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George Mason University Office of University Relations newsclippings and press releases records

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Location of collection:: George Mason University

2400 Fenwick Library

Special Collections Research Center

Fenwick Library MS2FL

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030

Contact for questions and access:: POC: Mieko Palazzo

Email: speccoll@gmu.edu

Phone: (703) 993-2220

Fax: (703) 993-2669

Web: scrc.gmu.edu

Restrictions:: Series 1 has no access restrictions. Series 2 contains a number of access restricted materials noted in the content list.
Terms of access:: There are no restrictions on personal use. Permission to publish material from George Mason University Office of University Relations Newsclippings and Press Releases must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Preferred citation:: George Mason University Office of University Relations newsclippings and press releases, R0004, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:: 103.5 linear feet 207 boxes
Creator:: George Mason University. Office of University Relations
Abstract:: Collection contains newsclippings pertaining to George Mason University and the Northern Virginia geographic region, as well as press releases and associated research materials produced by the George Mason University Office of University Relations.
Language:: English
Preferred citation:: George Mason University Office of University Relations newsclippings and press releases, R0004, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The George Mason University Office of University Relations newsclippings and press releases records contains newsclippings pertaining to George Mason University and the Northern Virginia geographic region, as well as press releases produced by the George Mason University Office of University Relations.

This collection documents the nuances of life at George Mason University (GMU) as well as in the surrounding community of Fairfax, Virginia. More broadly it provides insight into the growth and dynamics of Northern Virginia and offers perspective on national trends, politics, and experiences.

Series 1: Newsclippings (1953-2002) documents GMU's evolution from its early years as George Mason College of the University of Virginia to its mature status as a prestigious research university. The collection features news and human interest pieces relating primarily to George Mason University, its related individuals, and the Northern Virginia region. The newsclippings feature information on events at GMU, as well as notable news about the school. The collection also consists of news regarding GMU staff, faculty, and students, including marriage announcements and notable achievements. News articles and editorials written by GMU-affiliated individuals are also included. In addition, the collection also contains newsclippings on state politics largely in reference to higher education budgets as well as local news and events.

Series 2: Press Releases (1956-1997) contains printed press releases, public service announcements, and event calendars disseminated to the GMU community as well as local and regional newspapers. The press releases contain information on such topics as course offerings, conferences, workshops, and administrative announcements. Also included are drafts of the finalized press releases and their attendant research materials.

Northern Virginia University Center's fourth year

Northern Virginia University Center's fifth year

Fairfax Civic Federation endorses college plan

Northern Virginia University Center course offerings

Northern Virginia University College begins operations as a two-year college

Dr. Lorin A. Thompson director of University of Virginia (UVA) Bureau of Population and Economic Research

George Mason College (GMC) receives official name; UVA requests funding to develop George Mason College campus

George Mason College campus development; First George Mason College students graduate;

New faculty members; Campus development and sign unveiling

GMC students to discuss honor system with UVA; Events at GMC

GMC campus development funding challenges; Groundbreaking rites held at GMC campus; Robert H. Reid appointed director of GMC

Charles Fenwick Arlington County Virginia General Assembly representative re-election; Fairfax Chamber adopts provisions for development of GMC as full-scale liberal arts college

GMC Fairfax campus initial development completed; Charles Fenwick elected rector of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors

GMC scholarships established;

Lee Potter resigns as dean; Classes to begin at Fairfax Campus; GMC becomes honorary member of Fairfax Chamber of Commerce

GMC dedication ceremony; GMC advisory committee staff chosen; Student gender ratio at GMC;

Library development plan; GMC begins using Social Security numbering system for students; Southern Colleges sign nondiscrimination pledge to comply with Civil Rights Act; GMC honor system

Controversy on student dress code

"Seven Days in May revolt" faculty resignations in protest against director Robert Reid

GMC receives federal grant; Mann atlas collection donated to GMC library; GMC first birthday

Campus expansion funding; Higher education crisis debate; Plan to convert GMC to a four-year institution

UVA capital outlay request

Proposal to convert GMC to four-year institution is passed; End of UVA branch control is opposed

Students vote on American policy in Vietnam; GMC expansion and funding

Robert Reid to resign from position as director; Draft deferment tests for students announced; General Assembly approves development of independent community college system

Lorin Thompson named chancellor of GMC

GMC enlarged master site plan unveiled; Lynch Foundation contributes to GMC scholarship fund

Funding for GMC expansion and land

Mason College Land Acquisition Authority Complete; Fairfax County bonds for education

GMC becomes four-year college; GMC receives land gift

George Mason Day established; Campus and college developments

Stimson science journal collection donation; Campus development

College expansion funding; Enrollment information; Art gallery at The Ordinary canteen; Falls Church city donates share for GMC expansion

GOP candidate David Hudson urges GMC professor James Shea be ousted for opposition to Vietnam War; Property purchased to begin GMC expansion

Fenwick Library dedicated; GMC student government moves to withdraw funds from the college newspaper

GMC celebrates 10th anniversary; Washington Metro expansion into Fairfax requested; Virginia State Council for Higher Education offers long range plan

State budget and education funding

GMC holds first commencement; GMC protest against rules governing campus demonstrations

New officers and trustees of George Mason College Foundation

Student campus bond campaign; GMC Community Education Project partners with Arlington Committee of 100

GMC development plan approved by Virginia State Art Commission

Charles Fenwick dies; GMC students protest against dismissal of math instructor Lawrence Lefthoff

Lack of dormitories at GMC

GMC students vote in referendum on grievance committee on faculty contracts; GMC students stage protest to support Professor Shea's bid for contract renewal; State budget cuts impact

GMC land acquisition; UVA Northern Virginia Center for Continuing Education partners with GMC to develop joint education program

Vietnam War Moratorium and draft protests

Vietnam War Moratorium and draft protests; Shea ouster and found guilty in stolen car case

Virginia State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights holds hearings against GMC and its treatment of African-American students and faculty

Student dropout study

Arts and Science building dedication

National Organization of Women assists GMC professor regain her job; GMC students demand ouster of dean of students over blocking birth control informational booklet purchase

College aid bill and state budget

George Mason College becomes George Mason University

Students challenge court systems at GMU

Academic treatment of female students

Local news and events

Governor Linwood Holton hosts town meeting in Fairfax

GMU debuts wrestling team

Campus development; First student-faculty art show; First January graduation

Black Arts Festival; Vergil Dykstra set to become next president of GMU

Local news and events

Governor Linwood Holton tours GMU for budget planning; Local news and events

GMU Northern Virginia Basketball School for kids has first female players; Lorin Thompson retires

Campus development; Local news and events; Northern Virginia banks reluctant to approve college loans

GMU Student Government opens Day Care Center; Martin Agronsky speaks on Watergate at GMU commencement ceremony

Events and Local news and events

Class-action sex discrimination lawsuit filed against Virginia universities; Consortium for Continuing Higher Education in Northern Virginia

Angry concert crowd damages GMU field house gymnasium

GMU Foundation misses payment to Fairfax County School Board; GMU awards first master's degree

Festival of the Arts; GMU hires minority student recruiter

GMU hosts 1974 Danish Gymnastics and Folk Dance tour; Fairfax City Council bails out GMU Foundation

Fairfax City resident files lawsuit against GMU Foundation and City of Fairfax over land transaction; First annual Arts and Crafts Day

Women appointed to chair psychology and sociology departments at GMU; Student Union building opens

GMU develops first off-campus study program; GMU plans for role in Northern Virginia Bicentennial celebrations; GMU faculty remuneration inequities

Local news and events

Enrollment and courses at GMU

Collection of Works Projects Administration plays, sets, and posters discovered

Local news and events; Sigma Kappa sorority celebrates 100th birthday

Virginia residency requirement for in-state tuition; Local news and events; Conflict over establishment of law school at GMU

Local news and events; GMU forensics team victory; GMU begins trial registration by mail system

GMU Jazz Ensemble performance; Local news and events

GMU housing shortage; Rocky Run Garden Club of Centreville establishes scholarship for GMU biology students; State rejects GMU plan for law school

Arlington County library system joins Consortium on Higher Education

GMU sponsors Festival of Exposure on the African-American experience

Library of Congress-GMU relationship and Federal Theatre Project; Northern Virginia transportation problems

Fairfax County rezoned

First student athletes inducted into GMU Athletic Hall of Fame; GMU plans to build dorms by fall 1977; Dateline America bicentennial program;

Local news and events

GMU seeks increased state financial support; Conflict of interest charged against GMU Board of Visitors member John T. Hazel

GMU accepts portrait of its first director; GMU asks employers for jobs for its students

Tax increase urged to aid colleges

Local news and events

GMU announces Performing Arts chairman; Local news and events

GMU partners with Virginia Institute of Marine Science for cooperative aquaculture program

Local news and events

Abduction of GMU student sparks campus security controversy; Bicentennial celebration events and protests

Robinson Hall B construction; Federal Theatre Project receives grant from National Endowment for the Humanities

Local news and events

Descendent of George Mason receives degree from GMU; GMU hosts United States Open Chess Championships; GMU Tutorial Service expanded

GMU to offer course in Manassas

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Some Virginia colleges using student fees to fund professor pensions; GMU awarded National Science Foundation grant for support of women in scientific careers

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State colleges urged to slow tenure rate; GMU still pushing for law school

GMU Observatory opens to the public

Forensics team victories; Water tower to be built on GMU property

Local news and events

Virginia collegiate grade inflation investigated; 1977 Virginia General Assembly session

Local news and events

State budget for projects proposal

Local news and events

GMU hires director of equal opportunity and affirmative action; GMU professor Edmund F. (Fred) Millar dismissal allegedly over Marxist political views sparks student protests

GMU forensics team to host national championship; Vergil Dykstra resigns as president of GMU

Fairfax County abandons disputed site for subsidized housing; GMU hosts arson investigation seminar

Chemical spill in GMU facility

Nursing textbook from 1878 donated to GMU; Vietnamese refugees in Fairfax County; GMU Social Welfare program of study first of its kind to be accredited in Northern Virginia

GMU uses motels to house students during dormitory construction delay; Fire damages annex at GMU; GMU opens School of Business Administration

Grant to establish the Northern Virginia Writing Project sought; College minority admissions policies challenged; Grade inflation investigation findings; GMU sued in student drowning incident

State funding for colleges

Women's Work Equity Committee hosts seminars at GMU to examine impact of women's liberation movement; Fairfax City Council votes to leave Metrobus system

Local news and events

Desegregation of Virginia colleges and universities; African art collection donated to GMU

Marxist professor Millar to appeal dismissal, assaulted at teach-in demonstration

GMU establishes Educational Planning Committee to draft 10 year plan for the school

Senator William Scott donates papers to GMU; George W. Johnson named president of GMU

GMU campus security being developed into professional police force

Local news and events; Access copies

GMU faculty launch "Northern Virginia Heritage" local history journal

Fairfax City water treatment plant construction; Access copies

Robinson Hall extension groundbreaking; GMU Foundation plans to purchase International School of Law property in Arlington; Marxist professor Millar appeal denied, fired

Virginia colleges comply with higher education desegregation plan for the state; Access copies

GMU professor receives grant to produce television documentary on working women; GMU professor Marden Williams files discrimination lawsuit against GMU

Virginia higher education institutions hiring African-American instructors at low rates; GMU career services program; State Council of Higher Education pushes for urban college growth

Former Civil Service Commission official under investigation for merit abuse accepts professorship at GMU through Intergovernmental Personnel Act; Access copies

Virginia mental health programs funding problems; In-state vs out-of-state admission ratio at Virginia universities; Access copies

Letters from famous playwrights donated to GMU Federal Theatre Project

GMU to double on-campus housing; Virginia Plan for Equal Educational Opportunity in State-Supported Institutions of Higher Education

C. Harrison Mann Jr estate donates maps and atlases to GMU

GMU campus development; Public universities look to allow gifted students to take courses free of charge; GMU professors create book about Federal Theatre Project; GMU anthropology professor develops documentary on slave history

GMU seeks to offer first doctoral degree programs

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Arlington International School of Law students campaign to merge with GMU; Fairfax County Public Schools grading scale; Robert C. Krug announces retirement from GMU

List of salaries of all GMU full-time staff; Access copies

GMU-Arlington International School of Law merger hearing; Fairfax County non-returnable bottle ban; LGBT student alliances at Virginia higher learning institutions

GMU law school; Fairfax bottle ban

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GMU-Arlington International School of Law merger approved

GMU authorized to grant doctoral degrees; GMU receives grant for support of bilingual education teacher training programs

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1979 General Assembly bills

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GMU requests engineering school; A history of GMU

George Johnson inaugurated as president of GMU; GMU to offer first two doctoral programs in Education and Public Administration

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Local news and events; Northern Virginia Association of Historians

Middle Income Students Assistance Act

GMU campus development

Fuel shortage; Virginians seek presidential bid by Senator Edward Kennedy in "Draft Kennedy" movement

Virginia universities average salaries; NAACP Job Fair

College pay scales studied in wake of William and Mary faculty pay discussion; Fairfax City Council votes to lease historic home to Southeast Asian refugee families; Access copies

American Bar Association visits GMU School of Law for accreditation survey; College desegregation plan progress report

Conference on Vietnamese refugees looks to establish Vietnamese study center at GMU; Racial incident at GMU stirs concern

Oral history project; Metro orange line construction; Burned cross found at home in Fairfax City

Corruption probe of Virginia government agencies examines GMU

GMU opens Indochinese Refugee Studies Center as part of Citizens Applied Research Institute; WMATA metro lines map

Virginia public higher learning institutions cultural shifts during 1970s

Local faculties hire lobbyist in bid for higher pay; Fairfax considers repeal of bottle ban

State urban colleges see growth; More prosecutions urged in Virginia purchasing scandal

GMU Law School loses first bid to attain accreditation

Local news and events

First GMU alumni homecoming

Prosecutions sought in Virginia purchasing scandal

Local news and events

Fairfax board of supervisors votes to allow housing development built near GMU campus; Arlington-Ballston rejuvenation aided by Metro service

GMU selects basketball coach; GMU's Citizens' Applied Research Institute conducts survey of local Spanish-speaking community

Local news and events

GMU celebrates first University Day

GMU School of Law to be accredited

Fairfax County outlines conditions for renewing ties to Metro transportation system; GMU field house coal-powered heating system contested; Virginia college leaders pay

GMU Research Center for Federal Theatre Project receives National Golden Circle Award;

Local news and events

GMU starts first doctoral program in Public Administration; GMU works to attract more African-American students and increase diversity

Local news and events

GMU School of Law dedicated, grants degrees to first graduating class

GMU begins shuttle bus service

Local news and events

GMU to establish healthcare information center

NAACP to study employment discrimination in Fairfax County including GMU; Virginia college desegregation progress; GMU campus parking issues

New Virginia public college faculty pay scale urged

Fairfax extends CUE bus service; GMU hosts disability awareness week

GMU Bilingual-Multicultural Education Center receives federal grant to train teachers for bilingual education

Local news and events

Virginia private and public colleges tuition and enrollment information

Northern Virginia rail commuter service history

Northern Virginia communities welcome back freed hostages Malcolm Kalp and Phillip Ward; National college admissions study

State Council of Higher Education approves GMU master of science in conflict management curriculum

Local news and events

National Endowment for the Arts and Virginia Commission for the Arts award grants to GMU Writers' Conference and Literary Festival; NAACP chief warns of increased activity by Ku Klux Klan

Area colleges form consortium to keep teachers aware of developments in television courses

Student leaders at GMU deny recognition of student group supporting Salvadorian leftist guerillas

Local news and events

Northern Virginia redistricting; Prince William County-GMU internship program

Events in Northern Virginia; Local news and events

GMU seeks to build own sewer system

Police actions anger students at GMU; GMU holds "Day of Concern" memorial for murdered African-American youths in Atlanta

Local news and events

Berkeley cancels speech by Gordon Liddy; Stone laying ceremony for GMU field house

Local news and events

Wider roads advised for Fairfax

Local news and events

Lobbying for Fairfax Parkway

Fairfax City to consider smote detector regulation

Local news and events

Arlington Telecommunications Corporation to build public access television studio in GMU Law School Building;

GMU hosts conference on urbanization impact on water

Local news and events

GMU second annual book sale

Students turn to public universities due to rising costs of private universities

Fairfax City Police develop anti-drug program; Northern Virginia tipping difficulties

GMU Department of Fine and Performing Arts and Communication expands; GMU-Barter Theatre partnership; GMU fails to keep pace with growing enrollment

Local news and events

GMU class overbooking; Robert Komer speaks on "the price of Vietnam" at GMU

GMU new dorms completed

Virginia education appropriations trend; Virginia Council of Higher Education approve plan by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University of Virginia to combine off-campus centers in Northern Virginia

Fairfax City's relationship with growing GMU

Affirmative action debate; High unemployment and low productivity; Permit parking okayed for residents near GMU

Bond sale urged to aid students

Virginia college desegregation progress; Government budget cuts; Handicapped access on GMU campus

Social Security benefit cutoff and its impact on high school students

Colleges regard SATs with declining emphasis

Local news and events

GMU dorms positively impact student involvement on campus

GMU aims to become high-tech "university of the 21st century"

Reduction in state funding causes GMU to cut plans for new graduate programs and increase admissions standards; Virginia college desegregation agreement; Public opinion hearing on proposal to raise beer-drinking age in Virginia

IB expands presence in Manassas; GMU limits part-time enrollment in Continuing Education Division

Selective Service rule called burden to colleges; GMU radio station WGMU first broadcast; L.B.J. Co. donates Fairfax City radio station WEEL-AM to GMU Foundation

Beer drinking age legislation; GMU economics professor Walter Williams on socioeconomic policies

Colleges fight proposed law to deny education loans to those not registered for draft; Fraudulent diploma law; GMU hiring and wage rates criticized for favoring men

Banking deregulation; Residents near GMU meet with Fairfax County Board of Supervisors to discuss off-campus Greek Life housing

Local news and events

Virginia teacher training colleges face difficulties; Diversity in admissions and hiring within Virginia colleges; Proposed sin tax on arcade games

Arlington development

Fairfax woman writes letters about nuclear war to USSR leader Andropov

Nuclear research center considered for near Dulles

Fraudulent scholarship fund

Local news and events

Student residency status evaluation; GMU to offer Plan for an Alternative General Education; Fairfax County as a high-tech hotspot

GMU to build arena; Tech development in Fairfax County and wider Northern Virginia region

Center for Innovative Technology (CIT)

Local news and events

Fairfax City-Metro transit system contract conflict

Virginia revises college desegregation plans in response to federal civil rights request

GMU Trustee Board appoints first ever student representative

Out-of-state students use adoption loophole to qualify for in-state tuition;

GMU volunteer oral history project

Colleges condemn state higher education budget as education crisis; Chesapeake Bay ecological problems

GMU plans to launch publishing press; Anti-pornography group protests movie screening at GMU

GMU students consider legal action against Fairfax County following ban of screening of pornographic film on campus

UVA considers closing undergraduate school of education while GMU reorganizes its education programs

Local news and events

Chesapeake Bay clean-up bill

Local news and events

GMU exceeds enrollment goals for desegregation plan

Local news and events

CIT development; GMU students seek to screen second pornographic film in response to prior banned screening

Local news and events

State senators oppose governor's plans for CIT; GMU declines to host CIT on campus property

CIT development

Local news and events

State economic recovery and jobs market

Local news and events

Fairfax County economic growth

Chesapeake Bay pollution; Effort to kill uniform drinking age law killed by Senate committee

CIT creation approved by Senate

GMU's Capitol Connection broadcast station provides C-SPAN and CNN programming for Washington D.C. subscribers

CIT development

Potential traffic congestion from GMU arena; GMU committee fundraises for purchase of Mathy House

Local news and events

GMU postpones School of Business accreditation; Clarence J. Robinson bequest to GMU

Local news and events

University Drive-Main Street bypass connector road

Local news and events

GMU officials and students debate Greek Row housing request

GMU chaplain urges students to boycott classes on Good Friday

GMU campus housing crunch

Local news and events

GMU Law students call for ouster of dean; Land near Dulles airport donated for CIT

Local news and events

State finance secretary quits to join faculty at GMU

GMU starts summer camp for children

Local news and events

GMU conflict management program; Rising cost of education

Local news and events

GMU pursues role as high technology research institute; African-American students at traditionally white colleges facing increasing probation rates

Local news and events

Condominium development for GMU cleared by Fairfax City planning commission

GMU collaborates to present first Cooperative Graduate Engineering Program of Northern Virginia

Fairfax County develops task force for CIT

Local news and events

CIT design contest

GMU student files complaint with County Health Department about university housing complex

Local news and events

Tysons II development

Local news and events

Catholic nun files lawsuit against GMU over denied tenure, lawsuit dismissed

GMU women's and LGBT groups penalized for political action; GMU uses Virginia tax refund set-off program to collect on delinquent accounts for first time

Local news and events

GMU professor investigated for offering wine to class; Braddock Road to be widened

GMU partners with Capitol Connection to offer microwave TV service

GMU arena contract accused of forming monopoly

Local news and events

Virginia higher education opinions survey; GMU to sell radio station WEEL

State budget

Virginia higher education opinions survey

Local news and events

GMU develops "Whistlestop" crime prevention and intervention signal program

Local news and events

Fairfax City residents in conflict with GMU over parking, traffic, and housing

Local news and events

GMU to launch nation's first School of Information Technology

Local news and events

GMU campus development

Local news and events

Controversy sparked over GMU fraternity brothers blackface performance

GMU seeks to create School of Nursing

GMU creates Arts Experience summer art program for children

Local news and events

Institute for Human Studies relocates to GMU; Extended-day college construction proposal

GMU professor of education advocates for teachers to have the right to refuse to work with students who have infectious diseases such as AIDS

CIT building development; GMU partners with CIT and Boeing Computer Services to develop business access to supercomputer technology

Confidential information accessed by hackers

Local news and events

GMU arena construction completed

GMU faces rapidly increasing enrollment and parking and housing crunch

Local news and events

Stage workers union in conflict with GMU hiring of students; GMU seeks to establish Virginia's first digital library

Local news and events

Proposed ban on smoking in federal buildings

Local news and events

GMU Humanities Center development

Local news and events

Drunk driving prevention opinions

Virginia law school application rates; CIT first year progress report

Local news and events

Virginia colleges on Apartheid South Africa divestiture

Sexism in coverage of sports news

Local news and events

CIT president resigns

1986 General Assembly laws enacted

Virginia college application rate increase

Local news and events

CIT developments

Local news and events

GMU opens Center for Middle East Studies

Local news and events

Manned missions to moons of Mars

Local news and events

CIT proposes software development center at GMU

Governor's Commission on Excellence in Education proposal to reform undergraduate teaching degree programs

GMU to institute drug testing for athletes

Local news and events

Guide to higher education in Northern Virginia

Local news and events

CIT groundbreaking ceremony

GMU fraternities crack down on alcohol

Local news and events

GMU to store Reston Planned Community Archives

Local news and events

Northern Virginia housing and transportation problems crowd out low-paid workers

Fairfax City 25th anniversary

Anti-apartheid student group protests CitiCorp bank's business ties with South Africa

Local news and events

Survey of Virginia college presidents' political influence

Collegiate sports and drugs - investigative probe and fallout of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias's death by drug overdose

GMU professor James Buchanan awarded Nobel Prize for economics

GMU professor James Buchanan awarded Nobel Prize for economics; Access copies

GMU professor James Buchanan awarded Nobel Prize for economics

GMU president George Johnson writes on "Building Community Around a University"; GMU land purchase; GMU proposes drug testing for athletes

GMU to develop Prince William County satellite campus; Black Women United for Action community activism

GMU student group protests high cost of on-campus housing

Local news and events

Former GMU employee charged with grand larceny for stealing money from student mail; Antismoking groups protest Virginia Slims sponsored tennis tournament at GMU

Local news and events

GMU 15th anniversary

Local news and events

GMU Student Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism activism

GMU sells condoms on campus to combat AIDS

Local news and events

Virginia Adult Literacy Initiative public-private partnership

GMU Center for Health Promotion on AIDS education; National Congress of Vietnamese in America

Local news and events

GMU Board of Trustees votes to establish a branch in Prince William County

Local news and events

UVA faculty recommends rejecting classified and proprietary research projects

Local news and events

Local chapter of National Organization for Women provides escort service for abortion patients

Howard University pushes to encourage African-American students to pursue graduate education

U.S. News and World Report (October 26, 1987 issue;) Access copies of selected pages

Local news and events

Time Magazine (November 23, 1987 issue)

GMU College of Education and Human Services granted national accreditation through 1992

Local news and events

Virginia proposal to offer in-state tuition to families of military personnel

Some Virginia university bookstores begin selling condoms in light of AIDS epidemic

Local news and events

Radon study findings

Local news and events

Contention over cancellation of Frank Zappa concert at GMU

Local news and events

CIT building costs bust budget

African-American student enrollment rates at Virginia colleges

GMU develops recruitment program for students from minority backgrounds

Local news and events

GMU student drug use survey

Local news and events

Graduates of formerly segregated Luther Jackson High School seek historic status for the school

Historically African-American community in City of Fairfax seeks to sell properties to developer in expectation of inevitable gentrification

GMU law school curriculum and faculty controversy

Local news and events

GMU receives federal grant to develop foreign language education curriculum for local schools

Local news and events

Georgetown University and D.C. Human Rights Act

GMU-Shenandoah College and Conservatory contract for educational services

Local news and events

State Council of Higher Education denies permission for GMU satellite campus in Prince William County

Local news and events

State Council of Higher Education on GMU satellite campus; Donations to GMU pass record

Local news and events

GMU Law School dean seeks new Virginia federal courthouse to be established on Arlington campus; GMU Prince William County satellite campus

Local news and events

FBI to limit investigative probes of library users in New York City

Local news and events

GMU unveils expanded Arlington campus plans

Local news and events

GMU to offer Virginia's first doctor of arts program in community college education

Local news and events

CUE bus system expansion

State budget and tax

Local news and events

SAT discrimination ruling; GMU seeks Virginia federal courthouse

Local news and events

Patriot/Sports Medicine Center for sports physical therapy

Local news and events

Republican gubernatorial candidate accuses Virginia colleges of favoring out-of-state student applications

Virginia colleges seek partial profits from college emblem license plates fees

Local news and events

Public hearing over Unification Church to be part of GMU Campus Ministry Association

Local news and events

GMU denies Unification Church's application to join Campus Ministry Association

Local news and events

FBI investigation of libraries and library users; GMU School of Business of Administration accredited

Center for Interactive Management to end affiliation with GMU

CIT to establish Center for Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence at GMU

Chinese students' perspectives on student protest and political unrest in China

Local news and events

Regional college growth and proposed new colleges; GMU to establish Center for European Community Studies

Local news and events

GMU in conflict with UVA-Virginia Tech proposal for new college in Northern Virginia

Local news and events

GMU Business Incubator Program; GMU opens Center for European Community Studies

Local news and events

GMU sees decline in overall on-campus crime rates but doubling of burglaries; Buckley Act and college privacy concerns; GMU Center for Economic Education

UVA-Virginia Tech Northern Virginia college proposal

Local news and events

GMU Prince William Institute development

Neo-Nazi book catalog mailed to college students in Washington area

Local news and events

GMU Theatre of the First Amendment presents "Faces: A Living Newspaper on AIDS"

GMU to accept applications from undocumented residents

Local news and events

Animal rights advocates protest rodeo championship held at GMU Patriot Center

Local news and events

Bill introduced to require universities to report crimes

Local news and events

Virginia state-supported higher education institutes and divestment from South African investments

Local news and events

Professors of Hispanic background protest GMU tenure denial based on perceived ethnic discrimination

Local news and events

Patriot Center management bid

Local news and events

Conflict over campus lighting policy

GMU Center for the Arts

State budget cuts

Local news and events

GMU Center for the Arts opens

Local news and events

GMU student government sponsors "Free Speech Alley" event for discourse on Gulf War

Local news and events

GMU receives bequest to establish Krasnow Institute for advanced studies

GMU students hold Gulf War vigil in support of American troops; UVA broadens non-discrimination policy to include sexual orientation

Local news and events

Anti-Semitic hate crimes in Virginia nearly doubled

Some Virginia law schools ban military recruitment on campus

Local news and events

GMU launches Northern Virginia Institute to promote local relationships and economy

GMU fraternity and sorority host event with blackface skit, face probation and student protests

Local news and events

GMU fraternity Sigma Chi files lawsuit against GMU over blackface incident; GMU accounting programs receive accreditation

Local news and events

GMU-Sigma Chi lawsuit; GMU student newspaper editors in conflict with faculty member over alleged anti-gay bias

Proposed ban on alcoholic beverages on college campuses

Local news and events

GMU-Sigma Chi lawsuit; GMU student newspaper editors in conflict with faculty member over alleged anti-gay bias; KKK fliers found in Fairfax

Local news and events

GMU-Sigma Chi lawsuit

Local news and events

GMU relocates Virginia Space Business Incubator to CIT; GMU designated partner in federal Office of Substance Abuse Prevention's RADAR network

GMU gives professorship offers to USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev and wife Raisa; GMU Prince William Institute opens

GMU receives grant from United States Urban Mass Transportation Administration for transportation research

Local news and events

African-American students rally at GMU to protest string of racial incidents on campus

Local news and events

Rally to protest violence against women at GMU

Local news and events

Multicultural rally; Scholarship for survivors of homicide victims

GMU to expand Arlington campus

Local news and events

Proposal for intercollegiate football team at GMU

Local news and events

GMU to institute use of All-University Card system for students and faculty

Local news and events

LINK trolley service system

Local news and events

AIDS Awareness Week

Woman files lawsuit against GMU over claim of mishandled rape investigation; GMU law school nation's first with two law reviews; GMU students in conflict with Fairfax County personal property tax on vehicles

Local news and events

Program to Research and Implement Minority Exports program launched at GMU

Virginia Procurement Pipeline; VA 234 bypass development

Local news and events

GMU University Center ribbon-cutting ceremony

Local news and events

Paul Westhead becomes GMU men's basketball coach

Local news and events

Prince William Institute

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Virginia student leaders meet with Governor L. Douglas Wilder to discuss higher education budget

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Students protest state budget cuts to higher education; International Business Machines Corporation donates land to GMU Prince William Institute

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GMU anti-homophobia educational pamphlet

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Proposed Disney theme park in Northern Virginia

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Washington Research Library Consortium

GMU Arlington Campus expansion; Prince William Institute aquatics center proposal

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GMU anti-discrimination policies

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Proposed Fairfax City-GMU computer link

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Proposed Disney theme park in Northern Virginia economic impact projections; Fairfax Continuous Acquisition and Lifecycles Support Shared Resources Center for connection to the internet

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Former GMC director Robert H. Reid dies; U.S. Court of Appeals rules on James Shea draft case; Graduate Council established at GMC

GMC flag and song inaugurated

James Shea indicted on alleged tax fraud; GMC students charge GMC with lack of opportunities for faculty dissent and unwelcoming approach to African-American students

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Student and faculty rights infringement

US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare committee report on alleged racial exclusivity at GMC

State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights holds hearing on racial bias at GMC

Anonymous bomb threats sent to GMC

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Federal Theatre Project archives

Technology developments in regional higher learning institutions; Proposed Northern Virginia Disney theme park proposition abandoned

GMU expands Institute of Public Policy

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Homophobia charges against Sigma Nu frat investigated

Supercomputing center to be installed at GMU's Arlington campus

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American Type Culture Collection biotech lab to move to GMU Prince William Institute

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Bell Atlantic-GMU contract to develop university communications network

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GMU College of Nursing and Health Science partnership with Fairfax County Department of Community Action

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Prince William Institute expansion plans and recreation center

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GMU Special Collections Department participation in pilot project for creation of collection image databases

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Broadside religion article controversy

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GMU to privatize dormitories; GMU Arlington campus expansion

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GMU to open University Center and new library

GMU president George Johnson announces retirement; Student dropout rate study

Prince William Institute campus construction groundbreaking; Northern Virginia Project infotech network

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University Drive relocation debate

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GMU school of business restructuring and controversy

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Northern Virginia Business Roundtable

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Northern Virginia Community College grade fixing case

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Investigation of murdered GMU student

Alan G. Merten becomes GMU president

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Anti-violence campaign events at GMU

Plans for establishment of gay and lesbian student center put on hold by GMU Board of Visitors over legal concerns

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GMU students plan push to establish gay and lesbian student center, hold rally with counter-demonstrators; GMU Board of Visitors blocks funding for LGBT counselor position at GMU

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GMU student government passes vote of no confidence in Board of Visitors Rector Marvin R. Murray due to his opposition to proposed LGBT student center

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Feral cats at GMU

Spanish Literacy program

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Merten formally inaugurated as president of GMU

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Graduate education programs

GMU students arrested on drug ring charges

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Virginia professors file lawsuit against law governing explicit material access via the internet

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Graduate education programs

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GMU Prince William Campus construction completed

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GMU computer system hacked

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GMU Prince William Campus dedication ceremony

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GMU-U.S. General Services Administration partnership for Fairfax Telecommuting and Training Center

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Graduate education programs

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MU researchers receive NASA grant to study climate patterns

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Graduate education programs

Johnson Center

Retirement of GMU president George Johnson

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Graduate education programs

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Virginia professors' lawsuit against law governing explicit material access via the internet

Gay activists demand ouster of GMU Rector Marvin Murray

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Graduate education programs

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Graduate education programs

GMU plans to offer greater technology focus; Virginia universities criticized for simplistic core curriculums

GMU Student Senate to seek revocation of flier approval policy

GMU to host World Congress on Information Technology

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Governor James Gilmore postpones campaign promise to increase GMU funding up to par with other state schools

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GMU Prince William campus high technology instruction auditorium development

Establishment of GMU football team postponed

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Virginia task force to solve college binge drinking

George Mason Regional Library renovation completed

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Proposal to eliminate GMU School of Management graduate program

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GMU board of visitors votes against proposal to develop football team

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GMU hosts 1998 World Congress on Information Technology

GMU to house National Research Center of Excellence in Intelligent Transportation Systems

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GMU Prince William campus open new research facility Academic Building II

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New GMU drug and alcohol policies

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Accused hackers' lawsuit against GMU

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GMU geologists investigate possible fault line

Adjunct faculty at Virginia colleges

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GMU Institute for Biosciences, Bioinformatics, and Biotechnology

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Electronic Campus of Virginia

GMU study abroad program to Cuba

GMU law school building opens

GMU alcohol policy; Report on racial preferences behind Virginia higher education institutions acceptance decisions

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GMU Sexual Assault Services receives federal grant for programs to educate on violence against women

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GMU Law School dedication ceremony

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GMU to consider termination of New Century College program; GMU Freedom Aquatic Center and Fitness Center

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GMU Internet training center

GMU New Century College to be merged into College of Arts and Sciences

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UVA changes affirmative action admissions procedure

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GMU Friends in Deed program

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National Center for Technology and the Law

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GMU Board of Visitors reviews proposal to overhaul core curriculum

2000 Global Internet Summit

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act signing ceremonies at GMU

GMU core curriculum overhaul debate

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GMU Faculty Senate censures Board over curriculum requirements modifications

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GMU Phase II campus expansion proposal; GMU awarded grant from U.S. Department of Education for alcohol and drug awareness program

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GMU establishes Center for Advanced Study of Law and Dispute Resolution Processes

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GMU Graduate School of Education receives grant for Bilingual Paraprofessional Career Ladder Project

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GMU Institute of the Arts to restructure and expand

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GMU Institute of the Arts, Center for the Arts, and Music Department to merge with College of Visual and Performing Arts; Establishment of Patriot Intellectual Properties Inc.; GMU-JMU joint establishment of Romanian-American Trade Development Center in Romania

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GMU Prince William campus expansion

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GMU basketball; 2001 Global Internet Summit

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GMU hosts testing for International Mathematical Olympiad

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GMU dorm shortage

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GMU official announce campus on high alert for post-September 11th retaliatory attacks against minority students

GMU Prince William campus hosts telethon fundraiser for Red Cross

GMU exchange students from Middle Eastern countries impacted by September 11th events

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Jeffrees Research Grant awards

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GMU creates Center for Biodefense research facility at Prince William campus

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Campaign for George Mason fundraising campaign

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Washington, D.C. area bid committee for 2012 Olympics; GMU students hold Palestine protest

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Critical Infrastructure Protection Project

Proposal to build performing arts center at GMU Prince William campus

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GMU launches tourism and events management program

First year of George Mason College (GMC)

Campus development; New honor system; New student-run newspaper

GMC dedication ceremony; Campus development

New campus unveiling; campus development

GMC receives four-year college authorization; First George Mason Day

Campus development funding; George Mason Land Referendum; Northern Virginia Center moves to GMC

Northern Virginia Cultural Planning Committee meeting; GMC rapid development plan

Campus development funding; George Mason essay contest

Virginia Education Association department meeting; Funding and grants; Campus development

College entrance examination board; Slave Day

Virginia State Technical Services field office; Gentle Friday

GMC literary contest; Voice of Democracy contest

Land acquisition ceremony; Campus development; Vietnam War day of reflection

Arts and Science building groundbreaking ceremony; Graduate Council established

George Mason Day becomes George Mason Week; First specialized honor society founded; GMC flag and song inaugurated; Investigation on professor infringement of academic freedom

P.E. complex groundbreaking ceremony; Grant from the National Science Foundation; First summer commencement

GMC Sigma Xi Club installation; Bomb threats; Investigation of alleged violations of Title VI of Civil Rights Act

Governor's Budget Advisory Committee visits GMC

Arts and Science building dedication ceremony; Virginia State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report on GMC

District Conference on Environment and Development; First issue of "The University Register" publication

Bill establishing GMC as independent university proposed

Fairfax County Bicentennial Commission meeting

Calendar items

George Mason College becomes George Mason University

Resolution appointing temporary first president of GMU; First Board of Visitors inductions

Graduation

Consortium for Continuing Higher Education

Graduate dean appointment

Student Consumer report

Graduation

Governor's Conference

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First winter commencement

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Campus development

New GMU president chosen

GMU president Lorin A. Thompson retires - commencement address

Black Arts Festival - GMU's first annual African-American function

National Science Foundation grant

Forensics team

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Energy shortage

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GMU masters degree programs; Events at GMU

Events at GMU; Forensics team

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First masters degrees in psychology conferred; Student Union building opens

Off-campus study program development

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Off-campus program in Arlington

Forensics team; New faculty appointments

Request for establishment of GMU law school

Plans for bicentennial celebrations

Phyllis Cornelsen Memorial Library Collection dedication; Phyllis Cornelsen Trust Fund; Register-by-mail program

Regional education conference; Dodge Jones Foundation grant

First historical manuscript collection donated - Milton Barnes Papers; Festival of Exposure; Federal Theatre Project

Bicentennial Bureau established; Julian Bond speaks at GMU

University delegation visits China

First student housing development plan; On-campus health service

First African-American female student government president; George V. Moseley III memorial fund

Events at GMU

Milton Barnes Papers exhibit

Events on campus

Robinson Hall dedication; John Finley portrait acquired

Racial Justice in Higher Education seminar series

Phillip Berrigan speaks at GMU; Children's literature conference

Events at GMU

Scottish Rite Bodies of Alexandria scholarship and endowment established

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Rare document collection exhibit; American Heritage Week; Bicentennial celebrations

Office of Academic Assistance established

National Science Foundation grant; Psychological Clinic opening

HEW grant

GMU hosts US Open Chess Tournament; Patriot Classics Golf Tournament

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Assertive Training Workshop for Women; Appointment for new Co-operative Education program

GMU students receive community health service commendation

John C. Wood Scholarship Fund

Tenth Annual Career Conference; Potomac Regional Mathematics Conference; Nuclear power plant research

Campus development; Women's art exhibit; Federal Theatre Project

GMU president Vergil Dykstra resigns; first annual health fair

Individual speaking championship; forensics team

Planning for Non-Sexist Education graduate course; Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy grant

Institute on Law-Related Education; Governor tours GMU

Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) and GMU develop transfer manual

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Phi Delta Kappa chapter installation ceremony; Grants received summary

International Education Day; Affirmative Action Conference; GMU School of Business administration officially recognized

GMU Film Forum Festival

Collection of African art donated to GMU; Women's Work Equity Committee seminars

Mycology books donated to GMU; Graduation

Educational Planning Committee established; Federal Theatre Project; Teacher Education Program accredited

Gloria Steinem speaks at GMU; GMU selects George Johnson as university president; Senator William Scott donates papers to GMU

Fenwick Library book drive; Arts Idea events

Fenwick art gallery established

Virginia Writing Project; Virginia's first postgraduate degree in geography

Local history journal launched; College Project Fund

Groundbreaking for Robinson Hall extension; Grants; GMU Foundation, Inc. created

Events at GMU

Egyptian educators meet with GMU Department of Education

GMU's first female rector; Map collection donated to GMU; Donations to Federal Theatre Project

American Symphony Orchestra League Archives; Congressman Herbert Harris speaks at GMU

Technical assistance hotline for teachers of children with disabilities; Federal Theatre Project grant; National Science Foundation grant

Cooperative agreement between GMU and NVCC; First on-campus housing completed

Federal Theatre Project book published

Distinguished Speakers Colloquia series; GMU plans for first two doctoral programs

GMU facility expansion plan; Women in science conference

Writers' Conference; Federal Theatre Project; Graduate nursing program

GMU doctoral status approved

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American labor movement lecture series

Federal Theatre Project

Local history journal launched

GMU School of Law opens

Gloria Steinem speaks at GMU; International Year of the Child conference; Library Amnesty Week

George Johnson's inauguration as president of GMU - contains copy of inauguration speech

Forensics team places first in national championship

German War Art exhibit

1980-82 Budget Outlay and governmental tours

Mann Collection of maps and Virginia law books

Women's Education in U.S.S.R.; Northern Virginia Association of Historians founded; Industrial arts education

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Alexander Haight Collection donated to GMU

Research grants

Northern Virginia Writing Project's Summer Institute

Laraine Correll becomes director of Special Collections; Incentive Grant scholarships

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Traveling Federal Theatre Project exhibit; International mathematics conference

GMU's first open board meeting

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GMU establishes information center in Arlington

Conference on Vietnamese refugees; Einstein Centennial events

GMU president attends Mexico-United States educational professionals meeting

Black Student Alliance fashion show; GMU hosts forensics tournament; Law seminar series

Virginia Political Scientists Conference; Spring Writers' Conference and literary festival

GMU professor aids in 1980 presidential debate planning

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Intramural International Law Society contest; Jewish and women writers featured at Spring Literary Festival; GMU's first annual fund drive

University hosts first alumni homecoming; GMU hosts college debate tournament; Heritage and resources of the Potomac lecture series

Education Conference '80

GMU cosponsors first annual Government Contracts Seminar; Documentary on Vietnamese immigrants in America

Consumer education seminar; Survey by Committee of the Spanish-Speaking Community in Virginia

Spring Writers' Conference and Literary Festival; Potomac River preservation conference; Black History Month at GMU

"Personalities of Eve" art exhibit

Robinson Hall extension groundbreaking ceremony; GMU celebrates first University Day; Dick Gregory speaks at GMU; Irish Week

Census data workshop

Art exhibitions from Virginia Museum; Research grants; Women in Science and Math conference; Geography Colloquia

Asian Studies consortium; Health Care in East Africa lecture

"Maintenance of Excellence" program grant for Northern Virginia Writing Project

Federal Theatre Project puppetry exhibition; Debate teams on US military draft; Alumni Awareness Week

Russel Nye speaks at GMU; Potomac River forum

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First Friends of the Library evening at Fenwick

GMU School of Law accreditation process

New graduate programs in writing; Federal Theatre Project receives National Golden Circle Award

Events at GMU

Journal of Labor Research; Puppets donated to Federal Theatre Project Research Center

"Helping Professionals" workshop; GMU student as White House intern

GMU newspaper "Broadside" wins journalism prize

ACE Fellowship; Federal Theatre Project; GMU Board of Visitors new membership appointments

Festival of Piano Music; "Refugee" documentary premier

Arlington Rotary Scholarship established; Watergate Special Prosecutor speaks at GMU; GMU Director of Public Relations appointed; GMU School of Law accredited

Industrial arts research grant

Solutions to the energy crisis; Collegiate Handicapped Awareness Month

Events at GMU

Education grant; African-American Women portraits exhibit

Teen Suicide Prevention conference

Supreme Court Justice speaks at GMU; Bilingual education grant

New Studio Theatre in Robinson Hall; Friends of the GMU Library book sale; Robert Muller speaks at GMU International Day

Library paraprofessional training program

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China Nursing Association delegation visits GMU; GMU American Society for Public Administration conference

John Brademas speaks at GMU Winter Commencement; GMU Office of International Programs and Services established; Cooperative class offerings with Old Dominion University

GMU professors awarded NEH fellowships

Hilma Wolitzer speaks at GMU; Intercollegiate Debate Tournament; Commonwealth of Virginia Incentive Grants

Homecoming events; Physics and engineering career night; GMU hosts Virginia Association of Student Personnel Administrators State Conference

Northern Virginia health systems public hearing; National Achievement Scholarship Program; Benjamin Hooks of NAACP speaks at GMU

Event grants; Learning disability testing services

Sexual harassment seminar; Financial Aid Awareness Week; Conflict resolution curriculum; GMU Campus Police instatement ceremony

GMU hosts forensics tournament; Bilingual education conference

University Day; Public Policy on the Arts forum; Government contracts seminar

Public administration lecture series; Domestic violence workshop; The Effect of the New Right on Politics of the 1980s lecture

Egypt Today symposium; US-African Relations discussion panel; Redistricting hearing

David Rockefeller, Jr. speaks on "Arts in America" at GMU

Memorial for missing youths in Atlanta; Michael Straight speaks on "Public Support of the Arts" at GMU

Events at GMU

Abingdon Square Painters art exhibit; Mainstreaming Disability Services conference; Censorship lecture

Arts leaders discuss arts future at GMU

GMU postage stamp issuance ceremony; GMU professor appointed to Reagan administration; The Arts in 2000 panel discussion

Governor's School for the Gifted; Public Management Institute established

White male nursing student receives outstanding minority student award; New Deal Culture conference

American Association of University Women grant; GMU Vice President attends Executive Development Institute

Systems automation finances seminar

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Urban water management and restoration conference; Summer Writing Institute for Virginia Community College System; Public access cable studio

Research projects

Carlos Fuentes speaks at GMU

New Board of Visitors members sworn in; Security Challenges of the '80s forum; Microprocessor lecture series

Former CIA head William Colby speaks at GMU; United Nations Day; Robert Komer speaks on national security at GMU

Margaret Atwood and W. S. Merwin poetry readings; Women's Week; National security forum; "Disabled in Action" week

Events at GMU

Northern Virginia Association of Historians reviews bicentennial events; Thermonuclear fusion lecture

Events at GMU

Canada Day; Writers in Residence program

Writers in Residence program; Office of Alumni Relations relocation

"Great Decisions" foreign policy program; Carol Simpson speaks on "Reaganomics and What It Means to Black Americans" at GMU; Black History Month

Sanley N. Ohlbaum medico legal collection dedicated; GMU celebrates 10th anniversary

Second annual National Merit Scholarship luncheon; George Mason Institute founded

Events at GMU

Spring Literary Symposium; Human rights lecture series

Principles of Medical Ethics seminar; Fumigation chamber donated to Fenwick Library; GMU celebrates 10th anniversary

GMU in the Information Age; GMU faculty committee designs teaching method for college general education courses

GMU honored by Canadian government; Virginia Council on the Environment public hearing

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GMU and Society of Logistics Engineers endowment chair partnership

GMU receives first endowed chair

Gem and mineral collection donated to GMU Geology department; Benefit art show and auction

Bilingual education grant

Digital Equipment Corporation computer donation; Barriers Awareness Day

GMU curtails admissions for first time in history

Foreign film festival

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C. K. Williams poetry reading; WEEL radio station donated to GMU; Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young speaks at GMU; Allen Ginsberg reads at GMU

Federal Theatre Project; First annual physics contest

Vietnamese American education conference

Human sexuality seminar; International debate tourney on US peacekeeping; Malaysian ambassador speaks at GMU

"Arts in Public Places" project; GMU hosts Soviet Embassy diplomat Vitaly Churkin; Plan for Alternative General Education program opens

Seamus Heaney speaks at GMU; GMU awards first doctoral degree

GMU receives public affairs journal "TransAfrica Forum"; Kurzweil Reading Machine donated to GMU

Community relations program development; Former first lady of Virginia grant award; Pilot skill building program

"Visual Poetry" exhibit

Arts Explosion Month; Supercomputer lecture series

Phillips Collection opening event; US and Canadian art dialogue

GMU hosts Fantasy Symposium; Marine Corps Commandant appointed to GMU Board of Visitors

Plan for Alternative General Education program; GMU professor awarded Olin Foundation Chair; Immigration laws seminar

Alex Haley speaks on education excellence at GMU; Minority students open house event; Russel Sage Foundation grant

GMU high technology involvement efforts; Seminar on employment of people with disabilities

US Constitution and Bill of Rights lecture series; GMU Office of Admissions initiates career and educational goal planning service; Clarence J. Robinson bequest

Dennis Brutus speaks at GMU; Counseling conference

GMU and Fairfax County Schools partnership luncheon; GMU graduate training requirement for secondary teachers; GMU first annual community tour

First Robinson Fellowship awarded

William Cohn appointed Executive Director of University Relations; English Language Institute

GMU Foundation receives Broyhill Legislative Papers; New graduate degree in systems engineering; First presidential merit scholarship awards

Mobil Oil donation; Scholarships and fellowships

African-American Students Summer Transition program; Cooperative Graduate Engineering Program

International Astrophysics conference; Religion and politics symposium

Research and program grants; Noam Chomsky speaks at GMU; Fenwick Library receives Fenical art and photography books donation

Heritage Quilt project; Nuclear War Impact Overstatement Risk lecture; Eugene Odum and Edwin Fleishman speak at GMU

International Arts Festival; GMU to negotiate arena management contract

Events at GMU

Dance Month; Joshua Lederberg speaks on biotechnology at GMU; Federalism lecture

Society and the Arts lecture series; Black Women United for Action conference; New tuition payment methods

On and off-campus housing developments; Virginia Transfer Grant program

John Hazel challenge grant; Child abuse prevention lecture

School of Information Technology established; Student art exhibition; Lecture series on Information Age

Small business Development Center established

Expanded course offerings for Arlington campus; Humberto Fernandez-Moran speaks at GMU

GMU develops first doctoral program in Information Technology; School of Nursing created

GMU and Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority jointly open Hemlock Overlook Regional Park

Events at GMU

Arts Experience summer program

World Affairs Conference; BDM donation establishes professorial chair in information systems; Vice President for Administration position created

Institute for Humane Studies relocates to GMU; WEST*GATE scholarship award

Virginia Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution; Office automation for small business workshop

Global Issues program; GMU hosts Commonwealth Professors; Derek Walcott speaks at GMU

Federal Theatre Project poster exhibit; Center for Supercomputer Applications established; Metropolitan Area Assessment Center established

Greenhouse effect teleconference

Lecture on Nelson Mandela; Research study on sexual harassment in the workplace

Fenwick Fellowship award

Betty Williams Perkins speaks at GMU; Food taboos lecture; Funding Transportation Needs workshop

Strategic Defense "Star Wars" lecture series; Capital Centre contracted to manage Patriot Center

Enrollment and SAT scores; Martha Collins poetry reading

Media Coverage of the Middle East from a Lebanese Christian View lecture; Arts Gala fundraiser

GMU listed in new reference book "The Best Buys in College Education"'; Albert Sabin speaks on AIDS; Copy of American Council on Education "AIDS on Campus" document

GMU introduces new admissions plan with computerized application program; Toni Morrison reads at GMU; GMU debate team featured on PBS series

Peace experts discuss National Interest at symposium; Chinese computer science delegation visits GMU

Computer phobia research study

Jesse L. Jackson to speak on World Peace and International Affairs at GMU

Events at GMU

Leftist politics lecture series; GMU hosts its first Fulbright Fellow; Office of Civil Rights to visit GMU

Black History Month events; GMU establishes 30th professorial chair with endowment donation

GMU publishes "The First Amendment; The Legacy of George Mason"; All-women art show; Nursing doctorate program approved

"Portraits of the Powerless" photography exhibit; Foreign policy lecture series

Arab-Jewish Awareness Program

Engineering and mining geology seminars; Interpretive economics conference; GMU School of Law fully accredited

Eden Pastora speaks on anti-Sandinista guerilla forces in Nicaragua at GMU; "Will of the People" lecture series

Events at GMU

Leftist politics lecture series; Robert Hass poetry reading

Multiple sclerosis conference; Center for Middle East Studies established

Black Student Alliance fashion show; GMU offers oversea study credits

International law seminar; Radon survey

GMU debate team wins William Chaffin Award

Public Affairs Career Fair

Radon conference

Federal Theatre Project Golden Anniversary Puppetry Festival

GMU offers nursing management courses on cable television

GMU establishes Genealogy and History Institute; First Middle Atlantic Genealogy and History Institute; Time Capsule Ceremony dedicating the new GMU Science and Technology Building

Mary Roberts Rinehart National Writing Award

Vienna Metro Station opens; Global Issues program presents "The Middle East Peace Process Re-examined"; United Way's Community Needs Assessment Pilot program

Minority Business Development session; Federal grants and contracts symposium

Writer and Artist Collaborations forum

United Savings Bank donation; GMU awards first presidential merit scholarships

English Language Institute

William Matthews poetry reading; Clarendon photographic documentary exhibit

New Horizons lecture series presents "Six Nobel Laureates Look at the Future"

Conference of the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender

F. Murray Abraham speaks at GMU

Franchise Resource Assistance and Training; GMU debate team meets Soviet debate team; Nobel Laureate physicist speaks on "Future of Intelligent Machines" at GMU

GMU scientist develops plan advocating for manned bases on moons of Mars; TRW Foundation grant; Year-long radon survey

LeRoy Eakin Endowed Chair in Strategic Management

Zonta International Scholarship; Electronic election forecasting

Dr. J. Deotis Roberts speaks on "The Black Family: Crises and Hopes" at GMU; Improved computer utilization lecture

Events at GMU

GMU site of election night broadcast; Astrophysics workshop on supermassive black holes

Sexual assault on campus; Lecture on Human Rights in Chile

Council for Advancement and Support of Education award; Plan for Alternative General Education wins award

Virginia Center for Innovative Technology grant

GMU Center for the Productive Use of Technology receives Citicorp grant

Black History Month events; Coping Skills workshops

Careers Unlimited '87; Poets speak at GMU; Parents' Conference on Standardized Testing

Mt. San Angelos Artists Exhibit

George Mason Legacy Series; Joe Biden lectures on foreign policy at GMU;

Ali Mazrui speaks at GMU

Grants for Center for Conflict Resolution; Evolution Versus Creation debate

Federal Reserve System address GMU alumni at National Press Club; AIDS on the College Campus lecture

President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports clinic

Carlos Fuentes lecture series; New Heritage Chair in Arts and Cultural Criticism professorial chair established; GMU celebrates 15th anniversary

"Hands Across Mason" charity event; Robinson Lectures; Radon study

Japanese Technical Information Research Service

GMU awards first honorary degree and George Mason Medal; GMU acquires Reston community development archives

Ollie Atkins photography exhibit

Events at GMU

Helene Fuld Health Trust grant; Virginia Writers Conference

GMU president tours southwest Virginia; GMU and Center for Innovative Technology partnership

Micro-enterprise forum; Community College Educator Training program

Rappahannock River development conference

Community donations to Fenwick Library; Nuclear War and Peace Education conference

Virginia Alternatives for the 1990s; "Learning Techniques for Low Achievers" pilot program

Masonfest '87; Visiting Writers Lecture Series

GMU domestic business incubator

Parks Management training program; GMU student in NATO student exchange program

Black student leadership conference; Public Policy Issues of the 1990s

"Inside the KGB" lecture; Conflict resolution lecture; Phillips Collection art exhibit

College of Education accreditation; General Electric and Centennial Development Corporation donations; Gulf War discussion panel

Events at GMU

Community for Creative Non-Violence shelter mural; GMU state-wide programs; Clinical psychology accreditation

Donald Woods lectures on apartheid at GMU; Breen theater collection; Substance abuse prevention education

Dulles region transportation forum

Religion in Schools symposium

Anti-federalism lecture series; "Women and Language" research journal; AIDS in the Workplace conference

Johan Galtung lectures at GMU; David J. King Hall dedication; Northern Virginia Writing Project

Northern Virginia Regional College Fair; Technology lecture series

Classics lecture series; Teaching the Vietnam War symposium

Mason Scholars program

Center for Artificial Intelligence; Cooperative Education Week

GMU establishes local government chair

Center for Community College Education

Executive intern at GMU; Asian Studies Academy

Virginia Initiative Meeting; Conflict Resolution conference

Asbestos removal

International Conference on Disability and Physical Activity

Alcohol Awareness Week; Colloquium on race and ethnic relations; Wade Gilley appointed to National Advisory Council on Educational Research and Improvement

Black leadership conference; Religion and First Amendment symposium; Quantum Theory conference

Events at GMU

NAACP director speaks at GMU

Visiting Writers series; French Revolution bicentennial; Kyungpook National University and GMU agreement

Careers Unlimited '89; Don Beyer Jr. campaign appearance

Early Identification program

Plan for Arlington Campus; NOVA Writing Project Student Summer Institute; Election analysis lecture series

Covenant House founder speaks at GMU; ACE fellowship

School of Business Administration accredited; Traffic congestion research grant

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship; Center for Interactive Management leaves GMU

Mason Scholars program

Institute for String Teaching; Center for European Community Studies

Theatre of the First Amendment formed

Visiting Writers series; Virginia Republican candidates campaign at GMU

Employee Development Institute; GMU Entrepreneurship Center marketing seminar; GMU celebrates 25 years at Fairfax location

Charles Robb Senate campaign at GMU; African-Americans in American society lecture series; Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education grant

GMU Center for Economic Education provides Fairfax County Public Schools with economic education assistance; Germany in the 20th century lecture series

Arlington Campus development report

Economic Bridge project

South African Exhibit Project comes to GMU; Women's history Month

1930s symposium; Czechoslovakian Prime Minister speaks at GMU; American History conference

GMU-Central University of Ecuador partnership; GMU announces premiere season of Center for the Arts; GMU hosts Lithuanian economists delegation

GMU names first director of the Institute for the Arts; TRW Foundation grant

Center for Global Market Studies established; Koch endowment chair; Biomatrix conference

Governor's Japanese Language Academy; Arts in America symposium

ROLM Company donates digital voice technology to GMU

Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant; GMU announces new campus lighting policy

Global interdependence lecture series; GMU presents "Hidden: A Gender" play about gender identity; GMU partnership with Manassas Park City Schools

International conference on European monetary system; GMU Faculty Senate condemns Governor's plans to cut faculty retirement contributions

GMU Early Identification Program receives support from Mobil Oil; GMU establishes Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics; GMU inaugurates Institute of Public Policy

GMU receives bequest to establish Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study; Democratic National Committee chairman speaks at GMU for Black History Month

First black woman to earn physics doctorate speaks at GMU for Black History Month

Defense Communications Agency contract; Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence program; Global Healthcare Trends conference

GMU launches Northern Virginia Institute; Teacher and Researcher Collaboration symposium

Accounting program accredited

Computer Software for Upper-level Physics project; GMU creates regional economic roundtable

New America Schools Development Corporation

GMU police department accredited; GMU instructor absolved of harassment charges

Bill of Rights lectures; GMU appeals U.S. District

Visiting Writers series; Northern Virginia Institute survey on public policy concerns; GMU School of Nursing collaborates with World Health Organization

GMU relocates Incubator Program; GMU expands Procurement Technical Assistance Program into Prince William County

Events at GMU

GMU Small Business Development Center changes name, goals; Military base closure conference; 21st Century Health Policy Issues video series

Events at GMU

Text and Community program; Dale Spender speaks on feminism and higher education at GMU; Youth Leadership Task Force

GMU Schools in Partnership program; GMU hosts Kid's Day for Conservation; Recycle for Life program

Mason Scholars program; National Congress of Vietnamese in America consensus platform press conference

Washington Research Library Consortium relocation to GMU proposal approved

GMU Krasnow Institute initiates scholarly programs through sale of land

Earth science computer programs workshop

GMU Spotlights open house program

Virginia general obligation bond referenda; GMU names first recycling coordinator

Events at GMU

GMU and Medical Sciences Research Institute affiliation; 1992 Higher Education Amendments impact

GMU appoints community liaison at Prince William Institute; Sixties Generations conference; Montreal Massacre Violence Against Women conference

GMU student drug use survey

GMU dedicates gym to John Linn; GMU opens University Center

Hanan Ashrawi speaks on Middle East peace talks at GMU; GMU names new provost; Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study sponsors human intelligence conference

Department of Defense grant; Survey on taxing for environmental protection

House bill supports development of regional information network

Urban Systems Engineering endowment established

Hispanic Heritage Month; Center for Community College Education renamed

GMU celebrates first Energy Awareness Day; GMU initiates cost-saving measures

GMU establishes traveler's radio information line; Samuel Delany speaks on gay and black identity at GMU; GMU Center for Health Promotion surveys alcohol programs

Advanced Research Projects Agency grant

Events at GMU

Multicultural Issues in Women's Health forum

Helen Caldicott speaks on environmentalism at GMU; Prince William Institute master site plan; Community college educators fellowship program

GMU designated as Elderhostel site; GMU creates Center for Science, Trade, and Technology Policy; GMU establishes endowed chair and Center for Child Welfare

Arlington Campus expansion plan

Global collegiate nomads conference

Statewide virtual library

Cultural studies lecture series; GMU Institute of Public Policy development; GMU Faculty Speakers Bureau

David Halberstam and Roger Wilkins speak on the power of the media at GMU

Virginia Procurement Pipeline database; GMU awards infrastructure project contract to Bell Atlantic; Department of Commerce grant

Events at GMU

GMU plans New Century College

Harry Belafonte to speak at GMU for Black History Month; GMU School of Business divided into two separate schools

Student News Bureau; Asian Awareness Week; Betty Friedan speaks on social policy paradigm shift at GMU

Events at GMU

Cantina del Rio donation; Commencement ceremony to feature first-ever student address; GMU renewed as Northern Virginia Writing Project site

Health policy seminar; Broadside student newspaper receives honor from Associated Collegiate Press; Endowed Professorship in Public Accounting created

GMU announces new Business Enterprise Center

Virginia Economic Bridge Initiative gains non-profit status

Virginia Business Higher Education Council report on GMU local economic impact; Virginia First Policy Partnership press conference; GMU creates Technology Business Development Center

Fairfax County School Board candidate forums; Prince William Institute groundbreaking ceremony; George Johnson announces retirement

Affirmative Action dialogue event; New Century College admits first class of students; GMU implements Responsible Use of Computing policy

GMU sponsors US-Korea Science and Technology Forum; Security Review Panel; Koch Professor of International Economics

GMU Presidential Search Committee; Virginia Department of Transportation grant; "Promising Practices" alcohol abuse prevention project

Shirley Chisholm speaks on "Unity through Diversity" at GMU

GMU International Institute Asian business seminars; Prison symposium

GMU private financial support summary; GMU to dedicate George W. Johnson Center and unveil George Mason statue; US Forest Service distance learning training program

Surdna Foundation grant; GMU plans groundbreaking celebration for Arlington Campus

Northern Virginia economic future conference; GMU early childhood education pilot program; First Union National Bank donation

Politics and the Federal Budget forum; GMU hosts Vietnamese technology conference

Friends in Deed program

GMU-American Type Culture Collection partnership; The Academy Group teaches courses at GMU; The Changing World of Work program

Campus development; Cultural diversity campaign

Alan Merten speaks on vision of Mason and relationship with Fairfax and Northern Virginia; GMU develops relationship with Congressional Institute for the Future

GMU police department restructures to meet changing needs of campus community; NationsBank scholarship endowment; Farouk El-Baz speaks on Egyptian satellite technology at GMU

National Science Foundation grant; Arlington Campus redevelopment construction begins; GMU Program on Peacekeeping Policy team conduct workshops in Liberia

Mellon Foundation grant

GMU Center for Health Policy sponsors Rural Healthcare forum on Capitol Hill

Mathy endowment donation; GMU inaugurates Merten as fifth University president; Institute for Bioscience, Bioinformatics, and Biotechnology; GMU celebrates 25th anniversary

Professional age equity conference

LiveBoard distance learning technology; Department of Defense Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant; Artificial intelligence research

Family Involvement Awareness Campaign conference

GMU International Center for Applied Studies in Information Technology; GMU offers online courses

Prince William County Campus development; Poetry reading fundraiser

Bob Hattoy speaks on HIV/AIDS issues at GMU; Prince William Campus dedication

McDiarmid Endowment for Women lecture series; GMU hosts inaugural Women's Global Challenge; Global warming survey

Old Town Hall lecture series; GMU hosts conference of Virginia State Legislative Black Caucus; Electronic Data Systems challenge grant

Governor-elect James Gilmore III press conference; Capitol Connection

Biographical / historical:

Formerly known as Public Relations, University Relations serves as the primary communication center and contact point for information about George Mason University.

Acquisition information:

Donated by George Mason University Office of University Relations in multiple accessions from 1989 to 2014.

Processing information:

Newsclippings processed by Lauren Clark in 2012. EAD markup completed by Jordan Patty in 2012. Press Releases processed by Special Collections Research Center staff. Reprocessed and combined into one collection by Lana Mason in October 2018. EAD markup completed by Lana Mason in October 2018. Finding aid updated by Amanda Menjivar in March 2023.

8 newsclippings (dating from September 1964 to October 1964) were added to the collection from newsclippings in University publications (R0153). These materials were compiled by the University Relations unit and filed with materials which were university publications. The newsclippings, in terms of content and context, better belonged in R0004.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in two series. Each series is arranged chronologically.

Series 1: Newsclippings (1953-2002)

Series 2: Press Releases (1956-1997)

Physical location:

R 75, C 1, S 2 - S 7; C 2, S 2 - S 3; C 4, S 5 - S 7 R 76, C 1, S 2 - C 3, S 6

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Collection