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Mar 2, 2011
Ordeal in Egypt
Online master’s candidate Nathalie Atalla guarded her Cairo apartment with a rifle and temporarily fled Egypt during the uprising.
Feb. 28, 2011
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Jan 24, 2011
Air Force first lieutenant Raymond Gobberg is earning a GW degree while deployed in Afghanistan.
Jan. 24, 2011
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Jan 20, 2011
Managing a political message
Alumna serves on Cantor's press team
Jan. 20, 2011
Posted by: Charles Cushman in Untagged on
Nov 19, 2010
Over the past decade, The George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) has become a respected resource for providing leadership training across Latin America, focused on supporting democracy, human, and economic rights.
One of the ways in which GSPM works to achieve this goal is through The Political Management and Governance Program – sponsored by the Andean Development Bank (Corporación Andina de Fomento). The program is unique in its pioneering efforts to establish a balance among social, economic, and political development in countries undergoing constant transformation. The Governance Program harnesses the knowledge and experience acquired by the GSPM in its more than 20 years of providing education in applied politics.
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Sep 30, 2010
By Frank Ovaitt
Two hundred and twenty research and measurement professionals from 33 countries sat together in Barcelona recently and contemplated a problem that has plagued public relations since the first news-clip: the lack of standards for measuring what we do.
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Sep 27, 2010
Survey Shows Major Shift in Use of Social Media by Public Relations/Public Affairs Firms
NEW YORK, NY – Use of social media for public relations and public affairs purposes by U.S. communication consulting firms has jumped12%-15% in the past year, according to the first survey on the subject by PR/PA agency mergers and acquisition consultants, StevensGouldPincus.
Currently, the total percentage of work devoted by communications consulting firms to social media as opposed to traditional media is 30% overall. Next year, the percentage will increase to an average of 42%, with firms over $3 million in revenue increasing to 46%.
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Sep 22, 2010
Dr. Chuck Cushman, Acting Executive Director at GSPM, recently wrote an article on the school's programs in Latin America for the Continuing Higher Education Review, an annual publication by Harvard University.
Cooperative Education in the Andean Countries: A Case Study of International Education Efforts
Since 2001, the Graduate School of Political Management (GSPM) at The George Washington University (GW) has managed a cooperative education program with a network of nine respected universities in South America. This “governance and political management” program serves working professionals in the civil service, political party offices, advocacy groups, non-governmental organizations, labor unions, business leaders, and the press, not unlike working professionals described in UPCEA’s 2009 publication, The New Face of Higher Education: Lifelong Learning Trends. GSPM faculty travel to the region to lead weekend workshops to educate these working professionals in the tools, skills, and strategic management of communication, organization, and advocacy—an education not otherwise available in the region. Over 7,000 students have graduated from the GSPM program since its launch.
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Sep 13, 2010
By Frank Ovaitt
Research providers hate a bad RFP (request for proposal). Unfortunately, bad RFPs are a lot of what they see.
By Don Bates
In these days of fast and furious communication, it’s easy to forget some basics of sound public relations practice that have evolved over the years.
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Feb 19, 2010
Mark Penn, an influential politico who has been dubbed the "king of polling," announced his plans to gift a portion of his personal collection of polls to establish the Society of Presidential Pollsters within GW's Graduate School of Political Management.
In an interview with The Hatchet from his office in downtown D.C. Friday afternoon, Penn said he plans to donate polls from 1994 to 2000, when he served as the presidential pollster for President Bill Clinton.
