Schar School of Policy and Government

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rdf:langString George Mason University School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs

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rdf:langString The Schar School of Policy and Government, formerly known as the George Mason University School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs, is the public policy school of George Mason University headquartered in Arlington, Virginia roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Washington, D.C., with a satellite campus in suburban Fairfax County, Virginia. Established in 2000 as Northern Virginia's first public policy school, the constituent college offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in international relations, public policy, public administration, political science, international security (national security, security studies, intelligence studies-intelligence analysis education), and urban studies along with specialized graduate certificates, master's, and doctoral programs in fields such as biodefense, international commerce, homeland security, emergency management, counterterrorism, illicit trade analysis, organization development, and knowledge management as well as executive education programs with students eventually choosing one or two degree programs to join, but having the option of taking elective courses from across several of the aforementioned sub-fields at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. While it primarily educates and conducts research in subjects related to politics, government, international affairs, and public policy/public administration-related economics, as well as study of regional issues affecting the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, the school is home to several prominent centers and institutes, including the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security, the Center for Security Policy Studies, the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC), and the Center for Energy Science and Policy; the School of Policy and Government also cooperates with the Antonin Scalia Law School’s National Security Institute in conducting research around legal issues pertaining to national security. The school is also the psephology partner of The Washington Post, collaborating on electoral polling and analysis for the paper since 2016, the two hold an A+ rating for historical accuracy and methodology in polling from FiveThirtyEight. The school's primary campus is in the Virginia Square neighborhood of Arlington, Virginia, with the headquarters in Van Metre Hall. Undergraduate programs offered by the school are primarily held at the university's flagship campus in Fairfax, Virginia, with night school offerings in both Arlington and Fairfax. In 2013, political scientist Mark J. Rozell became Acting Dean, taking over the role in a permanent capacity in 2016. During his tenure the school has averaged 80 faculty and a student body of approximately 2,000. The school completed the 244,000 sq ft academic headquarters, Van Metre Hall, in 2010. In 2020 the school began a $250 million expansion directly adjacent, as part of the Commonwealth of Virginia's bid to locate Amazon HQ2 in the nearby National Landing neighborhood. The Schar School is accredited by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration, and is an affiliate member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA), a global consortium of prominent schools of international affairs. As part of George Mason University, the school is a Very High Research Activity (R1) academic unit in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. It receives approximately $2 million in sponsored funding for academic research annually. The school's budget was $18 million for the 2019–2020 academic year.

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