Hats Off to Those Who Resist

Most presidents of universities targeted by the Trump administration have kept their heads down. Not Gregory Washington, the President of George Mason. When the Trump administration announced the first of four civil rights probes into George Mason University in July, the president of Virginia’s largest four-year public university sent a campuswide letter defending the school’s efforts to combat antisemitism. He would later send similar letters about its diversity, equity and inclusion programs. An engineer by training, Washington is a planner by nature. When he became George Mason’s first Black president — the latest in many barriers he has broken — he vowed to faculty to overcommunicate. So he couldn’t stay silent when the allegations of civil rights violations came.” Read his story here in the Washington Post