Editing Sciences Po (section)

==History==
=== 1872 to 1945: Free School of Political Sciences ===
[[File:Émile Boutmy.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Émile Boutmy]], Sciences Po founder]]
Sciences Po was established in December 1871<ref name=":10">{{cite book |date=2022 |first1=Marie |isbn=978-2-7246-3915-5 |last1=Scot |publisher=Sciences Po, les presses |title=Sciences Po, le roman vrai}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>{{efn|While the school's statutes were registered by a notary in December 1871, the school opened in 1872.}} as the ''École libre des sciences politiques'' (ELSP) by a group of French intellectuals, politicians and businessmen led by [[Émile Boutmy]], including [[Hippolyte Taine]], [[Ernest Renan]], [[Albert Sorel]] and [[Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu|Paul Leroy Beaulieu]].<ref name=":1">{{cite book |date=2013 |first1=François |first2=Renaud |isbn=978-2-84337-698-6 |last1=Leblond |last2=Leblond |publisher=A. Carrière |title=Émile Boutmy, le père de Science Po}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> The creation of the school was in response to widespread fears that the inadequacy of the education of the French political elite corps would diminish the country's international stature, as France grappled with a series of crises, including its defeat in the 1870 [[Franco-Prussian War]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nouvelobs.com/education/20130114.OBS5306/emile-boutmy-l-inventeur-de-sciences-po-modele-du-defunt-richard-descoings.html |title=Emile Boutmy, l'inventeur de Sciences Po, modèle du défunt Richard Descoings |website=L'Obs |date=14 January 2013 |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=21 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121121916/https://www.nouvelobs.com/education/20130114.OBS5306/emile-boutmy-l-inventeur-de-sciences-po-modele-du-defunt-richard-descoings.html |url-status=live}}</ref> the demise of [[Napoleon III]]'s [[Second French Empire|regime]], and the upheaval and massacre resulting from the [[Paris Commune]]. The founders of the school sought to reform the training of the French political and economic elite by establishing a new "breeding ground where nearly all the major, non-technical state commissioners were trained."<ref name="purpose">{{cite web |url=http://chevs.sciences-po.fr/archives/fonds/sciences_po_2_en.htm |title=Sciences Po Institut d'études politiques Fondation nationale des sciences politiques 1945-1979 |website=Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po |access-date=21 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051012215250/http://chevs.sciences-po.fr/archives/fonds/sciences_po_2_en.htm |archive-date=12 October 2005}}</ref> His innovative intellectual axis was to teach contemporary history, whereas political elites had only been taught ancient humanities for centuries, which they could still learn in universities at the same time.<ref name="monde-diplomatique.fr">{{cite web |last=Garrigou |first=Alain |date=March 1999 |title=Sciences-Po, laminoir des élites françaises |url=https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1999/03/GARRIGOU/2830 |access-date=21 February 2022 |website=Le Monde diplomatique |language=French |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508000249/https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/1999/03/GARRIGOU/2830 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The ''École'' acquired a major role in [[Politics of France|France's political system]]. From 1901 to 1935, 92.5% of entrants to the ''[[Grands corps de l'État]]'', the most powerful and prestigious administrative bodies in the [[French Civil Service]], had studied there (this figure includes people who took civil service examination preparatory classes at Sciences Po but did not earn a degree and, in general, students were taking classes there on top of earning a degree at the [[University of Paris]], in particular the Law Faculty).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nord |first1=Philip |title=The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright |date=2002 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199256464 |page=116 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |access-date=30 May 2017 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Other countries created similar schools in the following century. In 1875, the {{ill|Istituto Cesare Alfieri|it}} in Italy (now part of the [[University of Florence]]), at the end of the century, the ''École libre des sciences Politiques et Sociales'' in Belgium (not existing any more), the [[Deutsche Hochschule für Politik]] in Germany, the Columbia School of Political Science (now merged into the [[Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences]]), the [[London School of Economics]] in the United Kingdom,<ref name=Dahrendorf>{{cite book |title=LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895–1995 |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=1 June 1995 |page=73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WxC2AAAAIAAJ&q=Paris |access-date=11 August 2018 |isbn=9780198202400 |archive-date=7 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200607150837/https://books.google.com/books?id=WxC2AAAAIAAJ&q=Paris |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Socialisme et sciences sociales : Sidney Webb et la création de la London School of Economics |last=Page |first=Arnaud |website=OpenEdition Journals}}</ref> and, after [[WW1]], for the [[School of Foreign Service]] from [[Georgetown University]] in the United States and the [[Geneva Graduate Institute]] in Switzerland.<ref name=":3">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pDNYDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22sciences+po%22+%22london+school+of+economics%22&pg=PT300 |title=Sciences po: Histoire d'une réussite |first1=Gérard |last1=Vincent |first2=Anne-Marie |last2=Dethomas |date=January 1987 |publisher=Plon |isbn=9782259260770 |access-date=22 February 2022 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131956/https://books.google.com/books?id=pDNYDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22sciences+po%22+%22london+school+of+economics%22&pg=PT300 |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Étudiants et personnel de Sciences Po devant l'entrée en 1910.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Students and staff in front of the original entrance in the 1910s]]
The connection between Sciences Po and French institutions meant that the school also played a key role in the apparatus of the French colonial empires. In 1886, the university established a colonial studies program with the goal of training students to take on professions in the colonial administration in a way that "propagates [...] a more scientific and international colonialism".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former une élite coloniale à l'aube du XXe siècle {{!}} SciencesPo - Dossiers documentaires |url=http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/former-une-elite-coloniale-laube-du-xxe-siecle |access-date=24 August 2020 |website=dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002183341/http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/former-une-elite-coloniale-laube-du-xxe-siecle |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=1886-1887 : Programme de l'Ecole libre des sciences politiques : Ecole libre des sciences politiques (Paris) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming |url=https://archive.org/details/FNSPMA13HI21 |access-date=24 August 2020 |website=Internet Archive |year=1886 |language=en}}</ref> Many professors and members of the ELSP administration, such as [[Pierre Paul Leroy-Beaulieu|Paul Leroy-Beaulieu]], chair in colonial affairs at ELSP, [[Joseph Chailley|Joseph Chailley-Bert]], [[Jules Cambon]], [[Charles Jonnart]], [[Auguste-Louis-Albéric, prince d'Arenberg|Auguste Louis Albéric d’Arenberg]] and [[Ernest Roume]], were also closely linked to or worked directly with the colonial government.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Une vision libérale de la colonisation {{!}} SciencesPo - Dossiers documentaires |url=http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/une-vision-liberale-de-la-colonisation#toc-l-enseignement-colonial-sciences-po |access-date=24 August 2020 |website=dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002161204/http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/une-vision-liberale-de-la-colonisation#toc-l-enseignement-colonial-sciences-po |url-status=live}}</ref> The colonial branch of ELSP closed in 1893 after a state-sponsored [[Colonial School, Paris|Colonial School]] was created in 1889; however positions in the administrations of French colonies and protectorates continued to accept graduates from the ELSP.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Former une élite coloniale à l'aube du XXe siècle {{!}} SciencesPo - Dossiers documentaires |url=http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/former-une-elite-coloniale-laube-du-xxe-siecle#toc-la-concurrence-de-l-cole-coloniale |access-date=24 August 2020 |website=dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr |archive-date=2 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002183341/http://dossiers-bibliotheque.sciencespo.fr/sciences-po-une-histoire-coloniale/former-une-elite-coloniale-laube-du-xxe-siecle#toc-la-concurrence-de-l-cole-coloniale |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 1945: Refoundation ===
Sciences Po underwent significant reforms in the aftermath of [[World War II]] in 1945. At [[Liberation of Paris|France's liberation]] from [[German military administration in occupied France during World War II|Nazi occupation]], the public servants were accused of collaborating with the [[Vichy regime]] and [[Nazi Germany]]<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/stories/frise/de-l-ecole-libre-a-sciences-po |title=1945: From the École libre to Sciences Po |website=Sciences Po Stories |access-date=7 August 2024 |archive-date=27 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527191209/https://www.sciencespo.fr/stories/frise/de-l-ecole-libre-a-sciences-po |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813084954/http://www.charles-de-gaulle.com/the-stateman/the-modernisation-of-the-country/reform-of-the-civil-service.html |url=http://www.charles-de-gaulle.com/the-stateman/the-modernisation-of-the-country/reform-of-the-civil-service.html |title=Reform of the civil service |archive-date=13 August 2015}}</ref> Communist politicians including [[Georges Cogniot]] accused the school to be the "home of collaboration" with Nazi Germany<ref name="ReferenceA"/> and proposed abolishing the ELSP entirely and founding a new state-run administration college on its premises.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |title=The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199256464 |location=Oxford |page=138 |last1=Nord |first1=Philip |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |url-status=live}}</ref> The school, however, had also trained eight out of the thirteen ministers of the [[Provisional Government of the French Republic]], and several prominent members of the [[French Resistance]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Dejean |first=Mathieu |title=Sciences po, l'école de la domination |date=2023 |publisher=La Fabrique éditions |isbn=978-2-35872-253-7 |location=Paris}}</ref> In order for the school not to be replaced, the director Roger Seydoux, his aid Jacques Chapsal and the school's most famous professor, André Siegfried, excluded those among the school's staff who were most compromised with the Vichy regime and Nazi Germany, and defended the school against accusation of collaboration and built up a communication campaign to save the school.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

The choice regarding the future of the school would be made by France's Provisional Government, under [[Charles de Gaulle]]. The alumni [[Michel Debré]], [[Jules Jeanneney]] and Roger Grégoire decided that the school would be preserved but transformed in a new structure. Two separate legal entities were created: the ''Institut d'études politiques'' (English: Institute of political studies) and the ''Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques'' ({{langx|en|National Foundation of Political Science}}) or FNSP. Both were tasked by the French government to ensure "the progress and the spread, both within and outside France, of political science, economics, and sociology".<ref name="purpose" /> The FNSP, a private foundation, manages the ''IEP de Paris'', owns its buildings and libraries, and determines its budget. The two entities work together in lockstep, however, as the director of the school is, by tradition, also the administrator of FNSP. This institutional arrangement gives Sciences Po a unique status, as the school draws most of its resources through substantial government subsidies to FNSP, but does not subject it to many government interventions and regulations, giving it a much higher level of autonomy compared to other French universities and schools.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> The epithet ''Sciences Po'' is applied to both entities, which inherited the reputation previously vested in ''ELSP''.<ref name="duality">"Le statut juridique de Sciences Po: la dualité FNSP et IEP de Paris" ''[http://www.sciences-po.fr/presse/sciencespo_infos/cc/txt_1.htm Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040620154019/http://www.sciences-po.fr/presse/sciencespo_infos/cc/txt_1.htm |date=20 June 2004 }}''</ref>

The public-private nature of Sciences Po, Paris, also distinguishes it from a network of [[Institut d'études politiques|institutes of political studies]] throughout the country that were inspired by its curriculum, namely in [[Institut d'études politiques de Strasbourg|Strasbourg]], [[Institut d'études politiques de Lyon|Lyon]], [[Sciences Po Aix|Aix]], [[Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux|Bordeaux]], [[Grenoble Institute of Political Studies|Grenoble]], [[Institut d'études politiques de Toulouse|Toulouse]], [[Institut d'études politiques de Rennes|Rennes]] and [[Sciences Po Lille|Lille]]. They are not to be confused with the seven campuses of Sciences Po in France.

The government also established in 1945 the [[École Nationale d'Administration]] (ENA), an elite postgraduate school for training government officials. From then on, the Grands Corps de l'Etat were obliged to recruit new entrants from ENA.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |title=The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199256464 |location=Oxford |page=141 |last1=Nord |first1=Philip |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |url-status=live}}</ref> Sciences Po became the school of choice for those hoping to enter the ENA, and so retained its dominant place in educating high-ranking officials.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tntEAgAAQBAJ&q=International+Dictionary+of+University+Histories+ecole+nationale&pg=PA146 |title=International Dictionary of University Histories |date=1998 |publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers |isbn=9781134262175 |location=Chicago |page=147 |last1=Devine, Summerfield |access-date=29 May 2017 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409132010/https://books.google.com/books?id=tntEAgAAQBAJ&q=International+Dictionary+of+University+Histories+ecole+nationale&pg=PA146 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 1945 to 1996: The Chapsal-Gentot-Lancelot era ===
From 1947 to 1979, Sciences Po is directed by [[Jacques Chapsal]], who replaced his mentor Roger Seydoux and led the school through the [[Trente Glorieuses]] expansion as well as the [[May 68]] crisis. Under Chapsal, Sciences Po expands geographically. After the acquisition of the ''Hôtel de La Meilleraye'' (56–58, rue des Saints-Pères), just across Sciences Po's lawn, the school bought the ''hôtel de La Bretesche'' at number 30, rue Saint-Guillaume, just in front of the main building.<ref name=":3" /> In 1976, the ''Presses de Sciences Po'' (Sciences Po's publishing company) is created.<ref name=":3" />

In 1956, Sciences Po created its first PhD program. The CEVIPOF, Center for Political Research, is created in 1960.<ref name=":3" />

Between 1952 and 1969, 77.5% of the ENA's graduate student intake were Sciences Po alumni.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Nord |first1=Philip |title=The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright |date=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=9780199256464 |page=117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |access-date=20 October 2020 |archive-date=9 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409131955/https://books.google.com/books?id=rCfPBj-7g2IC&q=Reform,+Conservation+and+Adaptation:+Sciences+Po,+from+the+Popular+Front+to+the+Liberation&pg=PA115 |url-status=live}}</ref>

''FNSP'' received a significant donations from the [[Rockefeller Foundation]]. ''FNSP'' published periodicals such as ''la Revue française de science politique'', ''le Bulletin analytique de documentation'', ''la Chronologie politique africaine'', and the ''Cahiers de la Fondation'' as well as its seven research centres and main publishing house, ''Presses de Sciences Po''.<ref name="purpose" />

=== 1996 to 2012: The Descoings era ===

Political science professor Alain Lancelot led the school between 1987 and 1997. He prepared for the school's vice-director, Richard Descoings, to become the director of Sciences Po.<ref name="LM-2021-01-08">{{Cite news |date=8 January 2021 |title=Sciences Po, cœur du pouvoir d'Olivier Duhamel |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/01/08/sciences-po-c-ur-du-pouvoir-d-olivier-duhamel-ebranle-par-sa-chute_6065551_3224.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306192856/https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2021/01/08/sciences-po-c-ur-du-pouvoir-d-olivier-duhamel-ebranle-par-sa-chute_6065551_3224.html |archive-date=6 March 2021 |access-date=8 January 2021 |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |via=Le Monde}}</ref> Under the directorship of Descoings, the school incorporated courses in various branches of the social sciences on top of political science, such as law, economics, history, and sociology. In addition, the school began requiring all its undergraduate students to spend a year abroad, and introduced a multilingual curriculum in French, English,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/ |title=7 countries where Americans can study at universities, in English, for free (or almost free) |last=Noack |first=Rick |date=29 October 2014 |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=5 October 2017 |issn=0190-8286 |archive-date=16 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171116134955/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/10/29/7-countries-where-americans-can-study-at-universities-in-english-for-free-or-almost-free/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and other languages. Sciences Po also began to expand outside Paris, establishing regional campuses throughout France.<ref name=":10" />

During this period, Sciences Po also implemented reforms in its admissions process. Previously, Sciences Po recruited its students exclusively on the basis of a competitive examination. This system was seen to favor students from prestigious high schools. In 2001, Sciences Po founded the Equal Opportunity Program, widening its admissions policy.<ref name=NYUsource>"Sciences Po ― an elite institution's introspection on its power, position and worth in French society" ''NYU Department of Journalism'', 9 September 2003.</ref> This program enables the institution to recruit high-potential students at partner high schools in more disadvantaged parts of France who, due to a social, academic, and financial constraints, would not otherwise have been able to attend Sciences Po.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/an-affirmative-action-success/30333 |title=An Affirmative-Action Success |last=Kahlenberg |first=Richard D. |date=13 September 2011 |website=The Chronicle of Higher Education Blogs: Innovations |access-date=5 October 2017 |archive-date=10 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710011431/http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/an-affirmative-action-success/30333 |url-status=live}}</ref> As a consequence, from 2001 to 2011, the proportion of scholarship students at Sciences Po went from 6 to 27 percent<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/europe/05iht-educLede05.html |title=In France, a Bastion of Privilege No More |date=4 September 2011 |work=The New York Times |access-date=5 October 2017 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=21 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221010804/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/05/world/europe/05iht-educLede05.html |url-status=live}}</ref> with around 30% of all students at Sciences Po currently receiving some form of scholarship.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2015/01/16/sciences-po-paris-moins-de-candidats-mais-un-recrutement-plus-diversifie_4558138_4401467.html |title=Sciences Po Paris : 64% des admis viennent de province |last=Maillard |first=Benoît Floc'h et Matteo |date=16 January 2015 |work=Le Monde |access-date=9 October 2017 |language=fr |issn=1950-6244 |archive-date=6 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006022330/http://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2015/01/16/sciences-po-paris-moins-de-candidats-mais-un-recrutement-plus-diversifie_4558138_4401467.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

The reforms Descoings spearheaded were at times controversial and his leadership style came under heavy criticism.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/111009/sciences-po-bienvenue-la-cour-du-roi-richard |title=Sciences-Po: bienvenue à la Cour du roi Richard! |first=Jade |last=Lindgaard |website=Mediapart |date=13 October 2009 |access-date=26 April 2017 |archive-date=27 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427101625/https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/111009/sciences-po-bienvenue-la-cour-du-roi-richard |url-status=live}}</ref> A further report by the French [[Court of Audit (France)|Court of Audit]] in 2012 severely criticized the financial management of the bonuses and salaries under Descoings.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/formation/2012/10/08/09006-20121008ARTFIG00605-sciences-po-la-cour-des-comptes-accable-descoings.php |title=Sciences Po: la Cour des comptes accable Descoigns |date=8 October 2012 |access-date=5 July 2019 |archive-date=5 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190705004121/http://www.lefigaro.fr/formation/2012/10/08/09006-20121008ARTFIG00605-sciences-po-la-cour-des-comptes-accable-descoings.php |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== 2013 to 2024: The Mion-Vicherat directorate ===
After the sudden death of Richard Descoing, [[Frédéric Mion]], was appointed director of Sciences Po on 1 March 2013.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.lemonde.fr/enseignement-superieur/article/2013/03/02/un-pur-produit-de-l-elite-francaise-pour-sciences-po_1841735_1473692.html |title=Un pur produit de l'élite française pour Sciences Po |last=Brafman |first=Nathalie |date=2 March 2013 |work=Le Monde |access-date=21 June 2017 |language=fr |issn=1950-6244 |archive-date=29 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729224622/http://www.lemonde.fr/enseignement-superieur/article/2013/03/02/un-pur-produit-de-l-elite-francaise-pour-sciences-po_1841735_1473692.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Mion's intention to pursue Sciences Po's development as a "selective university of international standing" is detailed in the policy paper "Sciences Po 2022", published in the spring of 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-19 |title=Frédéric Mion invente le Sciences Po de 2022 |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2018/01/19/01016-20180119ARTFIG00087-frederic-mion-invente-le-science-po-de-2022.php |access-date=2024-09-22 |website=Le Figaro |language=fr}}</ref> He restructured the graduate studies by creating graduate schools, leading to the creation of the School of Public Affairs<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/orientation/actus-et-conseils/detail/article/sciences-po-ouvre-une-ecole-des-affaires-publiques-16671/ |title=Sciences Po ouvre une "École des affaires publiques" |work=Le Figaro Etudiant |access-date=21 June 2017 |language=fr |archive-date=10 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170610100425/http://etudiant.lefigaro.fr/orientation/actus-et-conseils/detail/article/sciences-po-ouvre-une-ecole-des-affaires-publiques-16671/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the Urban School in 2015 and the School of Management and Innovation in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |date=3 October 2016 |title=Sciences Po va ouvrir son "école du management et de l'innovation" |url=http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/sciences-po-va-ouvrir-son-ecole-du-management-et-de-l-innovation-03-10-2016-2073221_23.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809025249/http://www.lepoint.fr/societe/sciences-po-va-ouvrir-son-ecole-du-management-et-de-l-innovation-03-10-2016-2073221_23.php |archive-date=9 August 2017 |access-date=21 June 2017 |work=Le Point |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

In early 2016, Sciences Po updated its governance structure, adopting new statutes for its two constituent bodies: the ''Fondation nationale des sciences politiques'' (FNSP) and the ''Institut d'études politiques de Paris'' (IEP).<ref>{{Citation |title=Décret n° 2015-1829 du 29 décembre 2015 portant approbation des statuts de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques |date=29 December 2015 |url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000031740005 |access-date=21 June 2017 |archive-date=8 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808154557/https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000031740005 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In late 2016, Sciences Po acquired a new site, the [[Hôtel de l'Artillerie]] in the 7th arrondissement of Paris to expand its campus.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/l-hotel-de-l-artillerie-va-accueillir-le-futur-campus-de-sciences-po-14-05-2017-6948768.php |title=L'hôtel de l'Artillerie va accueillir le futur campus de Sciences-po |date=14 May 2017 |work=Le Parisien |access-date=21 June 2017 |archive-date=18 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718140520/http://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/l-hotel-de-l-artillerie-va-accueillir-le-futur-campus-de-sciences-po-14-05-2017-6948768.php |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2021, Sciences Po was hit by the [[#Duhamel scandal|Duhamel scandal]], mainly put forward by the best-seller<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.franceculture.fr/litterature/la-familia-grande-succes-de-librairie |title=La familia grande, livre le plus vendu de la semaine |date=17 January 2021 |access-date=8 May 2021 |archive-date=8 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508032710/https://www.franceculture.fr/litterature/la-familia-grande-succes-de-librairie |url-status=live}}</ref> book ''La Familia Grande'' and newspaper articles from ''[[Le Monde]]'' and ''[[Nouvel Obs]]'', a [[#Sexual violence|sexual violence scandal one]] and a [[#Governance|succession crisis]]. Olivier Duhamel, director of the National Foundation of Sciences Po, who was accused of [[Rape|raping]] his son, resigned. Frédéric Mion and other members of the board of these institutions resigned.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

On 22 November 2021 [[Mathias Vicherat]] assumed office as the new director of Sciences Po.<ref name="ReferenceG">{{Cite web |title=First Interview with our New President |url=https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/first-interview-with-our-new-director-0/6924 |access-date=29 November 2021 |website=Sciences Po |language=en |archive-date=29 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129203554/https://www.sciencespo.fr/en/news/news/first-interview-with-our-new-director-0/6924 |url-status=live}}</ref> He resigned on March 13, 2024, after being ordered to stand trial on charges of domestic abuse.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Wiels |first1=Jason |last2=Goury-Laffont |first2=Victor |date=13 March 2024 |title=Elite French university boss resigns amid domestic violence accusations |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/elite-france-university-boss-mathias-vicherat-resigns-domestic-violence-indictment/ |access-date=14 March 2024 |website=[[Politico]] |language=en |archive-date=13 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313170603/https://www.politico.eu/article/elite-france-university-boss-mathias-vicherat-resigns-domestic-violence-indictment/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On March 26, [[Jean Bassères]] was named interim director.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-03-26 |title=Sciences Po : après la démission de Mathias Vicherat, Jean Bassères est nommé administrateur provisoire |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2024/03/26/sciences-po-apres-la-demission-de-mathias-vicherat-jean-basseres-est-nomme-administrateur-provisoire_6224220_3224.html |access-date=2024-04-28 |work=Le Monde.fr |language=fr}}</ref>

In April 2024, Sciences Po became one of the [[2024 pro-Palestinian protests at Sciences Po|epicenters]] of French student protests against the [[Gaza war]].<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Agence France-Presse |date=2024-04-30 |title=Paris regional leader suspends Sciences Po funding over Gaza protests |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/paris-regional-leader-suspends-sciences-po-funding-over-gaza-protests |access-date=2024-05-01 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>