What characteristics are unique to the Prince William Campus in George Mason’s “distributed university” model?
We’re obviously the youngest campus, and we’re just emerging from whole cloth. Quite literally, there was nothing here but open farm fields just a few years ago. George Johnson [former George Mason president] used to say that George Mason is like a teenager, with all the promises and all the problems that come with the teenage years. I think the Prince William Campus is like a precocious toddler–people are beginning to see that something special is happening here, but they’re not quite sure yet what it is.
