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This summer, we will be doing CHSSWeb Trainings on demand and will start back up with scheduled trainings in August. If you have an editor who needs to take the CHSSWeb New Editor trainings, please reach out to chssweb@gmu.edu and we will schedule a time for them.

Your website is one of your program’s most powerful first impressions. Make sure it’s clear, engaging, and student-friendly with a CHSS Web Day of Beauty. Contact the team to schedule yours!

As prospective students begin their spring college search, your program’s online presence can make a lasting first impression. Program pages in CHSSWeb often serve as the first entry point, making it essential to keep them accurate, engaging, and up to date to showcase what sets your program apart.

By April, ADA Title II requires state and local government entities—including public universities like George Mason—to ensure all digital content meets recognized accessibility standards. Digital accessibility means designing websites, apps, and online tools so everyone, including people with disabilities, can use them. As a CHSS web editor, you have the tools and resources to create accessible, compliant content.

For those who maintain and update websites in CHSSWeb, we offer a Spring and Fall Cleaning guide. The guide provides a quick checklist of the most common areas we recommend reviewing at the start of each semester.

We've added built-in click tracking to the CHSSWeb Newsletter tool. This feature is designed to help you track engagement with your newsletter issues.

This time of year often brings new additions to our teams and changing roles. We wanted to share some information about how faculty and staff listings in CHSSWeb work to help you make sure these changes are reflected on your websites.

The new catalog for the 2025-26 academic year was published on Thursday, June 5th. We ran the catalog imports on Friday evening, updating all active programs and courses in CHSSWeb to reflect the new catalog's content.

2024 updates to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) reaffirmed that public entities, including George Mason University, must provide fully accessible digital experiences. By April 2026, all university websites and digital content must comply with WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 standards.

This week we released some improvements for image captions in CHSSWeb. These improvements make it easier to add captions to images uploaded directly through the editor tools.