George Mason University Information

George Mason University (often referred to as GMU or Mason) is a public university based in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, south of and adjacent to the city of Fairfax.^[5] Additional campuses are located nearby in Arlington County, Prince William County, and Loudoun County. The university's motto is Freedom and Learning while its slogan or tagline is Where Innovation Is Tradition.^[6]

Named after American revolutionary, patriot, and founding father George Mason, the university was founded as a branch of the University of Virginia in 1957 and became an independent institution in 1972.^[7][8] Today, Mason is recognized for its strong programs in economics, law, creative writing, computer science, and business.^{[9][10][11][12][13]} In recent years, George Mason faculty have twice won the Nobel Prize in Economics.^[14] The university enrolls over 32,500 students, making it the largest university by head count in the Commonwealth of Virginia.^[15]

Contents 1 History 2 Campuses 2.1 Fairfax Campus 2.1.1 Design and construction 2.1.2 Housing and residence life 2.1.3 Notable campus buildings 2.1.3.1 Johnson Center 2.1.3.2 Center for the Arts 2.1.3.3 Patriot Center 2.1.3.4 Aquatic and Fitness Center 2.1.3.5 Fenwick Library 2.2 Arlington Campus 2.3 Prince William Campus 2.4 Loudoun Campus 3 Ras Al Khaimah 4 Academics 4.1 Rankings and distinctions 4.2 Rankings 4.3 Schools and colleges 5 Athletics 6 Organizations 6.1 Media 6.2 Fraternity and sorority life 7 Presidents past and present 8 Notable alumni 8.1 Corporate/non-profit 8.2 Government and politics 8.3 Literary and media 8.4 Sports and entertainment 8.5 Other 9 Notable faculty 9.1 College of Humanities and Social Sciences 9.2 Department of Economics 9.3 School of Public Policy 9.4 College of Science 9.5 School of Management 9.6 School of Law 9.7 School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism 10 Accreditation 11 References 12 External links

History

The Virginia General Assembly passed a resolution in January 1956, establishing a branch college of the University of Virginia in Northern Virginia. In September 1957 the new college opened its doors to seventeen students, all of whom enrolled as freshmen in a renovated elementary school building at Bailey's Crossroads. John Norville Gibson Finley served as Director of the new branch, which was known as University College.^[16]

George Mason, (1725–1792) after whom the University is named.

The city of Fairfax purchased and donated 150 acres (0.61 km²) of land to the University of Virginia for the college's new site,^[17] which was referred to as the Fairfax Campus. In 1959, the Board of Visitors of UVA selected a permanent name for the college: George Mason College of the University of Virginia. The Fairfax campus construction planning that began in early 1960 showed visible results when the development of the first 40 acres (160,000 m²) of Fairfax Campus began in 1962. In the Fall of 1964 the new campus welcomed 356 students.

Local jurisdictions of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church agreed to appropriate $3 million to purchase land adjacent to Mason to provide for a 600-acre (2.4 km²) Fairfax Campus in 1966 with the intention that the institution would expand into a regional university of major proportions, including the granting of graduate degrees.

On April 7, 1972 the Virginia General Assembly enacted legislation which separated George Mason College from its parent institution, the University of Virginia. Renamed that day by the legislation, George Mason College became George Mason University.

In 1978, the George Mason University Foundation purchased the former Kann's department store in Arlington. In March 1979 the Virginia General Assembly authorized the establishment of the George Mason University School of Law (GMUSL) – contingent on the transfer of the Kann's building to George Mason University. GMUSL began operations in that building on July 1, 1979 and received provisional accreditation from the American Bar Association in 1980. The ABA granted full approval to GMUSL in 1986.

Also, in 1979, the university moved all of its athletic programs to NCAA Division I. Enrollment that year passed 11,000. The university opened its Arlington campus in 1982, two blocks from the Virginia Square-GMU station in Arlington. In 1986 the university's governing body, the Board of Visitors, approved a new master plan for the year based on an enrollment of 20,000 full-time students with housing for 5,000 students by 1995. That same year university housing opened to bring the total number of residential students to 700.

Through a bequest of Russian immigrant Shelley Krasnow the University established the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in 1991. The Institute was created to further the understanding of the mind and intelligence by combining the fields of cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and artificial intelligence. In 1992, Mason's new Prince William Institute began classes in a temporary site in Manassas, Virginia. The Institute moved to a permanent 124-acre (0.50 km²) site located on the Rt. 234 bypass, ten miles (16 km) south of Manassas, by the year 1997, and is now known as the Prince William Campus. The university graduated more than 5,000 students that following spring.

While George Mason University is young compared to established research universities in Virginia, it has grown rapidly, reaching an enrollment of 30,714 students in 2008.^[18] According to a 2005 report issued by the university, enrollment is expected to reach 35,000 students by 2011 with more than 7,000 resident students.^[19]

In 2002, Mason celebrated its 30th anniversary as a university by launching its first capital campaign, trying to raise $110 million. The school raised $142 million, $32 million more than its goal. The George Mason University logo, originally designed in 1982, was updated in 2004.

In 2008, the School of Management celebrated its 30th anniversary. Also, in 2008 Mason changed its mascot from the "Gunston" animal to the "Patriot".^[20]

Campuses

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Fairfax Campus

The Volgenau School of Engineering building.

The main campus of George Mason University is situated on 677 acres (2.74 km²) just south of the City of Fairfax, Virginia in central Fairfax County, approximately 15 miles (24 km) west of Washington, D.C. The Fairfax campus is served on the Washington Metro by the Vienna station on the Orange line. A 15 minute shuttle in addition to the CUE bus, free for students with a Mason ID card, serves the students through routes from the Metro station to the University.^[21][22]

Design and construction

In the early 1960s four buildings were constructed around a lawn in Fairfax, appropriately named East, West, North (later, Krug Hall), and South (later, Finley Hall). The first four structures, today dubbed "The Original Four," "around a lawn" were understood as a clear reference to the buildings around The Lawn of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. In addition, in the words of the architects, the architecture of the buildings was meant to reflect Jeffersonian influence through the use of red brick with buff colored mortar, white vertical columns, and sloped shingled roofs.

Master plans were developed to incorporate further development, which saw new additions such as Fenwick Library and Lecture Hall. By 1979 master plan development was handled by the firm of Sasaki & Associates, which continued to work alongside the university in the years that followed. Student housing first became available in 1977. The 1980s saw the university expand with a new building being added on each year, including the Patriot Center. As well as the construction of the Fairfax campuses network of hot and cold water piping that provides power efficient, centralized heating and cooling for the university's buildings.

Recent years have once again brought a new construction boom to the Fairfax campus, which is currently undergoing a massive, $900 million construction campaign (between 2002–2012) based on the 2002 University Master Plan.^[23] This has brought about a huge influx of new buildings to campus, and renovations of existing buildings, most recently:

Building Name / Type / Description – Completion Date

• Southside – New – All you can eat style dining hall – Fall 2008
• Recreation and Athletic Complex [RAC] – Renovated/Expanded – Fall 2009
• Hampton Roads – New – Student housing for ~400 – Fall 2010
• Pilot House – New – Late night dinner open from 5pm to 4am – Fall 2010
• Performing Arts Building – Expansion – Expanded teaching and performing space for College of Visual and Performing Arts – Fall 2010^[24]
• Student Union I [SUB I] – Renovation/Expansion – Fall 2011^[25]
• Student Union II [SUB II] – Renovated – Spring 2011^[26]
• Rogers and Whitetop Halls- Suite and Apartment style Residence Halls – houses 600 students– Spring 2012^[27]
• Thompson Hall – Under Renovation – Fall 2011^[28]
• Science & Technology II Renovation/Expansion – Under Renovation/Construction – 2013^[29]
• Fenwick Library Renovation/Expansion – Design Phase – 2014^[30]

Housing and residence life

Fairfax is the only campus of George Mason University with on-campus student housing. The campus is divided up into three neighborhoods, which combine house approximately 5,400 students. A seventh housing area is currently under construction to house an additional 600 students and more dining facilities.^[31]

Shenandoah (formerly Southeast):

Liberty Square, an upperclassmen residence area which opened in 2003

• Liberty Square – Upperclassmen – Completed 2003, and housing approximately 500 students in two and four person apartments. Each apartment is fully furnished, and contains a kitchen and living/dining area.
• Potomac Heights – Upperclassmen – Completed 2004, and housing approximately 500 students in apartments which can accommodate two, four or six students in single and double bedrooms. Each apartment is fully furnished, and contains a kitchen and living/dining area.
• Presidents Park – Freshmen – Completed in 1989, and housing approximately 1,100 students in twelve halls (Adams, Kennedy, Roosevelt, Harrison, Lincoln, Truman, Jackson, Madison, Wilson, Jefferson, Monroe, Washington). All rooms are fully furnished and residents reside in double, triple, or quad rooms and use shared common bathrooms cleaned daily by janitorial staff. By Fall 2011 all halls will have been renovated within the last 4 years. The twelve resident halls surround Eisenhower hall in the center, a non-residential building which contains a late night diner called Ike's (open until 4am), a large study lounge, a handful of small group study rooms, HDTV lounge with a pool table and vending machines.

Rappahannock (formerly Central):

A view of George Mason's Chesapeake housing area.

• Chesapeake – Upperclassmen – Completed 2004, and housing approximately 800 students among its 4 halls (Blue Ridge, Sandbridge (formerly named Shenandoah), Piedmont, Tidewater) in suite-style apartments for four people which vary in combining single and double bedrooms, all which share a common bathroom. Each apartment is fully furnished, and each floor of every building contains at least two large study rooms (in some cases three). Blue Ridge currently houses the One Stop Patriot Shop convenience store on its lower level. Additionally, Tidewater is the location of GMU's very own Red Mango and Auntie Anne’s, open in Fall 2011.^[32]
• Dominion – Upperclassmen – Completed in 1981, and housing approximately 500 students in suite-style double occupancy rooms, which share bathrooms with the adjacent suite. All rooms are fully furnished and each floor contains a single study lounge. Renovations are currently being planned.
• Eastern Shore – Freshmen Honors College Students – Completed in 2009, and housing approximately 200 students in suite-style rooms holding up to four residents sharing a single bathroom. Each cluster of 16 students has access to a common living room, kitchen and study space.
• University Commons – Freshmen – Completed in 1986, and housing approximately 500 students in seven halls (Amherst, Brunswick, Carroll, Dickenson, Essex, Franklin, and Grayson). All rooms are fully furnished and residents reside in single, double, or triple rooms and use shared common bathrooms cleaned daily by janitorial staff. Renovations are currently scheduled to take place in phases, and will be completed by 2013.

Aquia(formerly Northwest):

• Commonwealth – Upperclassman – Completed in 1981, and housing approximately 500 students in suite-style double occupancy rooms, which share bathrooms with the adjacent suite. All rooms are fully furnished and each floor contains a single study lounge. Renovations are currently being planned.
• Hampton Roads – All Students – Completed in 2010 and housing approximately 400 students. Hampton Roads is also home to the Pilot House (open until 4am), Mason's second on-campus late night diner.
• Northern Neck – Upperclassman – Completed in 2008 and housing approximately 400 students. Northern Neck is also home to Mason's only Starbucks, located in its first floor.
• Student Apartments – Upperclassman – Completed in 1977 and housing approximately 500 students, in bedroom apartments, each bedroom accommodating two students and each suite sharing one bathroom. Suites has between one, to three bedrooms and are fully furnished, and contains a small kitchen and combined living/dining area.
• Townhouses – Upperclassman – 35 two-bedroom townhouses located 1/8 of a mile north of the campus on State Route 123
• Rogers and Whitetop (Housing VIII) – TBD – Opened spring 2012 and housing approximately 300 students. In Rogers Hall, four students live together in fully furnished suite-style units with full kitchens and living and dining areas. The lower level has a convenience store and laundry and vending facilities. Rogers is adjacent to Whitetop, the location of the neighborhood 24-hour service desk. ^[33] Whitetop opened in spring 2012 and is home to approximately 300 residents. This six-floor building offers three- and four-person suites, where residents share a common entryway and bathroom. Each floor has multiple common areas and kitchens. The lobby houses the neighborhood 24-hour service desk and laundry and vending facilities.^[34] These buildings will temporarily house the residents of University Commons during dorm renovations.^[35]

Former Buildings:

• Patriot Village

In summer 2008 the Patriot Village area was demolished to make room for the RAC (an on campus gym complex). Patriots Village consisted of dozens of permanent modulars located just outside of Patriot Circle, east of Ox Road, offering modular and suite-style units.

Notable campus buildings

Johnson Center

The George W. Johnson Learning Center, more commonly known as the Johnson Center or JC, is the central hub on campus, completed in 1995 and named after University President of 18-years, George W. Johnson. Located in the center of campus, the $30 million, 320,000-square-foot (30,000 m²) building was built as the first of its kind building on any American campus, acting both as a library and a student union. The ground floor includes a buffet style restaurant named the Bistro, the campus radio station WGMU Radio, a coffee shop named Jazzman's, 300-seat movie theater, and Dewberry Hall. The main floor includes the campus bookstore, a large food court with several fast food restaurants, a patisserie and the ground floor of the library. The second and third floors of the Johnson Center are primarily used by the library, with multiple group meeting rooms, computer labs, and a full service restaurant named George's located on the third floor.

The Johnson Center serves as the center for student life with many activities and productions sponsored by Program Board and Student Government. In 2004 during the Democratic Primaries, Senator John Kerry, the eventual Democratic Nominee for President, visited George Mason University and gave a speech on the floor of the Johnson Center. In 2007, shortly after announcing on his website that he would establish a presidential exploratory committee, Senator Barack Obama gave a speech at the "Yes We Can" rally at the Johnson Center atrium. The next week he formally announced his intentions of running for president.

Center for the Arts

George Mason University's Center for the Arts.

The Center for the Arts includes a 2,000-seat Concert Hall built in 1990. The concert hall can be converted into a more intimate 800-seat theater. Most Center for the Arts events take place here, including operas, orchestras, ballets, and musical and theatrical performances such as Kid Cudi in 2010. Its Provisions Library houses special collections focusing on social change and the arts.^[36]

Patriot Center

The Patriot Center is a 10,000 seat arena, home court for the Men's and Women's basketball team. The Patriot Center is also host to over 100 concerts and events throughout the year, annually attracting major performers like the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Aquatic and Fitness Center

The 68,000-square-foot (6,300 m²) Aquatic and Fitness Center opened in 1998 at a cost of $11 million. The center includes an Olympic size swimming pool containing eight 50-meter lanes, twenty-two 25-yard (23 m) lanes, two movable bulkheads, and a diving area equipped with two 1-meter and two 3-meter spring boards, a Warm-water recreational pool, Locker rooms, a whirlpool, a coed sauna, and a family changing room.

Fenwick Library

Fenwick Library

Fenwick Library was originally built in 1967, with additions in 1974, a tower in 1983, and renovations in 2005–2006. It was named for Charles Rogers Fenwick, one of George Mason's founders. Fenwick Library is the main research library at George Mason. Its resources include: most of the university's books, microfilms, print and bound journals, government documents, and maps. Electronic resources include networked and stand-alone CD-ROMs, the libraries' online catalog, a number of databases available through the libraries' membership in various consortia, and Internet access. Another important collection of research materials housed in Fenwick is the Government Documents collection. This collection includes both federal and Virginia state documents. Both sets of documents contain items from the administrative, legislative, and judicial branches of government, and constitute an invaluable source of primary source materials for students and faculty in political science, public policy, sociology, business and other fields. There is also a special GIS center in Fenwick Library which conducts GIS drop-in sessions every week.

George Mason is a member of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area, granting it access to resources of thirteen other libraries in the District of Columbia.

Arlington Campus

The George Mason University School of Law on the Arlington campus

The 5.2-acre (21,000 m²) Arlington campus was established in 1979 by the Virginia General Assembly for the newly founded law school. In 1980, graduate and professional programs were also offered in the building, a converted Kann's department store. Since then the school has grown to offer a multitude of graduate degrees. In 1996, Arlington's campus began its first phase in a three phase campus redevelopment project. In 1998, Hazel Hall was completed to house the law school, the Mercatus Center, and the Institute for Humane Studies. The second phase, to be completed in 2010, is underway for a 250,000-square-foot (23,000 m²) building named Founders Hall is to house the Schools of Public Policy, Education and Human Development, Information Technology, Engineering, Management, the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Computational Science, and the College of Visual & Performing Arts and academic and student supports services.^[37] Arlington's campus is projected to reach an enrollment of 10,000 students by the completion of its redevelopment.

The Arlington campus is served on the Washington Metro by the Virginia Square-GMU station on the Orange line. The station is located approximately two blocks west of the campus.

Prince William Campus

George Mason's Prince William campus opened on August 25, 1997 in Manassas. It is located on 124 acres (0.50 km²) of land. The campus offers a high-tech/bio-tech and emphasizes bioinformatics, biotechnology, forensic biosciences educational and research programs in addition to computer and information technology. The campus also offers creative programs of instruction, research, and public/private partnerships in the Prince William County area.

Prince William also boasts the 300-seat Verizon Auditorium, the 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m²) Freedom Aquatic and Fitness Center, and a 85,000-square-foot (7,900 m²), $46 million Hylton Performing Arts Center which opened in 2010.^[38] Other buildings on the Prince William campus include the Occoquan Building, which houses various academic, research, and administrative resources including a Student Health clinic, Bull Run Hall, a 100,000-square-foot (9,300 m²) building which opened in the fall of 2004, and Discovery Hall, which was completed in 1998 at a cost of $20.4 million.

Loudoun Campus

In the fall of 2005, the university opened a site in Loudoun County, Virginia. Several months later, it announced the gift of 123 acres (0.50 km²) of land by Greenvest, LLC, to build a fourth suburban campus. The campus was scheduled to open in 2009. However, the proposal was voted down by the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, as part of the larger Dulles South project. Greenvest rescinded the gift.^[39] Committed to expanding its presence in Loudoun, the university has now proposed a possible joint campus with Northern Virginia Community College. The campus would be located in Broadlands, Virginia.^[40]

Mason's current Loudoun site offers several graduate programs; an MA in Business Administration, Masters and doctoral programs in the College of Education and Human Development (CEHD), a graduate degree in nursing, and a Master of Science in telecommunications. The Loudon campus also offers five undergraduate programs; a minor in business and management, certificates in the College of Education and Human Development, a BS in health science, a minor in information technology, and an introductory course in social work. Other graduate level courses, such as those offered by the Department of Information and Software Engineering, are periodically taught at the site.

Ras Al Khaimah

George Mason opened a 'campus' in the Ras Al Khaimah emirate of the United Arab Emirates in 2005.^[41] No one ever graduated from the Ras al Khaimah 'campus' and it never grew beyond one building.^[42][43] The Ras Al Khaimah 'campus' nominally offered three undergraduate Bachelors of Science degrees in biology, business administration, and electronics and communications engineering. They subsequently added a course in "educational leadership and management."^[44]

On February 27, 2009, Mason announced they would close the Ras Al Khamimah campus at the end of the Spring 2009 semester. University Provost, Peter Stearns, cited that the relationship between George Mason University and the partner foundation in RAK worked smoothly until early 2009. He explained that the foundation would be reducing the financial support as well as attempting to change the academic reporting structure. In an e-mail to students Stearns wrote, "We have not been able to reach agreement with our RAK partner on a budget and administrative structure that, in our judgment, assures our ability to provide an education that meets Mason standards."^[45]

Academics

The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study is located on the Fairfax campus.

The university has strength in the basic and applied sciences with critical mass in proteomics, neuroscience and computational sciences. Research support comes to Mason faculty from such agencies as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Likewise, the Center for Secure Information Systems is designated as a Center of Academic Excellence (CAE) as well as a Center of Academic Excellence in Research (CAE-R) in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency.^[46]

Mason's Center for History and New Media attracts more than one million visitors to its websites every month..

Mason's flagship Study Abroad experience is the prestigious Oxford Honors Program in which highly qualified students endure a rigorous application and interview process and, if selected, travel to the United Kingdom where they study for 6–12 months as matriculated students of Oxford University.

Mason was awarded $25 million in 2005 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, for construction of a Regional Biocontainment Laboratory at the Prince William Campus in Manassas.^[47]

Rankings and distinctions

University rankings (overall)
National
U.S. News & World Report[48]	138
Washington Monthly[49]	199
Global
ARWU[50]	151–200

Rankings

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US News & World Report Undergraduate rankings include:

• 138 (Tier 1) – National Universities Rankings 2011^[51]
• 2nd – new category of "Up-and-coming National Universities" 2011^[52]
• 69th – Top Public National Universities 2011^[53]

US News & World Report Graduate program rankings include:

• 40th – Law 2011 ^[54][55]
• 51st – Political Science 2011^[56]
• 64th – History 2011^[57]
• 45th – Public Affairs 2011^[58]
• 79th – Nursing 2011^[59][60]
• 66th – Education 2011^[61]
• 59th – Part time MBA 2011^[62]
• 63rd – Computer Science 2011^[63]

Other rankings:

• The university is ranked 58th in North America and 75th worldwide by the web-based Webometrics Ranking of World Universities^[64]
• 4th most diverse university in the nation, by the Princeton Review in 2008.^[65]
• 8th in the world political economy, 30th in public economics by econphd.net.^[66]
• As of 2008^[update], the Southern Economic Journal ranks Mason economics as 3rd in Methodology and History of Economic Thought, 9th in General Economics and Teaching, 11th in Law and Economics, 25th in Public Economics and 25th in Microeconomics.^[67]

Schools and colleges

Research at Mason is organized into centers, laboratories, and collaborative programs.^[68] These include the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the College of Education and Human Development, New Century College, the College of Health and Human Services, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, the School of Computational Sciences, the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Public Policy, the College of Science, and the School of Management. In addition, Mason's Office of the Provost includes research centers that deal with economics, global education, and teaching excellence.

Athletics

Main article: George Mason Patriots See also: George Mason Patriots men's basketball and 2005–06 George Mason Patriots men's basketball team

The school's sports teams are called the Patriots. The university's men's and women's sports teams participate in the NCAA's Division I, and are members of the Colonial Athletic Association, or CAA. The school's colors are green and gold. George Mason has two NCAA Division I National Championship to its credit; 1985 Women's Soccer and 1996 Men's Indoor Track & Field.

George Mason University was catapulted into the national spotlight in March 2006, when its men's basketball team advanced to the Final Four of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament by defeating the Michigan State Spartans, the defending champion North Carolina Tar Heels, the Wichita State Shockers, and the top-seeded Connecticut Huskies. Their "Cinderella" journey ended in the Final Four with a loss to the eventual tournament champion Florida Gators by a score of 73–58.^[69] As a result of the team's success in the tournament, the Patriots were ranked 8th in the final ESPN/USA Today Poll for the 2005–06 season. The New York Times, The Washington Post, Baltimore Sun, and USA Today featured the story on their front pages, and was ranked by several publications as the sports story of the year.

The Patriots, who had never won an NCAA tournament game before 2006, became the first team from the CAA to crash the Final Four and were the first true mid-major conference team since 1979 to do so (that year, the Larry Bird-led Indiana State Sycamores as a #1 seed, and the Penn Quakers as a #9 seed both reached the Final Four). As #11-seeds, the 2006 Patriots also tied the 1986 LSU Tigers as the lowest-seeded team ever to reach the Final Four.

In 2008, the Patriots returned to the NCAA Tournament after winning the CAA Tournament. They were given a 12 seed and matched up against 5th-seeded Notre Dame. The Patriots were unable to make another miracle run, losing to the Irish by a score of 68–50.

Organizations

George Mason offers more than 200 clubs and organizations, including 16 fraternities, 15 sororities, 24 International-student organizations, 25 religious organizations, a student programming board, student government, club sports, debate team, and student media. In a 2004 survey of 357 universities GMU was ranked number one for diversity. ^[70] The Office of Student Involvement at Mason administrates Student Government, Program Board, Fraternity and Sorority Life, Recognized Student Organization (RSO), Graduate and Professional Student Association (GAPSA), and Weekends at Mason (WAM).^[71] Mason also offers an Army ROTC program, called The "Patriot Battalion." Mason's club sports include ultimate frisbee, crew, equestrian, field hockey, football, lacrosse, underwater hockey, fencing, and rugby.

The George Mason University Forensics program is one of the top ranked competitive speech teams in the United States and has achieved international recognition in the field of communication studies.^[72] The team was founded in 1970 and has won nearly 10,000 individual speech awards. In 2010 the team placed 4th at the American Forensics Association National Tournament and won the International Forensics Association Championship. The Forensics Program has been extremely active on the George Mason campus with an active Community Service Committee. GMU hosts the annual Virginia is for Lovers collegiate speech tournament, the Patriot Games scholastic speech competition (which in 2009 had over 1,000 entries), and also will host the 2011 Catholic Forensics League Grand National Tournament. Currently Dr. Peter Pober is the Program Director with Jeremy Hodgson as Assistant Director.^[73]

Media

Mason offers two regular print publications, Broadside, the student newspaper, and the Mason Gazette, the University-published newspaper. Mason also operates a Campus radio station, WGMU Radio. The online radio station offers music, entertainment, news, and public affairs relating to the University community, regional area and the country. GMU-TV is the university's professional Educational-access television station. GMU-TV is an award-winning leader in educational, informational and public interest programming. The unit offers a broad spectrum of content, ranging from public affairs and humanities to science, medicine and the arts. The Mason Cable Network, or MCN, is the student organized and operated station, and offers student produced entertainment and information on campus channel 89, available on the Fairfax campus of GMU. Mason also sponsors several student-run publications through its Office of Student Media,^[74] including the VoxPop, a feature magazine, Connect2Mason, an online media and news convergence Web site,^[75] Volition, an undergraduate student literary and art magazine, Phoebe, a graduate literary journal, So to Speak, a feminist literary journal, GMView and Senior Speak, an annual yearbook publication and video, New Voices in Public Policy, School of Public Policy student journal, and Hispanic Culture Review, a student bilingual (Spanish/English) journal on Hispanic literature and culture. Mason also sponsors several academic journals including, TABLET, the International Affairs Journal of George Mason University. Between approximately 1993 and 1998, the University was also the home of The Fractal: Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

Between 1990 and 2005, the underground newspaper Expulsion was distributed on the Mason campus. It also experienced a brief online resurgence in 2007.^[76]

The staff of the Center for History and New Media produces a podcast called Digital Campus.

In fall 2008, the satirical online newspaper, The Mason Squire, premiered.^[77] The site featured fake news stories criticizing the university. The newspaper's mottos were "Because fake news doesn't report itself" and "Fake news just got a whole lot sexier". However, the site has been inactive since late 2009.

Fraternity and sorority life

See also: List of Fraternities and Sororities at George Mason University

George Mason University does not have traditional Fraternity & Sorority housing or a "Greek row." For several years, three Panhellenic Council organizations had established "Living/Learning Floors" in the University Commons. Alpha Omicron Pi had a floor 2004–2010, Gamma Phi Beta had a floor 2006–2010, and Alpha Phi had a floor 2007–2010. event associated with Fraternity & Sorority Life on campus is held each spring and is called Greek Week. This annual event includes competitive sporting and trivia events, charitable fund raising, and is usually ended with Greek Sing. Organizations participating in Greek Sing put together 10–15 minute themed shows which have included extravagant costumes, set designs, lighting displays, multimedia presentations, dances, singing, acrobatics, and more.

Presidents past and present

• Lorin A. Thompson, (1966–73)
• Vergil H. Dykstra, (1973–1977)
• Robert C. Krug, (1977–1978)
• George W. Johnson, (1978–1996)
• Alan G. Merten, (1996–2012)^[78]
• Ángel Cabrera, (2012-Future)^[79]

Notable alumni

Corporate/non-profit

• Muna Abu-Sulayman, Secretary General and Executive Director, Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation
• Yusuf Azizullah, consultant
• Zainab Salbi, President, Women for Women International
• Will Seippel, business executive
• Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association
• Martin Andrew Taylor, senior executive Corporate VP of Windows Live and MSN, Chief of Staff to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer

Government and politics

Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Prime Minister of Somalia Anna Cabral Treasurer of the United States Karl Rove Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush Kathleen Casey Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

• Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Prime Minister of Somalia
• David Bobzien, member of the Nevada Assembly
• Denise Bode, energy expert, member of President George W. Bush Energy Transition Advisory Team
• Anna E. Cabral, Treasurer of the United States under President George W. Bush
• Kathleen L. Casey, Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Sean Connaughton, Virginia Secretary of Transportation, former U.S. Maritime Administrator
• Garrison Courtney, Chief Public Affairs of the Drug Enforcement Agency
• Ken Cuccinelli, Attorney General of Virginia
• Bob Deuell, Texas State Senator
• Igor Doubenko, Executive Director, UN Human Rights Educational Project
• Michael Frey, member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
• Nancy Garland, member of the Ohio house of representatives
• Juleanna Glover, press secretary to Vice President Dick Cheney
• William D. Hansen, US Deputy Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush
• Cathy Hudgins, member of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
• Mohammad Khazaee, Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN
• Kaye Kory, Virginia House Delegate
• Sherri Kraham, deputy VP at the Millennium Challenge Corporation
• Mark B. Madsen, Utah State Senator
• Mike Mazzei, Oklahoma State Senator
• William W. Mercer, United States Attorney for the District of Montana
• John Morlu, Liberian Presidential Candidate
• Liam O'Grady, United States federal judge
• Paul F. Nichols, Virginia House Delegate
• Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to the John McCain presidential campaign 2008
• Steve Ricchetti, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
• Karl Rove, former Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush^[80]
• James M. Scott, Virginia House Delegate
• William P. Winfree, NASA
• Richard L. Young, United States federal judge

Literary and media

• Richard Bausch, novelist
• Robert Bausch, novelist
• Stuart Cosgrove, Scottish journalist, broadcaster and television executive
• Chad Ford, sports journalist and founder of ESPN Insider
• Angie Goff, traffic presenter, WUSA-9 TV
• Hala Gorani, news anchor, CNN
• Brian Krebs, journalist
• Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Poet Laureate of Virginia^[81][82]
• J. Michael Martinez, poet
• Nadine Meyer, poet
• Stephen Moore, journalist and policy analyst
• Evan Oakley, poet
• Nancy K. Pearson, poet
• Susan Rook, news anchor, CNN
• Rebecca Wee, poet
• Mark Winegardner, author

Sports and entertainment

• Julius Achon, Ugandan distance runner, 800m American Collegiate record holder
• Joe Addo, soccer player
• Mark Adickes, football player
• Negar Assari, artist
• Abdi Bile, Olympic runner
• Lamar Butler, basketball player
• Shawn Camp, baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays
• Folarin Campbell, basketball player
• Terri Dendy, Olympic track and field athlete
• Ben Dogra, sports agent
• Brent Brockman, soccer player
• Charlie Raphael, soccer player
• Rebecca Cardon, actress
• John Driscoll, actor
• Chad Dukes, radio host, WJFK-FM
• Jennifer Derevjanik, basketball player
• Jerry Dunn, basketball coach
• George Evans, basketball player
• Mike Garrett, soccer player
• Kristi Lauren Glakas, Miss Virginia Teen USA, Miss Virginia USA, Miss Virginia
• King Kamali, Iranian bodybuilder
• Archie Kao, actor
• Jai Lewis, basketball player
• Bob Lilley, soccer player and head coach
• Tamir Linhart, soccer player
• Jason Miskiri, basketball player
• Dayton Moore, general manager, senior VP, Kansas City Royals
• Rob Muzzio, Decathlon champion, Olympic athlete
• Anthony Noreiga, soccer player
• Gabe Norwood, Philippine Basketball Association player
• Maegan Phillips, Miss Virginia USA
• Jennifer Pitts, Miss Virginia, Miss Virginia USA
• Mark Pulisic, soccer player
• Kenny Sanders, basketball player
• Tony Skinn, basketball player
• Tommy Steenberg, iceskater
• Will Thomas, basketball player
• Chris Widger, baseball player
• Aimee Willard, lacrosse player
• Ricky Wilson, basketball player
• Carlos Yates, basketball player
• Kate Ziegler, World Record distance swimmer

Other

• Anousheh Ansari, space tourist
• Amir Ansari, venture capitalist
• Sandy Antunes, astronomer
• Randall C. Berg, Jr., lawyer
• M. Brian Blake, professor
• Mark A. Calabria, Director of Financial Regulation Studies at the Cato Institute
• Alan M. Davis, engineer and businessman
• Chris DiBona, Google Public Sector Director
• Taylor Edgar, stand-up comic and musician
• Sibel Edmonds, former Federal Bureau of Investigation translator
• Fred E. Foldvary, economist
• Graham Foust, professor and poet
• Jon Gettman, marijuana reform activist
• Steven Horwitz, professor
• Raynard Jackson, Republican political consultant
• Matt Kibbe, President and CEO of FreedomWorks
• Jonathan Klick, professor
• Robert A. Levy, Chairman of the Cato Institute
• Jeb Livingood, professor and writer
• Daniel Mann, lawyer
• George Michael, professor
• Kendrick Moxon, lawyer and Scientologist
• Michael L. Murray, American folklorist
• Angela Orebaugh, cyber security technologist and professor
• Mark Perry (economist), professor
• Brad Pfaff, USDA Wisconsin Farm Service Agency executive director
• David Prychitko, economist
• Jose Rodriguez, political activist
• Eric Schansberg, economics professor
• Stephen Slivinski, economist for the Goldwater Institute
• Victoria Stiles, makeup artist
• Edward Stringham, professor
• Joshua N. Weiss, mediator
• Deborah Willis, photographer and professor

Notable faculty

College of Humanities and Social Sciences

• William Sims Bainbridge
• Shaul Bakhash, scholar of Persian studies. Husband of Haleh Esfandiari.
• Mary Catherine Bateson, daughter of American cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead, former Clarence J. Robinson Professor in Anthropology and English, now Professor Emerita.
• Robert Bausch, novelist
• Rei Berroa, poet
• Andrés Boiarsky
• Courtney Angela Brkic, poet
• Michael Bunn
• Arthur W. Chickering
• Alan Cheuse, novelist
• Wilfrid Desan
• Bùi Diễm, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States
• Robert J. Elder, Jr, Air Force Commander
• Marita Golden, novelist
• Gerald L. Gordon
• Joshua Greenberg
• Hugh Gusterson
• Helon Habila
• Deanna Hammond
• Frances V. Harbour
• Hugh Heclo, professor of American politics and winner of John Gaus award.
• Carma Hinton, documentary filmmaker. Credits include The Gate of Heavenly Peace
• Susan Hirsch, legal and linguistic anthropologist
• Mark N. Katz
• Peter Klappert, poet
• Gary L Kreps
• Lawrence W. Levine, historian
• Suzannah Lessard, writer
• Samuel Robert Lichter, former professor at Princeton University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Yale, and Columbia University.
• Peter Mandaville, professor of international affairs and scholar of political Islam.
• Nadine Meyer, poet
• Robert Nadeau, English professor
• Eric Pankey, poet
• Roy Rosenzweig
• Richard E. Rubenstein
• Martin Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winner for his biography of Robert Oppenheimer
• Clare Shore
• Susan Shreve
• Richard Norton Smith Presidential historian & former director of five presidential libraries.^[83]
• Rod Smith, poet
• Peter Stearns, American historian and current provost
• Rex A. Wade, professor of Russian history.
• Roger Wilkins, Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of the Watergate scandal (along with Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein while he was working at The Washington Post.) Now retired.
• Margaret R. Yocom
• Mary Kay Zuravleff, novelist

Department of Economics

James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist Gordon Tullock, Developed the Public Choice theory

• Peter Boettke
• Kenneth E. Boulding, cofounder of the General Systems Theory, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal
• Donald J. Boudreaux
• James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize-winning economist (1986)
• Henry N. Butler
• Bryan Caplan
• Tyler Cowen
• Christopher Coyne
• Richard H. Fink, Executive Vice President of the Koch Industries
• Joseph L. Fisher, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
• Jack A. Goldstone
• Wendy Lee Gramm
• Robin Hanson
• Laurence Iannaccone
• Manuel H. Johnson, Former Vice Governor of the Federal Reserve
• Arnold Kling
• Daniel B. Klein
• Don Lavoie
• Peter T. Leeson
• Kevin McCabe
• Maurice McTigue, former Minister for Labor in New Zealand
• James C. Miller III, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan
• Russell Roberts
• George Selgin
• Vernon L. Smith, Nobel Prize-winning economist (2002)
• Alex Tabarrok
• Robert Tollison
• Gordon Tullock, Developed the Public Choice Theory
• Bruce Yandle, Executive Director of the Federal Trade Commission
• Richard E. Wagner
• Lawrence H. White
• Walter E. Williams, John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics
• Bart Wilson

School of Public Policy

Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA United States Ambassador to Greece and Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Zoltan Acs
• David S. Alberts, Director of Research for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense
• Kenneth Button
• Thomas M. Davis, former U.S. Congressman from Virginia
• Desmond Dinan
• Richard Florida
• William Conrad Gibbons
• Marc Gopin
• Stephen Haseler
• Michael Hayden, former CIA Director
• Seymour Martin Lipset
• Patrick Mendis, US Diplomat, NATO military professor, and author
• Patrick Michaels
• Thomas J. Miller, US Ambassador to Greece, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bill Schneider (journalist), CNN's senior political analyst
• Louise Shelley
• Jeremy Shearmur
• Richard Norton Smith
• John N. Warfield

College of Science

• David Albright
• Ken Alibek, Colonel in the Soviet Union in charge of biodefense
• Robert Axtell
• Caroline Crocker, immunopharmacologist who teaches creationist claims about evolution
• Peter J. Denning
• Klaus Fischer, mathematician
• Peter A. Freeman
• Robert Hazen, Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science, and author
• Abul Hussam, inventor of the Sono arsenic filter, for which he received the 2007 sustainability prize awarded by the National Academy of Engineering
• Angela Orebaugh
• Suresh V. Shenoy
• Fred Singer
• Jagdish Shukla, founding member of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics
• John P. Snyder, cartographer
• James Trefil, physicist, and author
• Ernst Volgenau, chairman and founder of SRA International
• Edward Wegman, statistician
• Boris Willis

School of Management

• Teresa J. Domzal, dean of the school of management
• Jim Larranaga, Mason's head men's basketball coach since 1997
• Anthony Sanders, Distinguished Professor of Real Estate Finance
• Raymond W. Smith
• Min-Seok Pang, distinguished Management Information Systems professor

School of Law

• Peter Berkowitz
• David Bernstein
• Lawrence J. Block, Federal Judge
• Frank H. Buckley
• Henry N. Butler, Republican Candidate for member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 11th congressional district
• Susan Dudley, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs under President George W. Bush
• Victoria Espinel, United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
• Adrian S. Fisher, lawyer, diplomat, and politician during the 1960s and 1970s
• Sandra Froman, President of the National Rifle Association of America
• Sigrid Fry-Revere, founder and president of Center for Ethical Solutions
• Ernest Gellhorn
• Douglas H. Ginsburg, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Ronald Reagan's nominee to the United States Supreme Court
• Irving Kayton, founder of the Patent Resources Group, Inc. (PRG)
• William Kovacic, former member of the Federal Trade Commission
• Michael I. Krauss, former Commissioner for Québec's Human Rights Commission
• William H. Lash, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
• James LeMunyon, former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce
• Leonard Liggio, Vice President of Atlas Economic Research Foundation
• Deborah Platt Majoras, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
• Henry Manne
• James C. Miller III, Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission and Budget Director for President Ronald Reagan
• Timothy Muris, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
• Raymond O'Brien
• Jeremy A. Rabkin
• Chuck Robb, former Governor of Virginia and former U.S. Senator
• William J. Roberts, copyright royalty judge
• Kyndra Miller Rotunda, Army JAG officer
• Hans-Bernd Schäfer
• Loren A. Smith, Federal Judge
• Michael Uhlmann
• Clay T. Whitehead, former director of the White House Office of Telecommunications Policy
• Todd Zywicki, former Director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission

School of Recreation, Health, and Tourism

• Steve Baumann, Chief Executive of the National Soccer Hall of Fame
• Charley Casserly, General Manager of the Washington Redskins and Houston Texans
• Craig Esherick, former head coach of the Georgetown basketball team

Accreditation

• Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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