Categories
Articles

Meet The Mason Nation : Khaseem Davis

Check out this article on our director Khaseem Davis! Get to know him a little more and his role in EIP.

Read more here

Categories
Articles

Early Identification Program alumnae are first recipients of I-Achieve Scholarship

We congratulate Kristen Alleyne and Elene Lipartiani for being among the first recipients of the I-Achieve scholarship. These students have accomplished greatness while in EIP and show a continuation of commitment starting their first year at Mason. Keep up the good work!!

Read More here.

Categories
Articles

Mason’s Early Identification Program for local students pivots to online services

 

Mason’s Early Identification Program for local students pivots to online services

“EIP staff, teachers and student mentors switched to Blackboard Collaborate, an online learning platform… ‘We had to be flexible and find new ways to engage our students online,’ Davis said… [EIP is] another family supporting me in my goal to go to college,” said Bhuiyan, who plans to study biology.”

– Anna Stolley Persky

Read more here.

Categories
Articles

STEM Fusion classes draw students from throughout Northern Virginia

STEM Fusion classes draw students from throughout Northern Virginia

“’Teaching provides me with an opportunity to give back to the same program that helped me embark on an academic journey that has resulted in my professional career as a computational scientist,’ said Mason alumnus Sarom Leang, BS Chemistry ’04…”

– Anna Stolley Persky

Read more here

Categories
Articles

EIP Statement 6.5.20

Read More Here

Categories
Articles

Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Grant

Cooke Foundation Awards Over a Half-Million Dollars for Local Education Opportunities

EIP receives part of Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s award of over half a million dollars for local education opportunities.

Read more here and here and here

Categories
Articles

EIP recognized as a “life changing” program

 

A “life changing” program at George Mason University helps first-gen students attend college

The priority for EIP is to help students go to college, regardless of where that is … In total, 95% of students involved in EIP go on to pursue college degrees.

– Keya Vakil

Read more here

Categories
Articles

Celebrating 10 Years With Alexandria City Public Schools

ACPS Marks Ten-Year Collaboration With GMU Early Identification Program

 

“Ten years ago when the program began, ACPS had just ten students representing the district. A decade later and thanks to a commitment from the school district to expand the budget along with a generous grant from Alexandria City’s Fund for Human Services, those numbers swelled this year to sixty” – ACPS

Read more here

Categories
Articles

Linda Chilin Attaining Her ‘dream in the sky’ with Help of EIP

Attaining her ‘dream in the sky’ at Mason

Linda Chilin, who has a bachelor’s degree from Mason in community health, and a master’s in biology, began her relationship with the university through its Early Identification Program and has continued into a PhD program (Damian Cristodero)

Read more here

Categories
Articles

EIP featured in ABC7 video article spotlight on education

 

College prep program prepares first-generation college-bound students

ABC7’s most recent spotlight on education focused on the Early Identification Program and two of our alumna Marjorie Lopez Morillo and Katherine Chiari

Watch the video and read more here