Schar School of Policy and Government

Until earlier this year, the Arlington Campus of George Mason University was called Founders Hall. Within our school, we like to think that “Founders” referred to the four public policy professors and administrators who created what is now the Schar School of Policy and Government.

The uniformed officers and plainclothes support staff members of the George Mason University Department of Police and Public Safety can be found patrolling campus, keeping an eye on large events—and studying alongside students in the classroom.

The Institute Aims to Become a Global Hub for Research and Training to Fight Multi-Trillion Dollar Illegal Economy

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 Schar School hat continues its global journey this week as Associate Professor Stefan Toepler dons his under the palm trees of Maui, Hawaii.

Today's global information economy is built on a "free and open internet." Yet at the same time, important questions of privacy, freedom, and equity are at stake—how do we regulate the internet?

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.

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.

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.”

Originally from the Czech Republic, Michaela Dodge first became interested in missile defense as a college student. Her home country was considering hosting a U.S. missile defense site at the time, she said, and she became fascinated with debates surrounding the controversial topic.