Transnational criminal organizations, corrupt regimes, terrorist groups, and other “threat networks” support a yearly multi-trillion-dollar industry in illicit trade around the world.
For the second year in a row, Schar School of Policy and Government professors spent a week in South Korea in late May, delivering research to political leadership, professors, and students in a well-attended symposium addressing international security.
The seventh Young Women’s Leadership Program made its Schar School of Policy and Government debut when it kicked off on July 10 with more than 100 young women and their parents in attendance at George Mason University’s Van Metre Hall in Arlington, Va.
For a global study class, the itinerary was daunting: There were scholarly lectures on migration, health policies, HIV, xenophobia, and a deep dive into the regional “blue economy” based on aquatic and ocean industries. And that was just one day of an 11-day class.
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.