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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.

-Amid the start of a perfect season, Coach Pascale is fired by Athletic Director Tom O’Conner for allowing an ineligible player on the roster. Coach Pascale claims instead the firing is due to his support of upgrading the program from club level to…

-The George Mason football team has its first spring game as a club level sport. Although the University has several other D1 sports teams, football will not be one of them with the University claiming the cost to maintain the team would be too…

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.

in October of 1977, after becoming its own university, George Mason University opened the first on campus housing facilities in university history. This is an image taken in 1977 on the fairfax campus that shows one of the first places students ever…

Students hold a protest in support of Dr. Shea's contract renewal after questions about his political beliefs and grading practices came up. Four professors cancelled their classes in support of the protest. With upward of 150 students participating…

In the 1960s Chancellor Thompson prepared for the expansion of George Mason College. The College was constantly growing and would soon need to expand. in The 1968 education plan, the necessary steps to expand were addressed in order to become a…

The quad as it sits today, no longer a clean grass field, but an assortment of bushes, chairs and pathways with a sealed entrance way where a staircase still remains.

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…

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…