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Two William & Mary alumni — Nitya Labh ’22 and Alton Coston ’23 — have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars, one of the premier graduate fellowships in the world.
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The Public Policy Program encourages its undergraduate and graduate students to pursue learning opportunities outside the classroom.
The Schroeder Center for Health Policy and W&M Sociology hosted Dr. Jeanne Batalova, sociologist and Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, to discuss the role of immigrants in the U.S. healthcare workforce.
Over the past few weeks, first-year MPP students took to McGlothlin Courtroom to argue and judge four upcoming Supreme Court cases as part of the required Law and Policy class.
On October 2nd, the Schroeder Center for Health Policy hosted with W&M Economics the second of three panels, "Strengthening the Current and Future Nursing Workforce," to continue celebrating its 20th anniversary.
Few topics prompt more intense debate these days than gun policy. For that reason the Public Policy Program was pleased to recently welcome Prof. Robert Spitzer, a national and international expert on the subject, to help make sense of the current policy landscape and tensions between gun rights advocates and people favoring stronger gun control.
On September 18th, the Schroeder Center for Health Policy hosted with W&M Public Policy the first of three panels, “Addressing Healthcare Workforce Shortages in Virginia,” to celebrate its 20th anniversary at the Alumni House.
This year, we were proud to award four W&M undergraduates Summer 2023 fellowships for internships with the Commonwealth Attorney’s office in Portsmouth; on Capitol Hill; and in Paris, France with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Below are some reflections on their experience.
The Public Policy Program is so proud of Marley Fishburn, an undergraduate Public Policy major and also a Master's in Public Policy candidate in our accelerated degree track, for her work on student voting.
As orientation week kicked off for the Master’s in Public Policy program in August, the program and its associated departments welcomed eighteen new MPP candidates.
W&M Public Policy Director Shares Insights about the Program’s Past, Present, and Future
The W&M Public Policy Program was a proud co-sponsor of this year’s NATO Youth Summit, jointly organized by William & Mary and NATO.
For the second year in a row, Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) students in the 1st year cohort distinguished themselves with an outstanding performance in their policy case competition.
It was a beautiful day in May for the 2023 W&M Public Policy Program diploma ceremony. This was quite a switch from last year when record high temperatures forced the event indoors.
The Schroeder Center congratulates our health policy students as they embark on their new opportunities.
Prof. Alexandra “Alex” Joosse, Senior Lecturer of Public Policy, was recently named to the 2023 Community-Engaged Faculty Accelerator cohort at William & Mary.
Professors Peter McHenry and Jennifer Mellor publish "The Impact of Recent State and Local Minimum Wage Increases on Nursing Facility Employment" in the Journal of Labor Research.
On Friday, March 31st, Masters of Public Policy (MPP) students presented their Policy Research Seminar (PRS) project at the W&M Graduate & Honors Research Symposium.
Tuesday, March 28 and Monday, April 3, the College of William and Mary’s Schroeder Center for Health Policy held a series of talks with health policy experts in Chancellors Hall.
Teacher turnover has been a major area of interest and concern for policymakers and practitioners focused on K-12 education policy, especially amidst the COVID pandemic.
The W&M Public Policy Program is so proud to announce that Prof. Alan Kennedy has been selected by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) to receive the 2023 Public Integrity Award.
As part of their Policy Case Competition class, MPP students traveled to the nation's capital to learn about energy and climate policy from professionals that included William & Mary alumni and previous MPP graduates.
Every day it seems that advocates present a new technology promising to solve a challenging problem or make a current policy process more efficient.
Professor Iyabo Obasanjo spoke to W&M students about the role public policy plays in addressing health disparities through the use of community health workers.
The W&M Health Policy Club hosted a talk by Amber Martens, Director of Eligibility and Community Outreach for Lackey Clinic, on the role of safety net providers in the local healthcare system.
The Public Policy Program at William & Mary has many great professors who study a wide range of fields.
David Smith (BA, Economics, ’22), a recent premed graduate of William & Mary, had the unique opportunity to use his research from an independent economics course to present a poster at the 50th annual meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) in Phoenix, Arizona.
William & Mary’s Public Policy program has many great professors and faculty, but today we want to shine the spotlight on just one: Professor S.P. Harish.
Prof. Caroline Hanley, a Public Policy faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology who teaches undergraduate courses on research methods and labor, has recently published a new book, Work in Black and White: Striving for the American Dream.
Through a unique experiential-learning health policy class, W&M undergraduates studied the problem of high and rising hospital prices in Virginia.