In The Media

LeNaya Hezel, a student in the Sociology PhD program and higher education specialist at Evocati, a veteran-owned consulting firm, and Barrett Bogue co-author, "The Call to Serve", which is featured in a Washington Post article on February 3, 2022. This report provides data-driven recommendations and peer analysis for Fayetteville State University becoming the leading HBCU to attract, support, and graduate military-connected students. Fayetteville State University used the report in tandem with North Carolina legislation support to offer free tuition to military-connected students. The most significant impact of the report is that its first of its kind. Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have often be left out of the higher education discussion on who is serving military-connected students.

Carol Petty, a Sociology PhD Candidate and representative on the AAUP-Mason's Graduate Committee, recently published in the Fourth-Estate opinion pages where she wrote about back-to-back tuition increases on graduate students during COVID. Her work with the AAUP Graduate Committee centers around organizing and advocating on behalf of all graduate students at Mason.