Virtual Open House MHA Health Systems Management Transcript

George Mason Online Admissions: Hello, and thank you for joining our fall. 2025, Virtual open House for the Masters of Health Administration Online Program. We’re excited to share information about our program, answer your questions and help you explore the many opportunities available to you. I am Brianna Prasad, Enrollment coordinator, and I will serve as a resource tonight. Throughout our presentation.

George Mason Online Admissions: Also, we are joined by Dr. Brenda Helen Sheingold. Thank you for being here and sharing information regarding our online program. We do look forward to connecting with you and supporting you through the educational journey.

George Mason Online Admissions: So in this session we will introduce you to our program by meeting the presenter exploring the key reasons to choose Mason’s Masters of Health Administration Program. We will review the curriculum details, highlight the expected learning outcomes and discuss the Capstone project

George Mason Online Admissions: additionally, you’ll learn about opportunities outside of the classroom to enhance your experience along with the admissions requirements.

George Mason Online Admissions: Finally, there will be a Q&A session where you can ask any questions you may have. We do look forward to guiding you through this comprehensive overview of the program.

George Mason Online Admissions: Okay? So there are a couple of different ways that you can participate in our virtual open house tonight. In the control at the bottom window you can click, chat for the chat window to appear and type your message. There is the raise your hand, feature. You’ll click. Raise your hand in your webinar control, and then we will prompt you to speak.

George Mason Online Admissions: And last, last, but not least, there is a Q. And a. In your webinar control to get access to the Q. And a window. You’ll type your question in the text box to ask a question.

George Mason Online Admissions: And now I introduce you to our associate, Professor Dr. Brenda Helen Sheingold. Thank you so much for being here tonight.

Brenda Sheingold: Yes, thank you, Brianna. So I work very closely with Drio, and she’s the Coordinator for the Mha program. She’s on vacation this week, so I’m holding down the fort in her absence.

Brenda Sheingold: I’ve been at George Mason since 2018. My background is that I’m a trauma care nurse and I went into academics about about 15 years ago. I spent 10 years at Gw. As the director of their quality Dnp. Program before coming to George Mason. I’ve been at George Mason since 2018.

Brenda Sheingold: So I teach the the leadership and organizational behavior class, the capstone class, the marketing and strategic planning class, and I’ll be happy to answer any questions you have about the capstone projects since I I spend quite a bit of time with students on those.

Brenda Sheingold: so I’m not sure if I can control the slides for you and I. Okay.

Brenda Sheingold: so we are Cami accredited. I’m sure you both already know that, because that’s the primary reason why people select our program in addition to the flexible format that we have an all online format, which I believe is what both of you have applied for. And then we also have an in-person format and a hybrid format.

Brenda Sheingold: We’re ranked number 32 nationally by Us. News and world report, and we have a lot of opportunities to get involved outside of the classroom, even for online students. So I’ll be going over some of those opportunities in a little bit.

Brenda Sheingold: and we could go to the next slide. One of the things that I hope you know about. I mean, we’ve made a lot of press releases regarding this, but we have. We have a very unique distinction in that we have won 2 national competitive awards from Cami. The 1st one was for sustainability in healthcare education. And then we just won this one, the innovation award this year in 2025.

Brenda Sheingold: And, as I mentioned, these are competitive. This means that we were selected by a Blue Ribbon Committee out of all the other Mha. Programs in the country. These are national awards. So some a little over the moon that we received them, and very humbled that we received. You know these awards as well. So I think it really underscores the

Brenda Sheingold: quality of our program, and the quality of the program that you’ll be applying to it is sort of makes us stand out

Brenda Sheingold: in terms of what we offer.

Brenda Sheingold: So we could go to the next slide.

Brenda Sheingold: So this is an example of the curriculum. The required core curriculum is on the left hand side. Everybody takes those courses, and then you’ll select either the healthcare quality, concentration or executive concentration.

Brenda Sheingold: The healthcare quality concentration is the newer of the 2. It was developed based on the market demand. We did an environmental scan, and we took this to our advisory board. And this provides the skill set that they’re frequently looking for that we didn’t have before.

Brenda Sheingold: The quality courses that you see listed here were developed with Mcqa, so that they’re very high, you know, very, you know, at a high level, the bars set pretty high. With these classes, the executive concentration is focused more on the administrative side of the house and physician practice management consulting.

Brenda Sheingold: It just depends on what you want to do after graduation in terms of what you select for your concentration.

Brenda Sheingold: And we can go to the next slide.

Brenda Sheingold: So we’re. We’re focused on competencies throughout the program. Everything we do can be mapped back to a competency. We have 20 different ones, and we don’t teach anything that doesn’t have value and meaning that is not approved by cami and also by the Association for university programs in healthcare Education and upha.

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Brenda Sheingold: So so we’re very intentional in terms of the curriculum that we offer the classes, that we teach every assignment, everything maps back

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Brenda Sheingold: to explicit competencies, so that we know by the time you graduate that you are prepared for the market, and that and our graduates typically have are recruited out by employers before graduation.

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Brenda Sheingold: And we can go to the next slide. The capstone class is a very popular reason that people select our program in addition to being cami accredited. So this is the very last course that you take in the program and you’re placed, not we don’t place you, you network, to locate

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Brenda Sheingold: a preceptor in your area of interest and design a project with the preceptor that lasts over the course of one semester, which for online is 8 weeks.

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Brenda Sheingold: We open up that class 2 months early to give you time and give you the support you need to locate a preceptor to identify a project we meet with the preceptor and you together. To make sure the project meets the requirements for graduation, but also for the accreditors, and then we approve the project, and when the semester starts you’re ready to go with all of your approvals.

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Brenda Sheingold: and you know, with all of the agreements between the 2 institutions, so that you don’t waste any time, and you can hit the ground running when the capstone semester begins.

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Brenda Sheingold: So at the end you would do a poster presentation in class with a recording, and also write an executive brief as one of the deliverables. And this is a 3 page executive brief, that follows a very tailored format.

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Brenda Sheingold: so that when you graduate you know exactly how to write an executive brief. You won’t be writing papers and doing assignments anymore. It’s typical to the kind of writing that that would be expected after graduation. So that’s why we set it up like that.

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Brenda Sheingold: So we can go to the next slide.

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Brenda Sheingold: So we have a lot of opportunities to get involved outside of the classroom. Probably the biggest one for online students is rising healthcare leaders at Mason. That’s the Student Association, the Graduate Student Association that is run by by Mha students.

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Brenda Sheingold: And we have a mix of online and on campus leadership for that. And we do a lot of recording broadcasting, you know, really national, live streaming events

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Brenda Sheingold: to be inclusive of the online students. We, the biggest thing that we do is in the spring. This time this year. It’ll be late in February, and that is in partnership with national capital healthcare executives in the Dmv. Area. And there is Star chapter of the American College of healthcare executives.

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Brenda Sheingold: And that that’s this is our local chapter. So the students and the executives in the area partner together to put on an all day event that is live streamed. We have 3 different panelists along with keynote speakers that day, so that we can really be completely inclusive of our online students.

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Brenda Sheingold: We also have a honor society that you can become a member of. We have an Academy health student chapter that’s nationally recognized. We have students that have presented there before that. What they presented is their capstone projects.

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Brenda Sheingold: We have a health policy seminar series, where we bring in local policy advocates and experts, and that is also live streamed.

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Brenda Sheingold: And then we have national case competitions. And we’re getting our teams ready for those now, the one that would be most attractive for online students is the Penn State competition. We pay all the entrance fees for that. Dr. Marty Cohen is going to be the coach for that team this year, I believe I want to say that’s in the end of October beginning of November, and that’s a 2 day event

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Brenda Sheingold: where you would present virtually, and there’s prize money, significant prize money to be won by teams, you know, at the conclusion of the of the competition which is judged by usually healthcare executives related to the case that you’re given. So this, if you’re not familiar with these case competitions.

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Brenda Sheingold: there’s typically about 30 teams from 30 different schools that enter. Everybody gets the same case, and then you design a strategic plan and analysis for that case and then present it as a team in about 15 min. So that means, you know, about 5 min per person. The teams are usually 3 people, and then you go to the semifinals and then the finals.

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Brenda Sheingold: And then that’s when they make make a decision about the you know what teams win.

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Brenda Sheingold: So so it really pushes the envelope in terms of out of your comfort zone. And and students love it. So so please keep that in mind. That’s that’s the next one coming up. That would be for online students.

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Brenda Sheingold: so we could go to the next slide.

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Brenda Sheingold: So I wanted to just put this on your radar that we frequently do site visits, we meaning the executive in residence who’s pictured here for Georgetown Hospital. And I think he’s also in the photograph with the Innova dome experience. But

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Brenda Sheingold: we’re one of the few programs in the country that has an executive in residence. So that’s another another way that we stand out in terms of making our program excellent.

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Brenda Sheingold: He does a lot of career counseling. He goes on the site visits. He hosts the innova dome experience which I’m going to talk about in more detail and and just really interacts with the faculty and the students on a regular basis. I was in a meeting with him today, and and that we meet a couple of times a week. Typically, so we’re really very hands on with our with our students.

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Brenda Sheingold: So the 1st picture that you see here on the left, the Innova dome. Experience is a live, open heart surgery, theater experience. Where do they have a special operating room at Innova? One of the few in the country that has a plexiglass dome right over the operating room table. So you are sort of like looking right down as part of the procedure, as you know as it unfolds.

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Brenda Sheingold: There’s also television screens, flat screens in a circle around this dome so that you can see very closely what they do in open heart surgery. We’ve had online students fly in from out of state to, you know, to take part in this because it’s such an unusual opportunity. We do that twice a year

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Brenda Sheingold: the Georgetown Hospital visit was a site visit for a capstone project. This was the Inova High Reliability Operations Center was a field trip that we hosted for online and on campus students to go inside, behind the scenes of the inner workings at the Innova health care system which Kara mentioned. She works at Fairfax Hospital. This is located across the street, which Kara probably knows.

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Brenda Sheingold: and what this is is a central hub, for that manages all the transfers between 5 hospitals, all of the bed management between all 5 hospitals, all of the monitoring in 5 icus. They also call the codes. When a patient codes as a cardiac arrest in Icu. They can actually manage the code offsite because they have.

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Brenda Sheingold: like a plethora of physicians, that monitor all of the cardiac rhythms for all 5 Icus at the same time. So this is, that’s why it’s called a high reliability center. It’s very, very closely knit. They also have cameras on most of the Icu patients.

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Brenda Sheingold: so that if something is, you know, if a patient runs into trouble, and while I was there someone almost slid out of a chair, and the nurse wasn’t in the room, so the the virtual nurse could give her a heads up to go back in there and help reposition the patient in the chair. So it really is.

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Brenda Sheingold: you know, adds to the quality of patient care and patient safety. So this was a huge, huge enterprise, and the only one of its kind in the entire United States.

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Brenda Sheingold: There’s nobody that does this much monitoring and and close documentation of of oversight as this. They call it, a truck.

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Brenda Sheingold: the the innova’s high reliability center. We also have our own free clinic.

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Brenda Sheingold: We have several, but we have one that is not a pop up. Some are pop-ups that are in the area that they just pop up for one day. They’re led by nursing faculty and also with Mha. Students. I’ve had a number of Mha students that have done virtual capstone projects with this clinic and also on site

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Brenda Sheingold: projects with this clinic. The main structure is in Prince William County, which is identified as a a, you know, an area that really needs to have.

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Brenda Sheingold: you know, a lot of free care. This care is all free. It has, you know, patients that can’t afford health care insurance a lot. They do a lot of school physicals, for, you know, for Prince William County. So George Mason has a big footprint in terms of caring for the community around us, and especially the communities in need.

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Brenda Sheingold: And then Virginia Hospital Center was also an event. We did offsite, where we had a team of students that went in and shadowed a team of C-suite executives for a day. And this was very. This was very popular. It was the 1st time Virginia Hospital Center had tried anything like this, but I wanted to provide a different feel, a different sense of what the job was like

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Brenda Sheingold: for students. And so we piloted this just last semester and Virginia Hospital center loved it, and now is considering doing a fellowship for Mha. Students a paid fellowship as a result of the work that they did that day. So we can go to the next slide.

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Brenda Sheingold: This is going to look familiar, probably to Kara. We also did another field trip into the Trauma Center Fairfax Hospitals, a level one trauma center, and we did a tour behind the scenes. This is the Trauma Bay, which we had to quickly clear out of after this picture was taken because they had patients coming in, and they actually took out the back wall, so that the to give more access to the ambulances coming into this room.

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Brenda Sheingold: and then this is the Helipad, where they allowed us to have a group picture taken. And then there was a press release associated with this. The link is right here, and these are 3 Mha students that were interviewed for that press release.

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Brenda Sheingold: So we have a strong partnership with the community. We have a. We also establish

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Brenda Sheingold: really good partnerships nationally, because we have students placed in capstone projects all over the country, and we’ve even had some that have completed projects internationally. So we’re well known for this. And we that is one of the strengths that we have is to develop strong partnerships.

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Brenda Sheingold: So we can go to the next slide.

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Brenda Sheingold: So these are some of the career opportunities. You’ve probably seen this on the website. We have a 93% placement in the field after graduation we track all of that. We’re required to track it. So we know it’s accurate. And this is within 3 months after graduation in the field of choice.

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Brenda Sheingold: So these are just some of the areas that people that that our graduates find jobs in. And as I mentioned, they’re often recruited before they even finish before they graduate.

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Brenda Sheingold: So next slide.

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Brenda Sheingold: And I’m Brianna, I’ll turn it over to you. I see this is our admissions process. So.

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Brenda Sheingold: so thank you for listening to me, and I’m happy. When Brianna’s finished, to answer any questions you have.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Absolutely okay. So if you are interested in applying the admissions process is pretty simple. We are able to use your unofficial transcript, resume 2 letters of recommendation. And with our letters of recommendation, it’s actually a questionnaire format, so much easier and a statement of purpose.

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George Mason Online Admissions: The next start date for our program is going to be August 23, rd with the application deadline of August first.st

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George Mason Online Admissions: Okay.

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George Mason Online Admissions: And this is our time for some. Q. And as if we have any questions.

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Brenda Sheingold: Go ahead, Philip!

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Phillip Snyder: Hey there! So in terms of the quality track? Are we going to get any kind of exposure in the curriculum leading up to that like, I say, fork in the road where we have to decide. If we want to go the executive track or the quality track, or are we gonna be able to meet with like an advisor, you know. Then maybe able to kind of tell us the pros and cons based off of, let’s say, our vision, for our career.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, that’s a great question. And the answer is, there is a fork in the road after the 1st semester, the 1st semester. Everybody takes the same classes. And then, after that, you know, based on when things are offered, because we don’t offer every single class, every single semester. That’s the way grad schools are everywhere. It’s you know, it’s just not

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Brenda Sheingold: feasible or cost effective to do that. So based on what your decision is

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Brenda Sheingold: that would help determine what classes you take next. Now, how do you make that decision? You make that decision by by appointments with Dr. Yurio and with myself, but also with the Executive in residence, David Wright.

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Brenda Sheingold: He also meets with students. I highly recommend you schedule an appointment with him. We also have a career center. I should have provided a slide on that, because it’s new. We haven’t always had that career center. And it just started last semester. So we have a host of new resources to help you make up your mind about the job market. I think

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Brenda Sheingold: out of everything we have the best resource. Philip would be David Wright

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Brenda Sheingold: because he would be able to. He. He has has extensive experience in healthcare, and that’s 1 of the reasons we’re so fortunate to have him, because it’s not just

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Brenda Sheingold: a figurehead. He he actually knows what he’s talking about, and can really provide some solid guidance for you. He’s also a life coach, by the way, so so kind of you kind of get both.

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Brenda Sheingold: Kara. Go ahead, please.

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Kara Ibarra: Okay? So I have. I’ve kind of a 2 part question. My 1st question would be and you you answered a little bit of this in your slides, but wanting to know because I will.

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Kara Ibarra: would be an online student. And being so close, I’m assuming I am would be welcome to most events. Like all of that.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, yeah.

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Kara Ibarra: Yeah, okay, awesome. And then.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, yeah.

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Brenda Sheingold: Store.

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Brenda Sheingold: and I just want to clarify. We have a liaison that is one of our assigned roles. This is a registered student organization. So they they’re eligible for quite a bit of funding which they have gotten every year to to host this spring symposium.

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Brenda Sheingold: One of the designated positions we have is a liaison specifically for online students to promote every single event, every single activity, everything that we live stream.

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Brenda Sheingold: So you could come to campus for anything you wanted. I encourage it because

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Brenda Sheingold: it’s hard to network. When you’re online, you can hear the presentations. And you can. We have virtual resume reviews, for example at the spring symposium. But there’s no replacement for face-to-face contact sometimes, and networking isn’t so easy to do virtually.

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Kara Ibarra: Yes, of course.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, I would. I would love that. Come to my office. We’ll go out to lunch. We’ll go.

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Brenda Sheingold: The door is open for you, too, Phillip, you come to this area. Let me know. And and you know I’ll make sure that you know that we can spend time together. So

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Brenda Sheingold: yeah. The great question. Tara.

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Kara Ibarra: I just had one more kind of like second part to that. If for some reason, cause I there, there is an on campus portion of the or you know, I’m trying to think of the word. There is an on campus mha program. So my question is, have you ever had anyone switch from online to on campus if they yeah.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, it happens, it happens. And it also happens that they go from on campus to online. The only caveat to that is, you can only switch one time. So if you want to do that, you absolutely can. There’s it’s very easy. It’s filling out a form

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Brenda Sheingold: that we that we mostly fill out. So it’s it’s not a big deal. Now that the difference would be instead of 8 week classes, which is what we have online. You take one at a time for 8 weeks, and then you take another one for 8 weeks.

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Brenda Sheingold: For on campus students they typically take 6 because they’re all working full time also, and we know that 6 credits a semester works. When I say work, it’s manageable with people that work, and it’s the way I went to school, too. I worked through every one of my degrees and

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Brenda Sheingold: you know. So you know, you learn what you can handle. The on campus program is the online program is 8 weeks, one class at a time. The on campus program is over 16 weeks. So you can manage 2 and still work full time. And that’s been our experience. But that people I mean we’ve done this for a long time. We cater, that is our niche is to cater to working adults.

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Brenda Sheingold: So so we pretty much we know what we’re doing when it comes to that.

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Kara Ibarra: Wonderful. Thank you.

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Brenda Sheingold: Sure I hope to meet you in person, Kara.

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Kara Ibarra: Yeah. So, too, that would be great. I’m over there quite often.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, I see your hand up, Philip.

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Phillip Snyder: Alright! So will George Mason ever be accredited through Cami for their quality and safety program like, having, like that dual accreditation, is that.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh!

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Phillip Snyder: Is that like in the future? Or is it or.

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Brenda Sheingold: That’s on our radar. And that’s our goal. Now, in order to qualify for that, there’s strict rules about qualifying, just because you have offered a quality. Concentration doesn’t mean you’re automatically, you know, eligible. So you have to have a certain number of

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Brenda Sheingold: people enrolled. So we’re still reaching that that threshold, and then you have to be offered. You have. It has to be offered for 3 years. We just hit our 3 year mark so we can check that box, but we have not hit our threshold for enrollment yet. So so that’s what makes you, Cami eligible in terms of having the dual accreditations. I know exactly what you’re talking about.

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Phillip Snyder: Thank you.

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Brenda Sheingold: Sure that I need to have another question.

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Phillip Snyder: Always

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay. That’s why we’re here.

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Phillip Snyder: And so I was looking on the curriculum, the kind of the roadmap online. I don’t know if it’s been updated, but from what I’m seeing it looks like the executive and quality.

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Phillip Snyder: you know constant roadmaps are the same up until fall of the second year you mentioned the 1st semester.

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Phillip Snyder: Am I? Is that? Has that changed?

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Brenda Sheingold: Well, what’s changed has is based on and that. And that’s

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Brenda Sheingold: we need to clarify that on the website because it should say, based on the availability of classes.

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Brenda Sheingold: Because we try to keep it lockstep. We try to keep it regimented, but we can’t always

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Brenda Sheingold: offer that particular class in that particular order of the semester. And that’s based on a couple of things, the the faculty availability for it to teach it, and the the enrollment in the class. So so if we can go back to that slide, Brianna, that shows the breakdown, the fork in the road that, as I think, Kara. You said that the fork in the road or maybe you did, Philip. Somebody did

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Brenda Sheingold: So we should fix that on the website to say, based on the availability of the classes. So I think it’s a couple slides back Brianna

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Brenda Sheingold: where it outlines the executive and the quality track program.

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Brenda Sheingold: So there we go. So this is what you’re talking about, Philip.

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Brenda Sheingold: So it may be that 6, 97

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Brenda Sheingold: may not be offered exactly when you’re ready for it. It might not be offered, say, in the fall semester. It could be offered in the spring semester of a year, and you’d have to like wait an 8 week time to to get to that one

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Brenda Sheingold: for 6, 97.

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Phillip Snyder: Understood. And just one more question. And I won’t bug you guys anymore is 6, 52 essentials of health insurance and managed care. It looks like on the website. It’s under both the executive and quality concentration. But it looks like here on this slide that it’s only under the executive concentration. Because that’s a big class. I’m really interested in.

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Brenda Sheingold: It’s I think the 7, 46 class

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Brenda Sheingold: is going to be replaced with 6, 35. I think it’s the slide that’s that needs to be updated. So you’re right. That’s a huge class. And we cover that in economics we cover that in the policy class. It’s covered throughout really the the whole program. Because that’s that’s a lot of value based purchasing information that you have to graduate with knowing. And and we know that’s that’s what the market wants.

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Brenda Sheingold: So that’s a really good question. And so so that’s covered in several different classes.

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Phillip Snyder: Okay.

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Brenda Sheingold: the 7, 46 class covers a lot of the same. You can see that with the payment systems.

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Brenda Sheingold: so 7, 46, and 6, 52 are very similar.

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Brenda Sheingold: We’re actually thinking of of combining those. To tell you the truth.

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Brenda Sheingold: to to make it one class and lower our credit load.

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Phillip Snyder: Awesome. Thank you.

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Brenda Sheingold: Any other questions I’m happy to help. I’m not in a rush.

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Kara Ibarra: I’m actually okay. I think you answered most of my questions through the slides. So.

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Brenda Sheingold: So I’m going to put my email in the chat.

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Brenda Sheingold: That is the best way to reach me. Oh, I put 2 dots in there, don’t copy that one.

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Brenda Sheingold: I’ll do it again.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay, that looks better. The best way to reach me is email. So don’t hesitate. If you think of other questions, and you might after tonight. I’m happy to answer anything you have as is Dr. Yurio.

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Brenda Sheingold: So please reach out, Philip. I’m thrilled that you’re going to start in August.

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Brenda Sheingold: we’ll have an orientation for you to give a lot more detail about everything so welcome to the George Mason family and Kara. I hope that I get to say that to you also.

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Kara Ibarra: Thank you so much.

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Phillip Snyder: Thank you. Yeah, I did a lot of research. You know, I think on return and investment and my current work schedule. And

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Phillip Snyder: I think this was the probably the best option for me, and I’m sure for a lot of other people. So thank you again for having me.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, you’re, I mean, I think you just nailed it with the return on the investment there’s a very few programs that

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Brenda Sheingold: match what we offer for the price that we offer.

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Kara Ibarra: For sure. Thank you so much.

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Brenda Sheingold: Welcome!

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Phillip Snyder: Well, I don’t have any other questions I may connect with you. Further, via email or phone call or a zoom here in the next couple of weeks Dr. Shengold.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yep, I’ll be around all summer. I’m taking one week off in August, but otherwise I’ll be around. Philip.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Alright. Well, thank you guys so much nice to meet you, Kara, and thank you so much again.

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Brenda Sheingold: You’re welcome.

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Kara Ibarra: Nice to meet you. Thank you. Have a good one. Bye, bye.

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George Mason Online Admissions: I think we have one more question, Nigel.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Hi, Nigel, can you hear me?

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George Mason Online Admissions: Here we go, Nigel.

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Nigel Thomas: Great. Thank you. Can you hear me now?

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George Mason Online Admissions: Yes.

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Nigel Thomas: Okay, great. I was wondering if I was just like

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Nigel Thomas: like a ghost. So great I was. I had my hand raised. There. Is there anywhere else? Did Dr. Shingle log off.

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George Mason Online Admissions: I think she did, actually. But it’s okay. You can ask.

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Brenda Sheingold: I’m here. I’m here.

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Nigel Thomas: Oh, Dr.

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Nigel Thomas: Great. I wanted to ask 1st about the class schedule. The the course schedule is that available online? Can I see that? Can I, can that be emailed to me because it’s like this slide just came up briefly, and I know we reviewed it with Philip’s question. But I wanted.

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Brenda Sheingold: That is available online. But Brianna, could you also email that to Nigel?

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Brenda Sheingold: is that possible? I wanna just wanna make sure he has it.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay, thank you for that. So so we’ll make sure you get that, Nigel. It is online. But you don’t need to search for that, you know, we can apply that so you can see it faster.

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Nigel Thomas: Cushy so and and and I know the employee.

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Nigel Thomas: And so I am very curious or interested in the program.

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Nigel Thomas: I wanted to ask about the online version as well as the you said, it’s 8 weeks per semester.

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Brenda Sheingold: Online is 8 weeks for one semester. That that is correct. The on-campus program is the identical class. But it’s 16 weeks.

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Brenda Sheingold: So the online program is an accelerated program. And in terms of the class offering that you still get 6 weeks, 6 credits a semester just like the on campus. So that lines up perfectly, but because it’s online, it’s delivered a little bit faster, paced.

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Brenda Sheingold: So we have found that that’s that’s the best mode to to offer the class we’ve been doing this. Let’s see, we started in 2018.

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Brenda Sheingold: And so we’ve been doing this for almost 7 years. So we have found that 8 weeks semesters, one class at a time is what people can handle, because it’s a little bit faster, paced.

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Nigel Thomas: Okay. Can you go back? Can we go back to the slide with the course? Again.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, we yeah, we can the same one with the that just asked about.

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Brenda Sheingold: I could not see you on my screen, Nigel. I could only see 2 people, so I didn’t even know you were here.

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Nigel Thomas: I feel bad.

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Brenda Sheingold: About that, and so good.

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Nigel Thomas: I was listening. I’m actually out of the country. And so when I spoke to one of your recruiters, a young lady in Florida. I can’t remember her name, but she told me to make sure you log in. And so I had this on my calendar. I’m like, okay, I have to make this webinar this evening. So anyway, my question is so the required. So does it go

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Nigel Thomas: because you said pretty much. Everybody starts at the same course at the same time, so that would be 500.

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Brenda Sheingold: 506, 0, 2 would be your 1st classes. 6, 2 is a prerequisite for the 6, 98 class, which is the

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Brenda Sheingold: and 6, 98 is should be in both. Yeah, there it is. It’s in the. It’s like the 5th one down. So so that is a prerequisite for 6, 98. You’ll get a lot about the value based purchasing in that class. So that’s why we want you to take. It’s a basic statistics. You probably already had it

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Brenda Sheingold: as an undergrad. So it’s very basic. So that’s why it’s 1 of the 1st classes you take.

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Nigel Thomas: Okay? And so it’s would you say the classes are intense, like, work.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay, I can tell you which ones are intense. The health care law class.

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Brenda Sheingold: And that’s gonna be in.

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Brenda Sheingold: That’s 6, 99

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Brenda Sheingold: in the healthcare quality track. That’s 1 that that is taught by attorneys, and that is what? Probably the most intense class in the whole program.

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Nigel Thomas: The 6 99.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, 6, 99 as it should be. Because you know that’s you know, those are materials that you need to that you need to know

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Brenda Sheingold: quality measurement. I’ve heard students say that that can be. I think it really depends on how comfortable they are with some of the methods, but that’s really one of the most critical classes to come out with under your belt that employers want to know that you have that skill set.

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Brenda Sheingold: 6, 98. That’s 1 of your core classes. So you have to take that, no matter which concentration you select.

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Brenda Sheingold: maybe the capstone class, depending on what you choose, because that’s up to you.

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Brenda Sheingold: It depends on how challenging your project is, so that can be an intense class. So one example that comes to mind is

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Brenda Sheingold: I had a student who did her capstone at Innova’s, or she was a secret shopper, because they wanted to know, they meaning the Vp of surgical services for all of Inova just had a feeling that people were not being completely honest on the pre-OP checklist of why, you know, a surgery would start late. Why, 1st cases start late.

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Brenda Sheingold: and they have about 30 different things. You check off. I don’t know where you work in in Nova Nigel, so I may be telling you something you already know. So they had all these late cases, and they didn’t know why, because the checklists were fine.

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Brenda Sheingold: and there was nothing to indicate why they were starting late, and of course, that cascades into the next case and the next case and the next, and it’s a huge hole in the dike for revenue for money, and so it was important to find to get to the root cause of that.

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Brenda Sheingold: So the secret shopper student had to get up at 4 30 in the morning to get there before the 1st case started at 7 Am. In order to be there to actually see what was going on with the checklists.

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Brenda Sheingold: and so I would say that was intense. I would call that an intense capstone, because she did that more than once a week, and you know it turned out in the end just to let you know that it turned out that people weren’t being completely honest with the checklist that often the surgeon was late.

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Brenda Sheingold: and they weren’t recording that, because if they got 3 lates in a row they would lose their 1st start time slot, and they’d have to. They’d have to take a different time slot. So

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Brenda Sheingold: You know, there was this

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Brenda Sheingold: well intended, you know, covering for the surgeon. They work together very closely. You know what it’s like? An or so the very close teamwork. And it just turned out, that’s you know. That’s what was. It was a.

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Brenda Sheingold: you know, a cultural dynamic that was happening.

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Nigel Thomas: My my other question. I have several other questions, but as they come to mind, since I have you to myself the healthcare quality track what I’m so currently I am an operations manager in imaging.

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Nigel Thomas: And so the healthcare quality track. What sort of like, what’s the end goal? What sort of jobs or positions? Like? How does one use that as opposed to the executive concentration. I think.

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Brenda Sheingold: A lot of them go in revenue cycle management.

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Brenda Sheingold: That’s where you see a lot of the the majors go. I mean, we just had. We’ve only had it for 3 years, so we don’t have a lot of graduates from that yet.

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Brenda Sheingold: Executive concentration, but revenue cycle management, physician practice management. So ambulatory care. And you know, there’s there’s a lot of other opportunities just starting to open up with with AI, with machine learning, with those kinds of jobs that are just coming to the forefront.

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Brenda Sheingold: So that’s that’s what it’s it’s a little bit more cutting edge than than the executive concentration that has. You know, we used to just have that. But the market has dictated, you know, different needs, for you know, depending on the interest of the individual. So we developed the healthcare quality track.

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Nigel Thomas: And you have to decide that after the 1st semester.

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Brenda Sheingold: Pretty much because the the classes may not be offered in the exact order. They’re listed here. So so you you know, we want you to try to make that you don’t have to. But we want you to try to make the decision

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Brenda Sheingold: earlier rather than later, and we have a lot of a host of resources in place, especially with our executive and residents

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Brenda Sheingold: to help go over. You know really what your career goals are within the in the 6 21 class, which is the one I teach you would have me for that, you know. We go over strength finders to help, you know, help you 0 in on what you want. What’s good for you? A lot of case analysis in that class. It’s very case analysis intense.

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Brenda Sheingold: you know, we try to build tools into the curriculum, and with the support services we have surrounding you to help you make a decision. That’s right for yourself.

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Brenda Sheingold: so it may not be possible after the 1st semester, but you don’t want to wait too much longer after that.

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Nigel Thomas: Okay cause. Then the the offerings are either in the healthcare quality track or the executive concentration track, and you don’t.

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Brenda Sheingold: That’s right, it’s just it’s just 2. So and and we would give you support to help get you to the right place for what’s right for you.

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Nigel Thomas: Now, I also wanted to ask about scholarships and stuff like that. How much of that is available.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay. So George Mason has a robust scholarship office.

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Brenda Sheingold: They are competitive, you know. I can. I can tell you that. But that’s something you probably already know, so I don’t have. I would pull it up right now to show you. But if you go I don’t have the screen share option. If you go to Google and just put in Gmu scholarships, it’ll bring up the Scholarship office.

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Brenda Sheingold: and you can see the list of scholarships that you can apply for most of the students to be quite honest, use the employee tuition benefit to pay for that. Most everyone that works for Innova does, and then they take out. They can take out small financial aid packages

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Brenda Sheingold: to augment the tuition reimbursement if they need to.

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Brenda Sheingold: So that’s how most students pay for it. There’s not a lot of

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Brenda Sheingold: scholarships. What little bit of scholarship money I get. I tend to divide it up between 2 or 3 students, and it’s not very much. Sometimes I get money from Aupha like twice a year. They’ll give me some money not very much.

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Brenda Sheingold: If I get $1,000. I divide that up between 3 students, because I want it on their resume. No one knows how much money they they were awarded as a scholarship, but they know what an Aupha scholarship is, and that’s what I want employers to see. And that’s why I spread it out as much as I can.

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Brenda Sheingold: So we’re not scholarship intense because our tuition is is low. I mean, I I look at other programs all the time. I know what Gw. Charges. For example, I know they’re 93, 5.

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Brenda Sheingold: And I look at all the all the other programs, Hopkins, Georgetown, you know I I pay attention to to what other schools are charging, and I know that that we are lower than all of those other schools.

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Brenda Sheingold: with a very, very high quality.

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Nigel Thomas: Got it. Got it. I am definitely interested. Thank you for the webinar and the time the extra time here.

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Nigel Thomas: and I will work on my application.

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Brenda Sheingold: I hope so. I hope that I hope that I get to see that application, Nigel. So yeah. So I I’m looking forward to that. If you have any questions, I hope you saw my email address in the chat.

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Brenda Sheingold: So just reach out to me. I’m happy to help. And

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Brenda Sheingold: you know. Just let me know if anything else comes to mind, because it might, you know. And you know I would if I were you, I would check out the scholarships at George Mason. It’s certainly we have students that apply for scholarships all the time. I write letters for them to get grants and scholarships. So

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Brenda Sheingold: You know, I would keep that in the back of your mind, but certainly leverage your innova tuition benefit.

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Nigel Thomas: Got it. And you said, David Reich, is part of the mentors, or whatever for the program.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, yeah, he’s our executive in residence.

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Nigel Thomas: And another employee, as well.

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Brenda Sheingold: No, he worked. He has his own life coaching business, and then he also works as our executive in residence. He’s a retired executive. He has about 30 years. I could be wrong. It could be, it could be more. He has extensive extensive experience in the field. We’re so fortunate to have him, and, you know, to have

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Brenda Sheingold: his expertise available for students and available for us, you know, available for the faculty. The shadow day I talked about for the C-suite executives that was arranged by David Wright. I thought of the idea, but you know a good idea only takes you so far. If you can’t, if you can’t bring it to life, if you can’t breathe life into it and make it come alive.

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Brenda Sheingold: That’s what he did. So so we work hand in hand, and he knew the executives, the right people at Virginia Hospital Center, so that we could, you know, pull this off and

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Brenda Sheingold: formed it from nothing, you know, this had never been done before. And so that’s the kind of dynamic that that I get to work with, you know, every day on to the benefit of students. So I feel very fortunate to be surrounded by the faculty team that I have, because I I think it’s

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Brenda Sheingold: It’s a huge asset for students to have the the, you know, the faculty bench and expertise. You know, that we’ve got so.

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Nigel Thomas: I only ask because I have a colleague who I am on meetings, and this has the same name, David Reich. So I was trying to figure out if it’s the same.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, David, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, they could.

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Brenda Sheingold: I don’t know. They could be related. I don’t know.

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Brenda Sheingold: They, David David Wright, is the that’s who we have. We have the David Wright who’s a healthcare executive.

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Nigel Thomas: Got it. Got it? Thanks for your time and your information, and I will work.

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Brenda Sheingold: Questions, Nigel. Thank you for that. Such very good questions, and I’m sorry I didn’t even know that you were here. I couldn’t see you so

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Brenda Sheingold: just let me know if you need anything else, and if you’re out of the country, I hope it’s for a great vacation.

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Brenda Sheingold: You’re welcome.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Yeah.

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Nigel Thomas: Have a good one.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Hi! Dr. Sheingold.

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Brenda Sheingold: So I don’t know how much we recorded or.

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George Mason Online Admissions: We recorded everything.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Is that okay?

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Brenda Sheingold: you know I didn’t. I think that it will be helpful for people to hear the questions in particular.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Absolutely oh, we have one.

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Brenda Sheingold: Wait a minute. There’s somebody here.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, for Heaven’s sakes, James, take yourself off mute.

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James Carr: Oh, is that what happened? I was like I was. I’ve been trying to figure out if I was on mute. I couldn’t see the mute button at all.

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Brenda Sheingold: That’s okay. Don’t worry about it. Don’t you worry about that.

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James Carr: I had 2 questions because I put 2 questions in there because it didn’t look like I was getting through, but no worries. I missed the 1st part. I’m sorry I was late. I missed the 1st part I wanted to.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, well, we can. We could go back to that, Brianna. Can we go back to the beginning of the slides?

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, let’s let’s catch James up.

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James Carr: I really appreciate that I’m once again.

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Brenda Sheingold: Not a problem, no problem at all. Okay. So, where did what slide did you start with? James?

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James Carr: I I think it was really the latter last couple of slides.

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James Carr: I was trying the the couple of questions I had just before we start was in the executive track. Do as soon as that track like I. That’s the track I want to go into but is, are those courses intermingled? Or we have to take the core courses first, st and then they’re intermingled. How? How does that work.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, that’s a good question. The answer is it depends on when the classes are offered. So for sure you’ll be taking the 506 0. 2. First.st

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Brenda Sheingold: After that you could be enrolled in 7 0. 3. For example, if you’re taking the executive concentration, I’m just picking on that, as you know, because it’s right here. So you could be taking 7 0, 3 after that, and maybe 7 0 7, because maybe 6, 21 isn’t offered in the next semester.

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James Carr: Oh, okay, Gotcha, that’s human resource.

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Brenda Sheingold: Something Philip brought up. We need to fix that on the website to say, you know, as classes are available or something like that, so that people don’t think this is carved in stone.

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James Carr: I would I would have appreciated the human resources class. I’ve had a couple of issues this last these last couple of weeks with some of that stuff. My goodness, the other. The other question was,

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James Carr: how often are hybrid classes are? Are, I guess the question, because for me, military benefits. They they really wanna, you know, for my full benefit. They they want either brick and mortar or hybrid. So I was just trying to figure out, how many do we have? Is that a a large amount of those that are hybrid as well.

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Brenda Sheingold: I can tell you that we have more military in the on campus classes.

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Brenda Sheingold: because they are hybrid and like right now in the summer, for example, we don’t have any in person classes. They’re all, you know. They’re all virtual.

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Brenda Sheingold: So that’s you know, that’s 1, you know. One reason we can say it’s a hybrid program. But for the all online program there isn’t really an option, for on campus classes. Where are you located, James? I asked that question in the beginning, and I didn’t know you were, and you weren’t here when I asked it.

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James Carr: Yeah, I’m in Partlow, Virginia. So I’m just south of Fredericksburg.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay. So you would be primarily interested in the online program.

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Brenda Sheingold: We do have military in the online program. I would talk to your military counselor, your academic counselor, and verify that to make sure that you’re applying for the correct pathway.

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James Carr: Correct. Yeah, I think I’m I think I’m in the online. But I just wanted the ability to take hybrid as well. So I I just didn’t. I wasn’t quite sure how that worked, because we we talked about that beforehand. But I think that was the that was the question. I didn’t really. I didn’t. I didn’t. Phrase it right. Probably at the time.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, you wanna make sure of that, because that military benefit is fantastic.

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Brenda Sheingold: We have a lot of the, you know we we have a I shouldn’t say a lot. We have a a good many. We have a good many military you know, students, and most of them are

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Brenda Sheingold: are in the on campus program. But some are, I think we have. I have one that’s just starting in the fall. That is army. And I believe he’s all online. Okay? So I I would go back to your Academic military council. You know the

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Brenda Sheingold: and just make sure, because I I have a feeling they’re going to say you can do either.

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James Carr: I don’t think it was internship, but where I guess students are able to go into an executive setting. I think.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay, we can go back. So let me just go over some of the

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Brenda Sheingold: I’ll go over some of these site visits. Did did you hear that part.

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James Carr: No, I didn’t hear that either.

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Brenda Sheingold: Perfect. So we’ll we’ll pick that up, James. So these are some photographs of students that I go on site visits to visit preceptors and also to I mean, I’ve gone out of State. I’ve gone to Maryland to visit preceptors before.

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Brenda Sheingold: so some of these are field trip opportunities that you will have the 1st one over here. On the left is an innova dome experience, which is the opportunity to see open heart surgery.

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Brenda Sheingold: In the they have a special operating room theater at Innova and our executive and residence, David Wright, hosts this activity and takes students inside of like a dome Plexiglass theater right over the

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Brenda Sheingold: neat over there to see open heart surgery. It’s explained by the surgeon as he does the surgery.

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Brenda Sheingold: There’s been many times we’ve taken students in where they’ve been surprised about what they found. Once they opened the patient and and the surgery took a little bit of a different path, you know, than they thought. So this is all protected HIPPA, and the patient is anonymous. The patient is draped. You never see them.

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Brenda Sheingold: You know, during the surgery. But it’s a very popular activity. I’ve had. Online students fly in from out of state.

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Brenda Sheingold: So they could participate in this. So that would be 1 1 thing that you could certainly do. The

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Brenda Sheingold: The map clinic is a free clinic we have in Prince William County. If you’re just south of Fredericksburg, then you know where Prince William County is, and that’s that is in.

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Brenda Sheingold: you know, run by faculty nursing faculty and also the Mha. Students. They do a lot of the scheduling a lot of strategic planning implementation of a new Ehr system. They just one of our students designed the the orientation for that, and gathered data for how that implementation went.

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Brenda Sheingold: And actually, I think she did like a whole brochure for to help Orient people to the new Ehr system. And then the Virginia Hospital Center, C-suite day was a shadow opportunity that Virginia hospital centers in Arlington County, Virginia, and we had a team of students that shadowed C-suite executives all day, and that was such a

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Brenda Sheingold: success that Virginia Hospital center is now, considering, you know, establishing a Mha fellowship.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, wow! That’d be nice.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah. So they they. It was a good, positive experience for our students, but also for the executives. And then the next slide shows a site visit we did to innova health system.

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Brenda Sheingold: The next slide, Brianna, if we can just move it to that where they went to the level. One trauma center at Fairfax Hospital, because Inova has 5 hospitals. This is the Trauma Bay and the students that this was taken inside of that we had to

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Brenda Sheingold: leave right after this was taken, because they had patients coming into that bay, and they actually took out the wall. That’s over. There’s a wall over to the right that they just removed the wall to, you know, so the ambulances could get in there faster.

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Brenda Sheingold: Picture is the heliport, where they where they fly in patients. So over on the right the 3 that you see pictured here are students that were interviewed, and we had a press release. Associated with this with the level one trauma visit. The 2 men that you see here are military, so those are both students using their their Va benefits in order to go through the program.

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Brenda Sheingold: So I hope that should make you feel better. And then the next slide is just different career opportunities. I’m sure you have some idea of what you would like to go into. These are some of the options where our students land after graduation, we do have a 93% higher rate after graduation.

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Brenda Sheingold: And we have to track that for Cami for our creditors. So we know that it’s accurate. And the other 7% are international students. So we’re not sure you know where they where they end up getting jobs. But we, we do know about the 93%.

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James Carr: Okay, no, that’s that’s nice. That’s that makes sense.

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Brenda Sheingold: Well, it’s nice to know that that your time is well spent, because

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Brenda Sheingold: it’s all about getting the job, you know, when you when you graduate.

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Brenda Sheingold: That’s why we all do it. So the next slide, Brianna, I’m not sure if that’s something that James. Oh, did you see this one? James?

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Brenda Sheingold: Application. Process, okay.

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James Carr: Yeah, we’re. I’m already done with that.

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Brenda Sheingold: So you can see. Now use the second email that I had put in the chat box

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Brenda Sheingold: to reach me. If you have any other questions.

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James Carr: Sure, and I and I.

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Brenda Sheingold: Happy to help.

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James Carr: Sure, and I’ll I’ll be talking to Dr. Uriah. I think.

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Brenda Sheingold: Stereo.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, she’s on vacation. That’s why she’s not here tonight.

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James Carr: Yeah, she she emailed me that she’s my advisor. So yeah, I’m I’m definitely in touch.

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James Carr: Okay, great. I’m so happy that you sort of that, you shouted out, you know, and got our attention

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James Carr: was like I kept on pressing buttons and.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, my! Gosh!

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Brenda Sheingold: It’s hard to get your get a handle on this, you know you don’t know where which button to push and

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Brenda Sheingold: it. Yeah, I I get it. It was you have to. It takes a while to figure it out. It’s not intuitive.

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James Carr: And it looks like I’ll be seeing you in a couple of weeks with Daniela and Tavon.

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James Carr: Oh, that’s great! Oh, James, yep, so I’ll I’ll.

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Brenda Sheingold: I’ve already talked to you.

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Brenda Sheingold: Gosh, this Nope, terrific!

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Brenda Sheingold: Yep, yep, so I’m I’m I’m pretty familiar. Just needed a few more pieces just that military piece, making sure I understand. You know how we do that. And then just. You know some general questions that I asked about the hybrid and about the you know the classes of the executive track?

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Brenda Sheingold: Well, we I just confirmed that meeting today. I can’t wait to see everybody.

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James Carr: Yep, yep, yep, I’ll be there.

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James Carr: yeah, I told them. I just take off a little bit early from work to make sure I get there in enough time.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay. But and if you know, I know the traffic is brutal coming up 95. That’s that’s a that’s a tough one.

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James Carr: Yeah, cause I’ll be coming up from the back. I might not be that brutal, because I might be coming up the backside of Warrington and 66, so I think it’s might. It might be better. It might work out better for me. There.

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Brenda Sheingold: I agree. I agree with you. Now, I said, 5, 30, okay, is that gonna be okay? 5, 30.

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James Carr: Yeah, I think so. I think so. I just have to manage the the the time. I think it’ll be okay.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yep, yep, yep. I’m looking forward.

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Brenda Sheingold: Change it, you know. We can make it a little bit later, if that’s not gonna be a good time.

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James Carr: Yeah, but yeah.

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Brenda Sheingold: I don’t care about weekends, either. I mean, that’s okay. We’ll talk about that next week. I think the meetings next week.

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James Carr: Yes, I think around the 15, th I think. Yep.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, James, I’m so happy that I’m so happy to talk to you again.

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James Carr: Yeah, yeah, I think I think, I think most everything is okay. You know, I’m in the portal, you know, I got the email stuff set up. I just, you know, when I

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James Carr: get to speak with Dr. Euroyo, is that how you said it? Euroyo.

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Brenda Sheingold: Rio.

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James Carr: Euro euro. Then I can kind of work on class scheduling. Get the rest of that stuff locked down.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okey Doke.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay, James. I’ll see you next week.

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James Carr: Yes, ma’am. Well, thank you very much for your time, and thank you for the presentation.

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Brenda Sheingold: You’re welcome.

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James Carr: Alright have a great.

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Brenda Sheingold: Evening.

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James Carr: Alright, bye-bye.

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Brenda Sheingold: Bye-bye, Brianna. Is there anybody else left that we don’t know about?

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George Mason Online Admissions: No, it’s just the 2 of us at this point.

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Brenda Sheingold: Okay. Okay.

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Brenda Sheingold: Well, I don’t know. We might want to chop off some of that.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Yeah. I’m pretty sure they will.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah. So cause we kind of went on, went on a little bit there. But that’s okay.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Of course. Okay.

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Brenda Sheingold: Students.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Well, thank you so much.

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Brenda Sheingold: Oh, thank you!

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George Mason Online Admissions: This was a lot of fun.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, it was. I’m glad we had a few people, anyway.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Yes.

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Brenda Sheingold: And they seemed all 3 very enthusiastic, and James has already been accepted so.

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George Mason Online Admissions: For sure.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, so but it’s always nice to talk to students again. So.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Absolutely absolutely. Yes, I’m pretty sure they’ll make some edits as needed. But I think there were also some really great questions, too. That’s definitely resourceful for our future candidates.

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Brenda Sheingold: Yeah, yeah, I I agree. And I hope they do chop it off, and not not because it wasn’t useful to the people in the room, but

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Brenda Sheingold: a lot for somebody to listen to if they’re tuning in, you know, out of the blue, and they just click on an open house. It’s kind of a a lot. So.

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Brenda Sheingold: So I I would hope they kind of cut it off a little, so I’m sure they.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Absolutely okay. Alright. Well, then, thank you so much. Again, I will.

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Brenda Sheingold: Until the spring right until we do this again for the summer.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Until we do this again.

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Brenda Sheingold: Alright, Brianna, talk to you later.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Thank you so much. You take care. Have a wonderful evening.

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Brenda Sheingold: Bye-bye.

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George Mason Online Admissions: Bye.