The School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution welcomes additional teachers, scholars, research assistants, and fellows to participate in the program. This section provides information and links to the various programs.
External Adjunct Faculty and Visiting Presenters:
Visiting Adjunct Faculty and special guest presenters teach various S-CAR classes. For external Adjunct Faculty and visiting presenters, please email your interest to Julie Shedd at [email protected], identifying which class(es) you may be interested in teaching.
This Adjunct Faculty Handbook is a key resource for all Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Student Adjunct faculty, and Visiting presenters.
Download The Adjunct Faculty Handbook here
Visiting Scholars:
S-CAR’s Visiting Scholars engage in various research, education, and practice components within the School. Visiting Scholars are provided access to study spaces, University resources including the libraries and are encouraged to participate in the public activities and events of the School during their period of stay. Visiting Scholars are encouraged to publish their works and promote it at S-CAR.
To be a Visiting Scholar, you will need to have an advanced degree, a research agenda, and be sponsored by a faculty member or Center.
For more information about applying to be or hosting a visiting scholar, please follow this link: Visiting Scholars Information
Fellowship Program:
S-CAR hosts the U.S. Army War College Senior Service Fellowship Program. Fellows pursue educative opportunities at S-CAR to enhance and expand their advisory capabilities in various communities they support.
Fellows in residence at S-CAR attend classes, lectures, workshops, and conferences; engage in research on contemporary conflicts; and may participate in any of the centers, working groups, and certificate programs offered at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
For more information, please click here.
Graduate Student Teaching Application Information:
Guidelines and polices are currently under discussion for teaching application processes. If you are interested in teaching, email your interest to Julie Shedd at [email protected].
Graduate Adjunct Faculty Application Policy Handbook (forthcoming)
Graduate Research Assistant Information:
Guidelines and polices are currently under discussion for GRAs. To apply to be a GRA, email your interest to Julie Shedd at [email protected].
GRA Handbook (forthcoming)
How to Run a Degree Evaluation
- Log on Patriot Web
- Select "Faculty and Advisor Services"
- Select "Student Information Menu"
- Select "Degree Evaluation"
- Select the most current term and click "Submit"
- Enter the student's G number and click “Submit”
- Click "Generate New Evaluation" at the bottom of the screen
- Click the bubble to the top left of the academic program
- Click "Generate Request" (always use most current term and make sure the ‘use in-progress coursework’ button is selected.
- Select "Detail Requirements"
- Click "Submit"
Click here for further detail on Degree Evaluations
Registration Overrides
S-CAR instructors may give permission for a student to bypass certain enrollment restrictions that would otherwise prevent the student from registering for the course.
Non-degree graduate students and graduate students from other GMU departments, may take S-CAR courses with faculty approval.
The below guide is intended to assist faculty members in issuing overrides through Patriotweb.
Registration Overrides Process
Plagiarism and Honor Code Violations
All syllabi should have some language referencing the George Mason University Honor Code. (See here under the syllabi section for departmentally- approved language.) Violations, especially at the graduate level, must be reported. Blackboard has a plagiarism checker called 'SafeAssign" that can be used to check for plagiarism. The Office of Academic Integrity can be reached at [email protected].
Report Plagiarism via this link.
Setting up a SafeAssignment on Blackboard
FERPA and Student Privacy
All university faculty are considered school officials and are required by law to maintain the confidentiality of student records. Any school official who maintains specific records is considered a record custodian. The Office of the University Registrar is the official custodian for academic records.
The release of any nondirectory information about a student to any person outside the university community or to any university personnel without a legitimate educational interest violates federal and state law, as well as university regulations.
FERPA and Confidentially Guidelines for Faculty
Students with Disabilities
Students with Disabilities need to provide documentation from the Office of Disability Services (ods.gmu.edu) at the begining of the semester to their professors.
Faculty are requested to provide information about ODS services in their syllabi. Students should not be provided accomodations unless this documentation has been provided. Faculty can contact the department or Ruth J. Townsend, the ADA Coordinator for George Mason University (703.993.8730) if they are being pressured by the student.
Course Evaluations
The S-CAR Student Association traditionally runs in-class mid-term evaluations. Faculty are requested to exit the class for about 10 minutes while the student leaders faciliate a discussion on two questions: "What is going well?" and "What can be done differently?". Faculty are then invited back into the class for anonymous feedback from the students.
Conducting GMU Mid-Term Evaluations
How to View Your Class Evaluations
Other Advising Guides:
Viewing Unofficial Transcripts in Patriotweb
How to Submit Final Grades
How to Address Special Grading Issues
How to Export Your Class List to Excel
How to Set Up and Use Blackboard Courses
GMU Library
GMU Library Catalog-library.gmu.edu
S-CAR's GMU Liasion Research Librarian:
Mary Oberlies
Social Sciences Liaison Librarian, Arl Library, University Libraries
328 Founders Hall
Phone: (703) 993-8267
Email: [email protected]
Available for research consultations, and class workshops in research methods and Zotero.
John Burton Library and Resource Center:
(703) 993-1301, [email protected]
John Burton Library Catalog- The link to the John Burton Library catalog can be found on the main page.
Ordering Texbooks and Deskcopies - Book orders are usually requested three months before the semester starts to allow for adequate ordering and shipping time. This link provides information on book ordering processes and information on the recently enacted Virginia law requiring early book orders.
Course and E-Reserves- ALL E-RESERVES ARE NOW AVAILABLE WITHIN THE BLACKBOARD COURSE. This is completed through the GMU Libraries. This link provides information about copyright issues and limitations, placing course and e-reserves and is also the link to finding e-reserves for your course once they are processed. This site provides detail information to link your e-reserves to Blackboard.
Syllabi- Please send your graduate syllabus to [email protected] for posting to the website. Undergraduate syllabi can be sent to the Undergraduate Program Office Manager ([email protected]) The John Burton Library can also provide photocopying services to print off copies of your syllabi if it is provide at least one week before classes start.
Technology available in the John Burton Library- assistance with website profiles, scanning, videotaping and tape editing, taping and translation resources, statistical software packages, and other items.
S-CAR Archives, Accolades and Achievements:
The John Burton Library and Resource Center also collects monthly accolades, and yearly celebration of achievement information which is published by GMU and on the S-CAR website.
Please forward to [email protected]: copies of recent publications, e-information about paper presentations and workshops presented, awards and grants won, and any media events you may have participated in.
Graduate Program
Doing research? Book an appointment
Phone: 703.993.8267