Page "George Mason University" Paragraph 8

Also, in 1979, the university moved all of its athletic programs to NCAA Division I. Enrollment that year passed 11, 000.

The university opened its Arlington campus in 1982, two blocks from the Virginia Square-GMU station in Arlington.

In 1986 the university's governing body, the Board of Visitors, approved a new master plan for the year based on an enrollment of 20, 000 full-time students with housing for 5, 000 students by 1995.

That same year university housing opened to bring the total number of residential students to 700.