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Provost Chris Bracey sits at a Faculty Senate meeting in April.

Bracey resigns as provost

By Tyler Iglesias, Senior News Editor
June 4, 2025
Student speaker Cecilia Culver called on the University to divest from companies with ties to Israel in her speech Saturday at the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences Commencement celebration.

Officials bar CCAS graduation speaker from campus over Israel divestment call

By Tyler Iglesias, Senior News Editor
May 20, 2025
Columbian College of Arts & Sciences graduation student speaker Cecilia Culver called on the University to divest from companies with ties to Israel in her speech Saturday.

GW investigating student speaker’s call for divestment from Israel at CCAS graduation

By Tyler Iglesias, Senior News Editor
May 17, 2025
An overview of University Yard on day four of the pro-Palestinian encampment after protesters overran the barricades.

One year later, community wrestles with aftermath of pro-Palestinian encampment

By Rory Quealy, Ryan Saenz, Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
April 28, 2025
Dean Lynn Goldman poses for a portrait in the Milken Institute School of Public Health.

Departing Milken dean leaves legacy of school expansion, COVID-19 leadership

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
April 21, 2025
Outgoing Faculty Senate Executive Committee chair, Ilana Feldman, at Friday's Faculty Senate meeting.

Outgoing Faculty Senate leader recognized for strides in shared governance

By Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
April 14, 2025
The entrance to the Graduate School of Education and Human Development on G Street.

GSEHD faculty compensation undervalues discipline, exposes financial limits: professors

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
April 7, 2025
GW Hatchet editors annotate Student Government Association vice presidential and presidential candidate platforms.

Fact check: Cutting through redundancies, ambiguity in candidate platforms

By Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
April 7, 2025
A student walks through the halls of the GW School of Business.

GWSB, GSEHD latest schools to offer tuition discounts to former federal employees

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
April 3, 2025
Lights shine down on an empty classroom podium.

Adjunct faculty union pushes for pay raises in contract negotiations

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
March 6, 2025
Graduate School of Education and Human Development Dean Michael Feuer speaks at an event in 2019.

GSEHD dean to step down in July after 15 years in the role

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
February 28, 2025
Susan Wood speaks at an event hosted by the Milken Institute School of Public Health in 2019.

Women’s health champion, beloved health policy researcher dies at 66

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
February 24, 2025
Professor and Faculty Senator Sarah Wagner presenting the 25/6 resolution at Friday's meeting.

Faculty Senate backs subcommittee recommendations after review of pro-Palestinian student discipline

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
February 18, 2025
Yeltekin will begin the position on August 1.

Business school taps Sevin Yeltekin as next dean

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
February 13, 2025
Angela Ayres, the interim executive director of the Graduate School of Political Management, poses for a portrait.

GSPM stakeholders hope interim leader, director search will spur enrollment, grow community

By Tyler Iglesias and Elijah Edwards
February 10, 2025
A pair of students hold hands as they walk toward the entrance of Ross Hall.

SMHS undergraduate enrollment drops amid post-COVID health care, education shifts

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
January 27, 2025
The new gates at the entrance to Thurston Dining Hall.

Officials install entrance turnstiles for payment at dining halls

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
January 16, 2025
Vice Provost for Enrollment and Student Success Jay Goff presents metrics on 2024 student enrollment to the Faculty Senate.

GW met diversity, enrollment goals for Class of 2028: data

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
December 18, 2024
Youth Development Professional Certification program organizers host a focus group in October to develop the curriculum.

CPS, DC Parks and Recreation to launch youth development certification program

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
December 9, 2024
The front desk of the Graduate School of Political Management, located in the Media & Public Affairs building on 21st Street.

GSPM names Angela McMillen Ayres as interim director

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
November 21, 2024
Geodes in the geology program's home in Bell Hall

Future of geology program remains clouded after inconclusive task force results

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
November 18, 2024
Assistant News Editor Tyler Iglesias tests out the virtual reality simulator at the Simulation and Innovation Learning Center.

School of Nursing adds virtual reality learning to simulation center

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
November 18, 2024
Members of GWU Graduate Student Workers United celebrate the launch union efforts in September.

Graduate student workers vote to unionize with near-unanimous support

By Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
November 18, 2024
Faculty senator and co-chair of the Education Policy & Technology Committee Sarah Wagner presents the Blackboard Ally program at the November Faculty Senate meeting.

Faculty to launch Blackboard accessibility tool after calls from student advocates

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
November 11, 2024
Chief Financial Officer Bruno Fernandes illuminated by sunlight at a November Faculty Senate meeting.

Officials deliver update on MFA finances to Faculty Senate in private session

By Hannah Marr and Tyler Iglesias
November 11, 2024
Students pass through UYard in September.

Officials warn faculty, staff of potential impacts to in-person work after Election Day

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
November 5, 2024
Students study and walk through Kogan Plaza.

2024 GW community political donations exceed half a million

By Tyler Iglesias, Sachini Adikari and An Ngo
November 4, 2024
The GW Police Department headquarters along 22nd Street.

Officials announce campus security preparations, emergency operations center ahead of Election Day

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
October 31, 2024
University President Ellen Granberg listens during an October Faculty Senate meeting.

Faculty to identify, make recommendations for strategic plan development

By Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
October 21, 2024
The GW Medical Faculty Associates entrance awning on Pennsylvania Avenue in February.

MFA names Bill Elliott as permanent CEO

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
October 17, 2024
Murli Gupta during a Faculty Senate Meeting in 2020.

Veteran faculty senator, adored mathematics professor dies at 78

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
October 7, 2024
Members of the Graduate Workers Union promote the organization and pass out merch during the public launch.

Graduate students hold event to launch union organizing efforts

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
October 3, 2024
School of Nursing Dean Susan Kelly-Weeder poses for a portrait.

Nursing school dean discusses work to improve communication, building strategic plan in first year

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
September 30, 2024
The Columbian College of Art & Sciences office in Phillips Hall.

CCAS reinstates tenured faculty travel reimbursements, but uncertainty remains over graduate funding

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
September 23, 2024
Geneva Henry, the dean of libraries and academic innovation, during a Board of Trustees meeting in 2019.

Libraries face continued staff turnover, low morale years after budget cuts

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
September 16, 2024
Provost Chris Bracey during a Faculty Senate meeting last March.

Officials release diversity action plan three years after initiative’s launch

By Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
September 16, 2024
Biological Sciences Department Chair Guillermo Orti presents a report at a Faculty Senate meeting in April.

Faculty Senate preview: Senators to vote on faculty’s role in University policymaking

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
September 12, 2024
A fire engine parked outside the Science and Engineering Hall in response to the reported car fire.

DC FEMS responds to vehicle fire in SEH parking garage

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
September 11, 2024
Teaching associate professor Ned Lazarus speaks during the opening of his Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding class.

Faculty develop, alter course content to address ongoing war in Gaza

By Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
September 9, 2024
The School of Media and Public Affairs on 21st Street in Washington D.C.

SMPA names new director of Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
August 29, 2024
Samson Hall houses the Department of Geography and Environment.

Geography department changes name, reshapes master’s program

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
August 26, 2024
The Graduate School of Political Management's desk on the fourth floor of the Media & Public Affairs building.

GSPM alters public relations master’s degree program to match industry needs

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
August 19, 2024
The office for the Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department located on the sixth floor of Rome Hall.

CCAS adopts, expands Uyghur language studies program

By Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
August 19, 2024
The 10 new CCAS hires are down from 26 in 2023 and 24 in 2022.

CCAS hires 10 faculty members ahead of fall semester

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
August 2, 2024
The Media & Public Affairs building in 2022.

SMPA names Kintisch as next endowed environmental media professor

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
July 27, 2024
People walk through the I Street Mall between 23rd and 24th Street in Washington D.C.

Man arrested for assault as hate crime near Foggy Bottom Metro

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
July 19, 2024
Students studying in the School of Engineering building in February 2023.

Philanthropist gifts GW Engineering two endowed professorships

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
July 12, 2024
Diane Cline, a two-time Fulbright Scholar and winner of the Morton A. Bender Award for Excellence in Teaching.

CCAS research reward honors beloved classics, history professor

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
June 21, 2024

SMHS forms certification partnerships with two medical groups

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
June 7, 2024
SMHS graduates told to take joy in healing, embrace challenges at Commencement ceremony

SMHS graduates told to take joy in healing, embrace challenges at Commencement ceremony

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
May 22, 2024
The College of Professional Studies office, located on the third floor of the University Student Center.

CPS gains Faculty Senate representation after years of consideration

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
May 20, 2024
University President Ellen Granberg speaks before the graduating class of 2024 on the National Mall at GW's Commencement.

Speakers urge Class of 2024 to embrace nuance, intellectual inquiry at Commencement

By Jennifer Igbonoba and Tyler Iglesias
May 20, 2024
W. Scott Amey addresses students at the SEAS celebration Friday

SEAS graduates urged to take risks, utilize experiences at Commencement ceremony

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
May 20, 2024
Former United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Dean for Public Interest and Public Service Alan Morrison in Jack Morton Auditorium.

Former Supreme Court Justice discusses new book, experience on the court

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
May 18, 2024
Graduates heard from speakers about bringing compassion and resilience to the nursing profession.

School of Nursing graduates asked to approach careers with empathy, resilience

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
May 16, 2024
1922 F Street houses the Division of Development and Alumni Relations, which officials renamed as the Division of University Advancement.

Graduate assistants say new pay rates fall short of local living wage

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
May 13, 2024
Faculty protesters attend the University Yard demonstration with signs.

Faculty engage with campus protests, defend student speech, safety

By Tyler Iglesias, Assistant News Editor
May 13, 2024
Frank Sesno presents at the organization's official launch on April 17.

SMPA to add environmental, sustainability communication graduate concentration

By Tyler Iglesias and Natalie Note
April 29, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters allegedly spray-painted Provost Chris Bracey’s driveway on Tuesday night.

Officials release report on community discussions to create strategic plan

By Tyler Iglesias, Staff Writer
April 24, 2024
SMPA Director Peter Loge

SMPA director nears end of first year in position, reflects on building community

By Tyler Iglesias, Staff Writer
April 22, 2024
Biological Sciences Department Chair Guillermo Orti presents a report at a Faculty Senate meeting in April.

Faculty senators discuss changes to executive committee in wake of GWPD arming

By Tyler Iglesias and Hannah Marr
April 15, 2024
Members of the Faculty Senate listen to and answer questions during last February's meeting.

Faculty Senate preview: Senators to recommend changes to Executive Committee

By Tyler Iglesias, Staff Writer
April 11, 2024
The GW Law School on H Street.

Law school, graduate programs fall in national rankings

By Sachini Adikari and Tyler Iglesias
April 11, 2024
Hatchet research assistants review the Student Government Association Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate platforms.

Fact check: Candidates’ platforms with some context

By Tyler Iglesias and Sachini Adikari
April 8, 2024
Sophomore Student Government Association Finance Chair Ethan Lynne (CCAS-U).

SGA Finance Committee chair is second to announce vice presidential candidacy

By Tyler Iglesias, Reporter
March 28, 2024
Student Bar Association President Shallum Atkinson at an October meeting.

SBA president vetoes bill asking national bar examiners to cut mental health question

By Hannah Marr and Tyler Iglesias
March 8, 2024
Student Bar Association Sen. Arpitha Gorur speaks during a meeting.

Shah elected SBA president for 2024-25 academic year

By Tyler Iglesias, Reporter
March 7, 2024
Provost Chris Bracey presents agenda items during Friday's meeting.

Staffing remains below pre-pandemic levels, student-facing offices stagnate

By Tyler Iglesias, Reporter
March 4, 2024
Sarah Wagner, the co-chair of the Educational Policy & Technology Committee, speaks at a Faculty Senate meeting Friday.

Faculty senators press for transparency on impacts of MFA’s debt after continued losses

By Tyler Iglesias, Reporter
February 12, 2024
Deputy Secretary of the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Camille Dawson, right, and Student Association Sen. Jonesy Strell (CCAS-U), left, during Tuesday's talk.

Diplomat, former faculty talks US in the Indo-Pacific

By Tyler Iglesias, Reporter
February 1, 2024
The letter, signed by 1,114 alumni, urged officials to launch an investigation into anti-Israel messages projected onto the side of Gelman Library in October.

Alumni call on Granberg to form antisemitism action plan

By Ianne Salvosa and Tyler Iglesias
November 6, 2023
Former White House senior advisor Tony Sayegh addresses students during the discussion with GW College Republicans on Tuesday.

Trump administration adviser, alum talks time at GW, state of Republican party

By Tyler Iglesias, Reporter
October 30, 2023
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