Schar School of Policy and Government

Why do universities give outgoing top executives sweetheart loans on their way out the door? Schar School researchers report “A Shady, Secret Presidential Perk” in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Geopolitics expert Mark N. Katz writes in Newsweek that the U.S. is under pressure to help allies with military intervention. China is all too ready to step in where the U.S. is reluctant.

Can the rings of a tree tell the history of feminism? See Schar School’s Bonnie Stabile’s Ms. Magazine interview with artist Tiffany Shlain, who has done just that.

A Schar School researcher turned the pages of history and discovered Nazi sympathizers in 1935—in the U.S., and they were abundant.

Steven Pearlstein imagines a conversation between Congressional leaders. It’s the conversation they should be having and are not. Read his take in the Washington Post.

Goldstone’s research has recently been honored with the Distinguished Career in Political Sociology Award, the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Career Award, and the Myron Weiner Award for his contributions to the field of political demography from the International Studies Association.

"I would expect to see regular families in our region starting to have some real problems, probably in no more than a week or so," said Clower, director of the Schar School’s Center for Regional Analysis.

Members of the Schar School’s Democracy Lab living-learning community for first-year students attended a luncheon hosted by the Virginia Foundation for Research and Economic Education (Virginia FREE) last week at the Ritz-Carlton at Tysons, Virginia.

In a global first, the Schar School’s Center for Business Civic Engagement partners with Romania’s Babeș-Bolyai University to address advancements in intelligent automation.

An innovative program to fund unpaid federal internships for Schar School students launches. Read more about the Federal Workforce Initiative.