GWU 2025-2026 Parents Calendar-6-27-2025 - Flipbook - Page 53
Families Handbook
Families
Handbook
TA | Teaching Assistant - Graduate or undergraduate students who help
professors with grading and teaching and hold their own office hours
to help answer student questions.
The Vern | MVC - The Mount Vernon Campus offers GW students a
more traditional college campus experience in the verdant Palisades
neighborhood of Washington, D.C. With easy access to the downtown
area, students living on the Vern truly get the best of both worlds.
The Vern boasts a tight-knit community with vibrant campus programs,
thriving performing arts, open green spaces, and active living-learning
communities, while its focus on sustainability underscores the beauty
of its location.
UPass is a partnership the university has with WMATA to give students
unlimited Metro Rail and Bus rides during the fall and spring semester.
Undergraduate students enrolled in on-campus classes (eg: not study
abroad or traditional online only programs) within the Columbian
College of Arts & Sciences, Elliott School of International Affairs, GW’s
Business School, Milken Institute School of Public Health and School
of Engineering & Applied Science are included in this mandatory UPass
public transit program. Eligible undergraduate students will
automatically be assessed the subsidized mandatory student fee on
their eBill each fall and spring enrolled.
2025-2026
2024-2025
MAIL CALL
Mail and packages being delivered to students in residence halls will be
placed in a locker either in the students building or in a nearby residence
hall if their hall does not have lobby lockers. Once their mail or package is
safely secured, they will receive an automated email with a code for them
to enter at the kiosk to open the specific locker and retrieve their mail or
package. The MPS office locations at the Support Building (Foggy Bottom)
and West Hall (Mount Vernon) will continue to remain open to provide mail
and package services. Package pick-up may still be necessary at these
main locations.
Students may need to go to the Support Building:
• For packages that are too big for the in-hall lockers
• packages that need to be refrigerated or frozen
• if students don’t retrieve their package from the locker on-time it will be
returned to the main MPS office for them to pick up
• at the beginning of each semester with an influx of packages being
delivered for move-in, some adjustments may need to be made for some
package pick-ups at the Support Building.
USC | University Student Center- The student-centric building that houses
student club and organization meeting space, the Student Health
Center, GWorld Office, Student Services Hub, the Crossroads,
study rooms and dining options.
UserID - Your UserID starts with the letter G followed by an eight-digit
number. It is the ID that you’ll use to log into most GW resources.
U-Yard | University Yard - GW’s grassy quad on the Foggy Bottom campus.
Vex | Vern Express | Mount Vernon Express - The quick and frequent
shuttle that transports the GW community between the Mount Vernon
and Foggy Bottom campuses.
Vool - The pool located on the Mount Vernon Campus.
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