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No neighborly love here THE DISTRICT Residents of a posh D.C. neighborhood say Ivanka Trump and her family don’t make for very good neighbors, taking up much of the parking and leaving trash bags at the curb for days. A big part of the complaint: a huge security presence, with even a trip to the playground requiring three vans. “It has been a three-ring circus from the day that they’ve moved in,” said Marietta Robinson, who lives across the street in the Kalorama neighborhood. Trump, her husband, Jared Kushner, and their children moved into the $5.5 million home just after the inauguration of her father, Donald Trump. Ivanka Trump and Kushner work in the White House as advisers. Residents of the enclave of four- and five-story townhomes and elegant single-family properties about 2 miles north of the White House are accustomed to VIP neighbors. Former President Barack Obama and his family have lived there since he left office, and the Secret Service
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D.C. neighbors have complained about parking, garbage and mean stares from Secret Service agents since Ivanka Trump moved in with her family.
closed off their entire block to traffic. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also moved in recently. Yet no one has raised the ire of the community like the Trumps. At a recent neighborhood commission meeting, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace was among those who showed up to complain about parking problems. “Maybe some of the upset has to do with politics a little. I couldn’t say for sure, but I know that people don’t seem to be upset about Tillerson’s situation. It’s much less intrusive,” said Ellen
“Frequently several of them are milling outside of the house at all hours having conversations and staring meanly at anyone in view.” MARIETTA ROBINSON, in a letter to D.C. officials, on the increased Secret Service presence in her Kalorama neighborhood
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THE DISTRICT D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser announced that the city will dedicate more resources to city children who go missing. The mayor’s statement Friday came in the wake of a public outcry about the number of children, particularly teenage girls, who go missing in D.C. It also followed a call Thursday by members of the Congressional Black Caucus asking the FBI to assist D.C. police in their investigation of missing children. Bowser will increase the number of police officers assigned to find missing children and establish a task force to determine what social services teenagers who run away need to stabilize their home lives. The city would also allocate more money to nonprofits that work with vulnerable teenagers. Her office said the goal is to ensure that city agencies work together to protect children and that the onus doesn’t fall entirely on the police department. “Oftentimes, these girls are repeat runaways,” said Kevin Harris, a spokesman for the mayor. “So if we really want to help solve this problem and bring down the numbers, we have to break the cycle of young people, especially young girls, who repeatedly run away from home.” D.C. police insist there has
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not been an increase in missing teenagers but rather that the law enforcement agency has made a more concerted effort to publicize these cases. Last week, acting police chief Peter Newsham said his department has recently started tweeting out the name and photo of every missing person in the city whose case is deemed “critical.” That definition includes anyone age 15 and under, including chronic runaways, and people 65 and over. National media outlets have run stories on the District’s missing teenagers. A headline in The Root, an African-American culture and news website, demanded to know if “anyone even cares” about D.C.’s missing black and Hispanic teens. Even if some of the media’s coverage is misleading, Harris said
the mayor thinks the attention the issue is receiving is positive and could help bring these children home quickly. Harris said that if jurisdictions across the country adopted the District’s social media policy, every missing child could receive the attention that those in D.C. are getting. Harris said these new initiatives aren’t a response to the alarm raised by media coverage, although he said she announced it Friday because of the attention it is receiving. “This is what the [social media] policy was intended to do,” Harris said. “It was intended to get these teens’ faces out there. It was intended to provoke conversation. We don’t ever want this to become the norm.” PERRY STEIN AND JOE HEIM (THE WASHINGTON POST)
Gillespie wins GOP straw poll in Fairfax Former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie has won a straw poll in Fairfax County in the race for the GOP nomination for Virginia governor. Gillespie took about 56 percent of the vote Saturday during a candidate event hosted by the Fairfax County Republican Committee. Gillespie will face off in a June 13 primary against state Sen. Frank Wagner and Corey Stewart, a former Virginia chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Fairfax County GOP Chairman Matt Ames said no candidate has been elected governor in over 30 years without also carrying Fairfax County. Virginia’s 2017 gubernatorial contest is expected to be widely watched as an early indicator of how voters are responding to Trump’s presidency. (AP)
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The proportion of Marylanders who would support a regionwide sales tax to boost Metro funding, giving it the most support among several proposals to bolster the struggling transit agency, a new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll finds. The survey of Maryland residents offers a picture of local taxpayers’ preferences as leaders from D.C., Maryland and Virginia ramp up their efforts to find consensus on a dedicated funding source for Metro — a move officials say is necessary to keep the transit agency financially solvent in the coming years. (TWP)
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A man whom police said was inspired by false internet rumors dubbed “pizzagate” to fire an assault weapon inside a D.C. pizzeria pleaded guilty Friday to two charges. Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, of Salisbury, N.C., said during a hearing that he had agreed to plead guilty to interstate transportation of a firearm and assault with a dangerous weapon. Each count carries a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in prison, but prosecutors and Welch’s federal defender agreed that nonbinding guidelines would probably call for a federal sentence of 18 to 24 months and a D.C. penalty of 18 to 60 months. (AP/TWP) THE DISTRICT
Officials: Fence jumper tried again, at Treasury The Secret Service said a woman who got tangled up by her shoelaces after trying to jump the White House fence last week has been arrested again after a similar stunt. Marci Anderson Wahl, 38, was arrested after an alarm sounded Sunday. Officials said she scaled a fence at the Treasury Building, next to the White House. She was charged with unlawful entry and contempt of court. Wahl was first arrested Tuesday after trying to jump the White House fence. She was rearrested Friday after officers saw her near Lafayette Park. (AP) VIRGINIA
Man dressed as Joker, carrying sword, arrested Police in Virginia have arrested a man dressed as comic book villain the Joker and charged him with wearing a mask in public. Winchester police said the department got several 911 calls Friday reporting a man made up as Batman’s nemesis who was wearing a cape and carrying a sword. Jeremy Putman, 31, was charged with wearing a mask in public, a felony that can result in a sentence of a year in jail. (AP)
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Largest anti-government rallies in years rock Russia Putin critic Navalny among the hundreds detained across nation RUSSIA Russia’s opposition, often written off as a small coterie of privileged urbanites, put on an impressive show of strength Sunday, with scores of protest rallies spanning the country. Hundreds were arrested, including Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner who is President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic. It was the biggest show of defiance since the 2011-2012 wave of demonstrations that rattled the Kremlin and led to harsh new laws aimed at suppressing dissent. Almost all of Sunday’s rallies were unsanctioned, but
thousands turned out. Police responded with barricades, tear gas and mass arrests across Russia. An organization that monitors Russian political repression, OVD-Info, said it counted more than 800 people arrested in the Moscow demonstrations alone. State news agency Tass cited Moscow police as saying there were about 500 arrests. Police estimated the Moscow crowd at 7,000, but it could have been larger. In St. Petersburg, about 5,000 protesters assembled in Mars Field park, shouting, “Putin resign!” and “Down with the thieves in the Kremlin!” Navalny, who was arrested while walking to the demonstration at Moscow’s Pushkin Square, was the driving force of the demonstrations. He called for them
after his Foundation for Fighting Corruption released a report contending that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has amassed a collection of mansions, yachts and vineyards. Navalny intends to run for president in 2018 — an election in which Putin is expected to run for another term. One of Navalny’s associates said he was told he could face charges of extremism for broadcasting the rally. But thousands of iPhones recorded as police closed off Pushkin Square. Also among the detained was American Alec Luhn, a reporter for the Guardian. No overall figures on arrests or attendance were available. Some Russian state media gave cursory reports on the protests; state news TV channel Rossiya-24 ignored them. (AP/THE WASHINGTON POST)
Uber has taken its fleet of self-driving vehicles off the roads while it investigates a Friday night crash that left one of its SUVs lying on its side. Police in Tempe, Ariz., found that the Uber SUV had been hit when another vehicle failed to yield, according to the Tempe Police Department. No serious injuries were reported. The accident raises questions about the safety of autonomous driving technology and how it will interact with other drivers on the road. There was an a engineer behind the wheel at the time of the accident, but an Uber spokeswoman said the vehicle was in self-driving mode and that there were no passengers. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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New FCC rule could help kill the robo-call
The Federal Communications Commission last week proposed rules that would let phone companies target and block those countless, annoying robo-calls coming from what appear to be illegitimate or unassigned phone numbers. The rules could help cut down on the 2.4 billion automated calls that go out each month — many of them fraudulent, according to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai. The rules could be approved this year. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
Pentagon: Airstrike in Afghanistan kills al-Qaeda leader responsible for deaths of two Americans
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Double shooting on bus paralyzes Strip for hours A man riding on a double-decker bus on the Las Vegas Strip fatally shot one person and wounded another Saturday before barricading himself in the vehicle, police said. He was arrested after a standoff that shut down South Las Vegas Boulevard for more than four hours and forced tourists to take shelter in hotels. Police did not cite a motive for the shootings; the suspect was identified Sunday as Rolando Cardenas, 55. (AP/EXPRESS) IRAQ
Pentagon: U.S. launched deadly airstrike in Mosul A March 17 airstrike targeting Islamic State militants in Mosul that witnesses said killed at least 100 civilians was launched by the U.S. military, American officials said Saturday. The U.S. did not confirm the reports of civilian casualties but opened an investigation. The Pentagon initially said it wasn’t sure U.S. forces launched the strike. The U.S. coalition said the strike had been requested by Iraqi security forces to target ISIS fighters. (AP) ENERGY
Trump OK’s long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline President Trump gave approval Friday to the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline, siding with energy advocates over environmental groups. The permit came nearly a decade after TransCanada applied to build the $8 billion pipeline, which will snake from Canada through the U.S. Trump said Keystone will reduce costs and reliance on foreign oil, and create jobs. The Obama administration sided with groups that said Keystone would encourage use of carbon-heavy tar sands oil, adding to global warming. (AP)
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier convicted of child endangerment
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nation+world Leader urges company to help police access encrypted message LONDON Westminster Bridge attacker Khalid Masood sent a WhatsApp message that can’t be accessed because it was encrypted by the messaging service, a top British security official said Sunday. British press reports suggest Masood, who was shot dead by police, used the messaging service owned by Facebook just minutes before the Wednesday rampage
that left three pedestrians and one police officer dead and dozens more wounded. As controversy Masood swirled over the encrypted messages, police arrested a 30-year-old man in Birmingham, England, where Masood had lived. He is one of two men now in custody over possible links to the attack. Neither has been charged or publicly named. Home Secretary Amber Rudd used appearances on BBC and Sky News to urge WhatsApp and
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led by Mark Meadows, R-N.C. “There are some folks in the Republican House caucus who have yet to make the pivot from complaining to governing,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “And this is a White House controlled by a politician who is not really trying to lead a party.” The health care bill exposed fissures masked by years of rejecting and resisting all things Obama. The legislation’s provision to repeal requirements for essential health benefits such as maternity care and emergency services was designed to appeal to hard-line conservatives who don’t think the government should be in the health care business. That unnerved GOP moderates, especially those in districts won by Democrat Hillary Clinton last year. They were worried about tens of thousands of constituents losing Medicaid or older voters being forced to pay more. Pulling the bill Friday cleared
Who’s to blame? In a sharp contrast from Friday, when he pointed the finger at Democrats, President Trump on Sunday accused a pair of conservative organizations and a group of hard-right House lawmakers of being at least partially responsible for the collapse of the Republican effort to overhaul the nation’s health care law. “Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood& Ocare!” Trump tweeted. Asked about the tweet, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a Freedom Caucus member, said on Fox News: “Instead of doing the blame game, let’s get to work.” (THE WASHINGTON POST)
out Washington, giving House Republicans a chance to cool off at home this weekend. Still, some couldn’t hide their frustration. Michigan Rep. Justin Amash
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said he and his conservative colleagues wanted a full-blown departure from the Obama law, rather than what Speaker Paul Ryan was offering, but were given little voice. Said Amash: “From the beginning of the process, I think the way it was set up did not bring the disparate parts of the conference together.” Ryan pledged that the House would return to its campaign agenda, including legislation aimed at beefing up security on the border with Mexico, and increasing spending on the military and public works while also reining in the budget deficit. “We were a 10-year opposition party where being against things was easy to do. You just had to be against it,” Ryan said after canceling the vote. “And now, in three months’ time, we try to go to governing where we actually have to get ... people to agree with each other.” THOMAS BEAUMONT AND BILL BARROW (AP)
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POLITICS The Republican Party of “no” for Democrat Barack Obama’s eight years is having a hard time getting to “yes” in the early Donald Trump era. The unmitigated failure of the GOP bill to replace Obamacare underscored that Republicans are a party of upstart firebrands, old-guard conservatives and moderates in Democratic-leaning districts. Despite the GOP monopoly on Washington, they are pitted against one another and struggling for a way to govern. The divisions cost the party its best chance to fulfill a sevenyear promise to undo Obama’s Affordable Care Act and cast doubt on whether the Republicanled Congress can do the monumental — the first overhaul of the nation’s tax system in more than 30 years — as well as the basics — keeping the government open at the end of next month, raising the nation’s borrowing authority later this year and passing the 12 spending bills for federal agencies and departments. While the anti-establishment bloc that grew out of the tea party’s rise helped the Republicans win majorities in Congress, the internal divide, complicated further by Trump’s independence, threatens the GOP’s ability to deliver on other promises. “I think we have to do some soul-searching internally to determine whether or not we are even capable as a governing body,” said Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota in the bitter aftermath of the health care debacle. Despite a commanding majority in the House, an advantage in the Senate and Trump in the White House, Republicans hardly seem to be on the same team. One faction is the very conservative House Freedom Caucus
A Fox News personality — whom President Trump had urged his supporters to watch Saturday night — called on House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to step down, saying he had done a disservice to Trump by failing to pass a health care bill last week. At the top of her show, Jeanine Pirro, host of “Justice With Judge Jeanine,” delivered a scathing commentary on Ryan’s performance in the days leading up to the decision to pull the House Republican bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. “It failed within the first 70 days of President Donald Trump’s administration, a president who made the replacement of Obamacare the hallmark of his campaign and then used valuable political capital to accomplish it,” said Pirro, placing the blame squarely on Ryan. Earlier Saturday, Trump took to Twitter to urge his followers to tune into Pirro’s show, saying: “Watch @JudgeJeanine on @FoxNews tonight at 9:00 P.M.” In public statements since the bill’s collapse, both Trump and Vice President Pence have continued to support Ryan as speaker. In an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” White House chief of staff Reince Priebus called Trump’s tweet and Pirro’s call for Ryan to step down “coincidental,” adding that Trump had promoted Pirro’s show “because he loves Judge Jeanine.” JOHN WAGNER
Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, resigns from House Freedom Caucus over its opposition to GOP health plan
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nation+world Police do not suspect any links to terrorism in Cincinnati shooting CINCINNATI A gunfight broke out inside a crowded Cincinnati nightclub early Sunday, leaving one man dead and 15 others wounded after a dispute among several patrons escalated into a shootout, authorities said. No suspects were in custody by late afternoon in the shooting at the Cameo club, which has a
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history of gun violence, and police said there was no indication of any terrorism link. A University of Cincinnati Medical Center spokeswoman said that Sunday afternoon, five people were still in the hospital. Two were in critical condition and three were in stable condition. Cincinnati Police Chief Eliot Isaac identified the dead man as 27-year-old O’Bryan Spikes. Police began receiving calls at 1:30 a.m. about gunshots at the club, near the Ohio River east of downtown Cincinnati. Isaac
said some 200 people were inside the club, one of the few hip-hop venues in the city. “What we know at this point in the investigation is that several local men got into some type of dispute inside the bar, and it escalated into shots being fired from several individuals,” Isaac said. It wasn’t clear how many people fired shots. Club patron Mauricio Thompson described a chaotic scene in which as many as 20 shots were fired as people scrambled to get away. He said there was a
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The family of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who went missing in Iran a decade ago on an unauthorized CIA assignment, has filed a suit against Iran. The lawsuit alleges that he was imprisoned by Iran, part of a pattern of Iran “seizing and holding hostages in order to extract concessions from the hostage’s home country.” The lawsuit accuses the nation of using “cold, cynical and false denials” to torture his loved ones. The suit seeks unspecified monetary damages. (AP) HONG KONG
Beijing favorite elected city’s first female leader Carrie Lam, the candidate favored by China’s Communist leadership, was chosen as Hong Kong’s new chief executive leader Sunday. It was the first such vote for a new leader since huge pro-democracy protests erupted over the semiautonomous Chinese city’s election system in 2014. Lam’s victory was hardly a surprise. China’s leaders had lobbied heavily for Lam, 59, who will become Hong Kong’s first female leader and its fourth since British colonial control ended in 1997. (AP)
fight and people were yelling for security to intervene before the gunfire began. “Once I got outside, people [were] coming out bloody, gunshot wounds on them, some of their friends carrying them to the car, rushing them to the hospital,” Thompson told WCPO-TV. The club has a history of gun violence, including a shooting inside the club on New Year’s Day in 2015 and one in the parking lot in September of that year, City Manager Harry Black said.
BAIDOA, SOMALIA | A newly displaced Somali girl holds her sister next to their makeshift shelter at a
refugee camp Saturday. Thousands of desperate Somalis have streamed into Baidoa seeking food and medical care as a result of the country’s prolonged drought, which is threatening 3 million lives, according to the U.N.
The number of days out of President Trump’s first 66 in office that he spent all or part of at a property that bears his name, according to a Washington Post report. And despite his insistence on the campaign trail that he would avoid the links — “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” he said in August — he has made 13 visits to his own golf courses since becoming president, likely playing golf at least 12 of those times. (THE WASHINGTON POST)
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“Do I regret not being president? Yes.” JOE BIDEN, at a speaking engagement Friday at Colgate University, reflecting on his decision not to run for president in
2016. The former vice president had been expected to run, but the death of his son Beau in May 2015 led him to re-evaluate his priorities. Biden said Friday that he thinks he could have won, and regrets not being president, but in light of everything that was going on in his life, he does not regret the decision to stay out of the race.
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Sindarius Thornwell, left, led the Gamecocks’ upset. Luke Maye made the final shot for UNC.
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South Carolina makes first Final Four; North Carolina advances on last-second shot S. Carolina 77, Florida 70 It’s only right that South Carolina earned its first trip to the Final Four with a dominant performance by Sindarius Thornwell and a swarming effort on defense. The Gamecocks stymied Florida down the stretch to win the East Regional 77-70 on Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York. Thornwell scored 26 points for the seventh-seeded Gamecocks (26-10) against the fourth-seeded Gators (27-9). With 14 lead changes and 10 ties, the game was close until the final minute. Thornwell made two free throws with 2:24 left to give South Carolina the lead for good. Florida managed just three
field goals over the final 3:55. Thornwell, the regional MVP, followed the deciding free throws with a nice assist to Maik Kotsar for a four-point lead. Thornwell also made a steal with 40 seconds left that helped push the lead to five. PJ Dozier added 17 points for the Gamecocks, Chris Silva had 13 and Kotsar 12. Justin Leon had 18 points for the Gators, who led 40-33 at halftime on 7-for-12 shooting from 3-point range. But Florida went 0-for-14 from beyond the arc in the second half, and the Gamecocks forced 16 turnovers overall to get their third straight win after trailing at halftime. It all added up to a Final Four trip for coach Frank Martin, he
Final Four matchups Both games are scheduled for CBS on Saturday at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. The championship is a week from today. No. 7 South Carolina (26-10) vs. No. 1 Gonzaga (36-1), 6:09 p.m. No. 3 Oregon (33-5) vs. No. 1 UNC (31-7), 8:49 p.m.
of the booming voice and terrifying faces. “Anyone that’s in sports dreams of moments like this,” said Martin, who was dancing as soon as he entered the locker room. “It’s not something that you start dreaming it the year you win 25 games. You dream it every single day.”
N. Carolina 75, Kentucky 73 Sophomore backup Luke Maye hit a jumper with 0.3 seconds left, and top-seeded North Carolina held off Kentucky 75-73 to earn a second straight trip to the Final Four, its 20th all-time. The Tar Heels (31-7) took control with a 12-0 run in the final five minutes. But freshman De’Aaron Fox (13 points) hit a quick 3, and classmate Malik Monk hit two more as Kentucky (32-6) pulled even. Monk’s second 3-pointer went in with 7.2 seconds left to tie it up at 73. Theo Pinson brought the ball down and passed back to Maye, and the Huntersville, N.C., native knocked it down for the win with his feet on the 3-point line. (AP)
On Saturday, less than 24 hours after UCLA coach Steve Alford pulled his name out of consideration for the coaching vacancy at Indiana, Hoosiers athletic director Fred Glass announced he had hired Archie Miller from Dayton. Miller, 38, replaces Tom Crean, who was fired March 16 after missing the NCAA Tournament five times in nine seasons. In six seasons with Dayton, Miller led the Flyers to a school-record four straight NCAA Tournament bids. He won at least 24 games in each of those seasons and claimed the last two Atlantic 10 regular-season titles. Indiana will introduce Miller — whose older brother, Sean, coaches at Arizona — today at a news conference. (AP)
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Welcome to the Spring 2017 edition of The Washington Post’s Guide to Graduate Education. In this edition, we look at those who return to the classroom with a new career SY OF UN path in mind. Whether the career change IV E AW RS FL ITY LO O is due to boredom, fulfilling a dream, or OF M O S CH ARYL A N D F R A N C IS K IN G C A R E Y simply to earn more financially, we report on the impact of changing your career and how it can enhance both your personal life and professional career.
In the first feature, we cover those who work in the office on the weekdays and are earning their master’s degree or doctorate on the weekend. The number of working adults in the classroom is growing exponentially, in the following pages we will tell you why and how to best maneuver a life in the office, as well as the classroom. Another story goes into the continued growth of cyber security and how online programs allow those with a day job to continue career advancement in that field in an environment that makes the most sense.
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Weekend Graduate School Sets Stage for Advancing for professors. “Do you want adjunct faculty or tenured professors,” Roush said. “It really matters to a lot of students.” To help discern whether a program will be a good fit, look at the makeup of students. In Purdue’s weekend MBA program, 40 percent come from engineering, 35 percent from the business world and the rest are divided among medical professionals, lawyers and entrepreneurs, Roush said.
said. “That should tell you about the challenge and the quality of the curriculum.” The other students will play a role in what you take away from the experience. That’s especially true in many MBA programs and others where the classes are taught cohort style, where students in a cohort take the same classes from the first day through graduation. “I would highly recommend that working professionals consider
“Not all MBA programs are the same. They need to understand what kind of work they want to get up and do every day. Know thyself. Then invest in thyself.” —John Straub, director of the Master’s in Applied Economics Program at the University of Maryland
online and face-to-face. It’s possible to complete most programs in one to three years. “To ensure success, choose a program carefully and be realistic about what you can accomplish. Key factors are the quality of the program, the time it will take and its alignment with your goals,” said Stephanie Moore, online learning coordinator at the University of Virginia. “Students may be looking for a degree title or a particular university rather than the details of the degree and where that degree aligns with their career,” Moore said. “If you’re going to spend all this time and money in doing this, you want to make sure what you get out of it in the end is a useful product.” Students should ask themselves where they are in their careers, what they want to do after earning the degree and will the prospective degree take them where they want to go, Moore said. For example, the weekend MBA at Purdue University is more analytical compared to other programs that focus more on marketing and people skills,
while programs at other schools are geared more toward people, processes or both, said Don Roush, associate director. “Not all MBA programs are the same,” Roush said. “Decide what are you looking to do professionally.” Before applying, students should decide their preference
To really get the inside track, talk to current students and graduates. Ask to sit in on a class, said Cyndy Huddleston, associate dean, graduate admissions and corporate relations at the University of Virginia. “We allow students to sit in on classes and experience the program for themselves,” she
a cohort format for professional studies,” Huddleston said. “It creates a support network of like-minded professionals with similar time challenges who are moving through the program together. Being part of a strong cohort is an amazing professional experience and one with lasting career benefits.”
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nstead of spending every weekend running errands and relaxing, many people— likely including some of your coworkers—are setting the stage for career changes or advancement by heading back to school for an advanced degree. From 2001-02 through 201112, the number of master’s degrees awarded increased 55 percent while the number of doctorate degrees increased 42 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Although you’ll give up your weekends and possibly your evenings, you can keep your day job. Many programs even require that students be working full time. About 76 percent of graduate students work at least 30 hours per week, according to Learning While Earning, The New Normal in 2015 by Georgetown University’s Center for Education and the Workforce. One third of these working learners are 30 or older. Depending on the program, you may have classes every Friday and Saturday, every Saturday, every other Saturday, online or a combination of
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“Their employer needs to be aware. They need to make sure their family is ready. They have to make adjustments with their kids.” —Cyndy Huddleston, associate dean, graduate admissions and corporate relations at the University of Virginia
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Purdue, the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins and others are among universities increasingly moving to offer more online courses and online and hybrid degree programs tailored to students who live a great distance from campus or who have less flexible work schedules. Since 2014, the Master of Liberal Arts at Johns Hopkins University has transitioned from 70 percent face-toface classes and 30 percent online to the opposite: 70 percent online and 30 percent face to face, said Elizabeth Patton, director of the program. In the past, Purdue’s 21-month program met on Fridays and Saturdays but has recently switched to Saturdays-only plus an additional online component, Roush said. “We realized that for some younger students, trying to get a Friday off was difficult,” he said. If you’re considering an online program, remember the benefit is flexibility. Online doesn’t equal easy.
“Online learning isn’t any easier or less time-consuming that learning in a classroom,” said Jane M. Paluda, assistant dean for marketing and communications at the University of Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies. “You’ll need to devote several hours per week to attending class online, in addition to completing assignments and class readings.” On the other hand, some government workers have every other Friday off, which makes scheduling easier. “Lots of people have flexible schedules and have Fridays off anyway,” Huddleston said. “People will drive up from Richmond, from
Tidewater, even take a train from New York or Philadelphia.” Whether you’re taking classes on weekends, at night, online or a combination, be ready for a big adjustment. Decide whether you can manage an ongoing weekly time commitment and whether your employer will give you or let you take time off for class, if needed. “Our students are usually employed,” Roush said. “Their employer needs to be aware. They need to make sure their family is ready. They have to make adjustments with their kids.” A good rule of thumb is to set aside at least three hours of in-class time for an online class with another six hours for class reading, writing and other assignments, Paluda said. For a three credit-hour class, students should count on spending nine to 12 hours per week, Moore said. That includes class time, homework and collaborating with your peers. Attending a three-hour class after work “is a big chunk of time especially if you’ve been working all day,” said John Dolan, associate dean for liberal studies at Georgetown University. “I tell our students, ‘Prepare yourselves. It’s going to be taxing, not only mentally, but also physically to start our program.’ They’re juggling work, children, aging parents. To add in graduate coursework in the evenings, that takes some getting used to. I speak from experience. I completed my Ph.D. at Penn State at night while working during the day.” Keep in mind, though, that you’re not going to be in graduate school forever. “You’re not talking about a long-term, multiple year commitment,” Huddleston said. “Most of us can figure out how to do something extra for a year.” s
• Something has to give. Decide which volunteer and other activities you can put on hold until graduation. “This is an intensive experience but a doable one,” said Denise Keyes, senior associate dean in Georgetown University’s Executive Master of Professional Studies in Global Strategic Communications program. “It is designed for people who have the drive and the commitment to take on the demands.” • Figure out what you want—not just what an employer might want. “Younger students are often focused on trying to understand what employers want and what kinds of skills are in demand,” said John Straub, director of the Master’s in Applied Economics Program at the University of Maryland. “Those things are important, but I remind students to look in as well as out. They need to understand what kind of work they want to get up and do every day. Know thyself. Then invest in thyself.” • Consult with your advisor and plan your progression from first semester to cap and gown. That way you won’t get hit with surprises or find out a semester before your expected graduation that the course you need to walk the stage won’t be offered again for two years. “Successful students take full advantage of advising,” said Barbara Marinak, director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Mount St. Mary’s University. “Some students come to see me once a semester just to make sure they’re on the right track, to make sure everything is moving forward.” If your advisor isn’t being proactive, tell him or her your planned graduation date and ask if you are missing requirements. • In a cohort style program, develop and nurture lasting relationships with your fellow students. “Our students love going to classes with the same people,” said William Powers, executive dean of the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. They develop a foxhole camaraderie that they take with them through
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18 months. They enjoy learning from each other. That is a key part of their education— it’s not just our curriculum. We often hear they are going to each other’s weddings years later.” • When you finish, celebrate your success. Celebrate all the promotions and milestones along the way, too. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND’S MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAM IN APPLIED ECONOMICS
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Some students say they weren’t sure of what they were doing as undergraduates and now they know what they want, Charmé said. “They say, ‘I’d like to have a do-over and go back and explore some things I wasn’t paying enough attention to as an undergrad.’ To those students we say, ‘Just be open to exploration.’” “We have people in our program who always wanted to study in a liberal arts curriculum but never had the opportunity to do so because they went down a different path in their lives,” Dolan said. “Now they have the opportunity to do a take two on their learning.” Students in these programs appreciate the chance to read great books and philosophy they may have missed on their first trip through college. “They spend time thinking about Aristotle and
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he term “Master of Liberal Arts” seems like a contradiction—most people think of pursuing a graduate degree to specialize in a certain niche. But graduates with an MLA or Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) degree learn how to think critically and work across multiple disciplines both for their own benefit and to improve their career path. “I think some people still have the misconception that it’s necessary to specialize in a particular field to have some benefit from graduate study,” said Stuart Charmé, director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at Rutgers University. “Certainly in some areas, having a master’s degree in a particular field is useful. In other cases, having graduate-level study across a number of different disciplines is more useful. It is important for students to see different contributions from different disciplines and fields to a particular problem.” “There is this perception that such a program does not have practical value,” said John Dolan, associate dean for liberal studies at Georgetown University, which offers a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. “It helps students develop critical thinking skills and the
“Issues we face today just look a little different from problems people faced centuries ago. The program allows them to put contemporary problems in an historical context and use their knowledge to solve those problems.” —John Dolan, associate dean for liberal studies at Georgetown University
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ability to synthesize information from a lot of different sources and approach problems in a thoughtful way. Students learn how to craft an argument, how to best articulate their point of view and to respond accordingly when presented with different perspectives. I’ve heard from students that their writing for their job is more concise and clear as a result of what they’re doing in the program. There’s an application in any kind of work population.” Students come from numerous professions including teaching, social services, law enforcement and government. “We have police officers in our program taking courses in platonic philosophy that focus on building consensus rather than giving orders,” said Elizabeth Patton, director of the Master of Liberal Arts program at Johns Hopkins University. “We’re also gathering together a cluster of courses on leadership.”
Thomas Jefferson, things they never had the chance to do before,” Dolan said. “One marketing executive who participated in our program was so thrilled to be able to turn on a different part of his brain during our coursework. He really relished the thinking and the rich discussions that he didn’t get to experience previously in his academic life or his work career.” A broad array of classes exposes students to multiple viewpoints, topics and approaches they might not encounter in a degree program tightly focused on one niche. “The program allows students to look at their area of interest through multiple lenses,” said Elizabeth Demaray, associate professor of fine arts at Rutgers who has served as acting director of Rutgers’ MALS program.
Finding a Related Career Path Demeray encouraged one nurse in the program to take classes in public health. After all, those courses were closely related to her career. But the student wasn’t interested in taking classes in public health; she wanted to take courses in the humanities. “One class she took was in the uses of myth stories in Native American culture,” Demaray recalled. “Warriors who went off to battle would spend time in each other’s company sharing stories and myths.
She realized that these stories allowed warriors as a community to heal from battle. Then she realized that these same types of practices would be of use to our returning soldiers who have PTSD. Now she is doing her capstone project
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recognize people have a lot going on. We are very flexible with students sitting out a semester and coming back in.” As they prepare to graduate, students in these programs often can choose among two or three options: a thesis or capstone
“It is important for students to see different contributions from different disciplines and fields to a particular problem.” —Stuart Charme, director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at Rutgers University putting together a bibliography of stories that could be used by returning military members who might be suffering from PTSD. Because she has a background in nursing, she would be somebody wellsuited to lead a reading group for people who are struggling with PTSD.” Programs are often tailored to working professionals. Although a handful in Georgetown’s program are retired and pursuing their degree fulltime, most are part-time taking classes at nights and on Saturdays, Dolan said. “It’s tailored to working professionals,” he said. “We
project, additional courses and possibly a short paper instead of a thesis or even an internship accompanied by a paper. “We’ve had students do internships in the Maryland State Archives and National Archives,” Patton said. Students apply what they’ve learned from long-dead philosophers in 21st century business, government and nonprofit sectors. “There are no new issues,” Dolan said. “Issues we face today just look a little different from problems people faced centuries ago. The program allows them to put contemporary problems in an
Georgetown Global Strategic Communications students, Chandra Robinson and Javier Munoz, preparing for their capstone presentation in Washington, D.C. Summer 2016.
historical context and use their knowledge to solve those problems. We also provide a global perspective for our students that they wouldn’t necessarily gain in their workplace.” Many of these students put their newlygained insights and critical thinking skills back to work locally in their jobs and as part of boards and other volunteer activities. “We’re creating a better community
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s cyber criminals continue to hack databases in banking, government, insurance, manufacturing, energy, engineering, the military and other sectors, the need for subject matter experts grows. Mid-career professionals are heading back to school to pursue degrees to help them fight fraud. Programs online—which makes sense because that’s the cybercrime battleground—make it easier to juggle a day job. “Cybersecurity is a growing and critical field because the physical, financial and cyber worlds are intertwined,” said Shiu-Kai Chin, professor of engineering and computer science at Syracuse University, which offers a master of science in cybersecurity online.
Students can complete the degree in as few as 15 months, taking two courses per quarter and continuing to work fulltime, Chin said. “Many jobs in many fields use and rely upon some form of computer-assisted infrastructure,” Chin said. “Assuring the security and integrity of this infrastructure is essential. We teach the principles of security and integrity, which are specialized to various fields such as manufacturing, defense, financial services, and health care.” With every new data breach, the need becomes more evident. “The integrity of information and the security of command and control is crucial to the safety of internet of things and financial services, much as clean water is crucial to modern society,” Chin said.
“Corruption of water, information, and command and control, degrades and paralyzes organisms and organizations.” Students learn basic principles that apply across all fields and then develop the skills to apply those principles in their own sector, Chin said. “Each application and each field shares the need for operating with integrity and security,” Chin said. “However, each application, mission, or scenario has specific security policies, definitions, and circumstances. Graduates learn how to apply security principles to tailor security solutions to specific situations and circumstances.” The need extends beyond technical experts to those who can navigate fraud-related policy and law, said Markus
Rauschecker, professor of cybersecurity law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. “It is hitting home to CEOs that cybersecurity is not just a technical and security issue,” Rauschecker said. “There is a need to understand the legal and policy issues they will be confronted with in the cybersecurity field.” The law school offers a master of science in law with several different concentrations, including cybersecurity. “We realized there was a need for working professionals to gain a better understanding and knowledge of the law, policies and regulations that govern specific areas including health care, environmental law, patent law, homeland security, crisis management and of course cybersecurity,” said José BahamondeGonzález, associate dean of the University of Maryland law school. “Many of our students are already technical experts in the cybersecurity field,” Rauschecker said. “They understand the technology of what they do on a daily basis. Now they’re seeing policy issues, new laws and regulations that influence their daily work.” Students include federal workers, people who work for start-up companies and the head of information technology for a major
“Students learn basic principles that apply across all fields and then develop the skills to apply those principles in their own sector.” —Shiu-Kai Chin, professor of engineering and computer science at Syracuse University
Washington, D.C. law firm. The program positions graduates to help develop policies for their workplace and beyond. What students learn helps them drive conversations at work, Rauschecker said. One student persuaded her employer to change a policy with an argument based on what she learned through the program, he said. “When it comes to legal and policy issues, cybersecurity is such a new field,” Rauschecker said. “There is not a whole lot of established law and policy. Instead, it’s being developed as we speak. A lot of students who are in these positions are involved in conversations about what those policies should be but they don’t feel confident they can participate in that conversation. When they go through our program, they have a better understanding about legal policy and can better participate in those conversations.” s
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or some people, “Think globally, act locally” means going back to school— often locally—to get a graduate degree in global policy or global communications. “The world is very complex,” said Martina Leinz, director of executive education, recruitment and outreach at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, which offers a Master of Arts in Global Policy. “Globalization has created both opportunities and challenges. There is a need for people who have quantitative thinking skills, project management and analysis. There is a need for people with regional, cultural and economic expertise.” Experience in international relations, including living or working abroad, is helpful, Leinz said, as is knowing more than one language. Students also should decide why they want the degree. “It’s very important for them to have a clear understanding of why they want a master’s degree in this field,” Leinz said. “They should think about what knowledge they’re hoping to gain, what skills they’re hoping to build and how that will impact their professional career. Clarity of purpose really helps.” Some students are looking to advance while others are career switchers, she said. Like many of the other executive programs, students are required to be working full-time. They must have at least seven years of full-time work experience. The program average is 13, Leinz said. “It’s a very diverse group, intentionally,” Leinz said. “We believe it’s more valuable to the cohort to have a wide variety. Most of the cohort members are career advancers already working in the field in some capacity. They’re seeking a higher-level
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“People from many different backgrounds want to understand the policy piece of things,” Leinz said. “If you’re a doctor and you’re interested in global health, having that policy piece will help your background.” Students take five modules over 16 months, cohort style with an international residency before graduation, Leinz said. The group that graduated in December met collectively with 40 organizations, including the defense ministry in India. This year’s cohort is going to Indonesia. Communicating globally also is critical in a growing number of companies. “In our program there is a focus on understanding the global audience,” said Denise Keyes, senior associate dean in Georgetown University’s Executive Master of Professional Studies in Global Strategic Communications program. “From the beginning
program, students must have at least seven years of professional experience. As part of their five modules, students in Georgetown’s program do five six-day residencies: two in Washington, D.C., and three outside the United States, Keyes said. Sites have included Singapore, London and Brazil. “Students engage with a wide range of organizations and individuals from all over the world and across all sectors—corporate, nonprofit and government—for each module,” Keyes said. “For their final capstone project, they work with a client of their own choosing.” After they graduate, they are more prepared to be a chief communications officer. “We look at the role of the CCO as a leader, advisor, educator and finally as an integrator,” Keyes said. “The role demands a new kind of training.”s
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able to incorporate their previous degrees and life experience into expertise pursuing their long-held or newly-discovered passions. “The successful students in a Master of Arts in Teaching program leverage every single thing they’ve learned in that previous career to their education courses, field experiences and internships,” said Barbara Marinak, director of the Master of Arts in Teaching program at Mount St. Mary’s University. “Generally speaking, they are great communicators. They don’t hesitate to pick up the phone or send an email. They are great collaborators whether digital or face-to-face. They have great problem-solving skills. These strategies serve them well in the college classroom as well as during their internships in the field.” How much time will the transition take? That depends on how closely related your new field is to your undergraduate degree and/or profession. For professionals switching into
teaching, the minimum number of classroom hours and internships is 1100, Marinak said. That does not include homework or commuting time. Most professional degree programs will take the equivalent of at least one year going fulltime, with law, medicine and some other professions taking far longer, Powers said. If your current employer is likely to benefit from your new skills, see if you can negotiate spending some of your work hours attending classes to cut down the amount of time it takes to complete a program, he said. For prospective teachers, the most direct way into a second career in education is to leverage their past life into their new career, especially if their undergraduate degree relates to the subject they want to teach, Marinak said. “Suppose they did their undergraduate degree in history or political science and have a passion for that discipline,” she said. “They may decide they want to teach social studies. All of those history or political sciences courses are the prerequisites.
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It’s also pretty easy for a business major to become a business teacher and for someone with an undergrad degree in English to become an English teacher. Their coursework in our program will be pedagogical, child development and assessment.” The challenge comes when a student’s undergraduate degree is not closely related to the prospective new field. “Someone might be quite good at mathematics but they haven’t had those 12 or 15 upper level math courses they needed in undergraduate math,” Marinak said. Those students will need to work on prerequisite courses at a community college, which they may be able to do concurrently with pursuing the MAT degree, she said.
“It is smart to talk to a number of people in the alternate profession about what day-to-day life in the profession is actually like and what skills they will need to build. For the same reason, it is often smart to take one or two courses before committing to a full degree program.” —William Powers, executive dean of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy About half the students in the Master of Applied Economics program at the University of Maryland did not major in economics as undergraduates, said John Straub, program director. These students “have reached a point where they need to beef up their tool kit a little bit in order to advance,” Straub said. “Many of our students studied business or other social sciences like political science or international relations,” Straub said. “What brings them to us is the value that employers often place on the ability to work with data the way economists are able to work with data. Indeed, it is often a current employer’s idea for the student to enroll with us.” Weigh the demands of your prospective profession, Powers said. “Impressions one gets from the media can be misleading,” he said. “It is smart to talk to a number of people in the alternate profession about what day-to-day life in the profession is actually like and what skills they will need to build. For the same reason, it is often smart to take one or two courses before committing to a full degree program.” If you can, work or volunteer in that profession before making the commitment. Chris Schlee, 46, of New Market, Md., tried out teaching while still working in landscaping. First, he worked as a substitute teacher every Friday. Then Schlee worked as an assistant in special education. Now he is teaching part-time with a provisional teaching license while finishing his coursework and internships to finish his Master of Arts in Teaching from Mount St. Mary’s University. Schlee loves his new life as a teacher. “I only wish I’d done it sooner,” Schlee said. s
Leaving Landscaping to Teach: Is Giving Up VP Title Worth It to Achieve Dream? Chris Schlee, of New Market, Md., took a huge pay cut to pursue his dream of becoming a teacher. But he knows the classroom is where he is meant to be. Schlee, 46, had earned an undergraduate degree in public administration. After graduation, he returned to the landscaping company where he had worked in the summers through middle school, high school and college. Over 25 years he rose through the ranks to become a vice president of the company. “I had aspirations to own my own business,” Schlee said. On the other hand, he felt the tug of the classroom. “When my kids started playing sports, I started coaching,” he said. “That’s when I really developed a connection with kids. I love coaching kids.” About 10 years ago, Schlee told his boss he was thinking of going into education. But he let his boss talk him out of the idea. When the economy sputtered and demand for landscaping dropped, he knew it was time to resurrect that dream. First, Schlee test-drove his prospective career. “I thought, ‘Before I make this commitment, let me make sure all the concepts and ideas I have are what I need them to be,’” he recalled. “I started taking off Fridays and substitute teaching at a middle school close to our house.” The next year, he enrolled at Mount St. Mary’s University in the Master of Arts in Teaching program. The next year, he took a big step and a two-thirds pay cut: he traded his vice president’s job at the landscaping company for a job as a special education instructional assistant. “The money in landscaping was good,” he said. “To go from that to a special education instructional assistant was a big change.” Fortunately, his wife had gotten to the level in her career that allowed Schlee to take his turn. Despite the ding to his paycheck, working at school turned out to be a good move because it got him in front of decision-makers. “In the school system, it’s a lot about relationships,” Schlee said. “When you are in the right spot, doing the thing you’re passionate about, you get the opportunity to meet the right people.” The principal at that school left to go to another school. As it turned out, the principal’s new school needed a part-time technology education teacher and since the principal already knew Schlee, the principal offered him the job. Schlee was hired with a provisional teaching certification and now he’s teaching half days while finishing his degree. “Teaching is not easy,” he said. “It’s not the environment I spent the last 25 years in. Becoming a teacher has fulfilled all my expectations. I would tell other people, ‘You need to pursue your dreams.’”
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degree in political science, decided he needed a degree related to his current job. Gould, 31, of Alexandria, began applying what he learned in the Master of Science in Management of Information Technology program at the University of Virginia right away at his job at U.S. Customs and Border Protection. “Stuff I learned on Saturday or was reading at night, I could apply the next day at work,” Gould said. As for financial return on investment, four months after graduation his boss retired and Gould scored a promotion and a raise to IT program manager. “I strongly believe it’s because of what I learned in the program and the fact that I have the master’s degree from U.Va. that I was ideally positioned.” After two years at a higher salary, his cost of school will be covered. After that, it’s all profit. Some students at the University of Maryland’s Master’s in Applied Economics leverage paid internships into well-paying full-time jobs after graduation, said John Straub, director of the Master’s in Applied Economics program at the University of Maryland. Others get job offers, which their current employers match so they can retain the workers, he said. “Just being enrolled in a program like ours sends a strong signal to employers,” Straub said. “Employers appreciate the initiative required of people who take graduate courses in the evenings while working a full-time
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lthough a graduate degree won’t come cheap, the professional and personal benefits go beyond the financial cost, which you should be able to recoup. The cost might range from $10,000 for a year of tuition to north of six figures to complete a multi-year graduate degree. Meantime, median annual earnings for those with a bachelor’s degree were about $58,000, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, compared to $70,000 for a master’s degree and about $89,000 for a doctorate. For federal government workers, the salary bump is clear in the general schedule (GS) pay scale. After earning a master’s degree, “The federal government will almost immediately move you up from a GS7 to a GS9 with higher level duties and a 10 percent increase in pay that comes with that,” said William Powers, executive dean of the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy. For those who pursue a graduate degree related to their undergrad degree, the annual salary boost can range from $13,000 to $32,000 a year, according to the Georgetown Center’s 2015 report, The Economic Value of College Majors. Some workers have hit a ceiling and have been told they will not advance until they earn a graduate degree, Powers said. After gaining an understanding for public policy, workers find themselves rubbing shoulders with and becoming key leaders within their organizations, he said. “When you get one of these degrees, you become one of the few people who understand each of these issues and can address problems from each of these aspects. We explicitly deal with how you blend many different concerns together to make sense of them all. You start playing a very strong role with whoever the policy leader is.” Students emerge stronger and richer, in more ways than financial, from the process of earning a graduate degree. They often don’t have to wait until after graduation to see a return on investment, either. That was Wes Gould’s experience. Gould, who had an undergraduate
day job. They also value the kinds of skills that students acquire.” One student with a paid internship at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis was offered a promotion and raise right before graduation, but then moved on to an even higher-paying job with a private consulting firm, Straub said. Sometimes the return on investment is better communication and improved effectiveness on the job. One female student in the Master of Science in Management of Information Technology program at the University of Virginia thought she had bumped into the often-mentioned glass ceiling, said Cyndy Huddleston, associate dean, graduate admissions and corporate relations at the University of Virginia. “In the middle of the module on IT project management, the class was discussing effective communication with clients,” Huddleston said. “It was an ‘aha moment’ for her, as she realized it wasn’t a glass ceiling holding her back but rather how she communicated the value of her work. She was used to using technical jargon and focusing on the details of the technology rather than explaining the business implications and the value of what she was doing. She received a promotion before the end of the program.” “Very often we will get a note from a student saying something like ‘I can’t believe that financial technique you were discussing was raised in a meeting today and I was able to sound very intelligent
Wes Gould of Alexandria had eased his way into Information Technology with very little formal training. A Master of Science in Management of Information Technology gave him exactly what he needed to know on the job—as well as a promotion and a raise. “I graduated from Virginia Tech and right out of school joined the Border Patrol and moved to Arizona,” said Gould, 31. “My undergraduate degree is in political science but IT has always been my passion.” About three years ago, he moved to Washington to work as an operations manager for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Gould realized that he needed more insight into his field. Although he was passionate about IT, he lacked formal education beyond electives he took as an undergraduate and what he learned on his own. In 2015, he enrolled in the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce one-year MS in MIT program. Gould took classes all day every other Saturday at the Alexandria campus and spent some Thursday-Saturday weekends at the Charlottesville campus. Counting class time, Gould estimated he spent 20 to 25 hours a week in addition to his fulltime job. He graduated in the spring of 2016. Payoffs for that hard work came while he was still in the program. “One Monday we were discussing at work how to manage risks,” he said. “The previous Saturday in class, we had learned methods and theories of how to best manage risks.” Gould learned how to put together a business case for an IT investment. “When you do that as part of your proposal, you’re guaranteed to get it approved because you’ve already answered all the questions,” he said. The program was beneficial in gaining an understanding of the intersection of IT and business. “IT is specifically very focused on the technology,” he said. “’The technology is really cool—here’s what we can do with the technology.’ There’s a gap, though, between the technology and the business. This course drives home the point that you need to be in that confluence where IT and business meet. That’s the sweet spot and that’s what’s lacking in most of the businesses I’ve dealt with.” Gould appreciated the opportunity to learn from others in his cohort, including classmates from the Office of Management and Budget, major banks and real estate. He made connections with university alumni who sat in on class discussions. In fact, Gould got several job offers as a result of those connections. He remained at the Border Patrol, however. About four months after graduation, he won a promotion to IT program manager along with a significant raise. “There was stiff competition for the position,” Gould said. “I strongly believe it’s because of what I learned in the program and the fact that I have the master’s degree from U.Va. that I was ideally positioned.” Gould’s length of time to recoup the cost of the program: two years.
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about that and how we could apply it to our organization,’” Powers said. A graduate of Georgetown’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program shared that, as a result of her degree, she was able to guide the discussion of a complex, ethical problem at work to look at multiple angles in ways she would not have been able to do before, said John Dolan, associate dean for liberal studies at Georgetown University. “Another alumnus talked about the way the program drastically improved his writing and made his work product in his job markedly better as a result,” Dolan said. After class discussions, one student persuaded clients to implement important cybersecurity changes, said Markus Rauschecker, professor of cybersecurity law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. “He was able to make a legal argument as to why his customers should implement certain technical measures based on avoiding legal liability in the future.” One student who worked in state government in California applied what he learned in a sociology/anthropology class on men and women at work, said Stuart Charmé, director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at Rutgers University. “People who work in social service agencies appreciate learning about different cultures
because they’re working in areas where people come to them from different cultural backgrounds,” Charmé said. One student found a class personal strength assessment so helpful that she immediately purchased the assessment for everyone on her team, said Lisa Feldner, lecturer in Georgetown University’s Global Strategic Communications Program. “She experienced something in real time, went back and applied it within a week,” Feldner said. For other students, a big takeaway is the contacts they make with classmates and others. “It has been really amazing to be able to gain so many valuable connections with people who live across the country and have experiences at so many different schools,” said one student in the Master of Education curriculum and instruction program at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. For other students in the Georgetown program, the takeaway was to take a different path. “We had students completely change the paths they were on,” said Denise Keyes, senior associate dean in Georgetown’s Global Strategic Communications program. “They were thinking they would be chief communications officers at a big enterprise.
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Friday and returns to California for the trip’s conclusion, a Sunday rematch with the Warriors. On Feb. 28 inside Verizon Center, the Wizards defeated Golden State 112-108 in the game in which Kevin Durant suffered an MCL sprain and bone bruise. Durant hasn’t played since. While players may see the benefits of visiting the coast, this week may not be a pleasure trip. The Wizards will have to navigate three playoff-bound teams (Clippers, Jazz and Warriors) while also trying to sharpen up before the postseason. “We want to play well going down the stretch of the season,” coach Scott Brooks said. “We’re fighting for playoff positioning but it’s really just playing well. We haven’t played defensively as well as we’re capable of playing.” On Saturday, the Wizards’ offensive spacing and ball movement produced 127 points as Wall started the game 8-for-8 from the floor and finished with 37 points and 11 assists. However, the offensive mastery once again outperformed the team’s defense. “We still gave up 115 points,” Brooks said. Washington jumped to a 17-point lead and stomped down every rally, but Cleveland still
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shot 49.4 percent from the field and 36.4 percent from beyond the arc. On the plus side, the Wizards held the Cavaliers to just four fast-break points — nine below Cleveland’s average — and held All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving to 23 points on 8-of23 shooting, 1-of-7 on 3-pointers. “Maybe we need to play the Cavs every game,” Bradley Beal
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Quick gives Redskins another large target Washington continued to overhaul its wide receiving corps Friday when it added free agent Brian Quick, formerly of the Rams. Last year, Quick, 27, started eight games and had 41 catches for 564 yards and three TDs, all career bests. Quick (6 feet 3, 218 pounds) is another big target along with recently signed Terrelle Pryor (6-4) and secondyear men Josh Doctson (6-2) and Maurice Harris (6-3). (TWP)
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1 ‘Rock and a Hard Place’ 10 p.m. today on HBO
Produced by and featuring Dwayne Johnson, this documentary follows a group of incarcerated young men who trade their harsh prison sentences for enrollment in an intensive prison boot camp program.
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New work, same Dave STREAMING The criminal justice system has long been comedic fodder for Dave Chappelle. But with his new pair of Netflix specials released last Tuesday, viewers get to hear how Chappelle discusses policing and race as the nation fiercely debates that relationship. In “Deep in the Heart of Texas,” filmed in 2015, he defers on delving too deeply into police brutality. “I’ll leave that for Chris Rock,” he says. But he has plenty to say about the criminal justice system in his second special, “The Age of Spin,” filmed a year later. Chappelle structures the special around four stories about running into O.J. Simpson over the years. At one point, Chappelle cites Netflix’s true-crime series “Making a Murderer” about Steven Avery, a white man convicted of sexual assault, exonerated and then convicted of murder. “The justice system designed for [Avery] to thrive, he’s failed
miserably twice. I can’t even wrap my mind around it,” Chappelle says. He then adds, “All [Avery] needed to get off, that he didn’t have, was a single black juror. That’s all it would have took, ’cause only a black dude in the United States can look at 11 other dudes and be like, ‘I think the police did this s---.’ ” Chappelle’s fame also provides him a different perspective about interacting with police. He tells the story of stumbling outside of a Los Angeles club when a friend offered to drive. The pair was then pulled over by police. “I should tell you the friend that was driving me was black, which doesn’t really have anything to do with the story other than to let you know that there was fear in the car,” Chappelle quips. “Not my fear. I’m black. But I’m also Dave Chappelle. So I figured, you know, s--- will probably be fine.” Past Chappelle specials contain now-iconic riffs about being a black man who feared police.
Keep on keepin’ on The release of Dave Chappelle’s two Netflix specials marks his full-fledged re-entry into the spotlight since he left Comedy Central in 2005. But times have changed. It’s the digital age, an era when entertainers can come under fire for years-old tweets. But Chappelle comes off as not giving a damn whether you like him or not. “I’m nervous about being on the big stage again, but the special is done,” Chappelle told CBS’s Gayle King last week. “You put something out, and people are, ‘You’re great! You’re terrible!’ I don’t care about that kind of stuff.” E.I.
In 2000, he joked about being too scared to call 911 after his home was burglarized (“House is too nice. It ain’t a real nice house, but they’ll never believe I live in it”); about white people’s skepticism of police brutality claims (“Then Newsweek printed it, and then they knew it was true”); and allegations of police framing and
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misconduct (“Don’t you think it was little suspicious, that every dead black person the police finds has crack sprinkled on them?”). Such older material about the criminal justice system could be affirming for audience members who could relate, and illuminating for those who didn’t. But we’re now in an age when anyone can record police interactions, and such footage draws national attention in a way it hasn’t before. In “The Age of Spin,” he refers to this deluge of news stories about police brutality and how, especially for a younger generation, it can lead to apathy: “How can you care about everything when you know every goddamn thing? I’m getting over one cop shooting and then another one happens and then another one happens and another one happens.” After such a steady stream of tragedy, Chappelle says, you just give up. ELAHE IZADI
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‘Nobodies’ Hugh Davidson, Larry Dorf and Rachel Ramras star as a group of friends trying to make a name for themselves in Tinseltown. Maya Rudolph, Jason Bateman and Jim Rash are among the guest stars.
3 ‘The Kennedys — After Camelot’ 9 p.m. Sunday on Reelz
This two-part, four-hour sequel to Reelz’s 2011 series “The Kennedys” reprises Katie Holmes’ role as Jackie Kennedy Onassis. Matthew Perry makes his debut as Ted Kennedy. (EXPRESS)
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Dressed to kill: Odd creatures come to life on ‘Cosplay Melee’ How often does a show come along with a name you’re not even sure how to pronounce? Here’s one: “Cosplay Melee.” Is that co-splay? Cosp-lay? Turns out it’s kahz-play, a mashup of “costume” and “play,” referring to those who dress up as sci-fi characters. And in case you’re not up on your SAT words: That’s
“mey-ley,” not “mee-lee,” and it can mean a “confused hand-tohand fight.” The series (10 p.m. Tuesdays on Syfy) answers the question: What would happen if Darth Vader invaded “Project Runway”? In each episode, four cosplayers create an original character and construct a costume, using stuff like foam, air-conditioning ducts and leaf blowers. Yvette Nicole Brown of “Community” is host and judge, along with cosplay
model LeeAnna Vamp and costume designer Christian Beckman. The winner of each week’s “melee” gets $10K. The four contestants in last week’s premiere seem fairly ordinary: a lady cop, a British expat who paints toy soldiers for a living, a purple-haired costume designer and Xavier, a confessed introvert who lives in the shadow of two accomplished athletic siblings. Watching them make costumes is like watching kids cut up foam in an elementary school art class. Still, the show is alluring because cosplay also bares the soul. The cop fulfills her abandoned dream of being a comic book artist and indulges her love of justice and “big guns” with her “badass bounty hunter” costume, complete with gigantic weapon and silver skin. The Brit turns into a bloodstained crime lord whose foot got blown off in a trap, so now he hobbles on a Lego-like brick. Soft-spoken Xavier transforms himself into an armored avenger with a “vibro-spear.” (I don’t quite know what that is, but trust me, you don’t want to get near it.) Xavier wins and clumsily wipes a tear from his eye with his massive armor-encased hand. “It doesn’t matter what your skin color is,” says the young African-American man, describing his love of cosplay. “It doesn’t matter what you look like. Anybody can be who they want to be.” With my puny human hand, I wipe a tear from my eye, too.
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“This ‘Death Note’ adaptation is a reminder that Hollywood will put time & effort into rewriting POC stories so that whiteness is centered.” @UBEEMPRESS is among fans of the Japanese manga series
“Death Note” who were not excited after Netflix released a trailer for an American film with the same name. In the manga series, “Death Note” is about a Japanese teenager named Light Yagami. In the Netflix film, set in Seattle, the teen character is named Light Turner. Some fans argued that the Netflix film isn’t whitewashing because it’s set in the United States, but others wondered why an American version couldn’t feature an Asian-American lead.
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@_KENZIEWILSON tweets at United Airlines after reports surfaced that a gate agent in Denver forced two teens and a young girl to change or modify their leggings outfits before boarding a plane. Many expressed outrage on social media at the airline for telling girls what to wear. United said the passengers were flying with a United employee pass and were thus expected to dress up more than regular customers.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) The negative need not hold you back. Focus on the positive and trust that you will be able to build the momentum you need. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You may want to let someone else take the wheel, as you do not feel that a developing situation is one you can easily navigate.
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1964: Alaska is hit by a magnitude 9.2 earthquake, the strongest on record in North America. The quake and tsunamis claim about 130 lives.
1977: In aviation’s worst disaster, 583 people are killed when a KLM Boeing 747, attempting to take off in heavy fog, crashes into a Pan Am 747 on an airport runway on the Canary Island of Tenerife.
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Kensington Palace said Prince George, who will be 4 in July, will attend the Thomas’s Battersea prep school in London this September. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announced their choice Friday. The palace said the couple is “delighted.” The Sun reported that Thomas’s Battersea is $7,978 per term and its former pupils include model/actress Cara Delevingne and singer Florence Welch. (AP)
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Both pull confetti from hair days later: ‘Yeah, we didn’t think this through’ “Orange Is the New Black” star Samira Wiley married her longtime partner and “OITNB” writer/producer Lauren Morelli on Saturday in Palm Springs, Calif., Martha Stewart Weddings reported exclusively. Both wore custom Christian Siriano outfits. The celebration was confettithemed, a nod to their shared love for Funfetti cake. (EXPRESS)
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*Adds ‘Lyft worthy’ to Tinder profile* A joke on “The Mindy Project” about Newark, N.J., led to dinner plans for Sen. Cory Booker and Mindy Kaling. Booker tweeted “Ouch!” at Kaling. She responded that if her character “shades” it, it means “it’s cool.” Booker asked her to dinner in Newark. She asked for a train schedule. Booker called Kaling “Lyft worthy” and promised to send one. (AP)
World welcomes Thing 1, Thing 2 Two celebrity couples have welcomed new babies. Former Girls Aloud star Cheryl Cole and her partner, Liam Payne, of One Direction fame, announced the birth of their first child, a boy. Cole wrote Saturday on Instagram that their son was born Wednesday and has not been named. Payne added on Instagram, “It’s a moment that I will never forget for the rest of my life.” Representatives for actors Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski also confirmed to People that the pair, who recently eloped, welcomed a baby girl. The rep did not disclose a name or a birth date. (EXPRESS/AP)
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