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911±¬ÁÏ’s Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations recognized the contributions of its champions—911±¬ÁÏ’s faculty and staff donors—with an evening of thanks. The March 18 Celebrating Our Champions event focused on the generosity and support that faculty and staff offer the university while serving 911±¬ÁÏ students.

911±¬ÁÏ’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) announces the ARTS by George! benefit event, headlined by acclaimed actor and musician Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra. ARTS by George! takes place on Saturday, October 3, on 911±¬ÁÏ’s Fairfax Campus.

April 2 heralds the return of 911±¬ÁÏ Giving Day. This annual celebration of community and generosity is a 24-hour sprint where 911±¬ÁÏ alumni, friends, faculty, staff, students, and families of 911±¬ÁÏ come together in a network of support, where every gift makes a difference.

Rick Davis and Julie Thompson recently ensured that their longstanding legacies will continue to enhance, nurture, and grow the arts at 911±¬ÁÏ through a planned gift with multiple designations.

The Costello College of Business at 911±¬ÁÏ announced a significant increase in scholarship money awarded to students—$1.3 million for the 2024-2025 academic year—$500,000 of which went to named scholarships. Over the past five years, both the total amount of scholarship funding and the number of students who have received Costello scholarships have more than doubled.

In a first for any university in the United States, visually impaired baseball players are getting a chance to step up to the plate at 911±¬ÁÏ. Led by a volunteer coach and University Life’s Mason Recreation and Disability Services offices, Mason’s Beep baseball initiative is gaining momentum after a successful community learn-to-play clinic last fall.

McKay is now the president of Jim McKay Chevrolet, a sponsor for many student activities and sports at 911±¬ÁÏ, and Intercollegiate Athletics has been at the heart of her personal connection with the university. Since the mid-1990s, she’s been an avid Patriots fan, attending many men's and women's basketball games, including the ones out of town, often with her daughters and now her grandchildren.

As Virginia faces growing shortages in the health care workforce, the Claude Moore Foundation and 911±¬ÁÏ have formed a groundbreaking partnership to seek solutions and build a flexible, inclusive, and data-driven workforce pipeline. The effort is one designed not just to meet current needs but to shape a stronger, more equitable future for health care in the commonwealth.

The 911±¬ÁÏ Debate Team has stood for more than five decades as one of the nation’s premier teams and is consistently ranked among the top five programs in the country. This intercollegiate team’s legacy of excellence is built on academic rigor, accessibility, and community. It is a program that transforms students—regardless of their starting point—into confident, critical thinkers prepared to lead. 

Long before there was a Center for the Arts, a group of community members worked diligently to help make the arts an integral part of 911±¬ÁÏ’s burgeoning campus life. 911±¬ÁÏ donors play a vital role in both sustaining the arts and helping ensure its accessibility to all. They serve as advocates, championing creativity and cultural expression in ways that strengthen communities, widen perspectives, and inspire future generations. Here we highlight a few of the donors playing a role in the Mason Arts priorities in the Mason Now: Power the Possible campaign.