- Beginning this semester, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee will hold a virtual coffee chat, open to all General Faculty members, each Friday after a regularly scheduled Faculty Senate meeting.
- An interview with Ana Lopez, a staff senator and administrative assistant with the Volgenau School of Engineering Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations, was featured in a recent Mason Senate Staff newsletter. Here are her views on several important topics:
- Mary Catherine Bateson, Clarence J. Robinson Professor emerita, died Jan. 2 at the age of 81.
- For many of us, winter break is a treasured benefit of working at Mason. It's the finish line of a busy semester. A sacred time when we can reset our minds and bodies for the new year ahead.
- One of the rewards of being an academic advisor is helping students through difficult times and then watching them flourish afterward, says Smriti Kansal Patwardhan, an academic advisor and coordinator for the
- º£½ÇÉçÇø is establishing the Patriot Learning Pod, a proctored self-study learning environment for children of faculty and staff.
- James C. Renick, who as º£½ÇÉçÇø vice provost in the early 1990s was the university’s first senior Black academic administrator and an early driving force behind the university’s mission of access, died Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021.
