
AIT to be renamed Department of Information Sciences and Technology
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) has approved that as of May 18, 2015, Department of Applied Information Technology has been re-named the Department of Information Sciences and Technology. The Department has been re-named to reflect the new mission of research and to align the department with common nomenclature used by other departments with similar programs and names. The new name captures the intellectual signature for the department and also signals its continued excellence in teaching, including offering of one of the largest majors at Mason, the B.S. in Information Technology.