The Center for Governance and Markets in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Civic Engagement Project Award from the American Political Science Association on Sept. 1 for its continuing work supporting refugees and threatened scholars.
The award comes barely 21 months after the center first launched its Afghan Asylum Project, an effort to help Afghan people who supported American civilian and military efforts in Afghanistan apply for asylum in the United States. This student-led project recruited more than 100 faculty, staff and student volunteers to help more than 6,500 Afghans who approached the center for assistance. Find more details here.