GW Survey Reveals Decline in Trust in Government

A new GW survey reveals that a return to partisan politics may explain the decline in trust in government between September 2001 and August 2002. “After September 11 patriotic themes in news coverage contributed to the surge in public trust in government. A year later, patriotism no longer serves as a unifying force across party lines. It is a return to ‘politics as usual.’”READ

• GW Professor to Engage D.C. Youth in Local Politics

Imparting the Power of a Free Press

As an investigative journalist for 20 years, Mark Feldstein has been beaten, sued, threatened, carjacked, detained, and censored. He’s won shelves full of awards, including nine Emmys that line the bottom of a bookcase in his office at the School of Media and Public Affairs. But now he’s back to the basics at GW, teaching his first semester of undergraduate classes as a full-time professor. READ

The Board of Trustees Extends President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg’s Term Through 2007

President Trachtenberg, whose previous contract was expected to be fulfilled at the conclusion of the 2002–03 academic year, has served as president of the University since 1988 and has guided GW’s emergence as a major national research University. READ

• Full Trachtenberg Biography

• Trachtenberg Addresses Tunisian Parliamentarians

• Lee Sigelman, CCAS, Washington Post, Oct. 9
• James Starrs, LAW, USA Today, Oct. 7
• Gordon Adams, ESIA, CS Monitor, Oct. 7

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