GWU is a well-established academic center in the heart of the Nation’s Capital, located in Foggy Bottom, just a few blocks west of the White House. Chartered by an act of Congress in 1821, it today has over 26,000 undergraduate and graduate students. It was my first experience with a major urban liberal arts university with all the diversity and opportunity one might expect in Washington, D.C.
The graduate school MPA program consisted mainly of night classes because most of the students worked for federal government agencies in Washington, D.C., during the day. I lived on campus in a dormitory that housed only graduate, medical, and law school students. It was a one-year program, and I received a Master’s Degree in Public Administration in 1974. The program is now part of the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at GWU.
The 1972-73 academic year at GWU was a time of growth in my life. I don’t have many photos of those days but you can click here to see one.