Admin & Academia
INFOGRAPHIC: What is the Board of Visitors?
|On Oct. 2, Fourth Estate will be live-blogging the entirety of Mason's Board of Visitors meeting. Here is everything you need to know about the Board and what they do at Mason:
LIVEBLOG: Board of Visitors meeting (2 Oct. 2013)
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On Oct. 3, 2013, Mason's Board of Visitors held its first meeting of the school year. Here are five big takeaways from the meeting, and here's a quick explanation of what the Board of Visitors actually is.
Agencies withdraw from Career Fair in wake of government shutdown
|The government shutdown has begun affecting George Mason University, specifically in this week's Career Fair.
According to Career Services, the listed government agencies will not be attending Wednesday and Thursday's Fair:
Committee appointed to search for new provost
|On Sept. 5, President Ángel Cabrera announced a new search committee to find George Mason University's next provost. Dr. Peter Stearns, who has served as Mason's provost since 2000, announced that he would retire in June 2014.
Cadets act as eyes and ears of police department
|Mason Police are a fixture on campus, frequently seen roving the streets in white sedans marked with green and gold and standing guard by campus buildings.
The police cadets, who are students, are distinguished from them only by the miniature radios on their shoulders and the block letters on the backs of their beige shirts.
Mason ranked among 150 top universities
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According to the 2014 U.S. News & World Report college rankings, Mason is the 141 best university in the nation (photo courtesy of U.S.
Students question police response to gunshot incident|In the early hours of the morning on Aug. 30, two gunshots struck a car fleeing from the Fairfax campus after hitting a Mason police officer. In the week that followed, the campus buzzed with discussion regarding the decision not to send out a Mason Alert and the discharge of a Mason police officer’s sidearm. At Krasnow Institute, students conduct high-profile research|The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study is not easy to find. Nestled away at the very edge of the Mason Fairfax campus, on a small side street off Shenandoah Lane, the institute looks indistinguishable from any other university building. Inside, students labor over homework in the Great Room, a high-ceilinged library complete with a fireplace, and hunch over microscopes in the many labs. Posters cover the hallway walls, displaying graphs, charts and titles like “Communication Development of Autism Spectrum Disorder Through a Behavior-Level Approach.” Mason renews Sodexo contract|After a year of negotiation, Sodexo was given the contract to manage the dining operations at George Mason University. Sodexo has managed Mason’s dining since 1988, but faced competition from Chartwells when the contract came up for review in 2012. |