Past Events

For Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Social Action and Integrative Learning (SAIL) will be hosting the SNAP challenge. From November 15th-22nd, we invite you to participate in the SNAP Hunger Challenge and live on $4.13 a day for seven days. Join us for the Closing Event on Saturday November 22nd from 5pm-6pm where we will take some time to reflect on your experiences and how to take action on hunger in our community.

Join us for a post-election event that focuses on how we can best move forward AND maintain activism and the civic Engagement.

Mason President Gregory Washington will host a Freedom and Learning Forum with a theme of racial justice, anti-racism, and inclusion. Panelists will Provost Mark Ginsburg, CHSS Dean Ann Ardis, Faculty Affairs Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Well-Being Milli Rivera, University Life Associate Dean Creston Lynch, and Anti-Racism and Inclusive Excellence Task Force co-chairs Shernita Parker and Wendi Manuel-Scott. 

Julie E. Owen’s new book, We are the Leaders We’ve Been Waiting For focuses on helping young women develop the skills necessary to succeed not only in their college environment, but also in the world. In this panel, she is joined by a group of students who are featured in her book to discuss challenges faced by young women today—and what can be done to overcome them.

Take the SNAP Hunger Challenge! More than 705,000 individuals in Virginia live on about $4.13 per day - can you? For Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Social Action and Integrative Learning (SAIL) will be hosting the SNAP challenge. From November 15th-22nd, we invite you to participate in the SNAP Hunger Challenge and live on $4.13 a day for seven days.

For Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, Social Action and Integrative Learning (SAIL) will be hosting the SNAP challenge. From November 15th-22nd, we invite you to participate in the SNAP Hunger Challenge and live on $4.13 a day for seven days. Join us for the Kickoff on Wednesday November 11th from 3pm-4pm with speakers, activities, and where we will go over the challenge in more detail.

Please join us virtually for this week's CSC talk, which will feature Adom Getachew presenting her work on the anti-colonial project of critics, intellectuals, and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B. DuBois and Kwame Nkrumah and the emergence of a right to self-determination as a distinctively anti-colonial ideal.

The Nonprofit Fellows are a select group of students who earn a minor in Nonprofit Studies through a semester-long immersion experience. The 20 - 25 Nonprofit Fellows are enrolled in the three courses and complete a 6-credit internship. The program is offered by the School of Integrative Studies in partnership with the Schar School of Policy and Government.

In this interactive workshop, we will examine the history of social movements, best practices around community organizing and public policy and we will engage in conversation around moving past self-care to community care. SAIL will be hosting this workshop as part of Leadership Mason Experience. Check out the many incredible programs and events offered.