October 10, 2019
ADVANCE has been selected to receive the 2019 John N. Gardner Institutional Excellence for Students in Transition Award. The award is presented by the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition, which is committed...
June 11, 2019
George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College announce a ground-breaking bachelor’s degree pathway for cloud computing built in collaboration with AWS Educate Read the full press release.
May 5, 2019
by Michelle Marks and James Sparkman As colleges and universities in the United States adapt to new financial and competitive challenges, partnerships with the private sector are playing an expanding role. A recent survey of college and university presidents, provosts, and CFOs by The Chronicle of Higher Education and P3•EDU…
April 11, 2019
Mason worked with Wiley Education Services to create video resources for online education students.
March 19, 2019
George Mason University is among the first universities in the region to launch a digital certification program, which will ensure that all students—regardless of their major—have the digital skills needed to compete in today’s workforce.
March 5, 2019
In his December blog, the Provost invited the campus community to explore how to broaden opportunities for online student learning, and expressed the hope that we as a community could collectively consider how to best expand access to adult learners, working professionals, and underserved populations. As a public research university,…
February 5, 2019
Strada Education Network recently announced a $1 million grant to support the creation of education-to-employment pathways for students participating in ADVANCE, George Mason University’s innovative partnership with NOVA.
January 18, 2019
Mason and NOVA hosted the "ADVANCE Faculty-Industry Roundtable: Building Education-to-Career Pathways in Health and Tech" on Dec. 17 at George Mason's Fairfax Campus. The event brought together faculty and industry representatives to better align academic programs with emerging industry needs.
January 15, 2019
George Mason University has some of the nation’s top online programs as evaluated by U.S. News & World Report in its just-released 2019 rankings, with several programs making significant gains over last year.
December 19, 2018
In his most recent blog, Provost David Wu writes about the persistent vacuum in online education for adult learners, and the need to break the mold of traditional universities to meet this critically important social problem.
