CHSS fall 2021 graduates will have two options for in-person Winter Graduation celebrations: attend a Patriot Procession event on December 14-15, or a formal Graduation Ceremony on December 16.

This year's Mary Roper Award ceremony will take place virtually on Wednesday, December 8, 2021, with a reception following in the Horizon Hall kitchen. More information to come!

In April, Mason celebrates the 50th anniversary of the date that it became an independent institution. CHSS faculty and staff are invited to nominate themselves to help plan the college's part in this celebration.

On January 12-14, the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, Writing Across the Curriculum, and the Office of Faculty Affairs and Development are offering a writing retreat open to faculty and staff working on research and creative projects. Register by December 10 (Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash).

The Office of Undergraduate Education, OSCAR, and the Office of Community Engagement and Civic Learning (CECiL) will fund multidisciplinary summer projects of undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members.

The Center for Humanities Research has announced its 2022-23 theme, Connecting/Not Connecting: Formations of Community, Solidarity, Alienation, Antipathy, and seeks applications for faculty and advanced doctoral students to join CHR as residential fellows.

The Institute for Higher Education Policy has announced a data tool, the Equitable Value Explorer, to help institutional leaders, researchers, and policymakers explore the economic value that colleges and universities deliver to students.

Criminology professor Allison Redlich has been honored twice in recent weeks for her efforts in the field of psychology and law, elected a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and honored with the 2021 American Society of Criminology Mentor Award.

Associate anthropology professor Rashmi Sadana is a Weatherhead fellow at the School for Advanced Research, which presents this Q&A that explores Sadana's research and writing process.

Each edition of the CHSS Digest features upcoming funding opportunities. In this issue: National Endowment for the Humanities Public Humanities Projects and National Endowment for the Humanities Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections; also see Digest article about FY 2022 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program

Assistant philosophy professor Shannon Fyfe co-authors a Washington Post opinion piece with Anthony Petty, outlining the reasons why transferring 400 DC Jail residents to the federal Lewisberg, PA, facility is no solution.

In a Washington Post (and Bloomberg) opinion post, Tyler Cowen, economics professor and general director, Center for Study of Public Choice, shares gloomy prospects for the economy in the near-term.

In the Washingtonian, history professor Zachary Schrag, is noted for his 2006 history on the Washington, D.C., Metro system, which counters common assumptions behind the lack of a Georgetown station.

In a Washington Post (and Bloomberg) opinion post about the changes wrought by the rise in telecommuting, economics professor Tyler Cowen considers likely outcomes for workers and employers.

In an NPR piece on the bi-annual changing of clocks for the beginning and end of daylight saving time, history professor Mike O'Malley notes the business forces behind the tradition's origins.

Sixty-five staff and faculty of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences were among the Mason employees recognized at the 2021 University Days of Services.