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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.

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On May 2, George Mason University’s Board of Visitors approved a $1.25 billion budget for the 2019-20 academic year that includes a one-year tuition freeze for all in-state and out-of-state undergraduate students. The budget also increases financial aid, grows research and innovation, and raises salaries for faculty and staff.

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More than 7,500 students are eligible to take part in the 52nd annual George Mason University Spring Commencement on Friday, May 17 at 10 a.m. in EagleBank Arena on the Fairfax campus and college/school degree celebrations starting Wednesday, May 15.

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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.

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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!

Read more about all of the exciting things planned for Mason Day 2019

Abiral Pandey, treasurer of George Mason University’s Tennis Club, had never played a round of golf before he began his internship with the PGA Tour.

But with a sensibility that drives Pandey to, as he said, “get out of my comfort zone,” the junior and finance major embraced his 10-week paid summer internship in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, as an exciting challenge.

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Sibs & Kids Weekend is April 27–28. Mason faculty, staff, and students are invited to register their kids and siblings ages 6–18 to experience life as a Patriot!

Participants receive giveaways, a Sibs & Kids Weekend t-shirt, and entrance to all events on the schedule (including meals, access to Mason Recreation facilities, and parking on the Fairfax Campus).

The cost is $15 for Mason faculty/staff members, $25 for participants (ages 6–18), and free for Mason students.

Online registration is open now at masonfamilyevents.gmu.edu.

For more information, contact New Student and Family Programs at [email protected] or 703-993-2475.

George Mason University’s ADVANCE transfer program with Northern Virginia Community College plans to offer more than 100 degree pathways in fall 2019, five times as many as currently offered in the inaugural year of the program.

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George Mason University launched their first ever First Gen. Summit aimed at helping first generation college students.

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Homecoming 2019 included T-shirt giveaways, a block party, a lip sync battle, a day of service and men’s and women’s basketball games.

Mostly, though, it was a chance to greet old friends and make new ones.

Photographers Ron Aira, Evan Cantwell, Bethany Camp and Rafael Suanes captured it all.

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