College of Education and Human Development

CEHD graduate students reunite one final time before graduation with virtual capstones. Read more...

CEHD Mason LIFE program adjusts, moves nearly 100 classes online for spring semester during pandemic. Read more...

Former CEHD dean Jeff Gorrell remembered for mastery as educator and artist. Read more...

Kinesiology major Hadley Graham pushes through rare blood disease to achieve her dream of graduating this year. Read more...

Athletic training graduates are playing an important role on the coronavirus frontlines. Read more...

Recreation management senior using her internship at Potomac Overlook Regional Park to better educate children learn about bats and their habitats. Read more...

Therapeutic recreation senior Riley Wilkerson makes adjustments to complete internship from home. Read more...

Mason PhD students adapt to coronavirus pandemic by moving dissertation defenses into the virtual realm. Read more...

Alumnus with degrees in educational psychology and kinesiology serving as strength and conditioning coach for U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Read more...

Educational psychology alumna utilizes her Mason training on daily basis in role with Facebook. Read more...

Early Childhood Education grad student wins teaching award at Alexandria school that’s “like a home.” Read more...

Students, faculty and clinical site preceptors in the athletic training program adjust to the new normal of online learning during coronavirus outbreak Read more...

A letter from Dean Mark Ginsberg to CEHD students regarding the coronavirus outbreak. Read more...

Interning at the Super Bowl was the chance of a lifetime for sport management student. Read more...

Recreation Management grad thrilled to start full-time job in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Read more...

Sport management grad Callie Brownson hired by Cleveland Browns as first female chief of staff in NFL history. Read more...

From the archives: Mason grad interviews former baseball coach who died in helicopter crash. Read more...

Sport management undergrad and basketball standout nominated for prestigious Senior CLASS Award. Read more...

Recent Mason alum goes from Baltimore Ravens internship to a full-time job with the Boston Red Sox. Read more...

Graduate student hones her athletic trainer skills at elite conservatory. Read more...

Therapeutic recreation grad says new job and activities have brought things “full circle”. Read more...

Mason alumna heading her secondary school alma mater. Read more...

Successful book series and new Massive Open Online Course help professor spread best teaching practices globally. Read more...

CEHD student and Mason student-athlete Justin Kier temporarily traded a basketball gym for a boxing gym. Read more...

Amidst uncertain time, Mason student lands a full-time job through her internship. Read more...

“The Fridge” explains his internet fame and the joy of working in minor league baseball. Read more...

The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) approved the School of Education, the School of Kinesiology, and the School of Sport, Recreation, and Tourism Management. Read more...

Dean Mark Ginsberg announced the addition of six new instructional faculty for the 2019-20 school year. Read more...

Callie Brownson spent 2018 season at Dartmouth as Division I’s first full-time female football coach. Read more...

CEHD, Helen Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities a part of unique research. Read more...

Jamie Olsen serving as sports marketing and media relations intern for Shamrock Rovers. Read more...

Mason grad served as an assistant athletic trainer for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team during the World Cup this summer. Read more...

Elizabeth Allen balances work, class to finish degree. Read more...

For Bekah Ansbro, the most rewarding part of being at George Mason University is the myriad opportunities available as a health, fitness and recreation resources major. Ansbro finished her bachelor’s degree in May and is on track to complete her accelerated master’s program in sport and recreation studies with a concentration in sport management in 2020. Read more...

In some ways, it would be a lot simpler if all that recent College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) graduate Danielle Moore needed to do to reach the NBA was work on a mid-range jumper or improve at shooting free throws. Read more...

John Johnson cherishing intern experiences with NFL’s Redskins, Jaguars. Read more...

Drops in students pursuing teaching profession worry former education secretary. Read more...

Mason sport management students showcase their work on ESPN+. Read more...

CEHD program award winners in 2019. Read more...

Tourism and events management student helps promote Mason Dining through Starship delivery robots. Read more...

Hunter Hautz's training manual for firefighter candidates in Prince William County was so valuable, the Mason master's student received a letter of commendation from the fire chief. Read more...

For Mason PhD student Ricardo Sanchez, international aid is part of the job. Since he joined Counselors Without Borders in 2013, Sanchez has been selected to travel to his native Peru, South Dakota, and Puerto Rico as a graduate counselor to assist with post-disaster emergency situations. Read more...

How do you know a community values your involvement? It steps up financially to keep your program running. That is what happened in Prince William County, Virginia, which this academic year budgeted $180,000 to continue a George Mason University program that provides athletic trainers to nine of the county’s 16 public middle schools with athletic programs. Read more...

Patricia Kelshaw has been immersed in George Mason University’s Athletic Training Education Program for as long as she has been at the university. Kelshaw’s research endeavors to establish more specific baseline measures for children participating in sports to better manage concussions. Those measures could also enhance the Child Support Concussion Assessment Tool, a standardized evaluation instrument that helps assess whether concussions have occurred and informs care throughout recovery. Read more...

When Callie Brownson became quality control coach for Dartmouth’s football team, she had no idea she was making history as the first full-time female Division I football coach. Even now, after all the attention, including stories by the Associated Press, Sports Illustrated and The Washington Post, Brownson said the whirlwind is still difficult to believe. “To me, it was kind of crazy there hadn’t been another female coach at this level,” she said. That Brownson was the first did not surprise those who knew her at George Mason University, from where she graduated in 2016 with a degree in Health, Fitness and Recreation Resources. Read more...

Problem-based learning is useful in identifying high-ability middle school students from underserved populations who historically are left out of honors, advanced and gifted programs. That is the conclusion being drawn by Project ExCEL, a five-year study led by Anne Horak, an assistant professor in George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development. Read more...

Dennis Nolasco’s parents immigrated to the United States from El Salvador. His father reached the 4th grade before dropping out to work on the family farm. His mother had never seen a school until she came to the U.S. Years later, Nolasco used his family’s experience as inspiration to get his license to teach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). Read more...

On April 4, Andy Jacks was sitting in a meeting with the associate superintendent of Prince William County Public Schools when his secretary called and said there was an emergency in the cafeteria. Jacks had been discussing the power of good leadership with the associate superintendent. Later, Jacks realized that his colleague was engaging in a bit of creative deception. Read more...

George Mason University’s Kate Dunn had just begun high school when she first realized that coaching football was what she was always meant to do. Her passion for the game runs deep. “I love the teamwork and the dedication that is required,” she said, “and that you never know everything. You can always get better.” Dunn joined a panel of accomplished women who coached men in sports during the “Breaking Gender Roles: Women Coaching Men” Symposium on April 18, hosted by Mason’s Division of Sport, Recreation and Tourism and the Center for Sport Management. Read more...

Pablo Ramirez Uribe, a master’s student at George Mason University studying secondary education and English, said it was quite a revelation when he learned how to really be successful as teacher. More than planning, more than constructing assignments, is the ability to connect with students. “It’s go into a school and help these people grow,” Ramirez Uribe said. That was Ramirez Uribe’s takeaway from a program called “Through Students Eyes,” developed by George Mason education professor Kristien Zenkov. Read more...