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The LBJ Washington Center hosted the inaugural LBJ School of Public Affairs DC Concentration graduation ceremony on December 10, 2016.

On September 20, the LBJ Washington Center celebrated its grand opening in the nation’s capital with a gathering of LBJ alumni, political dignitaries, members of the media and other invited guests. 

LBJ School graduate Rachel Hoff, who made history as the first openly gay person to sit on the Republican Platform Committee, presented an amendment to the committee last week that would acknowledge the shifting sentiments towards same-sex marriage within the Republican Party.

LBJ School alumnus Joseph O'Neill (MPAff '73) has been named UT Graduate School's Outstanding Alumnus for 2016. This award recognizes an alumnus/a of the Graduate School for academic or professional achievements since graduating from the university.

This fall marks the opening of the LBJ Washington Center, the public affairs school's newest master's degree program. Lasting 18 months, the program is an immersive fast track to Washington, DC's political scene. Students spend their first year on campus in Austin gaining a theoretical knowledge base and then spend the subsequent summer and fall in DC rounding out their degree with a six-month Monday through Thursday internship. On Fridays and Saturdays, students complete their remaining course credits necessary to graduate in December.

 

Luci Baines Johnson and her husband, Ian Turpin, have made a $1 million challenge gift to support the newly launched LBJ School Washington Center established by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.

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The LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin announced Thomas P. O'Donnell as the inaugural Director of its new Washington Center. O'Donnell joins the LBJ School after previous service in the White House, the U.S. Senate, the Human Rights Campaign, several Presidential campaigns, and as a law firm public policy partner.

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin is creating the LBJ School Washington Center enabling students to earn a master’s degree in 18 months with a unique focus on federal public policy. The Center will also provide a platform and forum for nonpartisan policy analysis on the critical issues facing the country and the world and serve as a hub for the dissemination of faculty research.