Mason Korea News

This week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that it would discontinue visa exceptions for international students on F-1 visas who take all of their courses for the semester online. This decision could force hundreds of thousands of international students to leave the United States and threatens to interrupt the academic work of more than 3,000 students here at George Mason University.

George Mason University Korea will provide ‘Covid-19 Emergency Fund’ to students who are going through financial difficulty due to Covid-19, in collaboration with the Industrial Bank of Korea (IBK). Mason Korea will also provide a Covid-19 Relief Grant to help continuing students successfully overcome this crisis.

One of Korea's major daily newspaper Donga Ilbo conducted an in-depth interview with our Chief Business Officer Gbemi Disu. Find out her story of becoming a global leader and what her vision is for Mason Korea.

Our campus has decided to continue teaching online until the end of the semester rather than to resume face-to-face classes on April 6.

I am writing to update you on the COVID-19 situation. Please be assured that we have been monitoring the situation daily and conferring with the Fairfax campus and our IGC partners. Likewise, we continue to follow the recommendations of Korean and US authorities. Based on these consultations, and the current and expected course of the situation, we plan to continue classes online until April 6.

Newly selected George Mason University President Gregory Washington told a group of journalists Thursday that he’s “ecstatic” to be the school’s eighth president. He will join the university on July 1, 2020.