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.
Alice Rivlin, a leading government economist and the first woman to serve as the nation’s budget director, a cabinet-level position, died of cancer May 14 at her home in Washington, D.C. She was 88.
The soaring brass music that accompanies the faculty procession during the 2019 Schar School of Policy and Government’s Degree Celebration at EagleBank Arena sounds like a classic, grand ceremonial instrumental.
When Kevin “Kip” Thomas enrolled in the PhD in Public Policy program at George Mason University’s School of Public Policy—now the Schar School of Policy and Government—he was a decorated Navy Lieutenant Commander stationed at the Pentagon and serving on the military staff of the Secretary of the Navy.
Growing up in the Washington, D.C., area just a few years after George Mason University was founded, Sarah Maxwell knew little about what was then a small public university on the rise in Fairfax, Va.
George Mason University’s Office of the Provost and the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning presented Schar School of Policy and Government associate professor of political science Jennifer N. Victor with one of the year’s highest academic honors.