International Relations Policy Task Force

With elections looming in Mexico and the United States, a cohort of Schar School students and professors headed to an election hot spot to learn more about it: the border wall.

Members of the Schar School’s International Relations Policy Task Force embarked on an annual spring break trip to the United States-Mexico border.

Location? Check. Access? Double check. When the White House wanted to invite students to help welcome Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese to Washington for a state visit, they reached out to George Mason University. Schar School of Policy and Government undergraduates were only too happy to answer the call.

Meet the Schar School public administration major who is helping Mason’s LGBTQ+ community thrive. But first, William Barker was a beneficiary of the program they help lead.

Schar School students discover what happens inside the Council on Foreign Relations during a learning communities visit. (Good news: There are jobs and internships.)

Meet the undergraduate whose compelling research revealed “a laboratory for surveillance” of the Turkic ethnic group.

What better way for new students to bond than climbing a tower made of logs and ropes? Democracy Lab and International Relations Policy Task Force students did just that. Along with a few professors.

After witnessing a violent revolution in Cairo, Nardine Mosaad is now earning a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree at the same time at the Schar School. What’s she studying? Government, of course.

Coming as an exchange student from Spain, Clara del Olmo thought American college life would be all fun and games. She discovered she was wrong. It’s better.

The program directors behind the Schar School’s new learning communities came up with a clever way to teach new students living on campus where everything is. Plus, Mason president Gregory Washington delivered an inaugural address.