool of applicants throughout the Ivy League.

       

      The main activities of the conference were keynote speakers, panels, and roundtable discussions. Since then, Ivy Council has held six conferences each with their own topics of discussion. Past speakers have included Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO of Forbes magazine; Nasreen Berwari, Iraqi Minister of Municipalities and General Works; Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to the UN’s Millennium Development; Theodore Roosevelt IV, Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and prominent environmentalist; and Dov Zakheim, US Undersecretary of Defense.

      3

      Creation of the first ever IPC

      2008

       

      Ivy Policy Conference (IPC) is an annual conference hosted every spring by the Ivy Council. IPC emphasizes in-depth, candid conversation on public policy solutions to the social, intellectual, political, and cultural issues facing today’s college students. Ivy League schools take turns hosting IPC on their respective campuses.

      4

      Creation of the first international partnership of Ivy Council with China

      2008

       

      In May-June 2008, then-President Bing Chen (Penn '09) and then-VP External Affairs Sue Yang (Columbia '10) facilitated two dozen student government Presidents and student journalists to travel to Beijing, Wuhan, and Shanghai for the first Ivy League student delegation through mainland China.[3]

       

      The American students held a dialogue with their Chinese peers on international student relations at Peking University, and met with Chinese leaders.[4] Currently, the Ivy-China program is in its seventh year, and has brought a delegation of 8 Chinese students from the top universities in China, who visited the Ivy League Universities and continued with the goal of international cultural exchange. The program has also seen expansions to Europe and the Middle East.

    • Ivy COuncil conferences

      The Ivy Council hosts semi-annual conferences where student leaders gather to research and seek solutions to issues of the day at their schools, across the Ivy League, or to student populations as a whole. Recent issue topics have included affirmative action in admissions, post-season football, the drug-free provisions in higher education legislation, climate neutrality and fuel emissions. Ivy Council Conferences are important learning experiences for everyone who attends. Each gets to enjoy the vastly different physical environments of the host schools, while taking from the depth of expertise that is shared among participants.

       

      Delegates and observers arrive at the Conference site on Friday night. A grand gathering takes place at the opening. The weekend that follows provides more formalized events that encourage the sharing of ideas, while providing social events to help build lasting relationships. On Saturday, the attendees get down to business, spending many hours in discussion sections. Topics are determined in advance by the Steering Committee; past topics have covered a wide range of issues facing higher education, including academic affairs, alcohol use and abuse and socially aware university investment and divestment. Each school comes prepared with researched information about how each issue is addressed on its campus. All benefit from hearing other perspectives and new ideas; solutions are developed as a result. Session minutes are combined with that background information and a conference booklet is created and distributed to each delegation. This provides each student government with a tool for further addressing the issues discussed. Moreover, Conference materials are posted online in the Student Government Forum and Policy Database to encourage further discussion and archived information sharing. Such documents are accessible to all Ivy League students, not just Ivy student government leaders and members.

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