The advent of the new school year did not soften student attitudes towards the displacement of the Campus Ministry office. Students signed petitions against the move and the head of the Student Government wrote an angry letter about Gurfein’s plan.
Description - This table compares the percentage of George Mason’s student population who were Black to the percentage of Fairfax County residents who were Black from 1974 to 1989. These data points were calculated in Google Sheets with the formula…
This table compares the percentage of George Mason’s student population who were Black to the percentage of Fairfax County residents who were Black from 1974 to 1989. These data points were calculated in Google Sheets with the formula (Black…
This table compares the growth of the George Mason Black student population to that of Fairfax County’s Black resident population. Each data point indicates by what percent a given year’s population increased since 1978. Numbers were calculated in…
This table compares the growth of the George Mason Black student population to that of Fairfax County’s Black resident population. Each data point indicates by what percent a given year’s population increased since 1983. Numbers were calculated in…
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…
GMU was not as ethnically or culturally diverse as it has come to be. During the early 1970s, George Mason College had a very low representation of Black students and faculty. This led to an investigation into the college’s efforts toward diversity…
A report was issued in 1955 that fought for the establishment of branch colleges. The Virginia Advisory Legislative Committee would release The Crisis in Higher Education in Virginia and a Solution. It pushed that college aged individuals should have…