Month: December 2019

George Mason University’s mission of access to excellence translates to more than 5,000 Patriots earning degrees or certificates at the 2019 Winter Graduation ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 19.

Thirty-three percent of those earning bachelor’s degrees report that they are first-generation college students. Graduates hail from 54 countries, 37 states and the District of Columbia.

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Winter Graduation will take place this Thursday, December 19 at EagleBank Arena on George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus, and we are fortunate to have two alumnae return as graduation speakers. Zainab Salbi and Deborah Willis are two Mason alumnae known for their transformative work. Read about their stories at www2.gmu.edu/news/580196.

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Students deciding on a major, and those transferring from Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) to George Mason University, are two of the groups supported by the Mason Care Network and ADVANCE Program. The success coaches guiding these students, and NOVA and Mason advising managers, received coaching of their own on Nov. 18-21 from InsideTrack.

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Atlas transferred to George Mason University in the fall of 2019 from John Tyler Community College in Chester, Virginia. He is transmasculine and said he was very surprised to learn about the newly opened a trans closet on Mason’s Fairfax Campus.

“When I first discovered that Mason had a trans closet, I was in disbelief,” he said.

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