Gesele Durham - Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning

Title: Vice Provost for the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning

Phone: (703) 993-5883

Provides leadership in strategic and academic planning, the production and use of analytics, meaningful assessment, data governance and data-informed decision-making that advances Mason’s goals.

With a doctoral degree in Political Science from Binghamton University, she began her academic career at the University of Minnesota Morris as faculty before relocating to Wisconsin where she worked for both UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee. She also served one year with the General Accounting Office evaluating international environmental agreements. Originally from central Illinois, she attended Illinois State University for her bachelor’s and master’s degrees, both in Political Science.

Appeared on the Larry King show with a dramatic interpretation about life in a fishbowl from the fish perspective.

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