Schar School of Policy and Government

“Oftentimes, we are reactive instead of proactive, but you all are being proactive,” said Tom Daschle, in praising Schar School and George Mason University students for studying biosecurity.

Lisa Anderson was the president of the American University in Cairo in 2010 when the anti-government uprising known as the Arab Spring began in Tunisia. Anderson’s Egyptian faculty members told her “this could never happen in Egypt” because of the vast cultural differences between Tunisia and Egypt.

The suspension of the federal debt limit expires on March 1. Though the Bipartisan Policy Center estimates the U.S. Treasury Department can most likely juggle accounts through midsummer to avoid a default, a George Mason University faculty member says there is no guarantee Congress will raise the limit, as it has done 10 times since 2008.

Nearly 70 students visited 19 would-be employers on Wednesday during the Graduate Career and Internship Fair at the Arlington Campus.

Even before the revelation of the racist page from Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook, it was clear that Virginia faces a fundamental challenge: the need for an honest and thorough discussion of race relations in our society.

It was an early departure—7 a.m.—and the weather was cold and icy—in fact, the rest of the university was on a delayed opening until 11 a.m. But still, some 40 George Mason University undergraduate students piled into a chartered bus and departed the Fairfax Campus for the two-hour journey to Richmond to meet with state legislators.

While other students spent the middle of January combating the worst of winter weather and dealing with post-holiday blahs, a cadre of 12 Schar School students basked in the dry sunshine of Vietnam for eight days and learned about the country’s fate in a rapidly changing Southeast Asia.

From three to 10! Following elections last fall, the Schar School Alumni Chapter Board of Directors now numbers 10—more than three times our number less than a decade ago. The growth is reflective of both the commitment by alumni and the Schar School’s current competencies, including 13 undergraduate and graduate degree programs offered on two c...

At the Schar School of Policy and Government we are often asked, “What is political science?” For the definitive answer, we turned to—who else?—political science professors who study, interpret, and teach the art of governing. Here is what they had to say.

The Center for Regional Analysis was created by necessity.