Buzz McClain

Two students in the Schar School’s highly regarded Organization Development and Knowledge Management (ODKM) master’s degree program, Alice Carpenter-Pierce and Angela D’lorio, have been selected to be speakers at the KM Showcase 2020, the field’s major conference of the year.

A new study co-authored by Schar School of Policy and Government professor of public policy and economist Maurice Kugler takes on the very topical vocational training vs. college education debate, with a favorable conclusion for programs such as George Mason University’s ADVANCE that streamlines the pathway to a four-year degree by underrepresented students coming from community college.

The rapidly changing challenges that confront the globe’s societies—and governments’ policy responses to them—were the focus of a two-day, 14-panel conference that brought dozens of academics and practitioners to George Mason University’s Arlington Campus in early February.

On Tuesday night, former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe (D) was on CNN until well after 1 a.m., helping the panel of popular political pundits analyze the New Hampshire Democratic primary results.

The annual pilgrimage to Richmond, Va., from George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus began just after dawn and during a flash flood warning on blustery Feb. 6.

By his own admission, Schar School Public Policy PhD candidate Muhammad Salar Khan had never ingested marijuana, but in the course of performing a study of the effects of taxes imposed on legal marijuana sales in Oregon, Khan communicated with more than 40 who not only ingest it but use it as a commodity.

As we begin the first semester of 2020, we acknowledge the contributions of four longtime Schar School stalwarts who retired in 2019.

Andrew Hughes Hallett, Schar School University Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Economics, passed away December 31, 2019, after a seven-year battle with cancer. He was 72.

One of the highlights of the semester for the graduate and undergraduate students who make up the research team at the Schar School’s Global Terrorism Trends and Analysis Center (GTTAC) was a meeting with Russell Travers, acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, December 4.