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Student Jobs Common, Study Finds

By Syed Humza Moinuddin November 6, 2015

The McCourt School of Public Policy’s Center on Education and the Workforce found that over the last quarter century, around 70 percent of U.S. college students worked a paid job at some point in their...

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Nobel Prize winner George Akerlof, an economics professor, released a new book.

Akerlof Co-Authors New Book

By Jesse Jacobs October 2, 2015

George Akerlof, an economics professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy, released “Phishing for Phools,” co-written with Robert Shiller of Yale University, Sept. 22. The co-recipient of the...

New Institute Targets Youth Engagement

By Alicia Che September 1, 2015

The McCourt School of Public Policy will launch the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service this fall, led by former Democratic National Committee Director of Communications Mo Elleithee (SFS...

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Administrators counteracted assertions that the McCourt School of Public Policy, opened in 2013, was overwhelmingly liberal.

McCourt School Defends Ideological Diversity

By Daniel Silbert March 24, 2015

While questions of racial and socioeconomic diversity draw increased attention to universities around the country, ideological diversity has also undergone scrutiny. Although students have asserted...

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A panel of city leaders discussed the persistence of poverty in the District and possible solutions Friday.

City Leaders Discuss DC Poverty

By Emma Rizk March 24, 2015

Leaders and experts in the nonprofit and education sectors in Washington, D.C. discussed the persistent state of poverty in the District, as well as strategies to break the poverty cycle, in an event...

McCourt Students Win Policy Challenge With App

By Emily Tu February 20, 2015

A group of five McCourt School of Public Policy graduate students won the McCourt Public Policy Challenge with their proposal AppSent, a mobile-based application designed to address low high-school graduation...

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Professor of psychology Deborah Phillips co-directs the Center for Research on Children in the United States, which received three grants for its universal pre-K research in Tulsa.

Research Center Investigates Effects of Universal Pre-K

By Maureen Tabet February 10, 2015

The Georgetown University Center for Research on Children in the United States received three new grants in support of its long-term investigation of the effects of universal pre-kindergarten, continuing...

$10M Gift Founds Policy Center

By Kshithij Shrinath October 10, 2014

A $10 million gift from Patricia and Jon Baker Sr. (CAS ’64) established the Baker Center for Leadership and Governance within the McCourt School of Public Policy on Tuesday. A nonpartisan effort, the...

McCourt Data Institute Awards 1st Grants

By Xinlan Hu October 10, 2014

The McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute awarded its first seed grants to four Georgetown University faculty research projects at the intersection of big data and public policy Sept....

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George Akerlof, a Nobel Prize winner and economics scholar, will head to the McCourt School in November.

Akerlof, Nobel Winner, Joins McCourt Faculty

By Natalie LaRue and Charlotte Allen September 30, 2014

Nobel Prize winner and economics scholar George Akerlof will join the faculty of the McCourt School of Public Policy in November, the university announced Sept. 23. Akerlof, who currently serves...

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University President John J. DeGioia thanks Frank McCourt (CAS ’75) at the ceremony honoring McCourt’s $100 million donation to the university in October.

McCourt, Beecks Lead Record Year for Fundraising

By Penny Hung April 25, 2014

Beginning with a record-breaking $100 million gift from Frank McCourt Jr. (CAS ’75) in September, this fiscal year was the most successful fundraising year in Georgetown’s 225-year history. On...

A Year’s Worth of Headlines: The DeGioia Interview

By Danny Funt March 7, 2014

University President John J. DeGioia has spent virtually his entire adult life on the Hilltop, and under his leadership, Georgetown has launched two major fundraising campaigns, expanded campus facilities...

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