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Academic Calender – Commencement 2010
July 20th, 2010Intelius Hopelink charity program
July 8th, 2010Intelius
Hopelink give notice about the local xmas family program.
The charity programme would like to reach more than 400 children and wants itself from
Texas to Seattle and Mexico expand Read the rest of this entry »
New Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development
July 3rd, 2010The National Research Council leader and education policy expert will join GW on Sept. 1.
July 2, 2010
The George Washington University has tapped Michael J. Feuer of the National Research Council of the National Academies to be the next dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development.
“Michael Feuer brings to this position an extraordinary record of intellectual and administrative leadership at the intersection of education research and policy,” says President Steven Knapp. “He also brings a focus on building collaborative partnerships that will help the school rise to the next level of national prominence.” Read the rest of this entry »
GWU search: Director Master of Professional Studies in Sustainable Urban Planning
June 30th, 2010Skill Level: Senior Level
Position Type: Full Time
The College of Professional Studies (CPS) at The George Washington University invites applications for appointment to a full time, 12-month, annually renewable, non-tenured Assistant/Associate Professor faculty position, with co-administrative appointment as Read the rest of this entry »
GreenGov Symposium – Obama Administration and George Washington University
June 28th, 2010The first GreenGov Symposium is from 5-7th October 2010 on the campus from the GWU.
Quote from the whitehouse:
The GreenGov Symposium is focused on the Read the rest of this entry »
Graduate School of Political Management
June 25th, 2010Event:
The 2010 midterm election season is upon us. With less than five months before ballots are cast, already several races have made for a lively election season. GW’s Graduate School of Political Management will host prominent political strategists Mark Penn and Karen Hughes for a conversation about and predictions of who will win and who will lose in Read the rest of this entry »
Briefing from the Commencement 2011
June 11th, 2010On the Elliott School Commencement Celebration in May, there are more than 900 students in the Elliott School community.
Quote from the Dean, Mr. Michael E. Brown, June 2010
Our students have dedicated themselves to learning about, thinking about, and caring about people from around the world. Our faculty members inspire and educate the next generation of international leaders, and they develop new insights into and policy responses for complex global challenges. Our alumni — who now number more than 17,000 — have influential positions in the private, public, and non-profit sectors across the United States and around the world. Through the Elliott School’s new Web Video Initiative we are able to share many of our special events with alumni and the interested public around the world, bringing these illuminating discussions to a larger audience than ever before.
Economic Crisis Greece
June 5th, 2010The recent economic crisis in Greece has sparked response by Elliott School of International Affairs professor Scheherazade Rehman in a recent debate on PBS, a U.S TV Channel.
In the debate , she posited that because many of the countries in the Eurozone share the same currency (the Euro) , if Greece’s economy collapses completely it will drag down the economic recoveries of many of the other countries in Europe, perhaps even jeopardising the global recovery. Rehman used the analogy of a domino to describe the possible effects of Greece sliding into economic oblivion , that as a member of a single-market economic entity (The EU) Greece’s fate is interrelated with the fates of many others on the continent and if it falls, it is likely that others will too. Read the rest of this entry »
Elliott School
June 3rd, 2010The Elliott School Of International Affairs , situated within the George Washington University in the U.S , has a long and established track record in initiating and contributing effectively towards debate on a wide variety of subjects. Most recently however , Professor Barbara D. Miller of the Elliott School delivered a damning indictment on U.S policy in Haiti and how it and other mitigating factors contributed towards Haiti’s current situation as incredibly poor and HIV/AIDS capital of the region.
Miller states that the continued colonialist approach taken to occupation of the island, the massive deforestation that successive regimes funded by the superpower du jour have inflicted on Haiti and the continued support by the U.S towards conservative political regimes in Haiti Read the rest of this entry »
Commencement 2011
June 3rd, 2010After some change, the new dates are listed above:
| FALL SEMESTER 2010 | ||
| CLASSES BEGIN | (M) Aug 30 | M=14 |
| Labor Day (no classes) | (M) Sept 6 | T=14 |
| Thanksgiving Break (no classes) | (W-F) November 24-26 | W=14 |
| Make-up Day | (T) December 7 | R=14 |
| Last Day of Classes | (F) December 10 | F=13 |
| Reading Day | (M) December 13 | |
| FINAL EXAMINATIONS | (T-W) December 14-22 | |
| SPRING SEMESTER 2011 | ||
| CLASSES BEGIN | (M) January 10 | M=14 |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Day (no classes) | (M) January 17 | T=14 |
| Presidents’ Day (no classes) | (M) February 21 | W=14 |
| Spring Break | (M-S) March 14-19 | R=14 |
| Last Day of Classes | (M) April 25 | F=14 |
| Make-up Day | (T) April 26 | |
| Designated Monday | (W) April 27 | |
| Reading Days | (R-F) April 28-29 | |
| FINAL EXAMINATIONS | (M-T) May 2-10 | |
| Commencement Weekend | (Fri – Sun) May 13-15 | |
| Spring Degree Conferral | (U) May 15 | |
Normaly all students gets more than 4 tickets for the celebration and the GWU Commencement.
