On April 22nd, Earth Day, UNIS announced plans to hire a paid Sustainability Director for each division of the school to begin tackling the issue of sustainability in a dedicated and “schoolwide approach,”...
Over the past year, many UNIS students have chosen to do fully remote learning. For some, it was the distance from their home to school that impacted their choice. There are students currently living in...
“Existential fear appears to be at the heart of what drives polarization.”
–Kirk Schneider, Ph.D. Columbia University
Over the last 20 years, political polarization and partisan antipathy have...
From wildfires in Australia to tensions in Iran at the beginning of the 2020, to the pandemic and its various stages, to the Black Lives Matter movement and much more—every aspect of our world underwent...
Nowadays it seems as though politics in the United States are more polarized than ever. To many, the Democrats have moved further to the left, and the Republicans further to the right, with both Congress...
A Brief Note to the Administration, Counselors, Teachers, Parents …
This article is based on conversations and interactions I have had with fellow IB students. It would be wrong to say that certain...
This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, which took place on June 4th, 1989. Untold numbers of university students from all across China were brutally murdered in a night...
These are examples of phrases that club leaders used when talking about running their clubs during the Coronavirus pandemic:
“Last year we had this big plan to…”
“Our initial plan was to…”
“We...
By Temisola Akinwande, Contributing writer
• May 3, 2021
“Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist
The Covid-19 lockdown has allowed people all over the globe to unleash their creativity...
By Anyue Zhang, Opinion section editor
• May 3, 2021
As the end of the school year rapidly approaches, so do Student Council elections! For us as students, this is an opportunity to engage in a democratic process and elect peers who will represent our needs...
By Sophie Hafter, Contributing writer
• April 28, 2021
As a young female Asian-American, this past year, I have been horrified at the violent attacks on Asian communities globally and violence against women that have come to the surface. I was adopted from...
In the 2020-2021 academic year, the United Nations International School adopted a plan for hybrid learning that alphabetically divided each grade into two groups. This decision has had both positive and...
