Schar School of Policy and Government

Larisa Chancellor would like you to “spend a Saturday with some of the most interesting people in history” in a day-long “unconference” on George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus on November 16.

Nic Pilley never thought about nuclear weapons or reactors during his 10 years as an Army combat engineer and leadership advisor. But a class in the Schar School’s Master’s in International Security program sparked an interest that led to a career-changing fellowship in the nuclear industry.

More than 80 students, faculty, and staff members turned out on a Monday afternoon in October to hear a wide-ranging exchange between former acting director of the CIA Michael Morell and Sir John Scarlett, the former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service—MI6—at George Mason University’s Arlington Campus auditorium.

Five Northern Virginia jurisdictions in the Top 20 of a national poll conducted by the independent business news publication 24/7 Wall Street boast leaders who earned their Master’s in Public Administration degrees in the Northern Virginia Public Service Fellows Program at George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, a compet...

New entries in the Almanac of Virginia Politics include election-relevant material in key races throughout the Commonwealth. Voters can find up-to-date information on candidates and campaign activities on the closely watched, hotly contested races in the House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate.

A late September field trip found 18 Global Politics Fellows from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences venturing to the famed think-tank, the Wilson Center, in Washington, D.C.

An early October field trip found eight George Mason University students, many of them studying at the Schar School of Policy and Government, walking through an undersized “secret door” located behind the central counter of the massive and ornate Main Reading Room at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

The “ah-ha” moment came during a conversation in London’s SkyBar during a break at a 2015 investment conference.

A partnership with the City of Fairfax has brought a flock of dockless electric scooters to the George Mason University Fairfax Campus.