GMU Extends CEHD Tuition Discount to Include NOVA Faculty and Staff

Earlier this semester, I held open office hours at our Manassas Campus and was visited by History Assistant Professor Pearl Harris-Scott. She noted that Virginia K-12 school teachers received a discount on their graduate tuition at George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development and wondered if NOVA faculty and staff could also receive this discount. I responded that it never hurts to ask—and I did.

Now, thanks to GMU President Greg Washington, our qualifying faculty and staff will receive the same discount provided to Virginia school teachers. In-state, Virginia-resident NOVA employees will receive a 15% tuition discount for qualifying graduate courses at the master’s, doctoral, certificate or non-degree graduate level taken in Mason’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD).

NOVA employees who currently are enrolled as students within CEHD and wish to access the Virginia Educator Discount Program must complete the short online form “Tuition Discount for Virginia Educators” found on the CEHD Educator Discount Webpage. For the Spring 2022 semester, the tuition discount form is due by Monday, January 31.

Those individuals who are interested in enrolling in a CEHD graduate program, or taking a single CEHD graduate course, should apply and verify their employment status and residency. For details on how the process works, including eligibility requirements, please also visit the CEHD Educator Discount site.

This discount will enable NOVA’s tuition reimbursement program dollars to stretch even further and will provide a cost break for our employees funding some or all of their Mason CEHD graduate education on their own.

Thank you to Assistant Professor Harris-Scott for asking this question, and my sincere appreciation goes out once more to President Washington and his Executive Vice President and Provost Mark Ginsburg for their ongoing and expanding partnership with NOVA!