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Next System Studies welcomes April Doner, Dr. Matt Burke, Hannah Gokaslan, and Nairuti Shastry as this year's guests for our 2026 Next System Speakers series!

Next System Studies at GMU is excited to announce the latest cohort of the Next System Fellows!

We were among 11 sites of Next System Teach-Ins that took place across the Americas. The energy, passion, and critical conversations over the past weeks have been exciting to see. We’re writing to recap the event's success and channel this momentum into our ongoing work as we look ahead to April 2027.

November 7 through November 14, GMU joins many others across the Americas for the Next System Teach-Ins.

We invite students, faculty, and staff to join us in planning our Teach-In. Together, we can take responsibility for system change and help build the next system. Another world is possible. A next system is necessary. This work is in your hands.

We are pleased to announce that Next System Studies is now accepting applications from George Mason University students to the Spring 2026 cohort of Next System Fellows! 

Next System Studies is looking for a motivated, detail-oriented intern to help aggregate university community connections from student groups, departments, faculty allies, and other campus stakeholders in preparation for a series of upcoming teach-in events this November.

The year-long series seeks to foster cross-disciplinary AI literacy, explore how AI shapes and is shaped by culture, ethics, history, and society, and provide opportunities for research incubation and exchange.

George Mason University is now at the center of a national debate over the future of higher education. This is a debate about who governs our universities and colleges, who belongs here, whose speech counts and whose speech is silenced, and who and what we serve.