Politics & Values (P&V) is an immersive living and learning opportunity offered to a select group of first-year students. Over the course of the academic year, participants live together in Somers Hall on GW’s Mount Vernon Campus and complete a two-semester intensive curriculum that engages in questions around our relationship to society, individual choice and shared international values.
P&V students develop leadership skills, motivate each other and become familiar with the foundational areas of political science.
Since the P&V program was founded in 1975, graduates have gone on to positions in the U.S. Senate and the House; worked in nonprofits including the American Enterprise Institute, Teach for America, AmeriCorps and the Peace Corps; and attended top graduate schools such as Harvard, Columbia, Chicago and Oxford.