2009-2010 University Catalog
College of Health and Human Services
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Phone: 703-993-1901
Web: chhs.gmu.edu
College Code: HH
Academic Departments
The mission of the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) is to equip professionals to provide leadership, care, and services related to health promotion, wellness, disease prevention, and quality of life through the promotion of physical, social, and environmental health practices. Graduates practice in a variety of roles in settings that are complex, multicultural, and dynamic. The college is a resource for health promotion to the university, as well as to citizens of Virginia.
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and the State Board of Nursing approved the baccalaureate nursing program in 1974. Since then, the program has grown from a department of nursing to a school of nursing. In 1993, the school was reorganized into the College of Nursing and Health Science, and in 2006, into the College of Health and Human Services to provide the breadth needed to respond to dramatic and dynamic fundamental changes occurring in health care and social work. The expanded, multidisciplinary CHHS offers degree programs and research opportunities in health administration, health policy, health information systems, health services research, nursing, public health, nutrition, global health, rehabilitation science, gerontology, and social work.
Administration
Shirley Travis, Dean
Keith Howell, Associate Dean, Research and Program Evaluation
J. Goodlett McDaniel, Associate Dean, Practice, Marketing, and Finance
Robin Remsburg, Associate Dean and Director, School of Nursing
Frank J. Whittington, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Susan J. Swett, Assistant Dean, Student Affairs
P. J. Maddox, Chair, Health Administration and Policy
Lisa Pawloski, Chair, Global and Community Health
Miriam Raskin, Acting Chair, Social Work
Faculty
Faculty emeriti: Ailinger, Boyd, Brenkus, Carty, Jenkins, Johnson-Brown, Langley, Parker-Smith, Redmond, Silva, Vail, Walker
Professors: Butler, Gaffney, Gerber, Hadley, Howell, Maddox, Meiners, Metcalf, Moore, Raskin, Remsburg, Ritchie, Rose, Sluzki, Sorrell, Travis, Whittington
Associate professors: Baghi, Cangelosi, Chong, Cuellar, Davidson, Davis, Douglas, Eckenwiler, Harris Rome, Keyser, Mahon, McDaniel, Moidu, Normile, Panniers, Pawloski, Ternus, Vakalahi, Wolf-Branigin, Wu
Assistant professors: Boland, Carle, Cartwright, Cleaveland, Gewa, Hahn, Ihara, Jacobsen, Kitsantas, Kodadek, Maradiegue, Miklancie, Moss, Oh, Perlin, Roberts, Rudowski, Smoczynski, Tompkins, Urban, Webster, Weinstein, Willis, Winter, Wojtusiak, Yang, Young, Zhou
Instructors: Almond, Blasser, Campo, Clark, Cox, Davis, Dickman, Durham, Freeborne, Gaston, Gillette, Henderson, Liss, Middle, Mulqueen, Shiver, Stoehr, Toulouse, Venske, Welsh
Course Work
CHHS offers all course work designated GCH, HAP, HHS, NURS, and SOCW in the Courses chapter of this catalog.
Academic Programs
The College of Health and Human Services is dedicated to educating the next generation of health professionals, researchers, and educators. Our School of Nursing produces more new RNs each year than any other program in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and these graduates have one of the state’s highest pass-rates on the nursing licensure exam. Through the PhD program in nursing, CHHS is helping fill the need for nursing faculty and researchers. The College’s Department of Health Administration and Policy prepares students for careers as leaders and managers of health care organizations and as health policy-makers at both the state and national levels, while the Department of Global and Community Health trains public health practitioners with a global reach, who can intervene and improve the health of both local and international populations. The Department of Social Work educates both undergraduate and graduate students to be professional social workers able to work in either community organization or clinical settings. These academic units offer a variety of specializations within degree programs, including nutrition, gerontology, rehabilitation science, epidemiology and biostatistics, forensic nursing, health technology and informatics, data security, clinical social work, and conflict analysis and resolution.
Professional Conduct Policy
All CHHS students are expected to conduct themselves professionally at all times. This means that certain behavior is prohibited, including verbal abuse, insubordination, and behavior that threatens the safety of a client, another student, faculty member, or other health care provider when the behavior occurs within the context of an academic program. CHHS reserves the right to place on probation, suspend, or dismiss any student in its programs who engages in such conduct. Students disciplined for such reasons have the right to appeal to their department chair or director.
Student Affairs
The Office of Student Affairs provides support to students, faculty and staff on a variety of admissions, academic, and policy issues. The office is involved with recruiting new students; pre-admission advising; processing applications for graduate programs and Nursing BSN programs (junior-level admission to the BSN pathways, and the accelerated second-degree BSN); and conducting orientations for newly-admitted students.
Student Affairs maintains the college’s student records; reviews and recommends action on undergraduate and graduate student requests for exceptions to academic policy; processes standard academic actions; and approves student records for degree completion prior to graduation. Student grade appeals fall under university policy, described in the Academic Policies section of the catalog.
Each student is assigned an academic advisor with whom he or she should meet at least once a semester to insure program graduation requirements are met. The assigned advisor may be a faculty member, a departmental advisor, or an advisor in the Office of Student Affairs.
Student Responsibility
Students are required to have an active Mason e-mail account , and to update any change of address on-line through Patriotweb. The college will not use personal (non- GMU) e-mail addresses to communicate with students. Students are responsible for knowing the university academic policies and the policies governing their program as stated in the university catalog, and should regularly monitor their Mason transcript on-line and their degree progression through the degree evaluation tool on Patriotweb [link to https://patriotweb.gmu.edu/].
Background Checks
Many clinical agencies and practicum sites mandate that students working there have a criminal background check. All students enrolled in the School of Nursing are required to complete a criminal background check prior to beginning the program. Students enrolled in other CHHS programs may be required to complete background checks before entering a practicum environment. Information obtained from the background check is strictly confidential but may result in a student’s inability to perform clinical or practicum activities and, therefore, will disqualify the student from entering or continuing in the program. School of Nursing students are sent information regarding the criminal background check process, and associated fees, in their admission packets. Other students are informed individually as they are placed in practicum activities requiring background checks. Students are responsible for notifying the assistant dean of student affairs of any arrests, regardless of adjudication, that occur after acceptance and during enrollment in the program. Failure to promptly notify the assistant dean of student affairs may be grounds for dismissal from the program.
Health Records
To comply with the regulations established by the Commonwealth of Virginia and the agencies to which students are assigned and to minimize risks to student health, every student enrolled in a CHHS program requiring clinical or practicum coursework must document and submit evidence of good health and provide current immunization records to both the CHHS Office of Student Affairs and to the university’s Student Health Services at the time of admission to the college. Immunizations may be obtained through Student Health Services on any of the Mason campuses.
Students should keep copies of their health records should agencies require them for clinical and practicum assignments. All costs associated with immunizations and certifications are the student’s responsibility.
Insurance and Liability
Students are strongly advised to maintain health insurance coverage at all times. A student health insurance plan is available to eligible students through Mason. Students are responsible for their own health care, including emergency care, and CHHS assumes no financial responsibility for the health care of students. Enrolled students who are performing internships and similar experiential learning as a required part of their academic programs are also considered agents of the university. They are covered by the Commonwealth of Virginia Risk Management Plan while engaged in their prescribed educational duties.
Academic Outreach
The mission of the Office of Academic Outreach is to provide off-campus graduate coursework that supports the continued professional development and competency of practicing health professionals. This purpose is accomplished through collaborative relationships with expert health and instructional resources–individual and organizational–both internal and external to the University.
Academic Policies
Students should become familiar with the university’s general academic policies in addition to those specific to each academic unit. Please see the Academic Policies section of this catalog.
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