Author: Eleftheria Giannopoulos

Mason Day celebrates the end of the school year

Don’t trash, donate! Patriot Packout

A year’s worth of late-night grocery store trips, care packages, and assembled furniture can leave students with more than they can transport home. George Mason University’s annual Patriot Packout offers students the opportunity to avoid the trash stream and donate their unwanted items to their local community. Rather than discarding them, on-campus students at our Fairfax campus are invited to donate their clothing (clean/lightly used), small household appliances, furniture, and non-perishable food to our campus and community partners in the donation bins placed in each residence hall’s lobby.

Undergraduate tuition frozen for 2019-2020 academic year

Commencement 2019: Celebrating Mason’s graduates

Residence hall move-out tips and deadlines

This time of year can be extremely hectic as students prepare for final exams and arrange plans to leave campus for the summer. To help you and your student navigate this busy time, we have compiled information about move-out procedures for students living on-campus. For additional information, visit housing.gmu.edu/housing-options/hall-closings.

This year residential students will be able to check-out of their residence hall using a convenient Express Checkout option. This will allow students and their families the opportunity to move out and finish their check-out process on any day, at any time. Each resident will be expected to attend a Residence Hall Closing floor meeting, hosted by their Resident Advisor, April 25-30 to receive all of the details. RAs will be communicating with students about these important meetings in the coming weeks.

Mason Family Flash: Special Edition

Yesterday’s shooting on the University of North Carolina at Charlotte campus, leaving two dead and several injured, is a tragic and senseless act that affects us all deeply. We grieve with those who lost loved ones and hope for the speedy recovery of those being treated.

The safety of any campus community is a huge undertaking. You are a big part of that effort. We wanted to take a moment to remind everyone of some things Mason Patriots can do to help George Mason and Mason Police keep our campus safe:

— Call 911 if you see imminent danger or a crime in progress.

— Call GMU PD non-emergency (703-993-2810) to report suspicious or concerning behavior, or go the Crime Solvers page on the GMU PD website to make anonymous tips. (police.gmu.edu/programs-and-services/crime-solvers/)

— If you are worried about a friend, and it’s not an emergency, fill out the Student Support and Advocacy Center’s referral form and let us help.
(ssac.gmu.edu/make-a-referral/)

— Do you have Rave Guardian? It’s the App that lets you use your phone to stay safe and help protect your friends. (ready.gmu.edu/wpcontent/uploads/…/11/RaveGuardian_Poster.pdf)

— Mason also maintains an Active Threat Training and Resource Site with several different guides and options to learn skills and get training in preventing such tragedies from occurring. (police.gmu.edu/programs-and-services/active-threat-training/).

We stand with UNC Charlotte as they recover from this tragedy and stand beside them as they stay #UNCCStrong.

Rose B. Pascarell
Vice President for University Life

‘Enslaved Children of George Mason’ project explores school’s namesake

Alexis Bracey (left), Ayman Fatima (center) and Elizabeth Perez-Garcia (right) were three of the students who started with the project in summer 2017, bringing with them their backgrounds in criminology, public health, global affairs and other fields. Photo by Evan Cantwell.

Experience it – #MasonDay2019

On Friday, April 26, the campus will celebrate the 54th anniversary of Mason Day (George Mason University’s longest standing tradition), and we want YOU to join in on the excitement!

With an annual attendance of over 5,000 Mason students, Mason Day is an exciting event packed with opportunities to create Mason memories that will last a lifetime! We’ll have food to melt your taste buds, amusement rides to give you a thrill, inflatable bounce houses, face painters, food trucks, live performances and more. There will be student performers on the main stage all day long and the headliner concert will begin at 8 p.m. featuring Queen Naija and Sage the Gemini!

Expanding mental health support for Mason students

Student life on the North Plaza. Photo by Evan Cantwell/Creative Services/George Mason University

There is a growing need for mental health support for Mason students. Most patients often approach their primary care provider first with mental health concerns, which is why Student Health Services has partnered with the College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) to expand mental health treatment options for Mason students.

Through federal grants administered by CHHS, Student Health Services has introduced two innovative initiatives that provide for mental health care in the primary care setting: the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) program and Collaborative Care.