Yesterday, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an Executive Order to "restore individual freedoms and personal privacy" to all state government employees, including those at public universities. 

The Order declares that no state employee "shall be required to be vaccinated or required to disclose their vaccination status as a condition of their employment."

This means that GMU's booster mandate is officially dead, at least as it applies to employees. The mandate still applies to students, however, so we will continue to push for its repeal. 

A student-only mandate cannot be justified on any rational basis. I encourage everyone to contact the relevant decisionmakers once more in light of this announcement to let them know you oppose the booster mandate.

Contact info for the relevant decisionmakers is below:

Board of Visitors, George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MSN 3A1
Fairfax, VA 22030
Email: BOV@gmu.edu
Call: 703-993-8627

E-mails for select members of the Board of Visitors (the school refused to disclose the other 11 members' emails):

Erice9@gmu.edu
Jpeter41@gmu.edu
hblackma@gmu.edu
sbhuller@gmu.edu
achimala@gmu.edu

Office of the President
4400 University Drive MSN: 3A1
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 703-993-8700
Fax: 703-993-8880
Email: president@gmu.edu