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VIEWPOINT: Pursue Passions in Public Service

VIEWPOINT: Pursue Passions in Public Service

By Hannah Spengler October 7, 2021

After graduation, I joined Teach For America to teach high school math to the greatest students in Oklahoma. After three wonderful, impossibly hard years, I realized the majority of challenges my students...

McCourt Students Develop Proposal To Help DC Small Businesses Combat Gentrification

McCourt Students Develop Proposal To Help DC Small Businesses Combat Gentrification

By Sophie Haleblian May 6, 2021

Students from the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy developed a proposal that will help small businesses in Washington, D.C., stay open amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic...

McCourt School Receives $100 Million Investment to Fund Scholarships, Research

McCourt School Receives $100 Million Investment to Fund Scholarships, Research

By Laetitia Haddad and Samantha Sinutko March 26, 2021

A $100 million donation to Georgetown University’s public policy program will contribute to financial aid, scholarships and research at the school. Frank McCourt Jr. (CAS ’75) pledged the investment...

McCourt School, Howard University Announce New Scholarship Program

McCourt School, Howard University Announce New Scholarship Program

By Helena Jensen February 12, 2021

The Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy and Howard University launched a full-tuition scholarship for a current student or graduate of Howard to attend one of the McCourt School’s...

GU Report Highlights Predatory DC Eviction Practices

GU Report Highlights Predatory DC Eviction Practices

By Samantha Sinutko October 29, 2020

Twenty landlords executed nearly half of all eviction filings in the District of Columbia in 2018, according to a report published by Georgetown University graduate professors. Professors in the McCourt...

McCourt Students Assist DC With Housing Inspection Program

McCourt Students Assist DC With Housing Inspection Program

By Ishaan Rai January 24, 2020

Georgetown University students at the McCourt School of Public Policy are assisting city officials by developing a new algorithm to improve rental housing inspections after several controversies relating...

Gender Will Not Determine Voter Decisions in 2020 Election, Panel Says

Gender Will Not Determine Voter Decisions in 2020 Election, Panel Says

By Anna Ferrazzi December 6, 2019

Gender bias will not significantly influence voters’ election decisions in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, panelists said at a Dec. 4 event. The event, titled “Deconstructing Gender Bias:...

AMBER GILLETTE/THE HOYA | Chef and humanitarian José Andrés addresses graduates of the McCourt School of Public Policy on May 16.

Collaboration Enables Change, Chef and Humanitarian Advises McCourt Graduates

By Katrina Schmidt May 25, 2019

Internationally recognized chef and humanitarian José Andrés extolled the value of collaboration between insiders and outsiders in the public policy world at the McCourt School of Public Policy commencement...

AMBER GILLETTE/THE HOYA | Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that President Donald Trump’s administration must reinforce weakening relationships with European and Asian countries at an event in Gaston Hall on Wednesday.

In Keynote Address, Hillary Clinton Urges Rebuilding of Strained Global Alliances

By Sana Rahman February 7, 2019

The United States must engage more with the global community to rebuild weakening alliances with regions such as Europe and Asia, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at an event in Gaston Hall...

GU HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE In 2017, the number of children without health insurance in the United States increased for the first time since 2008, according to a Nov. 21 report released by the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policys Center for Children and Families.

McCourt School Report Finds Rising Number of Uninsured Children

By Julia Friedmann December 6, 2018

The number of children without health insurance in the United States rose for the first time in at least a decade, according to a report by the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy’s...

MCCOURT SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY
The McCourt School of Public Policy will introduce a Master in Data Science for Public Policy program next fall, increasing student knowledge of an evolving field.

McCourt School Plans New Masters Program

By Campus News Editor September 15, 2017

The McCourt School of Public Policy will introduce a Master in Data Science for Public Policy program next fall, increasing McCourt students’ access to data science. The new program will be housed...

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
McCourt School of Public Policy Dean Edward B. Montgomery will leave the university for a position as President of Western Michigan University this summer.

McCourt School of Public Policy Dean to Depart

By Hannah Urtz April 19, 2017

Edward B. Montgomery, dean and professor of economics at McCourt School of Public Policy, plans to leave Georgetown at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year to serve as the President of Western Michigan...

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