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Advancing Equity
The Research Institute for Social Equity has received $3 million in funding approved by the Virginia Legislature to significantly expand its role in promoting racial and social equity research, academic scholarship and public engagement on behalf of all Americans.
Water systems research receives Wilder School Faculty Small Grant
Read moreUrban redevelopment researchers receive Wilder School Faculty Small Grant
Read moreAlumni Changemaker: D. Pulane Lucas, Ph.D. paves the way for future policy leaders with Policy Pathways, Inc.
Read moreFuture-focused: Undergraduate Evan Hirsh selected as Wilder School Fall 2022 Commencement speaker
Read moreHousing very- and extremely low-income individuals and families with Calvin C. Johnson
Read moreWilder School dozen to attend and present at 2022 APPAM
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The 2023 U.S. News & World Report rankings show the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University rose to No. 35 in the nation among public affairs graduate schools (up from No. 38 in 2022). The Wilder School’s public management and leadership program also climbed to No. 29 (rising from No. 34 in 2022) in the report’s specialty program rankings.
Since 2018, the Wilder School’s public affairs graduate school position has risen 21 spots. The 2023 distinctions mark the school’s highest rankings since its creation in 2004 and place it within the nation’s top 15 percent of schools of public affairs and public management and leadership programs and the top graduate school of public affairs in Virginia.
Nationally-ranked M.P.A. program can now be completed fully online
Wilder School to offer Virginia’s first fully-accredited online program
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