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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…

In the early 1970's, GMU was called out for having almost no diversity and no real affirmative action efforts. A 1971 report pointed out the problem, pushing the school to take action. Mason created the Office of Minority Recruitment and brought in…

At the 1956 General Assembly Session, representatives from the Northern Virginia Delegation brought forth their case to submit a resolution creating a Northern Virginia branch of the University of Virginia. Mann added a point of the branch only…

John Glassford and Company, a well-known Glasgow-based merchant company with a significant role in the Chesapeake tobacco trade, is reviewed in the Library of Congress's historical documents. The economic ties between Virginia tobacco planters and…

The first mention of the Rathskellar opening in the Student Union Building.

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.

A call between the president of the University of Virginia, Colgate Darden Jr. and Charles Mann Jr. calling for the creation of a new higher education institution in Northern Virginia. Darden asked Mann to head a committee to explore the feasibility…

A student laments the passing of MLK Jr. and the state of America. The author claims America is still enslaved as long as white apathy persists.

Instead of creating a full-fledged branch college of NOVA, an extension center was established with the emphasis on adult education and college-level instruction. It was fought for and approved in 1949, with organized classes beginning in 1950. By…

In 1954, the Advisory Council for the Northern Virginia Center was formed to advise the University on the operation of the center and to explore possibilities of its expansion to a branch of the University of Virginia. Due to a change in rules…