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Read the latest information on Mason's 2020 Winter Graduation ceremony, as well as CHSS events to celebrate our graduates!

All 2020 graduates, from spring, summer, and fall, are invited to participate in George Mason University’s 2020 Winter Graduation on Thursday, December 17, at 2:00 pm, on GMU-TV. Following the ceremony, CHSS graduates are invited to join the college for its own festivities.

College faculty members Sabine Doebel, Department of Psychology, and Kelly Schrum, Higher Education Program and Department of History and Art History, are among nine Mason faculty who received collaborative research grants.

Heather Aleknavage is a master's student in the Higher Education Program. She created the Support Group for Working Mothers at Mason and is also a Distinguished Toastmaster with GMU Toastmasters.

This August, HEP Alum Samantha Cozzolino started a new job as a Success Coach with the Mason Care Network.

HEP alum Dr. David Farris's book Understanding University Committees has been published by Stylus Publishing, LLC. "Based on empirical research, organizational theory, and interviews with faculty and administrators, Dr. David Farris provides an informative and vivid examination of the dynamics of committee work, addresses the planning, conduct, roles, composition, and dispositions of members, as well as the institutional context and structures in which they operate that are vital to organizational success."

P. Daniel Chen, Director and Associate Professor, Higher Education Program, is examining the cost of dual-enrollment programs in Virginia. He aims to estimate true cost of dual-enrollment programs for secondary schools and community colleges in the Commonwealth.

Two new HEP doctoral students, Sophia Abbott and Josh Kinchen, provide tools on how to develop a peer academic support network in an online setting.

Carrie Klein (HEP Ph.D., 2020) was recently hired as a Senior Fellow at the Future of Privacy Forum (www.fpf.org). She is working on higher education privacy issues as a part of FPF's Youth & Education team. Carrie also recently co-authored an article in The Journal of Higher Education on data privacy policies in higher education with Dr. Michael Brown, an assistant professor at Iowa State University.

Dr. Morgan Fisher, an alum of HEP, has begun her four-year term on the K-State Alumni Association Board of Directors. Dr. Fisher is currently the assistant director of student-athlete support services at Howard University.