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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 (NSS) at George Mason University is seeking a Teach-In Organizer to handle programming, logistics, and campus and community participation in the Next System Teach-In at GMU this November.

GM Sociology's Dr. Manski told El Mercurio, Chile's major daily, that the current Palestine "protest wave has much more in common with the student divestment campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s," than with the protests of the 1960s.

As we celebrate May Day 2024, only a week after this year’s Earth Day, it presents an opportunity to explore the often overlooked connection between organized labor and environmental justice in the popular history of grassroots social movements.

The 2024 Next System Fellows spearhead diverse and innovative community-driven projects, demonstrating their collective commitment to social transformation and equity.

The Spring 2024 cohort of Next System Fellows is now open for applications, offering a unique path to realizing your ambitions. Creating a new world system is our ultimate goal and the focus of our research.

In 1982,  in Plyler v. Doe, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Texas  law denying school enrollment to undocumented immigrant  school children, thereby ensuring a free K-12 public education for all students regardless of immigration status. Today, some Americans want to overturn Plyler, and some scholars believe that the official opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, laid a foundation for an impending Plyler challenge. The Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) just released a new paper that reviews the Plyler decision, focuses on continuing barriers to education faced by undocumented students, and examines the potential impact of overturning Plyler. 

Sindya Bhanoo’s Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, Daphne Palasi Andreades’s Brown Girls, and Aamina Ahmad’s The Return of Faraz Ali have been named finalists for the Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award.