Looks as though the GWU President is on his way out, as announced yesterday. As a master’s graduate of GW, I wasn’t nearly as involved in campus/student life, as I was at my undergraduate university. Maybe it’s because I didn’t live on campus at GW, or because our program required us to work full time in our field so having a ton of social time to invest in the university life wasn’t really an option.

I came from a university that had heaps of drama with its administration, a lot financial (eh em) “concerns,” and constant and loud uproar from students against the university president and the way he ran the school. So although I didn’t personally know Trachtenberg, I know that what I heard from professors and the dean of my graduate program was very positive – and that was a welcome change. The dean of my graduate program at GW was fighting for our program to be moved under a different college within the university a few years ago and had nothing but good things to say about the administration.

Maybe others that had a full university career at GW could speak differently, but it seems like the general consensus is that Trachtenberg will be missed.