The College of Education and Human Development is composed of three sub-units: The Graduate School of Education (GSE), The School of Recreation, Health and Tourism (RHT), and Undergraduate Studies in Education (USIE). GSE’s programs are primarily focused on the broad, traditional areas of education (e.g., teacher preparation, advanced studies for teachers and school leaders, PhD in Education). RHT has undergraduate and masters programs in such areas as health, recreation resources, athletic training, and tourism. USIE is a new unit that focuses on providing undergraduate routes for teacher licensure in many areas. In total, The College of Education and Human Development has twenty programs with approximately 2600 students (2200 of whom are graduate students) and 111 full-time instructional faculty members. We offer degree programs at the bachelors, masters' and doctoral levels.
Programs in Initiatives in Educational Transformation, Advanced Studies in Teaching and Learning, Early Childhood Education, and Multilingual/Multicultural Education are nationally recognized and considered to be leading models. Many others are gaining national attention for the quality of the faculty and their scholarly productivity. CEHD houses nine research and service centers, including the Helen A. Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities, the Center for the Advancement of Public Health, the Center for Education Policy, and the Mathematics Education Center.
CEHD maintains a broad range of effective professional development partnerships with Northern Virginia school systems and community agencies. The Office of Education Services is expanding CEHD's contributions to improving schools in the region, particularly focusing on helping schools attain the goals associated with No Child Left Behind. Nationally prominent scholars, in addition to publishing extensively in prestigious journals and writing highly regarded books, serve as journal editors and officers of professional organizations, as well as contributing significantly to national and regional issues in education policy. External funding has averaged over $5M per year during the past five years.
Changes in education at the federal and state levels will have a significant impact on CEHD (particularly GSE) in the coming years. The most important external pressures will come about because of increased accountability and assessment expectations for schools and for schools of education. To respond to the dramatically increased demand for data related to our own students, we will increase the number of staff members who collect, organize, analyze and report the results of testing and other accountability measures regarding our students and graduates. Changes in Virginia’s teacher licensure requirements in the coming years (e.g., changes in middle school licensure) will create a need for CEHD to either initiate or greatly modify licensure programs.
Much of our work centers on collaborating with schools and communities for the improvement of educational opportunity for all. Many of our programs operate from the belief that social justice, educational equity, and diversity are important in the continued renewal and improvement of education. In the years leading up to 2010, we expect to continue with this general orientation and to have extensive dialogue across CEHD about the meaning and implications of such a focus for our mission and our goals. While we expect to continue to orient much of our work around social justice and related issues, there are other important areas of emphasis (e.g., ethics, life-long learning, reflective practice) that serve as important guiding principles for our research and scholarship, program development, and relations with schools and communities.
| Information Category | Data |
|---|---|
| Year George Mason University was Established: | 1972 |
| Number of Campuses: | 5 (Fairfax, Prince William, Arlington, and Loudoun County, Va.; United Arab Emirates) |
| University Enrollment: | 30,714 |
| CEHD Enrollment: | 4,479 |
| Undergraduate Students: | 660 |
| Graduate Students: | 3819 |
| Masters Students: | 2319 |
| PhD Students: | 216 |
| Not Degree Students : | 1153 |
| Certificates: | 131 |
| Number of CEHD Programs: | 32 |
| Number of Full-time Instructional Faculty: | 111 |
| Racial Minority Faculty: | 22.5% |
| Number of Alumni: | More than 13,000 |