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The current student newspaper called the Fourth Estate. A far cry from it's former iterations.

On July 1, 1972 George Mason University officially became independent from The University of Virginia, and became its own university. The Image presented is a meeting in 1972 between board members of each institution, where the Virginia House of…

Though George Mason university was not a private institution yet, there was widespread growth across George Mason University. Due to this GMU opened there fairfax campus in 1964. This image presents
a part of the George Mason university fairfax…

The University Learning center back in 1995 when it was first completed. This Center is known today as the Johnson center. This building helps represent the evolution and growth of a small college to an amazing university.

The Hourly Child Care trailer, site of first on-campus day care for George Mason University, used by student and faculty members who needed childcare for irregular class schedules.

At the January 1998 board meeting a consulting group estimated that upgrading the football team would cost the University $4.2 million a year. A taskforce is created to investigate this matter so the board could vote on it in March.

The football taskforce found that even though upgrading the football team was overwhelmingly supported by the students, significant upgrades would need to be made to the University’s facilities to field a D1 football team. At this meeting President…

-The taskforce put forward a ten-year financial plan to upgrade the current club team and facilities, including a 4 year raise to student fees that they claimed was supported by the student body. The taskforce lost the measure by one vote, and to…

The University of Virginia president at the time, Colgate W. Darden Jr. saw an opportunity to start a new university in Northern Virginia and asked for the help of Charles Harrison Mann Jr. to test how feasible the idea was. He needed both the…

To first create a presence in the Northern Virginia area, an extension center was established that had a focus on adult education, military veterans, and anyone else that was in a pursuit of college-level instructions. It offered both credit and…