Best-Selling
Author And SPP Professor Awarded International Creativity
Award
Richard
Florida, author of the 2002 New York Times best-seller, “The
Rise of the Creative Class,” and
Hirst Professor of economics
at SPP, was recently
presented with the
Sid Parnes Pioneer Award by the
Creative Education Foundation.
|
|
PUBLICATIONS
|
Dr.
Ron Hira's Hot-Button New Book
A new
book written by Ron Hira, who received
his Ph.D. from SPP in 2002 and is now a public
policy
professor at Rochester Institute of Technology,
and his brother Anil, a political scientist
at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, has
received considerable media attention since
its release on May 30, 2005.
|
PROGRAMS
|
SPP’s
Study Abroad Programs
This
summer, SPP offered two Study Abroad
programs which enabled students to earn three
credits
in two weeks while experiencing a new culture.
For the first time, a
program of study in South Africa was offered.
|
NEWS
|
School
Of Public Policy Exceeds Enrollment Goals
George Mason’s School
of Public Policy has seen enrollments increase
by more than 10% this year; that means a growth
of 55 full-time students.
Is
There Bias In The Classroom?
SPP
Professors A. Lee Fritschler, Catherine Rudder
and Jeremey Mayer, along
with Frischler’s former colleague from
the Brookings Institute, Bruce L. R. Smith,
a retired Columbia University professor, have
been given a $100,000 grant to examine
the role that political and religious ideology
plays
on campus.
Truman
Scholars At SPP
24
Truman scholars—elite recent college
graduates, chosen by
the Truman Foundation to intern at various
government agencies and non-profits in the
DC area over the summer—will
take a year-long class at SPP.
|
|
FACULTY
PROFILES
|
SPP
Professor Jeremy Mayer Discusses The Filibuster
On PBS
SPP Professor Jeremy
D. Mayer, a political scientist, was
one of two guest experts who appeared May
16, 2005 on "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer"
to discuss the Senate’s attempt to
filibuster over the president’s judicial
nominees.
Mark
Rozell Appears On Several Local News Shows
Mark Rozell, professor
of public policy and director of the
SPP Masters program, was
busy over the summer keeping George Mason’s
name alive in local
media outlets.
He appeared on WAMU’s "Kojo
Nnamdi Show" to
discuss state politics on June 6, 2005.
Faculty
Member Spends Part Of Summer "In Jail"
During July and
August, SPP Professor Mark
Addleson was a visiting lecturer
at the Graduate School of Business,
University of Cape Town, South Africa—most
likely the only business school in
the world which was originally a
prison.
In
The News—Susan
Tolchin
Professor
Susan Tolchin appeared on
Lou Dobbs’ CNN show on July 11 to discuss
the ramifications of the interest shown by a Chinese
company—of which the Chinese government owns
a 70 percent share—in the U.S. oil company
Unocal. |
|
|
