Schar School of Policy and Government

A new survey shows George Mason University ranks seventh in the country for placing graduates in the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service. George Mason’s listing of 522 active-duty alumni working in posts around the world followed Harvard University’s 554, at sixth place. Topping the list was Georgetown University with 1,190. The full list is here.

George Mason University Executive Vice President and Provost S. David Wu has announced that Mark J. Rozell, Professor of Public Policy and Acting Dean of George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government, will be the founding dean of the School.  In addition, he will hold the Ruth D. Hazel and John T. Hazel, M.D., Faculty Chair in Public Policy.

Two years ago George Mason University merged its School of Public Policy with the Department of Public and International Affairs. The newly created School of Policy, Government and International Affairs brought under one roof a powerhouse research and teaching faculty and dozens of programs preparing 2,000 students to address any real-world policy problem.

George Mason University professor Louise Shelley has been named an inaugural 2015 Andrew Carnegie Fellow from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Janice R. Lachance served as this year’s Schar School of Policy and Government Harold Gortner Distinguished Speaker.  Hon. Lachance, who is a former Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Alison Germak was already working in the communications department at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) when she decided to pursue a master’s from George Mason University’s Schar School of Policy and Government.

Jean-Guy Afrika has been fascinated by global trade from the very start.

Unknown to Alexis Katzelnick-Wise at the time, a summer in Spain as a high school exchange student ignited her life’s work.

General Michael V. Hayden discussed his bestselling memoir, “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror” with a packed audience in Founders Hall. General Hayden, former CIA and NSA director, and current Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Schar School, participated in a panel discussion with Dean Mark Rozell, Professor Jeremy Mayer, and Georgetown Law Professor Laura Donohue. The General signed copies of his book afterwards.

For Paul Gilbert, executive director of NOVA Parks, there are “two big, giant numbers” to take away from the just-released study that details the impact of the nation’s local and regional parks: $140 billion in economic activity and 1 million jobs.