Community Engagement

  • November 26, 2024

    Mason Community Arts Academy has been named one of the Best Summer Camps by  Northern Virginia Magazine every year since 2021. This summer, the program broke multiple records including the number of student participants at just under 1,900. The Acting for Young People program also broke its attendance record with 950 students.

  • November 20, 2024

    George Mason University associate professor Gabrielle Tayac’s course, HIST 397 Public History in Action, looks at how indigenous communities interact with our student population through community-based engagement and projects.

  • October 10, 2024

    Fall for the Book, Northern Virginia’s oldest and largest festival of literature and the arts, kicks off its 26th season in the City of Fairfax on Saturday, Oct. 12, and runs through Oct. 18.

  • October 8, 2024

    With the start of the fall semester comes the much-anticipated Movers and Shakers Mixer, the annual networking event connecting George Mason University students with influential business, community, and government executives at Mason Square in Arlington.

  • September 12, 2024

    The GRAMMY Award-winning Villalobos Brothers are redefining contemporary Mexican music, while delivering positive messages of brotherhood, equity, and love.

  • August 7, 2024

    Mason Korea, in partnership with the Incheon Metropolitan Office of Education and the GM Employee Foundation Korea, hosted the inaugural Global Career Camp in July.

  • July 22, 2024

    A statewide literacy project designed to counteract the educational impacts of the pandemic is now in full swing, thanks to the efforts of educators in George Mason University’s College of Education and Human Development (CEHD).

  • April 10, 2024

    Students from George Mason University’s Department of Nutrition and Food Studies recently visited the men and women of Fairfax Fire Station 33. They taught the firefighters about responsible nutrition habits and cooked nutritious meals for them in the station’s kitchen.

  • March 5, 2024

    Mason's Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School, the top-ranked national public institution for peace and conflict resolution, has partnered with Rotary International, one of the largest global membership service organizations, to provide education and develop modalities to assist Rotary clubs in promoting local, regional, and global peace

  • November 10, 2023

    The Movers and Shakers Mixer event returned to Mason Square in late September, connecting George Mason University students with Arlington’s business, government, and community leaders.