[1] The school is administratively part of Penn State Law in University Park, Pennsylvania.
[2] It draws extensively upon the intellectual resources of faculty in several academic colleges of the University.
The School operates under the guidance of Director Mitchell Smith, and a faculty governing council composed of leading faculty from some of Penn State's top graduate departments.
[3] Faculty members have included former diplomats, a Navy Vice Admiral, National Security Council staff, a senior official of both the African Union and the United Nations, an economic development agency director, former CIA officials, a State Department senior counselor, a U.S. Geological Survey chief scientist, and international and arbitration experts and top scholars who contribute to public discourse.
The combination of these schools allows SIA to offer programs in interdisciplinary range and flexibility.