Buzz McClain

The crew of Germany’s “Planet E,” a documentary program on the environment, taped an interview on July 1 with Schar School of Policy and Government associate professor Gregory Koblentz.

The Schar School of Policy and Government’s Public Administration program has been ranked No. 22 in the world in the 2019 global survey of universities by the Academic Ranking of World Universities-also known as the ShanghaiRankings.

For the next month, the Schar School of Policy and Government advising staff and select professors will fill the heads of hundreds of incoming students and their parents with important information about life at George Mason University and the Schar School at College 101 sessions.

For 20 years, Stefan Toepler has been a professor of nonprofit studies at the Schar School of Policy and Government. This year, he takes on an additional role, that of director of the Master’s in Public Administration program.

The El-Shazli family was packed for a move to Washington, D.C., in 1967 where Heba F. El-Shazli’s father was to be stationed as a diplomat in the Egyptian embassy.

It’s not an offer every potential professor gets, but when it came time to bring former U.S. Senator Charles S. Robb (D-Va.) onto the faculty at George Mason University in 2001 as Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, he asked if he could do away with a syllabus.

Seong Jae Shin was a sophomore in high school when he watched first-hand the protests in Egypt that defined what came to be known as the Arab Spring in 2010. The South Korea native was living close to the eruption, in Egypt, necessitated by his father’s work.

The Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University is launching a new area of emphasis in the Master’s in Public Policy program—Economic Policy. This marks the 13th emphasis area available to public policy graduate students. The Economic Policy emphasis area will launch in the fall of 2019.

Alexis Lasselle Ross’ job with the Army doesn’t require a PhD, but she’s happy to have one. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Strategy and Acquisition Reform says she thinks about what she learned while earning her degree “all the time.”

Schar School of Policy and Government graduating Government and International Politics major Tim O’Shea spent his time at George Mason University helping his peers become more engaged citizens in their community and state.