Category: Civic Learning and Community Enagagement

Leadership Legacy Program: Deadline Extended to Mar. 18

The Leadership Legacy Program, a partnership program sponsored by MasonLeads and Human Resources and Payroll, is designed for Mason full-time faculty and staff who are committed to furthering their leadership development.

The program curriculum provides opportunities for experienced faculty and staff to advance their conceptual and experiential understanding of leadership in the context of university settings.

Applications and nominations for the 2019–20 cohort are due March 18.

To learn more and to apply, visit the Leadership Legacy website at leadershiplegacy.gmu.edu.

Contact [email protected] or 703-993-2600 with questions.

Sojourner Truth speakers examine black feminism throughout history

Dr. Michelle Allen (left), assistnat director of the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Multicultural Education, moderates a talk with Dr. Robin Boylorn (center) and Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (right) duirng the 2019 Sojourner Truth Lecture. Photo by Lathan Goumas/Strategic Communications

Women’s History Month

2019 Sojourner Truth Lecture features two award-winning scholars and activists

Each year, the Women and Gender Studies and the African and African American Studies Programs at George Mason University sponsor the Sojourner Truth Lecture Series during the spring to honor both Black African Heritage History Month and Women’s History Month.

This year’s event features two speakers, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Robin M. Boylorn, who are scholars, activists and award-winning authors.

Freedom and Learning welcomes March for Our Lives activist Cameron Kasky

Tragedy didn’t have the last word when Cameron Kasky and his classmates from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, experienced one of the worst school shootings in America last February.

Instead, the students became part of a national movement to promote dialogue and change. On Monday, Feb. 25, Kasky—activist and cofounder of March for Our Lives—will join George Mason University President Ángel Cabrera to continue the conversation with students and community members at its biannual Freedom and Learning Forum.

GMU Visiting Filmmakers Series: The Unafraid with Heather Courtney

‘Candid Conversations’ offers respectful dialogue and listening

English Language Institute, CORE students work in a classroom at the English Languge Institure.

George Mason University’s Office of Strategic Diversity Initiatives, a unit of University Life, invites Mason students, faculty and staff to a series of three “Candid Conversations” in which they can discuss current events and controversial topics without facing marginalization for their opinions, values or beliefs.

Topics of discussion will be gun control and gun violence, reproductive rights and abortion, and anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and colonialism.

Read More about “Candid Conversations”

Students advocate for higher education at Mason Lobbies

Important things are worth getting up early for. That’s why 50 students from George Mason University are excited for Mason Lobbies on Wednesday, Jan. 30, when they’ll board a bus before the sun comes up in Fairfax to meet with their state representatives in Richmond. At the Virginia State Capitol, they’ll promote the university and advocate for student needs, higher education and Mason’s legislative priorities.

The Unafraid

Thursday, February 28, 7:30pm

Johnson Center Cinema

Documentary screening and discussion with co-director Heather Courtney

Featuring GMU President Ángel Cabrera