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The Student Government rallied students to sign a petition to block the move of the Campus Ministry office from the student union building.

The Joseph Gurfein, director of planning at GMU, received massive waves of student backlash after creating a plan to replace the Campus Ministry office with an office for the new Minority Affairs program. This plan was not final, and the Campus…

The black student club lost over half of its budget ($1,000 out of $1,245), leaving them struggling to plan a festival celebrating black culture.

Despite Mason’s efforts to increase campus diversity, black students feel alienated and lacking representation. A 100-page study was conducted to understand black students' campus sentiment. Black students suggest recommended steps to improve…

Four plans to increase minority enrollment at Mason were passed. All four plans are listed and described with accompanying concerns, notably where students will be coming from.

Both Evans and Lowe make way to hire minorities and women, noting that they believe more work is to be done hiring minorities than women. There are no minority professors at GMU. The staff is composed of approximately 30% of women.

Andrew Evans discusses proposed programs to support minority and female students who would attend GMU and states that in order to initiate effective Affirmative Action, the university culture needs to recognize its attitude of discrimination and…

Reporting on Louis Lowe’s goals to expand faculty diversity and provide suggestions to departments to increase their women and minority student engagement. Lowe describes Mason as a “predominantly white institution”.

Andrew Evans was hired to recruit minority students for GMU. Evans is described as “not just meeting a quota” and wanting to sincerely determine why GMU lacks minority students without lowering the standards of the university admissions requirements.…

The black studies program celebrates its second year of existence. Only eight students are enrolled in the course, all of whom are white.