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- Student Experience
Event: Common Sense – What’s Missing from Evidence-Based Education Policy
How can researchers make their work more valuable and accessible to practitioners and policymakers? Common Sense: What’s Missing from Evidence-Based Education Policy convened…
September 17, 2020
- Student Experience
Solidarity Series 2: Antiracist Policy Making
At the beginning of the summer the Policy Innovation Lab shared a first statement in its “Solidarity Series” to keep partners, stakeholders, and community members apprised of…
September 10, 2020
- Centering Inclusion
- Discovery & Impact
- Student Experience
Building a Strong Foundation for a McCourt Education
This year, the McCourt School launched a new experiential learning orientation program called McCourt Foundations to facilitate the transition to policy school and introduce…
August 28, 2020
- General News
- Student Experience
2020 McCourt Leadership Fellows
The McCourt Leadership Fellows program helps students hone leadership skills while also mentoring incoming students during new student orientation. Fellows strengthen their…
August 28, 2020
- Student Experience
#McCourtVirtual: 3 Tips for Navigating the Fall Semester
As the Fall 2020 semester begins in virtual mode, some things will look a little different (one perk to virtual classrooms are the endless options for fun Zoom backdrops ), but…
August 21, 2020
- Alumni
- Student Experience
Advice to Incoming McCourt Students: ‘Explore your Interests’
Rachel Grich recently graduated salutatorian of the full-time MBA Class of 2020 and with a dual MPP/MBA degree. She works as the Strategic Initiatives and Finance Coordinator at…
August 14, 2020
- Student Experience
- University News
Three McCourt Students Awarded Bryce Harlow Fellowship for Government Advocacy
This year, three McCourt students, Adeline DeYoung (MPP’21), Lauren Fresconi (MPP’21), and Cesar Prieto (MPP’21), were awarded the competitive Bryce Harlow Fellowship for…
August 12, 2020
- Student Experience
Policy Innovation Lab Yearly Update
The McCourt School’s Policy Innovation Lab (the Lab) works with community partners to design human-centered public policy solutions to address systemic inequity, particularly…
August 10, 2020
- General News
- Student Experience
Policies and Principles for an Equitable Recovery and Beyond
As the public and governments at all levels focus their current efforts on containing the health impacts of the pandemic and stabilizing people economically, there is a yearning…
July 14, 2020
- General News
- Student Experience
- University News
RFK Stadium: An Opportunity to Invest in Affordable Housing in DC
Robert Francis Kennedy (RFK) Stadium on the banks of the Anacostia holds a special place in the hearts of longtime DC residents: the first home for the Washington Nationals, …
June 30, 2020