James Madison University

Accreditation

The Geography Program is approved through the University’s accreditation by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). The association is one of the six regional accrediting agencies of degree-granting higher education institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

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Announcements


  • Upcoming great study abroad opportunities for geographers: Peru, London, The Philippines, Malta and elsewhere: see OIP for more information…More >
  • Dr. Henry Way and Dr. Zack Bortolot were awarded a Freddie Mac grant to develop a new course with the College of Business: a Geography Entrepreneurship Studio.
  • Dr. Carole Nash has been awarded her PhD from American University, with a Distinction! Her dissertation title was: “Modeling Uplands: Landscape and Prehistoric Native American Settlement Archaeology in the Virginia Blue Ridge Foothills.”
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