George Washington University

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George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia
,
United States
CampusLarge city, 43 acres (17 ha)[4]
NewspaperThe GW Hatchet
ColorsBuff and blue[5]
   
NicknameRevolutionaries
Sporting affiliations
MascotGeorge[6]
Websitewww.gwu.edu

The George Washington University (GW or GWU) is a private federally-chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Originally named Columbian College, it was chartered in 1821 as Washington, D.C.'s first university by the United States Congress. GW is one of six universities in the United States with a congressional charter.[7][8]

GW is

graduate students.[11] The school's athletic teams, the George Washington Revolutionaries, play in the NCAA Division I Atlantic 10 Conference. GW also annually hosts numerous political events, including the World Bank and International Monetary Fund's Annual Meetings.[12]

Many notable individuals have served as trustees, such as

U.S. Foreign Service and is one of the largest feeder schools for the diplomatic corps.[15]

History

last will, President George Washington
left shares to endow a university in the nation's new capital.

Founding

The first

Baptist missionary and leading minister Luther Rice secured funds from James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, John C. Calhoun and other benefactors for a college to educate citizens from throughout the young nation in Washington, D.C. A large building was constructed on College Hill, which is now known as Meridian Hill, and on February 9, 1821, President Monroe approved the congressional charter creating the non-denominational Columbian College.[20] Washingtonians, Congress and the academic community celebrated this new institution as the fulfillment of Washington's vision.[17] The first commencement in 1824 was considered an important event for the young city of Washington, D.C. In attendance were President Monroe, John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, the Marquis de Lafayette and other dignitaries.[21]

GW, like much of Washington, D.C., traces many of its origins back to the

Freemasons. The Bible that the President of the George Washington University uses to swear an oath on upon inauguration is the Bible of Freemason George Washington. Freemasonry symbols are prominently displayed throughout the campus including the foundation stones of many of the university buildings.[22]

President James Monroe was among GW's founding benefactors and approved the university's Congressional Charter. Monroe's house is located on the university's Foggy Bottom
campus.

19th century

During this period most of the students came from the

15th and H streets.[24]

20th century

Columbian University was renamed The George Washington University in 1904 after an agreement with the

Meridian Hill building

Many of the colleges of the George Washington University are notable for their age and history. The law school is the oldest law school in the District of Columbia.[28] The medical school is the 11th oldest medical school in the nation and the first established in the nation's capital.[29] The Columbian College was founded in 1821 and is the oldest unit of the university. The Elliott School of International Affairs was formalized in 1898.[30]

In the 1930s, the university was a major center for theoretical physics. The cosmologist George Gamow produced critical work on the Big Bang theory at GW in the 1930s and 1940s. In one of the most important moments in the 20th century, Niels Bohr announced that Otto Hahn had successfully split the atom on January 26, 1939, at the Fifth Washington Conference on theoretical physics in the Hall of Government.[31]

During the Vietnam War era, Thurston Hall, an undergraduate dormitory housing 1,116 students[32] was a staging ground for student anti-war Demonstrations. (At 1900 F Street NW, the building is 3 blocks from the White House.)

College/School Year founded
Arts and Sciences 1821
Medicine
 1824
Law 1865
Engineering 1884
Arts and Design
 1890
International Affairs 1898
Education and Human Development 1909
Business
 1928
Media and Public Affairs 1938
Political Management 1987
Public Health
 1997
Professional Studies 2001
Public Policy and Public Administration 2003
Nursing 2010

In 1996, the university purchased the

Palisades neighborhood that became the school's coeducational Mount Vernon Campus. The campus was first utilized in 1997 for women only but became co-educational in a matter of years.[citation needed] The Mount Vernon campus is now totally integrated into the GW community, serving as a complement to the Foggy Bottom campus. In 1999, GW hosted the Town Hall with President Clinton, the first presidential town hall to ever be webcast
live.

21st century

F Street House, the official residence of GW's president. Behind it is the global headquarters of the International Monetary Fund

In December 2006, the university appointed Johns Hopkins University provost Steven Knapp as the next President of the George Washington University, and his presidency began August 1, 2007.[33] In 2017, Thomas LeBlanc, provost of the University of Miami, was named the President of the George Washington University.

In July 2020, the university began forming special committees to look at possible name changes to an on-campus building and the school moniker. In a statement on the university's website, George Washington University President Thomas LeBlanc said one of the panels will examine the Colonials moniker, which critics say conjures up racism, violence and genocide. George Washington University law professor and Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh will serve as chair of that committee; the Colonials name was officially retired in 2022, and the new nickname was announced to be the Revolutionaries the following year.[34] Another panel, to be chaired by George Washington University law professor Roger Fairfax Jr., looked into renaming the Marvin Center. The building was named after former school President Cloyd Heck Marvin, who was a segregationist.[35] In February 2021, the university celebrated its 200th anniversary of its Congressional Charter. GW hosted former student, Senator Elizabeth Warren as speaker.[36] In January 2022, LeBlanc was succeeded by former Washington University in St. Louis Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton as interim university president.[37] One year later in January 2023, the university named Ellen Granberg as the new president, with a start date of July 1, 2023.

Campuses

Main article: Campuses of George Washington University
Further information: George Washington University residence halls

GW has three fully integrated campuses in the Washington, D.C. area. These are the Foggy Bottom Campus, the Mount Vernon Campus, and the Virginia Science and Technology Campus. The Foggy Bottom Campus houses the vast majority of academic programming. Residence halls exist on the Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campuses.

The GW library system contains the Gelman Library,[38] the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library,[39] the Burns Law Library,[40] Eckles Library (named for Charles Ellison Eckles and Anita Heurich Eckles),[41][42] and the Virginia Science and Technology Library.[43] The GW Library System is a constituent member of the Washington Research Library Consortium, which allows for resource sharing among the university libraries of the Washington metropolitan area.

Foggy Bottom

Lieutenant General George Washington a statue by Clark Mills on Washington Circle on the northern edge of the Foggy Bottom campus
Foggy Bottom during Winter
Rawlins Park, located between the Elliott School and the U.S. Department of the Interior
GW's Corcoran School of the Arts and Design is housed in the Corcoran Gallery, the city's oldest private cultural institution and a National Historic Landmark, located on The Ellipse, facing the White House.
Washington Metro's Foggy Bottom–GW station
is the only station on a university campus in DC.

The main GW campus consists of 43 acres (170,000 m2) in historic

National Security Archives
, Global Resources Center, and Kiev Library.

The

American foreign policy. It was a National Security Archive Freedom of Information Act request that eventually made the Central Intelligence Agency's so-called "Family Jewels" public.[44]

Close to the library is

Foggy Bottom–GW Washington Metro station is located at the intersection of 23rd and I Streets NW due south of Washington Circle, and provides access to the Orange, Blue and Silver lines. The University Hospital is located next to the Metro station entrance.[45][46][47]

The Foggy Bottom campus contains most of the residence halls in which GW students live. The most notable include Shenkman Hall, Thurston Hall, Madison Hall, Potomac House, Fulbright Hall, Mitchell Hall, Munson Hall, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis Hall, Phillip Amsterdam Hall, Guthridge Hall, Madison Hall, Townhouse Row, South Hall, and the newest, District House, which opened in 2016.

In late 2007, construction began on a large mixed-use residential, office and retail development located on the site of the old GW Hospital (Square 54) and just east of the

LEED certification for sustainability features including a green roof, rainwater collection system, and special heating and air conditioning technologies that helps mass air displacement.[50] The Textile Museum reopened to the public in March 2015 after the institution merged with the university in 2011 and closed it for renovations two years later.[51]

Mount Vernon

In 1996, the university purchased the

Palisades neighborhood that became the school's coeducational Mount Vernon Campus. Initially, the Mount Vernon Campus remained exclusively a women's college until 1999 when GW changed its operations to a co-ed facility.[52] It was purchased so that the university could gain more space and valuable land for athletics, such as for the women's soccer team.[53] Now known as the Mount Vernon campus, it is totally integrated into the GW community, serving as a complement to the Foggy Bottom campus.[53] The campus has transportation systems connecting the students to the GW campus in Foggy Bottom. It also includes Eckles Library, six residence halls, Lloyd Gymnasium, The GW-Mount Vernon Athletic Complex and other various campus facilities.[54]

Virginia

Main article:
George Washington University Virginia Campus

The George Washington University also operates a research and graduate campus in Ashburn, Virginia (near Dulles International Airport) which was established in 1991. Starting with a donation of 50 acres (20 ha) from Robert H. Smith, the campus grew to 101 acres (41 ha) by 2010.[55] Besides graduate education, this campus also offers undergraduate education to students, including Health Science, Cybersecurity& Information Technology, and Nursing.[56]

Additionally, the university also operates several other graduate satellite education centers. These include the Alexandria Graduate Education Center in Alexandria, the Graduate Education Center in

Arlington, and the Hampton Roads Center in Newport News. The Virginia Science and Technology Campus hosts research and educational partnerships with industry and government officials and offers more than 20 graduate degrees.[57]

The Virginia Science and Technology Campus is home to the first walkable solar-power sidewalk in the world. The project began in 2012 and was completed two years later, inaugurated in October 2014.[58]

Organization

George Washington University is governed by the GW Board of Trustees, the President of the George Washington University, provost, deans, and department chairs. The university employs over 6,000 faculty members, administrators, and support staff.[59] In 2007, Steven Knapp was named the university's sixteenth president.;[60] he had previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley and was later the provost at Johns Hopkins University. The current President of the George Washington University is Ellen Granberg. Ulysses S. Grant was a member of the Board of Trustees, and his Grandson, Ulysses S. Grant III, was Vice President of GW. John Quincy Adams was also a member of the board of trustees.

Schools and colleges

Undergraduate & Graduate Schools of The George Washington University
Columbian College
of Arts and Sciences
School of Business
 Elliott School
of International Affairs
Milken Institute School
of Public Health
 School of Engineering and Applied Science School of Nursing
School of Media and Public Affairs
Graduate Schools of The George Washington University
Graduate School of Political Management
Medical School
 Law School Graduate School of Education & Human Development Trachtenberg School
of Public Policy and Public Administration 		College of Professional Studies
George Washington, a statue of George Washington
in University Yard
The George Washington University Museum
The Corcoran School is housed in the former Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Hall of Government

GW is organized into fourteen schools and colleges, each with a different dean and organization.[61] The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences was the original academic unit of the university.[62] The Medical School is the 11th oldest medical school in the nation and the first to open in the District of Columbia.[63] The Law School was also the first law school in the District of Columbia.[28] Each academic unit has a distinct identity within the broader university. The Graduate School of Political Management and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design were organized outside of the university, later to join in 1987 and 2014, respectively.

Columbian College of Arts and Sciences

The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) is the oldest and largest college in the university. It was founded in 1821; at the beginning of the university's history, there was no distinction between this college and the university. The School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA), and the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration (SPPPA) belong to this college, although they are run separately. The Columbian College was among the first American institutions to grant a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), in 1888.[64] The Columbian College is notable for its academic diversity, and offers a wide range of majors and courses of study.[64] The Columbian College contains the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, the School of Media and Public Affairs, and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. The Columbian College is primarily housed in Philips Hall, Rome Hall, Smith Hall of Art, MPA Building, Monroe Hall, Hall of Government, 1922 F Street, Corcoran Hall, Bell Hall, Samson Hall, Lisner Hall, and many other places around campus. The college is also present on the Mount Vernon and Virginia Campuses.

Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration

The

School of Public Health and Health Services
, and the Graduate School of Education & Human Development to offer a variety of concentrations for its graduates.

School of Media and Public Affairs

The

Political Communication and a master's degree in Media and Public Affairs. It is housed in the same building as the Graduate School of Political Management. The Public Affairs Project at GW, part of SMPA, is responsible for the creation and production of the PBS special, Planet Forward
. School of Media and Public Affairs (SMPA) was the first in the nation to offer a bachelor's degree in Political Communication. The program boasts a faculty of retired and current professionals – including CNN correspondents, journalists, political analysts, and campaign professionals. The school is consistently ranked in the top 10 programs in the nation.

Corcoran School of the Arts and Design

The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design is one of the oldest arts education institutions in the United States. It is a school of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.[65] It is housed in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the oldest private cultural institution in Washington, D.C.

Formerly an independent institution, known as the Corcoran College of Art and Design, the institution later merged the college operations with the George Washington University. The school retained over 20 full-time faculty members, and the college will continue to function as a separate entity within the university. The school has a historic building facing the White House on 17th Street.

Stockton Hall

School of Business

The

George Washington School of Business was established in 1928 with a $1 million gift by the Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction.[66] On February 6, 2006, the chairman and CEO of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith, opened a new complex for the school called Ric and Dawn Duquès Hall, which today houses the business school along with the Norma Lee and Morton Funger Hall.[67]

As of January 2018[update], GW's undergraduate business program was ranked 42nd nationally and its International Business program was ranked ninth by U.S. News & World Report.[68]

School of Medicine and Health Sciences

Founded in 1824, the

School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), or simply the George Washington School of Medicine, was the first school of medicine in Washington, D.C.[69]

In 1981, George Washington University Hospital became the center of the national spotlight when President Ronald Reagan was rushed to the emergency room after an attempted assassination.

GW Hospital's emergency department was later renamed the Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine. Other politicians, such as former Vice President

Richard B. and Lynne V. Cheney Cardiovascular Institute in 2006. Others notable patients include former First Lady Laura Bush, who was treated for a pinched nerve.

GW faculty developed the recoilless anti-tank rifle, popularly known as the Bazooka.

SMHS is primarily housed in the GW Hospital

, Ross Hall, and many other centers along K Street and throughout the city.

GW was once home to the George Washington Dental College, but this department would close in 1921 due to budget constraints.[71][72]

School of Engineering and Applied Science

The Elliott School of International Affairs, one of the world's most highly ranked schools of international relations and the largest in the U.S.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) was founded on October 1, 1884, as the Corcoran Scientific School of Columbian University. The school separated from the Columbian College in 1962 and was one of the first to accept women for degree candidacy in engineering.[73] The bazooka was invented at the SEAS in 1942.[74] The school moved into the new Science and Engineering Hall in D.C. in March 2015.[75]

Elliott School of International Affairs

The

Department of State.[76] As of February 2015, its undergraduate program was ranked eighth globally by Foreign Policy magazine, while the graduate program is currently ranked seventh in the world.[77]
ESIA is primarily housed in Elliott Hall at 1957 E St.

School of Nursing

The history of nursing education at GW spans more than 100 years. In 2002, Jean Johnson, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, then senior associate dean for Health Sciences, met with the nursing faculty to assess GW's capacity to create GW's degree programs. The faculty moved forward to develop an MSN in the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences with programs in adult nurse practitioner, family nurse practitioner, nursing leadership and management, and clinical research administration. The first MSN class was admitted in 2004.[78]

Meanwhile, approval was also obtained to develop a Department of Nursing Education. As the first and only chair of the department, Ellen Dawson, Ph.D., RN, ANP, led the MSN program to accreditation in time for the graduation of the first class in 2006. Also, she spearheaded the development of both the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program and the 15-month (four consecutive semesters) accelerated second-degree bachelor of nursing science (ABSN) program located in Ashburn, VA. The first classes for these degrees were admitted in 2007 and 2009, respectively.[78] In 2010, the GW School of Nursing was re-established and is now the university's tenth academic institution, with Jean Johnson and Ellen Dawson as the founding deans.[78]

The GW Law School, the oldest law school in the nation's capital

Law School

The

John Roberts, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Antonin Scalia presided over its moot court in 2006, 2007 and 2009, respectively.[82][83]
The law school is located primarily on the east side of University Yard.

Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Although teacher education has been offered since the university's founding in 1904, the Graduate School of Education and Human Development officially started in 1909. The school turned its focus to graduate education in 1994.

College of Professional Studies

The George Washington University College of Professional Studies (CPS) was founded during the Trachtenberg Presidency.[84] The Graduate School of Political Management is included within the college.[85] CPS offers courses on the Foggy Bottom and Virginia campuses.

Graduate School of Political Management
The Milken Institute School of Public Health on Washington Circle

The Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) is an academic unit of the College of Professional Studies. GSPM offers graduate degrees in legislative affairs, political management, and other related disciplines. The current director is Lara Brown.[86]

Milken Institute School of Public Health

Established in July 1997, and renamed in March 2014, the Milken Institute School of Public Health[87] brought together three longstanding university programs in the schools of medicine, business, and education that have since expanded substantially. Today, more than 900 students from nearly every U.S. state and more than 35 nations pursue undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral-level degrees in public health. Its student body is one of the most ethnically diverse among the nation's private schools of public health.

The School also offers an array of joint degree programs, allowing students to couple a Juris Doctor (JD) with the Master of Public Health (MPH), or to combine an MPH with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) or an MA in International Affairs. An MPH/Physician Assistant program, the first in the world, is available at the Milken Institute SPH, as is the opportunity to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer while pursuing an MPH.

Academics

Avard Fairbanks's Busts of George Washington, located on the border of the Foggy Bottom Campus
The former home of James Monroe
Demographics of the Student Body (2015)[88][89]
Undergraduate Graduate U.S. (2010)
White 56.3% 47.1% 63.7%
Asian 10.2% 9.1% 4.7%
Hispanic 8.5% 5.6% 16.3%
Black 5.9% 11.0% 12.2%
Two or More Races 3.7% 1.7% 1.9%
American Indian 0.1% 0.3% 0.7%
Pacific Islander 0.1% 0.2% 0.2%
International 10.0% 17.7% N/A
Unknown 5.2% 7.3% N/A
Male 43.6% 41.5% 49.2%
Female 56.4% 58.5% 50.8%
A conversation between U.S. President Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert held at GW's Lisner Auditorium in 2014
School of Media and Public Affairs event with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and chief correspondents from The New York Times, CNN, Fox News, and the president of the White House Correspondents' Association
Hillary Clinton presenting the Clinton health care plan of 1993 at GW Hospital. Her mother died at the hospital in 2011.

Admission

GW is the largest higher education institution in Washington, D.C.[90] There are approximately 10,000 full-time undergraduates studying at George Washington University, and 14,000 graduate students.[91] These students come from all 50 states and over 120 countries.[90] Nearly 900 students participate in GW's Study Abroad Programs each semester in 50 countries.[92] As of 2015, George Washington University no longer required the SAT and ACT test scores for applicants in order to boost the enrollment of disadvantaged students.[93]

GW tuition was guaranteed to remain at the freshman rate for up to ten continuous (full-time) semesters of undergraduate attendance at the university. GW no longer offers fixed tuition. The 2021–2022 academic year tuition rate was $59,780.[94] Students were awarded $308.1 million in financial-aid during the 2017–2018 academic year.[95] For the FY2011 cohort of students, the student loan default rate was 1.4, one of the lowest in the nation.[96] For the 2010–2011 school year, the freshman retention rate was 94.3%.[97][needs update] GW requires that students live on campus for their first two years of enrollment as undergraduates.[98] According to self-provided data by George Washington University, as of the 2011–2012 academic year, the acceptance rate for the Medical School was 3%, receiving 10,588 applications. GW Law School's acceptance was 23%, receiving 10,021 applications. GW's Undergraduate studies' acceptance rate was 32%, receiving 21,433 applications.[99] Admission to George Washington was at 43% for undergraduates in 2023.[100]

In September 2013, The GW Hatchet reported that the university had a need-aware admissions policy, even though it claimed to have a need-blind policy at the time. The university subsequently admitted that its admissions policy was, in fact, need-aware.[101]

Enrollment

During the 2013–2014 academic year, there were 5,015 undergraduates enrolled in the

Milken Institute School of Public Health, and 153 in the School of Nursing.[102]

Students come from all 50 U.S. states. The top states include New York, California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Florida, Illinois and Connecticut.[103]

George Washington University has many international students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. During the 2013–2014 academic year, there were over 130 countries represented among the student body. The most represented countries represented were China, South Korea, India, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Turkey, France, Nigeria, Pakistan, Japan, Iran, Germany, Brazil, Colombia, and Vietnam.[104]

Rankings

GW was ranked tied for 25th of the "Top Universities for Producing Billionaires 2016–2017" by Times Higher Education's World University Rankings, which also ranks GW as 51st of the "Top 100 Universities for Producing Millionaires" in the world.[105][106]

Apart from its 61st national ranking, Forbes ranks GW 44th among "Research Universities", 60th among "Private Colleges", 43rd among universities in the U.S. Northeast, and 287th among university rankings of "America's Best Value Colleges".[107]

GW was ranked the 66th world's wealthiest university in 2015.[108]

The Princeton Review consistently ranks George Washington University in the Top 10 for the following categories:[109]

  • Most Politically Active
  • Dorms Like Palaces
  • Great College Towns
  • Best in the Northeast
  • Best College Newspaper
  • Most Popular Study Abroad Program
Misreported admissions data

In 2012, the university received national attention when GW officials announced that they had misreported admissions data on their student body for over a decade, overstating the number of students who had graduated from high school in the top ten percent of their classes due to a "data reporting error".[110][111] Consequently, U.S. News & World Report removed the school from its rankings and altered the GW's entry to being unranked for the 2013.[112] The university was reinstated a year later in the 2014 rankings.[113][114][115]

Program rankings
Forbes[117]
61
U.S. News & World Report[118]67
Washington Monthly[119]44
WSJ / College Pulse[120]70
Global
ARWU[121]201–300
QS[122]340
THE[123]201–250
U.S. News & World Report[124]247

The Princeton Review ranked GW first for "Top Colleges or Universities for Internship Opportunities."[125][126]

GW is consistently ranked by The Princeton Review in the top "Most Politically Active" Schools.

The Financial Times ranks GWSB as the 47th best business school in the United States.[128]

Elliott School as being the eighth in the "Top U.S. Undergraduate Institutions to Study International Relations 2018."[129]

public management program, the 14th best health policy program, and the 20th best social policy
program in the U.S.

The 2020 U.S. News & World Report ranks

National Law Journal ranked GW Law 21st for law schools that sent the highest percentage of new graduates to NLJ 250 law firms, the largest and most prominent law practices in the U.S.[131]

George Washington is ranked 61st for the "Best Global Universities for Social Sciences and Public Health 2018" by U.S. News & World Report.[132]

The Times Higher Education ranks GW as having the 64th best law program in the world in 2019.[133]

Research

Burns Building
houses different medical research centers.
George Washington University Hospital houses several medical programs at GW and occasionally serves the U.S. President's medical needs.

George Washington University is the largest research university in Washington, D.C.[134] According to the National Science Foundation, GW spent $260 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 89th in the nation.[135] In 2023, GW was invited to join the Association of American Universities, making it the only member of the research university organization in Washington D.C.[136]

Centers and institutes

Main article: List of centers and research institutes at George Washington University

George Washington University has many research centers including (non-exhaustive):[137][138]

Centers
  • Sigur Center for Asian Studies
  • Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology
  • GW Cancer Center
  • Center for Aging, Health, & Humanities
  • Center for Equity and Excellence in Education
  • GW Institute for Biomimetics and Bioinspired Engineering
  • Center for Otolaryngology Microsurgery Education & Training (COMET)
  • The Dr. Cyrus & Myrtle Katzen Cancer Research Center
  • McCormick Genomic and Proteomic Center (MGPC)
  • National Crash Analysis Center
  • Biostatistics Center
  • Regulatory Studies Center
  • Center for the Connected Consumer
  • The Project on Forward Engagement
  • GW Project on Extremism
  • Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
  • Jackie Robinson Project
  • First Federal Congress Project
  • The Gill-Lebovic Center for Community Health[139]
Institutes
  • Institute for International Economic Policy
  • Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication
  • Institute for Security and Conflict Studies
  • Institute for International Science and Technology Policy
  • Institute for Global and International Studies
  • Institute for Disaster and Fragility Resilience
  • Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
  • Institute for Middle East Studies
  • Institute for African Studies
  • Institute for Korean Studies
  • Cisneros Hispanic Leadership Institute
  • George Washington Institute for Neuroscience
  • George Washington Institute for Public Policy
  • GW Cancer Institute
  • GW Solar Institute
  • GW Institute for Biomedical Sciences
  • GW Institute for Biomedical Engineering
  • Rodham Institute
  • Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine
  • Space Policy Institute
  • Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet
  • Institute for Security and Conflict Studies
  • Computational Biology Institute
  • Institute for Biomedical Engineering
  • Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
  • Washington Institute of Surgical Education (WISE)
  • Global Food Institute

Student life

Kennedy Center, embassies, and other cultural events. Students are known as highly politically active; Uni in the USA stated that "politics at George Washington is about as progressive as it gets".[140]

GW has a

Division I athletics program that includes men's baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, gymnastics, women's lacrosse, women's rowing, soccer, women's softball, swimming, women's tennis, women's volleyball and men's water polo.[141] Colonials athletics teams compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference. The Division II men's and women's Rugby Teams both compete in the Potomac Rugby Union.[142]

Student organizations

GW Student Association, the university's student government.

Most student organizations are run through the George Washington University Student Association (SA). The SA is fashioned after the federal government with an executive, legislative, and judicial branch.[143] There are over 500 registered student organizations on campus. The largest student organization on campus, the GW College Democrats have hosted speakers such as CNN contributor Donna Brazile and former DNC Chairman Howard Dean among many others. Likewise, the GW College Republicans, the largest CR chapter in the nation, have been visited by politicians like John Ashcroft former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and former President George W. Bush.[144] The International Affairs Society (IAS), currently headed by Tressel Stone,[145] runs the university's internationally top-ranked Model United Nations team, in addition to hosting yearly high school and middle school Model UN conferences on campus. This organization also hosts various foreign dignitaries, US Government officials, and subject matter experts to further inform and foster international understanding both in the university's student body and the greater D.C. community.

Quigley's Pharmacy, which helped shelter students from tear-gas during the Watergate protests, has been a campus hub for over a century.[146]
Old Main

There are also several a cappella performance groups on campus. The university's school-sponsored a cappella group, the co-ed GW Troubadours, has been a presence on campus since the mid-1950s and regularly records studio albums and travels internationally with the Department of Music. The Sons of Pitch, GW's only male a cappella group, has been around since 2003, and the female group the GW Pitches was founded in 1996. All the groups are extremely committed to charity work, with the Troubadours holding an annual philanthropic concert in the fall entitled "Acappellapalooza," and the Sons of Pitch holding one in the spring named "The United States of A-Cappella." In the case of the former, groups from GW are drawn for a concert, in the latter, groups from around the nation. The groups have raised tens of thousands of dollars for various charitable causes. Additionally, the university is home to the Voice gospel choir, a group that sings gospel music, the GW Vibes, a co-ed group focusing on soulful music. The GW Sirens, another all-girls group, and the GW Motherfunkers, a coed top 40 group, were created in 2003 and 2012, respectively. Each year, the groups duke it out at the Battle of the A-Cappella groups, one of the biggest student events on GW's campus. Another student group, the Emergency Medical Response Group (EMeRG) provides an all-volunteer 24/7 ambulance service for the campus and the Foggy Bottom/West End community at no cost. EMeRG has been active on campus since 1994 and has advanced from bike response into a two ambulance system that is sanctioned by the District of Columbia Department of Health and DC Fire and EMS (DCFEMS). EMeRG also plays an active role in special events in around the DC area including the Marine Corps Marathon, National Marathon, Cherry Blossom Race, Commencement, Inauguration and other events in downtown D.C. and on the National Mall.[147]

GW's Townhouse Row, home of many of its fraternities and sororities

Greek life

GW has a large Greek community with over 3,000 students consisting of just under 27 percent of the undergraduate population.[148] Greek organizations are divided up between and governed by the Inter-Fraternity Council with 14 chapters, the Panhellenic Association with 11 chapters, the National Pan-Hellenic Council with seven chapters, and the Multicultural Greek Council with seven chapters as well.[148] Other Greek-life, known as "Alternative Greek Life" or simply "Alt-Greek", exists on campus in the form of professional, community-serviced based and honor groups although not under the university's traditional Greek life governing structure but instead are considered separate student organizations.

Scholarly societies

There are chapters of many varied academic groups at the university. The local chapter of the Society of Physics Students was at one time under the auspices of world-renowned scientists like

Mario Schoenberg and Edward Teller, who have all taught at the university. The Enosinian Society, founded in 1822, is one of the university's oldest student organizations. Invited speakers included Daniel Webster.[149]

Campus media

There are four major news sources on campus: the independent student-run newspaper The GW Hatchet, which publishes articles online daily and a print edition weekly; The Rival GW,[150] an online-only student-run publication;[151] the online-only radio station, WRGW; and the university's official news source, GW Today. GW also publishes a peer-reviewed journal, The International Affairs Review, which is run by graduate students at the Elliott School.

WRGW

WRGW is the student-run radio station of George Washington University. It broadcasts live every day online throughout the school year between 8am and 2am. The studio is in the ground floor of the University Student Center, where it has been located since 1999.[152] While now only available on the internet, the online broadcasts are named for a carrier current radio station that first operated on campus in 1958.[153] That station was created as a result of efforts by GWU's Radio Club, which was founded in February 1929.[154]

Environmental sustainability

George Washington University was ranked number 12 on The

fossil fuels.[159]

Religious organizations

George Washington University has an active Newman Center that supports the growing Catholic student community on campus. Its current chaplain is Fr. Benjamin Petty.[160]

GW Hillel serves more than 3,000 Jewish students and is one of the largest campus Hillel International organizations in the United States. In 2021, a multistory building was erected in the middle of GW's campus.[161]

Athletics

Main article: George Washington Revolutionaries
GW athletics teams, collectively known as the Revolutionaries.

George Washington University is a member of the

Smith Center on the Foggy Bottom campus. The outdoor events are held at the Mount Vernon campus Athletic Complex. The university's colors are buff and blue (buff being a color similar to tan, but sometimes represented as gold or yellow). The colors were taken from George Washington's uniform in the Revolutionary War. The teams had a first-round victory in the Men's NCAA Division I Soccer Tournament in 2004. The men's and women's varsity crew team rows out of Thompson's Boat Center on the Potomac River and competes in the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges. In the 2008–09 season, the men's crew team placed an all-time high national ranking of 12th in the country. The sailing team competes in the Middle Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association while the gymnastics team competes in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League. In 2007 the GW Men's Water Polo team placed third at Eastern Championships and was ranked 14th in the nation. Officials announced that seven teams, such as "men's rowing, sailing, men's and women's squash, men's indoor track, men's tennis and women's water polo will be eliminated" after the 2020–2021 school year, due to financial concerns resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. These programs have the opportunity to become club sports following their elimination.[162]

Basketball

Main article:
George Washington Colonials men's basketball
Colonials defeated the Virginia Cavaliers
in 2015.

New Jersey Nets
.

Under former head coach

UNC-Wilmington, but lost to Duke University
, the top overall seed, in the second round.

While only one Colonial from the 2005–06 team was drafted in the 2006 NBA draft, J. R. Pinnock, two other Colonials from that team have played in the NBA. Pops Mensah-Bonsu played for the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, San Antonio Spurs and Toronto Raptors and Mike Hall played for the Washington Wizards.

The

GW Revolutionaries

Hobbs, a former player and coach under Jim Calhoun at the University of Connecticut coached the Colonials for 10 years. Known for his animated sideline personality[167][168] Hobbs had been considered one of the up-and-coming coaches in the NCAA. On April 25, 2011, the university released Hobbs from his contractual obligations, forcing him to resign as men's basketball coach[169][170][171]

In May 2011, Incoming Athletic Director Patrick Nero hired former University of Vermont head coach Mike Lonergan to take over the men's basketball program.[172] The Bowie, Md. native had a slow start to his GW tenure, finishing 10–21 in his first full year as coach, and improving to 13–17 in the second.[172] The 2013–14 season solidified his hiring,[173] as the team finished 24–9 on the year, tallying the second-most wins in a season in GW history; took third place in the Atlantic 10 standings and made it to the Atlantic 10 Championship semifinals; and earned the program's 11th bid to the NCAA Tournament, their first in seven years.[174]

The NCAA committee selected the Colonials as the #9 seed in the East Region for the tournament.[175] They faced #8 seed Memphis in the second round. The Tigers took a five-point lead over the Colonials into the half, but the Colonials almost came back to win. A late rally cut the Memphis lead to only one point with 25 seconds to go, but the Colonials could not hold on and lost, 71–66.[176]

Soon after the end of the Colonials' 2013–14 campaign, Lonergan signed a contract extension, keeping him with the program through the 2020–21 season.[174]

The Colonials won the

Valparaiso for the first postseason national title in their history. Prior to the 2016–2017 season, Mike Lonergan was removed as head coach following allegations of verbal abuse from players and staff.[177] He was replaced by assistant coach Maurice Joseph who served as interim head coach before being signed fully following the 2016–2017 basketball season.[178] One of Lonergan's players, Yuta Watanabe, was the first Japanese-born student athlete to secure an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship.[179]
Watanabe now plays in the NBA, and is the second Japanese player ever in the NBA.

In March 2019, GW hired Jamion Christian to be its next head men's basketball coach.[180] After three years at GW, Christian was fired and Chris Caputo was hired from the University of Miami.

Baseball

The

GW baseball team, founded in 1891, is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Barcroft Park in Arlington County, Virginia
, and Gregg Ritchie is the team's coach.

Football

Main article: George Washington Colonials football

GW had a

Alphonse Leemans
.

Spirit programs

The GW Spirit Program includes a co-ed Cheer Team, the First Ladies Dance team, and the university mascot.[182] The Revolutionaries mascot is named George, and is portrayed by a student wearing an outfit inspired by a uniform worn by General Washington.[183] In 2012, George took first place at the National Cheerleaders Association Mascot Competition and is the university's first national champion.[184][185] The spirit program also includes the GW Brass, directed by Professor Benno Fritz.[186]

The official fight song is "Hail to the Buff and Blue", composed in 1924 by GW student Eugene F. Sweeney and rewritten in 1989 by Patrick M. Jones.[187] The song is tolled twice-daily by bells atop Corcoran Hall, at 12:15pm and 6:00pm.

Club sports

The university also has various club sports, which are not varsity sports, but compete against other colleges. Examples include:

ultimate frisbee, cricket, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, water polo, equestrian and others.[188]

GW Balance Dance Group

GW Balance is a popular dance and choreography group at the George Washington University. The club performs once every semester.[189]

Notable people

Notable alumni

Main article: List of George Washington University alumni
See also: List of George Washington University Law School alumni, List of Elliott School of International Affairs people, List of Columbian College of Arts and Sciences people, and List of The George Washington School of Business people

Premier of Bermuda Edward David Burt (youngest in history) and current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bhutan Tshering Wangchuk are GW alumni. Former associate director for National Preparedness at the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), John Brinkerhoff
was a GW alumni.

In business,

Peloton
.   

Science and technology alumni include

Big Bang theory, Jack Edmonds, noted computer scientist and mathematician and one of the creators of combinatorial optimization, Walter O. Snelling, who first identified propane and researched how propane could be liquefied and used as a viable energy resource, Charles Browne Fleet, inventor of ChapStick. In addition, 7 NASA astronauts are alumni, including Charles Camarda and Serena Auñón-Chancellor
.

In arts, entertainment and media, writer and filmmaker

Emmy winning actors Alec Baldwin and Kerry Washington are also alumni, while filmmaker and Palme d'Or recipient David Lynch, Oscar winning actor Jared Leto and portrait painter Ned Bittinger attended the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design. Journalism alumni include Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Greenwald, CNN commentators Dana Bash and Chuck Todd as well as NBC News reporter Kasie Hunt
.  

Leaders of academic institutions include William Greenleaf Eliot co-founder of Washington University in St. Louis, Derek Bok (AM), president of Harvard University, Scott Cowen (MBA), president of Tulane University and John T. Wilson, president of University of Chicago. 

Well known athletes and sports personnel include

NFL Hall of Fame running back Tuffy Leemans, and Olympic medalist Elena Myers. Several alumni have owned sports teams including Ted Lerner, owner of the Washington Nationals, Abe Pollin, owner of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals, Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox
. 

Notable faculty

Main article: List of George Washington University faculty
See also: List of Elliott School of International Affairs people, List of Columbian College of Arts and Sciences people, and List of The George Washington School of Business people

Nobel Prize in Medicine
winner.

Other faculty have included

Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé (MBA), president of Togo since 2005, Blake R. Van Leer
, president of Georgia Tech, Colonel and Civil Rights advocate.

Controversies

On the first day of classes in August 2022, psychology professor Lara Sheehi allegedly made anti-Semitic comments to students.[191] Students also found anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter account.[191] In January 2023, Jewish students filed a complaint at the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR).[192] As a result of the OCR complaint, school administrators initiated a third-party investigation, contracting independent law firm Crowell & Moring LLP.[192] In May 2023, Crowell & Moring cleared Sheehi of antisemitism charges, having found a lack of supportive evidence to prove the claims.[192] Crowell & Moring, George Washington University administrators, and Jewish students all agreed to pursue remediation.[193] Although George Washington administrators closed their investigation, the OCR investigation remains open.

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